ARCADE FIRE PLAYED a headline set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage last night. It was available to watch live on BBC 1, but for many Irish people, it was just a taster for tomorrow night, when the band will take to the stage in Marlay Park.
Opinion on their performance was mixed, very mixed. In fact, we thought a fight was going to break out on Twitter at any minute.
A LOT of people weren’t impressed
We’re so over them
Zzzzz
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They’re even vain now
They’re just so hard to GET
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Credit where credit is due, though
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On the other hand, some people LOVED them
It was all too much, frankly
But this guy… this guy has it all figured out
But what did the critics say?
The Telegraph’s Neil McCormick said the performance was “fantastically weird, compelling” and “very uncompromising”. Weirdest, but one of the best.
Greg Cochrane at NME said:
The set they’ve created is envious, a lucky-dip of alt-rock gems drawn at will. All sounded enormous.
Alexis Petridis wrote in The Guardian that there were no low points during the set.
Their four albums to date have each arrived with a noticeably different sound, but the set never feels disjointed: there’s something impressively relentless about the pace.
So now.
