Culture | Music Once more, for a final day on Worthy Farm, here’s the final of our daily round-ups from Glastonbury: Britain’s biggest festival. There aren’t many benefits to playing at 11.15am on Sunday morning, but The Zutons found one as they started the day off on the Other stage.
The bars weren’t open yet, which meant charismatic frontman Dave McCabe praised the gradually swelling crowd for clapping in time – something that gets more loose later in the day as the ciders kick in. The Liverpool-born band put on a surprisingly emotional set: despite a raucous festival sound and a hits-heavy first album, they hadn’t played Glastonbury in 16 years, mostly due to various interpersonal issues – something McCabe coyly referred to. Having pulled it together for a return, they were visibly made up.
Their penultimate tune, Valerie, is indelibly connected with sadly departed friend of Glasto Amy Winehouse , thanks to her classic cover. The original sounded as great as it did when it came out all those years ago. Robbie Griffiths Playing by far her most prominent festival slot yet, Rachel Chinouriri seemed visibly nervous as she played an early doors set on the Other stage – the second-biggest on Worthy Farm.
The Ivor Novello-winning 25-year-old’s voice shook at first as she tried to convey her happiness, but she soon settled in, making a substantial number of the crowd cry (maybe even this rather fragile writer, who can say?) with two devastatingly beautiful songs .
