The 80s live on in Cyndi Lauper, who takes to the Pyramid stage looking every inch the rock chick of yore in her silver bustier and matching trousers and platform trainers, beneath a blue blazer also attached with streams of icy-blue tulle. There are also fingerless net gloves. It's a big look, and Lauper has the energy to match it, making full use of the stage and making forays out towards the crowd.
They're here for nostalgia, as she acknowledges with her opening track, The Goonies 'R' Good Enough, her 1985 single from the much-loved film. From there it's on to She Bop, one of Lauper's better-known songs, though outside the handful of classics most of the audience are baking in the mid-afternoon heat to hear. Lauper's brief solo on a treble recorder – not an instrument you encounter often in adult life, if you're not a parent at least – adds to the sense of whimsy that's being built from the stage, with Lauper's large band kitted out in equally outré 80s fashion.
Into the Nightlife is an unexpected winner, outside of the big hits, sounding a bit electroclashy and even reminiscent of Fame Monster-era Lady Gaga. The rockier tune lifts the energy from the crowd, further geed by Lauper's own vigour – she uses her tiny frame to its fullest extent, punching the air, jumping and leading a clap with such gusto her silver bustier rides up. But Lauper's voice, reedy even in her heyday, is not as robust as it once was, and it can be hard to pick out the melody of the less well.
