The duo teamed up on 'Pop Pop Pop' IDLES have brought out Danny Brown as a special guest during their headlining set at this year’s edition of Glastonbury . The Bristol band, who released their fifth studio album ‘Tangk’ earlier this year, took over the Other stage today (June 28) as the night’s headliners. The group brought out Brown to join them while performing their track ‘Pop Pop Pop’.
“Glastonbury Festival, for the first time ever in our existence we have a friend here whos going to help us out,” said frontman Joe Talbot while introducing Brown. “This is a dream come fucking true, thank you,” responded the rapper. Brown went on to adlib a rap verse to the end of the track.
A Danny Brown rap added to POP POP POP. Wow! #idles #Glastonbury — James 💙🐦 archivesofjames.bsky.
social (@archivesofjames) June 28, 2024 Speaking to NME ahead of their Glastonbury performance, the band opened up about their headlining slot at the Other stage. “It’s like incremental stuff like, we’ve been doing this for 15 years and each step is just magic. It sounds boring but like we’re just gonna keep doing what we are doing.
We will headline the Pyramid stage at the appropriate time when we can fill the field with people that like and know our songs,” shared Talbot. “We’re capable of doing a show better than a lot of headliners I think,” he added, “But, we’re not there yet because it’s bums in seats, we’re not fucking dumb but we are good.” In o.