Sunday June 30, West Holts: the French dance dons say nothing, of course, but this lovingly produced show speaks loud and clear of their dedication to the cause Last month, NME asked French dance dons Justice how they were feeling about tonight’s closing performance on Glastonbury ’s West Holts stage. “There’s such a long gap between every tour and every album that we always feel that we start again from zero,” replied Xavier de Rosnay, who went onto fret: “What’s the scene? What are the expectations of people?” There are no signs of this trepidation at this perfectly crafted show, whose audience seems to bear every flag on site, many of the flag poles flashing with lights that could only hope to compete with the display onstage. De Rosnay and his bandmate Gaspard Augé stand adjacent to one another at decks that looks like nothing less than the hull of a spaceship.
Before long a fair few audience members are, presumably, reaching the outer limits too. The light show is utterly bedazzling, the stage adorned one minute with TV screens that pop like flash bulbs and then lasered with red beams that resemble something you’d expect to encounter up at Arcadia. NME described the duo’s long-awaited recent fourth album ‘Hyperdrama’ , which was subject to lashings of pre-release acclaim, as a five-star “blockbuster” that “meets the hype: flashy, over the top and keen to make a spectacle”.
The same could very much be said of this gig, which offers crowd-.