Sunday June 30, the Pyramid Stage: the star brings a bonanza of high camp to her Legends Slot show. Get the lowdown on the hoedown “Hats off to you, Glastonbury,” Shania Twain announces with all but a wink as she looks admiringly out across the plain, taking in a field filled with thousands of weary festival-goers – every other one of whom, it seems, is rocking a pink cowboy hat. She doesn’t arrive on the Pyramid Stage for her gloriously camp Legends slot astride a horse, as she hinted she would, but she does canter onstage in a pink ruffled cape.
That’s soon discarded, mind, as she runs up and down the Pyramid with all the gusto of Joe Wicks, who led a mass workout on the Park Stage on Friday. The 58-year-old opens with ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’, an endorphin rush of a song that sets the tone for a show that surely lifts many a spirit. Then comes a rhinestone volley of county-pop bangers with which she seems determined to warm hearts and raise pulses.
“When you’re having a shitty day, look back on this day at Glastonbury,” she beams. Shania Twain at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Joseph Okpako/WireImage At times, though, Shania seems genuinely overawed by the enormity of the audience, tumbling off stream-of-consciousness mutterings that makes you wonder what happened to the slick patter she presumably brings to her Las Vegas residencies.
She wonders how “you make it to pee” when you’re in a crowd at a festival. If you had a quid for every time Shani.