Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has introduced a shock Glastonbury DJ set tonight (June 28) at 1am.
READ MORE: Tame Impala – ‘The Sluggish Rush’ evaluation: a 57-minute flex of each musical muscle in Kevin Parker’s physique
On the official Glastonbury web site, the slot between 1am and 2am on the Firmly Rooted Soundsystem stage reads “TBA”, however Parker’s title is listed within the programme.
The blurb beneath it reads, “The Antipodean psychedelic rock icon takes to the decks.” In the meantime, Parker has confirmed the information on the official Tame Impala Instagram account, too. “GLASTONBURY come see me tonight on the Firmly Rooted sound system in Silver Hayes at 1am,” he wrote. “DJ set. Needs to be fairly funnnnn.”
The Australian musician and producer has appeared at Glastonbury with Tame Impala quite a lot of instances earlier than, headlining The Different Stage in 2019. The psychedelic undertaking received’t be there this 12 months, however a Parker DJ set is certain to be a pleasing shock for followers.
With Parker’s set coming simply hours after Dua Lipa headlines the Pyramid Stage, some festivalgoers have speculated that he may seem throughout Lipa’s set, too. He co-wrote and co-produced Lipa’s newest album, ‘Radical Optimism’, which was launched in Could.
Upon the album’s launch, Parker paid tribute to Lipa on Instagram, calling her an “absolute weapon” and saying, “Don’t suppose I’ve ever been so pleased with one thing I’ve labored on on launch day.”
In the meantime, Parker final month offered his complete music catalogue to Sony Music Publishing. He signed a world cope with Sony in 2020, giving them management of future releases from each Parker himself and Tame Impala. Nevertheless, it’s thought that the brand new deal encompasses previous releases too.
Tame Impala aren’t touring in the mean time, and haven’t performed dwell since a set at Lollapalooza in Brazil in 2023. Their most up-to-date album, ‘The Sluggish Rush’, got here out in February 2020. In a four-star evaluation, NME wrote, “Tame Impala are unlikely to lose any followers by embracing Parker’s pop sensibilities – genres are historical past, man – however it’s a must to admire their wilful need to push into new instructions. This band aren’t rock music’s saviours; they’re a lot greater than that.”
Tame Impala won’t be at Glastonbury this 12 months, however you possibly can see who else is showing, like Parker, on the pageant with our stage instances and full line-up. Go to right here for all the most recent information, opinions, photographs, interviews and extra from Glastonbury 2024.
After making his debut as Younger Simon Tam in a 2002 episode of the short-lived Fox sequence Firefly, Zac Efron labored his approach up via the ranks as an actor. However regardless that he hung out as a sequence common on the WB sequence Summerland, his profession didn’t kick into overdrive till he secured the function of Troy Bolton within the 2006 Disney Channel unique film Excessive Faculty Musical. Not solely has he been working steadily ever since, however he’s persistently upped his sport as an actor, incomes the very best opinions of his profession with 2023’s The Iron Claw.
Sure, Efron remains to be typically written off as a one-time teen idol by those that haven’t intently adopted his profession, however whenever you’ve racked up a group of roles that vary from P.T. Barnum’s right-hand man to Ted Bundy, there’s no query about his development over time. As such, let’s discover the 15 finest Zac Efron films and TV exhibits (up to now).
15. The Catastrophe Artist (2017)
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This movie could be greater on the record if Efron had a extra substantial function, however as Leisure Weekly’s critic wrote in her evaluation, “No function is just too small for [director James Franco’s] parade of stars, a lot of whom communicate no various traces.” This “parade” of cameos additionally contains Sharon Stone, Bryan Cranston, Bob Odenkirk, Judd Apatow, Megan Mullally, Melanie Griffith, and Josh Hutcherson, so Efron’s definitely in good firm. Should you’ve seen Tommy Wiseau’s pitifully iconic cult movie The Room, you’ll wish to see The Catastrophe Artist, and for those who haven’t, then The Catastrophe Artist will make you need to see it.
The place to observe The Catastrophe Artist: Max
14. Miracle Run (2004)
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Many notable actors have no less than one Lifetime film of their again catalog, and Efron isn’t any exception. Based mostly on a real story, Efron performs Steven, an autistic teen who — alongside along with his also-autistic brother Philip (Thomas Lewis) — is making an attempt to show that he’s in a position to deal with the pains of public college whereas struggling along with his dysfunction. In a job that precedes even the primary Excessive Faculty Film, Efron was in a position to show that he wasn’t simply one other fairly face, so to talk, and that he got here to the desk with some dramatic chops in his quiver.
The place to observe Miracle Run: Tubi
13. Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
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On this adaptation of Ben Sherwood’s novel The Loss of life and Lifetime of Charlie St. Cloud, Efron performs the titular character, a Stanford-bound teenager whose future plans are abruptly thrown off beam when his little brother Sam is killed in a automobile accident with Charlie on the wheel. Emotionally traumatized, Charlie wallows in guilt and melancholy, however after an encounter with the cancer-stricken Florio (Ray Liotta), he’s reminded that, regardless of Sam’s demise, maybe there’s a purpose that he survived the crash. It’s an inconsequential drama in Efron’s oeuvre that’s not value revisiting however nonetheless aided his rise to dreamy frontman standing.
The place to observe Charlie St. Cloud: YouTube TV
12. The Fortunate One (2012)
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The phrases “based mostly on the novel by Nicholas Sparks” can both repel or compel audiences, and although it wasn’t a important darling, many romance followers nonetheless loved The Fortunate One. Regardless of its reasonably preposterous premise — a Marine (Efron) finds a photograph of a wonderful lady (Taylor Schilling) throughout his tour in Iraq, believes it’s the good-luck allure that retains him alive, and vows to seek out her after he returns house — Efron and Schilling have strong onscreen chemistry collectively. Sure, the schmaltz ranges are off the charts, however the couple will doubtless make you swoon anyway.
The place to observe The Fortunate One: Amazon Prime Video (to lease)
11. Liberal Arts (2012)
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Throughout his stint as Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mom, Josh Radnor spent a while behind the digital camera, kicking off his directing profession with 2010’s Happythankyoumoreplease after which following it up with this flick. As he did along with his directorial debut, Radnor as soon as once more serves because the movie’s male lead, taking part in Jesse Fisher, a 35-year-old faculty admissions officer who falls for Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a 19-year-old scholar. Efron has a small function, taking part in an eccentric classmate of Zibby’s named Nat, but it surely’s an underseen movie that also captures his charisma.
The place to observe Liberal Arts: AMC+
10. The Biggest Beer Run Ever (2022)
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This era piece finds Efron taking part in John “Chickie” Donohue, a service provider seaman in New York who decides that he’ll ship cans of beer to some pals who’re serving abroad in Vietnam. “It is a type of unbelievable, real-life eventualities that you simply simply cannot consider a man acquired himself into,” Efron advised EW on the time of the movie’s launch. Not solely is it based mostly on a real story, however Efron even acquired to fulfill with the true Donohue throughout the course of manufacturing. It’s a enjoyable, critic-proof flick with an entire lot of coronary heart.
The place to observe The Biggest Beer Run Ever: Hulu
9. The Biggest Showman (2017)
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This musical adaptation of the life and instances of P.T. Barnum — as a result of whenever you’re bigger than life, you’re gonna encourage extra than simply one musical — stars Hugh Jackman because the showman in query, whereas Efron shines as Phillip Carlyle, the playwright whose fascination with the circus turns right into a partnership with Barnum, however not earlier than he finally ends up enduring a tragedy whereas making an attempt to woo trapeze artist Anne Wheeler (Zendaya). Certainly, per EW’s critic, the twosome “convey a gentler, extra life-size sensibility to the story.”
The place to observe The Biggest Showman: Disney+
8. Extraordinarily Depraved, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (2019)
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As EW’s critic wrote in her evaluation, “There’s a purpose it’s not known as Extraordinarily Harmless, Shockingly Railroaded, and Truly a Fairly Good Man,” and that, in fact, is as a result of it is a movie about Ted Bundy, who infamously kidnapped, raped, and murdered dozens of girls throughout the Seventies. Not each actor can tackle the function of a serial killer with out it turning into albatross — simply ask Steve Railsback — however simply as Mark Harmon pulled it off when taking part in Bundy in 1986’s The Deliberate Stranger, Efron delivers a crafty efficiency and walks away (largely) unscathed.
The place to observe Extraordinarily Depraved, Shockingly Evil, and Vile: Netflix
7. Me & Orson Welles (2008)
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In terms of this Richard Linklater movie about Orson Welles’ early profession with the Mercury Theater, the largest purpose to see it’s Christian McKay’s efficiency as Welles. (Certainly, EW’s critic stated as a lot in his evaluation.) That stated, Efron portrays the opposite titular character (i.e., the “me”) which gives him with appreciable display screen time. As younger actor Richard Samuels, Efron will get to play fairly a bit towards McKay, woo Claire Danes, after which have his coronary heart damaged when Welles provides him the shaft.
The place to observe Me & Orson Welles: YouTube TV
6. All the way down to Earth With Zac Efron (2020–2022)
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Given the quantity of heavy lifting that was required for The Iron Claw, maybe Efron appears to be like again on the 2 seasons of this Netflix journey sequence as a veritable lark. Becoming a member of forces with writer/podcaster Darin Olien, Efron spent 16 episodes making his approach world wide visiting all kinds of locations — like Costa Rica, France, Iceland, London, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Sardinia — whereas specializing in quite a lot of matters, together with inexperienced vitality, nature, sustainable residing practices, and extra. It’s arguably extra for Efron superfans than anybody else, but it surely nonetheless affords up ethereal escapist leisure regardless.
The place to observe All the way down to Earth With Zac Efron: Netflix
5. 17 Once more (2009)
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“Consider it as Large in reverse,” wrote EW’s critic, which is the simplest attainable synopsis of this teen comedy starring the late Matthew Perry as 37-year-old Mike O’Donnell, who instantly finds himself remodeled into his 17-year-old self (Zac Efron). It’s not as if Mike can dwell his life over, however he’s in a position to assist his son keep away from some errors that he as soon as made himself. Within the wake of Perry’s demise, Efron discovered that it had been Perry’s want to have Efron play him in a bio-pic and admitted that he was “vastly honored.”
The place to observe 17 Once more: Amazon Prime Video (to lease)
4. Neighbors (2014)
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After three Excessive FacultyMusical films, it was inevitable that Efron would graduate to school, which occurred with this Nicholas Stoller movie. Efron performs Teddy Sanders, president of Delta Psi Beta and the thorn within the aspect of the Radners (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne), new dad and mom whose lives are turned the other way up when the aforementioned fraternity strikes in subsequent door. EW’s critic describes Neighbors as each “a frat-house flick with extra on its thoughts than beer, bongs, and beer bongs” and “a razor-sharp commentary on desperately making an attempt to stay carefree after the burdens of maturity have taken over.”
The place to observe Neighbors: AppleTV+
3. Hairspray (2007)
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Within the midst of his Excessive Faculty Musical success, Efron was tapped for this movie adaptation of the musical adaptation of John Waters’ basic 1988 movie — did you comply with that? — about teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), whose life adjustments after she efficiently auditions for a spot as a dancer on The Corny Collins Present. Efron performs Hyperlink Larkin, the lead male charmer on the present, and it’s humorous to suppose that director Adam Shankman initially didn’t need him as a result of he thought he was “too Disney” for the function. Fortunately, Shankman’s sister satisfied him, and the remainder is film musical historical past.
The place to observe Hairspray: Amazon Prime Video (to lease)
What, did you suppose we have been going to take up three separate slots within the countdown once we might simply mix the entire franchise? Apart from, it’s one huge epic musical journey that remodeled Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, and their fellow castmates from mere Disney Channel alumni into full-fledged international superstars. As basketball star Troy Bolton and the shy Gabriella Montez, Efron and Hudgens are the emotional core of the movies. And dare we are saying, his onscreen chemistry has by no means been higher than once they painstakingly sang “Gotta Go My Personal Method” in Excessive Faculty Musical 2.
The place to observe Excessive Faculty Musical: Disney+
1. The Iron Claw (2023)
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To say The Iron Clawwas a transformative movie for Efron simply doesn’t do it justice: Should you didn’t know that he’d truly bulked as much as play wrestler Kevin Von Erich, you’d assume these muscle mass are nothing greater than particular results. Critically, it’s staggering… and because it occurs, he delivers an emotive heavyweight efficiency to match. Some may recommend that it’s important to love skilled wrestling to understand the tragic story of the Von Erich brothers — the title is borrowed from the siblings’ signature transfer within the ring — however don’t hear; it’s a transferring household drama carried on Efron’s bulging shoulders.
Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker is the most recent act to be confirmed for a secret set at Glastonbury this weekend.
The Australian psych star will play a set on the pageant’s Silver Hayes stage at 1AM Saturday morning.
“GLASTONBURY come see me tonight on the Firmly Rooted sound system in Silver Hayes at 1am,” wrote Parker on Instagram. “DJ set. Needs to be fairly funnnnn.”
Parker’s involvement has additionally heightened hypothesis that he might be concerned in Dua Lipa’s headline set this night, having labored with the singer on her newest album, Radical Optimism.
Whereas Parker’s set is now formally confirmed, followers started to surprise if he was ripe for an look earlier this week, when his identify appeared within the official pageant programme. “The Antipodean psychedelic rock icon takes to the decks,” a synopsis added.
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline the Pyramid Stage, whereas the pageant has introduced a slew of developments lately – together with the information that the pageant’s towering Arcadia spider shall be changed by a large dragonfly, that the Genosys stage will return to Block9 and the tip of The Rabbit Gap after 17 years on the pageant, changed by new venues The Wishing Nicely and Scissors in The Park.
This 12 months’s pageant may even see headline Pyramid Stage units streamed globally for the primary time ever.
The great climate may even proceed into this weekend too, with full climate forecast particulars to be discovered right here.
You possibly can examine again right here for all of Rolling Stone UK’s Glastonbury content material over the weekend.
According to probably the most intriguing little bit of her between-song chat, Dua Lipa’s headlining Glastonbury slot took place because of an act of childhood manifesting. The singer claims she wrote out her need to prime the invoice on the Pyramid stage intimately, as much as and together with what night time mentioned occasion ought to happen on: a Friday, so she “might spend the remainder of the weekend partying”. And now right here we’re: watching a barely peculiar video of Dua Lipa signing her identify and writing the phrases “GLASTO 24” on a pane of glass, then licking it.
Whether or not you purchase the stuff about manifesting or not, Dua Lipa has clearly spent a variety of time fastidiously learning and absorbing how a profitable Glastonbury headline set works, and placing what she’s gleaned to good use. The announcement of her look led to a level of consternation, significantly after her most up-to-date album, Radical Optimism, failed to duplicate the sort of world-beating success afforded its predecessor, the lockdown smash Future Nostalgia. However she already has a stockpile of inescapable hits, from New Guidelines to her Elton John collaboration Chilly Coronary heart, which is half the battle gained. And moreover she throws all the things she has at her set to be able to lend it a way of occasion, fairly than it being merely one other pop present transposed to a area in Somerset, one other stop-off on a world tour that occurs to be on a farm.
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There are confetti canons galore. There are pyrotechnics – so lots of them throughout Levitating that you simply surprise what they will presumably do for the finale, though they only about handle to prime it. There’s a crowdpleasing reference to the pageant’s hedonism, albeit not from the lips of the singer herself, who largely confines herself to asking the viewers how they’re feeling: as a substitute, she takes the stage to the well-known clip of Peter Fonda within the 1966 biker film The Wild Angels informing the squares that he desires to get loaded and have a very good time. And there may be an equally crowdpleasing visitor look by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – his denims and T-shirt at odds with the principle attraction’s fixed costume adjustments; a second the place the pair fluff their vocals and chortle at odds with the present’s tightly choreographed really feel – performing not one among his Dua Lipa collaborations however his personal largest hit, The Much less I Know the Higher: 1.6bn streams and counting.
Hallucinate makes a few of Lipa’s more moderen efforts look slightly wan by comparability. Home-fuelled and thrillingly hook-laden, it might be probably the greatest pop singles in current reminiscence – which isn’t a declare anybody goes to make on behalf of the serviceable however unexceptional Houdini, nor Coaching Season. There are a few much less spectacular songs from Radical Optimism thrown into the combo: the pass-aggy Pleased for You; the acoustic guitar-driven These Partitions.
The latter was the solitary observe on mentioned album which vaguely steered the Britpop affect she spent a variety of time speaking up previous to its launch, however listening to it tonight, it sounds extra like the opposite stuff that bought tens of millions within the 90s. It’s not an enormous stretch to think about it sung by Texas or Natalie Imbruglia and even the Corrs. However the set tucks these songs away amid the hits so efficiently that you simply scarcely discover. There’s at all times one other cast-iron banger on the best way: Levitating, Bodily, Phantasm.
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“It’s quite a bit, innit,” she gasps at one level, surveying the complete extent of an unlimited crowd, who furthermore keep put all through: there’s not one of the wastage that indicators a Glastonbury headliner getting it improper and driving their viewers in the direction of the pageant’s different manifold delights. It’s an unequivocal success.
With regards to engagement with Hollywood actor Zac Efron, sometimes, his look makes extra headlines than his movies. What will get misplaced within the sauce of aesthetic scrutiny and collective lust is his on-screen vary throughout his diversified, two-decade-spanning physique of labor. So regardless of being a globally recognisable face, Efron remains to be, largely, underrated. Let or not it’s recognized: there may be prowess past the pecs.
Equally as sport taking part in a delicate musical theatre child as he’s a serial killer, Efron’s oeuvre is expansive. Regardless of trying each bit the Übermensch, he dodged the superhero contracts that claimed and culled the inventive integrity of many careers within the final decade. Efron wields his infamous torso not in service of shameless, sexless navy propaganda, however of slapstick, good-hearted vulgarity, and haunting dramas. His challenge decisions have remained dynamic, along with his IMDb boasting extra indies than one would possibly realise (Richard Linklater and Concord Korine say hello). Efron is what I name an ambidextrous actor: he triumphs equally in comedy and drama.
Over a decade earlier than Timothée Chalamet apparently revolutionised male vulnerability on display in Name Me By Your Identify, a era bore witness to the misery of Efron’s Troy Bolton on the Disney Channel sound phases of Excessive Faculty Musical, the place his mounting existential crises have been inflicting him a number of breakdowns as a result of he was simply so rattling porous to the enrichment a life within the arts introduced. Rendering the conflicted psyche of a teen at his first coming-of-age crossroads, Efron was deep in his emotions. Then, in 17 Once more – taking part in a person who’s approaching center age and plagued with remorse, however magically will get a do-over at youth – Efron summoned and sustained astonishingly lived-in emotion; we noticed far-beyond-his-years pathos as he regarded longingly at his separated spouse with a lifetime of regret in his eyes. His weepy fragility in the important thing penultimate courtroom scene was much less art-house than Chalamet’s well-known hearth scene, however no much less affecting!
Submit-Disney, it was time to get critical. With constant high billing, there was interval drama Me and Orson Welles, Nicholas Sparks’ warfare romance The Fortunate One (wherein lovers have been sweetly tethered by… interventionist American overseas coverage), the lachrymose Charlie St. Cloud, and the extra specific The Paperboy. Merely by no means handing over a nasty efficiency, he additionally did essentially the most with restricted scripts – see the meagre That Awkward Second, and We Are Your Buddies, a distinctly 2015 schematic on EDM’s liberating energy and meditation on millennials resisting their era’s assigned fait accompli of debt, hustling as self-starter disruptors within the Valley (Efron had coronary heart because the central grasp of decks).
Then, crucially, it was time to get foolish. The mid-2010s marked a transition level. Some instructed he was on a downward trajectory, taking part in limbo with low-brow tasks, however dismissing the facility of the ribald studio comedy is a naïve, fatuous transfer – consider all-time nice Robert de Niro, post-Meet the Dad and mom, embracing enjoyable and accessing a complete new inventive reserve because of this.
Within the Neighbours films, Efron performed a profoundly immature, insecure, and riotous frat bro. He introduced subtlety to the crude cracks, a Midas contact to even the most affordable riff on erectile dysfunction. There’s a delicate artwork to overkilling bong jokes and nonetheless being charming. With impressed expressions as Himbo Supreme, he grew to become an auteur of airheads with each incorrect use of air quotes, scoffing retort, and wonderful Buster Keaton-meets-Jackass feat of bodily comedy. When Seth Rogen is cartoonishly grunting away, you could have Efron, the unsuspecting comedic topic, statuesque, stealing the present with an eyebrow increase and a nonplussed cocked head.
In 2016 he introduced the compelling buddy comedy, the Palme d’Or-deserving Soiled Grandpa (some name it tasteless, I name it irreverent!) wherein Efron entertained with incredulity as an uptight younger lawyer, totally mortified by the sleazy transgressions of his newly-widowed grandpa. Then, affirming the no-small-parts-only-small-actors adage, his vibrant cameos in offbeat A24 movies TheCatastrophe Artist and Seaside Bum have been delightfully insane injections of chaos. Within the former, he is a caricature road mugger. Within the latter, a mystifying chain-vaping-skater-rehab-escaper with a panini-grilled beard and penchant for pyro.
Efron has been so outlined by his commanding physicality, from his foundational work in musicals (there’s been a demanding dance quotient in lots of his contracts: HSM, Hairspray, The Biggest Showman) to his Olympic-standard lifeguard coaching in Baywatch. With new roles, come full-body transformations à la Christian Bale. He underwent his most intense makeover but for The Iron Claw final 12 months, as a professional wrestler whose imposing kind seems to scale solely along with his immense grief. It’s a near-merciless story of the Von-Erich dynasty’s dysfunction and dashed desires. He’s the household’s keystone, and the harrowing movie’s centre. He delivered a career-best efficiency, displaying off a divine end result of all his métiers fortified over time: implosive and tender temperaments, and a formidable athleticism.
Now, in A Household Affair, reverse Nicole Kidman, Efron is again within the comedy fight zone as a soldier of silliness able to disarm the viewers as soon as extra.
Whether or not swaggering or laid naked, Efron paints along with his versatility. How beautiful for us to witness a well-adjusted little one star evolve and surpass their potential. His beefcake friends merely can not stir tragedy like he can (Hemsworth, you’ve been lapped!), and his dramatic contemporaries merely can not match his humour (Butler, I problem you to a duel… on the open mic!). Girls, get you a person who can do each!
By Mark Savage, Music Correspondent • Annabel Rackham, Leisure reporter
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Dua Lipa headlined the Pyramid Stage for the primary time.
Dua Lipa didn’t come to fiddle.
The pop star stormed by her first ever headline slot at Glastonbury with an formidable and dynamic efficiency that was stacked with smashes from starting to finish.
She took to the Pyramid Stage shortly after 10pm, opening with a flawless run of 5 songs: Coaching Season, One Kiss, Phantasm, Break My Coronary heart and Levitating.
Every one had the breathless choreography of an award present efficiency – and the tempo didn’t let up all evening.
Dua had 5 costume modifications on the evening, with heavy studs and leather-based a continuing theme.
She performed 15 prime 40 hits, together with Don’t Begin Now, Bodily and New Guidelines, in addition to her collaborations with Elton John (Chilly Coronary heart) and Mark Ronson (Electrical energy).
Unusually, nonetheless, she selected to not play her Barbie smash Dance The Evening, which was consigned to a video interlude throughout one of many star’s 5 costume modifications.
Her raspy mezzo-soprano lower cleanly by the nice and cozy Somerset air, notably on the dramatic ballad Glad For You, and the purring, sensuous Houdini, which closed her set.
The 28-year-old even paid tribute to Shakespear’s Sister, one in every of Glastonbury’s first ever feminine headliners in 1992, sporting a t-shirt bearing the duvet of their album Hormonally Yours.
On stage, she repeatedly talked about how she had manifested this very second, having dreamt of headlining Glastonbury earlier than she even recorded her first album.
“I’ve written this second down and wished for it and dreamt it and labored so laborious,” she instructed the gang.
She recalled one in every of her first gigs, enjoying to 10 individuals who “solely got here as a result of we provided them free drinks” – and appeared overwhelmed by how a lot that viewers had grown.
Dua Lipa was capable of create a nightclub-like ambiance by her choreography
Nearly 100,000 folks watched her play, with followers stretching all the way in which again to Rowmead, an space that was once reserved for campers, however which has been opened up in 2024 to permit larger crowds to the Pyramid Stage.
“It’s loads, innit? Loads to absorb,” Lipa stated.
“Little me would simply be beside herself proper now.”
It was a tiny second of vulnerability in an armour-plated set. No track was left unpolished, no vocal left unharmonised, no hair left untossed. Dua hit each mark with the precision of somebody who’d been constructing in direction of this second for years.
But when that makes it sound medical and sterile, it wasn’t the case.
Take the second she ran all the way down to the boundaries to hitch the gang as they sang alongside to her early hit Be The One.
It wasn’t fully spontaneous (actually it riffed on a second from her final Glastonbury efficiency in 2017) however the pleasure on the star’s face as she climbed the fences and stood head to head along with her followers was real.
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Dua Lipa was joined on stage by collaborator and Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker
Shortly afterwards, she introduced out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – a collaborator on her new album Radical Optimism – to sing the band’s track The Much less I Know The Higher.
Free of the iron grip of choreography, she merely vibed out with him on stage, giving a glimpse of the particular person behind the tightly-controlled public persona.
“Tonight I get to fake I am in Tame Impala,” she beamed.
If there was a criticism of her set, it was that such moments have been few and much between.
The present typically felt aimed on the world TV viewers as a lot because the folks in entrance of her, and the cardio dance routines – whereas undoubtedly spectacular – didn’t permit for a lot spontaneity.
However the viewers’s consideration by no means wavered. Even the much less acquainted new materials was cleverly sequenced, so that you just have been by no means greater than 3 minutes away from a licensed banger.
New Guidelines mash-up
Earlier than the present, Lipa stated her objective was to flip Glastonbury “right into a nightclub” and he or she saved to her phrase.
All of the songs got a sonic overhaul – including sounds from the 90s rave scene or beefing up her beats with trunk-rumbling sub bass.
Her breakout hit, New Guidelines, was even mixed with the pageant staple Glue, by Northern Irish dance act Bicep.
The end result was a present that felt just like the VIP room of a gritty European nightspot, solely delivered on a huge scale.
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Its not typically {that a} Glastonbury headliner will get their very own second stage, however then once more not everyone seems to be Dua Lipa…
Even the outfits have been deliberate to enhance the membership theme, with Dua’s vogue decisions mixing in with (fairly than standing out from) these of her dancers – from a chunky studded belt, to red-and-black flamed hotpants.
Notably, she additionally wore flat sneakers to facilitate the dancing – enhancing the sensation that we have been becoming a member of her on an evening out, fairly than watching an untouchable pop icon.
With fireworks and confetti all through the set, it felt like she was staking a declare on Glastonbury immortality. And, watching from the entrance row, she greater than succeeded.
This different acts on the prime of this weekend’s invoice – together with five-time headliners Coldplay – have their work lower out to match her ambition.
Dua Lipa’s Glastonbury setlist
Coaching Season
One Kiss
Phantasm
Break My Coronary heart
Phantasm
These Partitions
Be The One
The Much less I Know The Higher (Tame Impala cowl)
Be The One
Falling Ceaselessly
Love Once more
Fairly Please
Hallucinate
New Guidelines
Electrical energy
Chilly Coronary heart
Glad For You
Bodily
Don’t Begin Now
Houdini
Sugababes carried out hits together with Overload, Gap In The Head and About You Now
Different units on Saturday got here from dance collective Jungle, rock band Idles and Jamie xx – who packed out the Woodsies tent, and rewarded followers by reuniting together with his bandmates Romy and Oliver from The xx for an emotional efficiency of You’ve got Acquired The Love.
He was additionally joined on stage by Swedish pop star Robyn, enjoying their new collaboration Life.
Shock visitors have been the order of the evening, actually.
Anne-Marie launched Aitch to The Different Stage to carry out Psycho, and Bombay Bicycle Membership have been joined by Damon Albarn to play Blur’s Tender and Heaven – which featured on Bombay Bicycle Membership’s 2023 album My Large Day.
Albarn additionally urged folks to vote in subsequent week’s basic election, and appeared to criticise Thursday evening’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, saying: “Possibly it’s time we stopped placing octogenarians answerable for the world.”
Chaotic scenes
Dance star Fred Once more popped up within the Stonebridge Bar, inflicting chaos as 1000’s of followers tried to cram into one of many pageant’s smallest venues.
There have been equally chaotic scenes on the West Holts stage earlier within the night, as Sugababes introduced the sector to a standstill.
Organisers needed to enact a one-in, one-out coverage – harking back to the band’s final efficiency, which shut down the Avalon Subject in 2022.
Fontaines DC offered a extra nihilistic different to Dua Lipa’s set
Elsewhere, Irish band Fontaines DC delivered a bleakly lovely headline set on The Park Stage.
“Do you wanna go on vacation?” requested frontman Grian Chatten, prowling the stage in a skirt as he performed hits like Boys within the Higher Land and Rolling Stone journal’s single of the 12 months, Starburster.
Maybe it was much less visceral than the band’s final look at Glastonbury two years in the past, however the pay-off was a extra polished sound and a richer vocal efficiency from Chatten.
Previous Dua Lipa on the Pyramid Stage have been indie disco punks LCD Soundsystem, who have been a surprisingly good pairing for the sundown.
The New Yorkers leaned into their extra emotional materials – House, I Can Change, Somebody Nice – earlier than closing with a euphoric All My Pals.
Die-hard followers on the entrance of the viewers have been whisked again 20 years to the band’s heyday, whereas youthful afficianados have been merely awed by their longevity.
“Think about what number of events they’ve been to,” stated one subsequent to me. “Think about what number of medicine they’ve taken.”
King Krule sang a few bars of Akon‘s 2006 hit ‘Don’t Matter’ at Glastonbury whereas acting on The Park Stage tonight.
The London artist, actual identify Archy Marshall, teased a canopy earlier than starting an intense, jazzy rendition of ‘Pink Shell’, from his 2023 album ‘Area Heavy‘.
In the direction of the tip of his set, the London musician introduced his five-year-old daughter Marina on stage. She wore a Princess Aurora gown and stood behind Marshall as he carried out ‘Seaforth’, a observe he devoted to her, introducing it by saying: “This subsequent music I wrote for my daughter”
Marshall additionally used his efficiency to publicly share his assist to the Free Palestine motion. Previous to enjoying his last music ‘Portrait In Black And Blue’, he stated: “Fuck The Occupation, Free Palestine,” earlier than including: “Fuck the UK Authorities.”
Followers on X have been responding to Krule’s emotional set, which included an adjustment to ‘Area Heavy’, the place he tweaked the lyrics to incorporate the road “I feel I’m delicate“. Krule then completed the observe to attract consideration to an incident within the crowd that required medics and safety.
king krule gonna make me cry man the ache in his voice 🥲🥲
It’s not the primary time Marshall has publicly linked himself to Akon. In 2018 he admitted that, when being interview while drunk, he falsely claimed Akon wrote the Sonic The Hedgehog theme tune.
Marshall’s first efficiency at Glastonbury was in 2008. Then 14-years-old, he gained a possibility to carry out on the pageant after coming into a contest run by Tough Commerce and Youth Music.
In 2008, a 14-year-old Archy Marshall (a.okay.a. King Krule) gained the prospect to carry out at Glastonbury Pageant via a contest placed on by Tough Commerce and Youth Music. Watch his audition under. pic.twitter.com/GUKti4tlAo
Yesterday, (June 27), Krule introduced he’d be a part of the line-up for Mustafa‘s London Version of his Artists For Assist Profit gig.
The live performance will deal with benefitting humanitarian efforts in each Palestine and Sudan. Different acts set to carry out embody Clairo, Blood Orange, Bint Mbareh, Daniel Caesar, Earl Sweatshirt, Nicolás Jaar, Ramy Youssef, and Yasiin Bey. The present will happen on the Troxy in London on Thursday July 4, and is in partnership with Warfare Little one UK. Go to right here to buy tickets.
King Krule’s Glastonbury 2024 setlist was:
‘Perfecto Depressing’ ‘Alone, Omen 3’ ‘Dum Surfer’ ‘Don’t Matter’ — Akon Cowl ‘Pink Shell’ ‘Area Heavy’ ‘Flimsier’ ‘Seagirl’ ‘Time For Slurp’ ‘Stoned Once more’ ‘Seaforth’ ‘Underclass’ ‘Simple Simple’ ‘Portrait in Black and Blue’
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Given its higher valuation and prospects, we imagine Fox Company inventory (NASDAQ: FOXA), an organization shaped because the portion of twenty first Century Fox not acquired by Disney in 2019, is a greater decide than Textron inventory (NYSE: TXT). The choice to take a position usually comes right down to discovering the most effective shares inside the scope of sure traits that go well with an funding fashion. On this case, though these firms are from completely different sectors, they share an analogous income base of round $14 billion and an analogous market capitalization of $16 billion. We see that Fox has seen higher income progress and is extra worthwhile. There may be extra to the comparability, and within the sections under, we talk about why we predict Fox will outperform Textron within the subsequent three years. We evaluate a slew of things, akin to historic income progress, returns, and valuation.
1. TXT Inventory Has Outperformed FOXA In The Final Three Years
TXT inventory has seen extraordinarily sturdy good points of 70% from ranges of $50 in early January 2021 to round $85 now, vs. FOXA inventory which has witnessed good points of simply 15% from $30 to $35 over this era. This compares with a rise of about 45% for the S&P 500 over this roughly three-year interval. Nevertheless, the rise in these shares has been removed from constant. Returns for TXT inventory have been 60% in 2021, -8% in 2022, and 14% in 2023, whereas that for FOX have been 27%, -18%, and -2%, respectively. Compared, returns for the S&P 500 have been 27% in 2021, -19% in 2022, and 24% in 2023 — indicating that TXT and FOXA underperformed the S&P in 2023.
The truth is, constantly beating the S&P 500 — in good instances and unhealthy — has been tough over current years for particular person shares; for heavyweights within the Industrials sector, together with CAT and HON, and even for the megacap stars GOOG, TSLA, and MSFT. In distinction, the Trefis Excessive High quality Portfolio, with a set of 30 shares, has outperformed the S&P 500 annually over the identical interval. Why is that? As a bunch, HQ Portfolio shares offered higher returns with much less danger versus the benchmark index; much less of a roller-coaster journey, as evident in HQ Portfolio efficiency metrics.
Given the present unsure macroeconomic atmosphere with excessive oil costs and elevated rates of interest, may TXT and FOXA face an analogous scenario as they did in 2023 and underperform the S&P over the subsequent 12 months — or will they see a powerful leap? Whereas we predict each shares will pattern increased, FOXA will probably outperform TXT.
2. Fox’s Income Development Is Higher
Textron has seen its income rise at a mean annual price of 5.5% from $11.7 billion in 2020 to $13.7 billion in 2023. Then again, Fox’s income grew at a mean price of 6.6% from $12.3 billion to $14.9 billion over this era.
Textron’s income progress has been pushed by increased pricing for Aviation, Bell, and Industrial segments. The corporate delivered 168 Quotation jets and 153 industrial turboprops in 2023, versus 132 Quotation jets and 113 industrial turboprops in 2020. Elevated jet deliveries aided industrial gross sales, a pattern anticipated to proceed. Textron has additionally benefited from increased army revenues from the Military Future Assault Reconnaissance Plane program these days. Industrial income is trending increased amid elevated Kautex gross sales and specialised automobile gross sales. Wanting ahead, the corporate expects its 2024 revenues to be round $14.6 billion, up from $13.7 billion in 2023.
Fox’s income progress is being led by its promoting revenues for the Tv section. Fox experiences its revenues in two segments – Cable Community Programming, and Tv. Whereas Cable Community Programming income grew 10% between 2020 and 2023, Tv gross sales have been up 31%, primarily pushed by a 39% rise in promoting gross sales. Wanting ahead, Fox is anticipated to see a powerful gross sales progress within the coming quarters, pushed by continued enchancment in promoting. It ought to profit from the Presidential election cycle within the second half of this yr, and the Tremendous Bowl in 2025.
3. Fox Is Extra Worthwhile
Textron’s working margin expanded from 4.4% in 2020 to 7.7% in 2023, whereas Fox’s working margin contracted from 20.3% to 18.5% over this era. Textron’s margin growth will be attributed to a greater value realization. Wanting on the final twelve-month interval, Fox’s working margin of 17.5% fares significantly better than 7.8% for Textron.
Taking a look at monetary danger, each firms are comparable. Textron’s 21% debt as a proportion of fairness is way decrease than 53% for Fox. Nevertheless, its 9% money as a proportion of property is decrease than 17% for Fox, implying that Textron has a greater debt place, however Fox has extra cash cushion.
4. The Internet of It All
We see that Fox has seen higher income progress, is extra worthwhile, and has extra cash cushion, whereas Textron has a greater debt place. Now, taking a look at prospects, we imagine FOX is the higher selection of the 2. We estimate Textron’s Valuation to be $100 per share, reflecting an upside of round 15% from its present ranges of round $86. Textron inventory trades at 1.2x trailing revenues, in comparison with 1.2x common during the last 4 years. In distinction, Fox inventory trades at 1.1x revenues, in comparison with 1.3x common during the last 4 years.
General, we predict FOXA is more likely to supply higher returns than TXT within the subsequent three years. Not solely does Fox have higher income progress and profitability, its prospects look strong, amid sturdy promoting progress. With upcoming occasions such because the Presidential election, Fox can look ahead to increased promoting progress.
Whereas FOXA could outperform TXT within the subsequent three years, it’s useful to see how Textron’s Friends fare on metrics that matter. You will see that different helpful comparisons for firms throughout industries at Peer Comparisons.
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In keeping with the Ripley Property web site, it has been within the Ingilby household for 26 generations, with their historical past being described as considered one of “political, navy, spiritual and social turbulence, of plague and persecution, of renaissance, enlightenment and industrial revolution”.
Sir Thomas Ingilby, who lived between 1290 and 1352, married heiress Edeline Thwenge in 1308/9 and bought the Ripley Fort property as her dowry.
His son Thomas saved King Edward III’s life when he was gored by a boar and was knighted.
James I stayed within the fortress in 1603 however by 1605 members of the Ingilby household had been a part of the Gunpowder Plot to kill him.
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Grownup movie star Austin Wolf has been arrested in New York Metropolis for little one abuse supplies, based on the Justice Division.
Wolf, actual title Justin Heath Smith, is charged with sending and receiving lots of of movies of kid pornography by way of the Telegram messaging utility between March 24 and March 28.
The homosexual porn star, 43, allegedly despatched and acquired photos that ‘depicted kids as younger as infants, together with a video exhibiting a 10-year-old little one certain and raped.’
He’s additionally accused of possessing lots of of extra movies containing little one pornography in his Manhattan residence.
One in all Wolf’s final social media posts chillingly reads: ‘Have you ever seen what occurs to little boys that observe me to the lock room?’
Grownup movie star Austin Wolf has been arrested for little one abuse supplies
US Legal professional Damian Williams mentioned: ‘As alleged, Justin Heath Smith acquired and distributed lots of of recordings containing little one pornography, together with a ghastly video exhibiting a younger little one certain, overwhelmed, and raped.
‘Our investigation into Smith is ongoing, and we urge anybody with details about Smith’s conduct to name the FBI.
‘Along with our legislation enforcement companions, we are going to relentlessly pursue these predators who victimize kids and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the legislation.’
Wolf is scheduled to be arraigned in Manhattan court docket on Friday.
He’s accused of 1 cost of distribution and receipt of kid pornography and one depend of possession of kid pornography.
The porn star, 43, allegedly ship and acquired photos that ‘depicted kids as younger as infants, together with a video exhibiting a 10-year-old little one certain and raped’
Wolf is scheduled to be arraigned in Manhattan court docket on Friday
Wolf faces as much as 20 years in jail if convicted of the fees.
Investigators say they caught Wolf after they seized the telephone of the particular person he had allegedly been exchanging little one phonography with.
An undercover FBI agent then contacted Wolf’s alleged nameless Instagram account.
Wolf reportedly offered particulars to substantiate his identification within the chats.
The FBI then executed a search warrant at Wolf’s residence, the place they are saying they discovered an SD card with lots of of video exhibiting little one abuse.
Wolf has practically 800,000 followers on Instagram and practically a million on X.
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