Canapes pile into cackling maws. Swigs from champagne bottles spill onto ballgowns. Revellers smear themselves in chocolate from the fountain. As a soul-grime cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” turns bombastic, a gold ticket society party reaches fever pitch. And all the while, the kitchen sinks are overflowing from the detritus, the ovens are on fire and the dancers rave on across flooded dancefloors.
Not Saturday night in Glastonbury’s Hospitality Bar, but the video for Greenpeace’s brilliant charity single version of “Don’t Stop”, which played out on screens across Worthy Farm all weekend. Performed by Future Utopia ft Avelino and Tomorrow’s Warriors, directed by Samona Olanipekun, co-produced by Steve McQueen and released last week, it’s a visually arresting and sonically cutting-edge piece that comes with a pointed and powerful moral. As rap horns crescendo ahead of a coda poem penned by Scroobius Pip, a caption tells us: “It’s Not Too Late to Stop the Fossil Fuel Party”.
