As the bedraggled masses make their way home from Worthy Farm today, there has been a lot of talk about Glastonbury’s headliners this year. In the run-up to the festival, the feeling was that the three top acts on the Pyramid Stage – Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA – were particularly weak selections.
Though Dua pulled things back with a meticulously rehearsed pop mega-spectacular (her underwhelming third album Radical Optimism making more sense in the breezy context of Worthy Farm) Coldplay trawled out their slightly overdone formula of big hearty singalongs and light-up wristbands (along with an exceedingly weird moment in which they sang Fix You to Back to the Future’s Michael J Fox).
