Eddie Vedder (left) and Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam on stage during the BST festival at Hyde Park
(Picture: Suzan Moore/PA Wire)You expect a certain amount of trauma and self-flagellation at a Pearl Jam show, but not to witness it play out in real time. “I’ve just realised the person that was written about,” singer Eddie Vedder told Hyde Park, palms on his cheeks after roaring through an anthem of undying support for a troubled friend called Save You, “F**k, we didn’t save them…”
Vedder’s well of anguish runs deep – you only need watch him bent double, wrenching Breath from some inner cauldron of broiling angst to see that. But for the first of two British Summer Time shows by these long-standing grunge titans, he put on an amenable brave face.
