Lana Del Rey fans have said they were devastated after her set at Glastonbury was cut short when her microphone was cut off by the festival before the end of her performance. The singer was more than 30 minutes late starting, leaving the large crowd which had gathered frustrated - and said it was because her hair had taken too long to do.
Then Del Rey was forced to lead fans in an a capella performance of her final song Video Games, after the power to her microphone was cut out as she had reached the midnight cut off point. The US singer mouthed an apology to fans before going down to meet and greet them.
She had previously voiced concerns that she might be forced to finish early, after starting her set 30 minutes late. “I was so f****** late that I am about to rush this set,” she said.
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“If they cut power, they cut power. I’m super f****** sorry, my hair takes so long to do.” Del Rey was beset with an apparent technical difficulty during her performance, which forced her to restart her song White Mustang. She skipped over performing Venice Bitch.
The delay came after reports the Born To Die singer was not impressed she was not initially billed as the main act on the stage for Saturday on the first line-up poster. The poster had been listed in alphabetical order, with Del Rey featuring further down, but not marking her out as the headline act for The Other Stage.
Fan Sasha Watkins said “It’s just kind of devastating, because… apparently she did like less than half her set according to the security people and I basically just came to this festival to see her,”
The 18-year-old from London said despite Del Rey’s performance starting half an hour late she “was fine and she was doing herself”. “Then you got to (about) midnight and all the screens went black, her mic cut out, everything went black,” she added.
“Then the whole audience started singing Video Games together… she was like conducting it, which was really, really amazing. She kind of came and said hello to the people in the front.”
