Glastonbury Review: Guns N' Roses is sporadically brilliant, while Lana Del Rey is cut short
Glastonbury Review: Guns N' Roses is sporadically brilliant, while Lana Del Rey is cut short
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To play this video you need JavaScript enabled in your browser. < /figure>By Mark Savage, BBC Music Correspondent
Guns N' Roses have always been a law unto themselves, and their Glastonbury title was no exception.
The hard rock legends played a meandering, sporadically brilliant set that blended stadium-level classics with less familiar deep cuts for three hours of endurance.
Highlights included a boisterous Welcome To The Jungle and the always welcome Sweet Child O' Mine.
But they drew a smaller crowd than American pop star Lizzo earlier in the day.
The American band took the stage at 9:30 p.m., opening with the classic Appetite For Destruction It's So Easy, as Axl Rose prowled the stage and Slash blasted riffs from under his top hat.
Saturday at Glastonbury: As it happened
At 61, Rose's voice isn't what it used to be, but he can still make a wolverine howl when he warms up - and his growling delivery remains convincingly menacing. (Some viewers complained that its microphone was too quiet, but in the field it cut through guitar bands like a knife through butter).
The set took a while to get going - loaded up front with songs like the title track from the band's failed 2008 album, Chinese Democracy; and Slither, a single from Slash's post-GNR side project Velvet Revolver.
It was only when the Welcome To The Jungle riff sounded in the Pyramid Arena, after a good 20 minutes of play, that they took off, after with Mr. Brownstone's ferocious rendition.
To play this video you need JavaScript enabled in your browser. < /figure>By Mark Savage, BBC Music Correspondent
Guns N' Roses have always been a law unto themselves, and their Glastonbury title was no exception.
The hard rock legends played a meandering, sporadically brilliant set that blended stadium-level classics with less familiar deep cuts for three hours of endurance.
Highlights included a boisterous Welcome To The Jungle and the always welcome Sweet Child O' Mine.
But they drew a smaller crowd than American pop star Lizzo earlier in the day.
The American band took the stage at 9:30 p.m., opening with the classic Appetite For Destruction It's So Easy, as Axl Rose prowled the stage and Slash blasted riffs from under his top hat.
Saturday at Glastonbury: As it happened
At 61, Rose's voice isn't what it used to be, but he can still make a wolverine howl when he warms up - and his growling delivery remains convincingly menacing. (Some viewers complained that its microphone was too quiet, but in the field it cut through guitar bands like a knife through butter).
The set took a while to get going - loaded up front with songs like the title track from the band's failed 2008 album, Chinese Democracy; and Slither, a single from Slash's post-GNR side project Velvet Revolver.
It was only when the Welcome To The Jungle riff sounded in the Pyramid Arena, after a good 20 minutes of play, that they took off, after with Mr. Brownstone's ferocious rendition.
