“I AM THE GREATEST LIVING ROCKSTAR ON THE PLANET!” Kanye West claimed at Glastonbury yesterday and if you disagree maybe you should move on to bro country… I can’t think of a planet where that probably isn’t true and if West is the divining line in modern pop music stick me on any side he is on.
West’s nearly two hour set is more greatest hits than we are probably used to, and more crazily making a point rock and roll lay out the hits, swing em, hit em out of the ballpark, than the Yeezus tour was or was meant to be. If this didn’t convert you to the Church Of Ye nothing will… apparently. I didn’t see it, but the end of the set had him in a cherry picker high above Glastonbury.Somewhere else Justin Vernon joined him for a cover of “Woods” and “Lost On The World”.
Twitter was a 50/50 positive-negative reaction although the fears that after the petition to have him banned from the UK Festival’s 150K names failed to lead to a sound booing, he seems to have won this round. Meanwhile, if my Facebook wall is anything to go by, the vast majority of the world doesn’t share in my hero worship.
Here is the setlist, and tell me, who on earth can be unhappy with that?
Stronger’
‘Power’
‘Niggas In Paris’
‘Black Skinhead’
‘All Day’
‘Cold’
‘Clique’
‘Don’t Like’ (Chief Keef cover)
‘Mercy’
‘New Slaves’
‘Blood On The Leaves’
‘Heartless’
‘I Wonder’
‘Four Five Seconds’
‘Woods’ (Bon Iver cover)
‘Lost In The World’
‘Handle my Liquor’
‘No Church In The Wild’
‘Jesus Walks’
‘Diamonds From Sierra Leone’
‘Bound 2’
‘Runaway’
‘Only One’
‘Touch The Sky’
‘All Of The Lights’
‘Touch The Sky’
‘Good Life’
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (Queen cover)
‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’
‘Gold Digger’
‘All Falls Down’
