The slow and painful announcements of the Glastonbury 2016 headliners felt like a belated punishment for that time some people complained about Jay-Z taking to the Pyramid Stage. First, the festival’s organisers announced Coldplay, who will have now headlined the event four times by way of subliminally inserting themselves into the public’s consciousness and pretending that this means they’re popular. Then came Muse, a band whose biggest struggle is finding that Venn diagram overlap between people who enjoy their music and people who actually leave their house. Finally, Adele was announced as the festival’s final headliner, which will at the very least answer that age-old question of “what the fuck do people do at an Adele concert?” thanks to the event being broadcast by the BBC.
However, not content with limiting Adele’s presence at the music festival to one day, Muse’s Matt Bellamy has outstretched an invitation to the singer to join his band onstage during their slot at the festival. Speaking to BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw, the frontman discussed the nerves artists typically get when performing at the Worthy Farm event, offering some advice to Adele in the process. He said: “The best thing for her to do would be to come the night before, watch us and come on and sing a song with us. That will take the pressure off, that will be a no pressure moment.”
He added: “A lot of people, if they are nervous, they will just lock themselves away and then the first time they see it (the stage) is when they go on and you can really brick it.”
This is a kind gesture, of course, if it were not for the fact that Adele joining Muse onstage means that Glasto-goers would need to suffer through yet more Adele, as though her omnipresence in the UK wasn’t already inescapable. For Glastonbury attendees looking to counter-balance the ludicrosity of a super-rich megastar still crying about a relationship she had when she was 20 years old, by way of listening to Matt Bellamy sing about how the government is trying to control our minds using wind turbines, then it looks like they may be out of luck.
Check out the full Glastonbury 2016 line-up right here.
