Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Brand
New Heavies
Pyramid Stage
14:30 24th June 2000
"Ready
for some brunchtime tunes" was the cry as the Brand New Heavies
took to the pyramid stage at lunchtime on Saturday. A very chilled
but reasonably sized audience assembled and those who were vertical
(many weren't but then it's still a bit early really!) were ready
for a bop.
Straight
in then with Dream Come True, followed shortly by Midnight at the
Oasis, Give Me one of Those, You've got a friend, Apparently Nothing
etc etc. One after the other of instantly recognisable great pop
tracks which had the crowd singing along and gently boogying away.
The
band was made up of a 'very tight!' horns section (particularly
cool sax played by Jim), 3 on backing vocals, a keyboard in addition
to the core of Andrew Levy, Simon Bartholomew and Jan Kincaid producing
their trade mark smooth and silky acid jazz (or whatever it is)
with Carleen Anderson's soulful vocals giving them an edge they
have perhaps missed in previous incarnations.
They are great at what they do and were the perfect line up for
a chilled audience on an early Saturday afternoon at Glasto…yeah!
review by Stuart McCandlish
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