Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Darkstar
Other Stage
16:00 Sunday 25th June 2000
Poor
old Bic. He never got to see the wonderful Flaming Lips set on Saturday
night, because Darkstar in their entirety only got to Worthy Farm
Sunday lunchtime. They've been busy in the studio writing and recording,
but whilst the Pilton revellers revelled, they were playing gigs…
The
sun was burning our backs when Darkstar came onstage. There's only
three of them, and the Other Stage looked weirdly empty. Even their
fairy lights were no competition against the afternoon sun. Bic's
not the hugest of chaps and he looked virtually Lilliputian against
the huge black and silver backdrop.
It
wasn't long before the sparse visuals faded into obscurity. Darkstar's
sound is deep and loud enough to fill an arena of that size. The
music is dark and intense, and you're not really sure whether to
collapse to the floor in a moment of psychedelia or get down to
the front and thrash about wildly. Half the audience are lost but
mesmerised. The rest of them are drawn in like zombies to a cult,
especially at hearing 'I Am The Sun' and 'Gracedelica'. They used
to be Levitation. But it's hard to compare them to anything, even
their ex-selves.
Bic,
Dave Laurence. Take me to your leader.
review by Suzanne Azzopardi
photos by Suzanne Azzopardi
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