Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Leftfield
Other Stage
22:50 Saturday 24th June 2000
Having
flexed their muscles at the Homelands festivals Leftfield now came
to Glastonbury with a show that was polished. Unlike the Chemical
Brothers who played the night before, Leftfield did not go straight
in with a major track. They began with a gentle mystic sound and
there was great anticipation as they built up slowly, very slowly
bringing in that deep thumping base. When the crowd did start moshing
they warned us ' We'll take you higher, but first lower still' and
came in with 'Chant of a Poor Man', but not just a copy of the album
- this had a different angle and was played specially for us. Then
everyone reacted when they heard 'Song For Life' and 'Storm 3000'
from the first album, Leftism, which are mixed about and joined
seamlessly together, the music flowed beautifully.
Then
they announced 'Right, now this is the higher' and 'Inspection (Check
One)' begins to huge roars from the crowd. However, everyone is
expecting loud and unfortunately this didn't come off on the outside
Other Stage as well as it does inside an arena. Inside you get the
vibration through the floor and can feel it through your body but
at Glastonbury the volume just isn't there and you're standing on
solid earth. MC Cheshire Cat pleads for the sound to be turned up
but it doesn't happen which I'm sure Leftfield will be disappointed
about. The deep sounds of 'Afika Shox' belt out and the crowd is
stomping though.
They
finish their set with, of course, 'Phat Planet' and some timely
fireworks appear in the sky behind the stage. Overall, a good performance
with some unusual twists to the music which always makes a gig special,
but Leftfield need that volume and Glastonbury wouldn't let them
have it.
review by Skye Hi
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