Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Travis
Pyramid Stage
23:00 Saturday 24th June 2000
Travis jumped
on to the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night and played one of the best performances
at Glastonbury 2000. They opened with 'All I Wanna Do Is Rock' which seemed
to go down well with the crowd.
Their well
known songs such as 'Writing to Reach You', 'Driftwood' and 'Coming Around'
were sang both by the crowd and the band which is amazing to hear. Fran
Healey must have been moved by the number of people singing his songs.
Fran Healey
appeared relived after singing 'Why does it always rain on me?' as it
failed to rain. I think he had been worrying that it would happened again
to the dismay of the crowd.
During their
set they did covers of 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' by Britney Spears and
'The Weight' by The Band. Their cover of Britney's hit was excellent and
alot better than the orignal. Also they pulled 'The Weight' off superbly.
An interesting use of slides occured during their performance of the song
'Slideshow'.
The question
however is was Fran nervous, his strange babblings between songs hints
toward it and the large number of Scot's (including myself) yelling at
him to get on with it was amusing. A bizzare interlude followed when the
band went off stage and appeared on the large screens doing press ups
and sit ups.
Travis finished
their set with 'Happy' which wowed the crowd that bit more. The band then
came down to the front of the crowd and began to shake hands with the
fans. I have yet to wash my hand since touching Fran.
All in all
an excellent performance and a wonderful end to the evening for many a
glasto guest.
review sent
in by
Austyn Low
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