Glastonbury Festival 2005
Friday 24th to Sunday 26th June 2005Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£125 - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 150,000
Hot Hot Heat walked out to the first real rays of sunshine on a wet and bedraggled other stage field. The slightly sombre mood of the audience was met by a seemingly nervous start by Hot Hot Heats normally bouncy frontman Steve Bays, but as Steve got warmed up so did everything else; playing a mixture of tunes from both the Make Up The Breakdown album and the newly released Elevator the crowd was soon bouncing along with Hot Hot Heats funky rock/pop style, and Steve Bays increasingly Mick Jagger style dance moves.
By the half way point the crowd had forgotten the mud and seemed truly happy to be there, but you could tell it was time to pull out one of the big singles and sure enough the band cut in with possible one of their best known hits Bandages, this was more than enough to secure the band a place in the crowds hearts.
Slipping in the other hits Talk To Me, Dance With Me, and Naked in the city again along with Steves increasingly bazaar dancing including leap frogging his keyboard - was almost just a compliment to an already happy audience. By the time they wrapped their set up with their most recent hit single Goodnight Goodnight, It had more than justified the trudge across the quagmire like conditions and even made me forgive Steve Bay for his Mick Hucknell esk fashion sense.
review by: Kevin Halls