Prob cause it was Sunday night. Still a lot of fun and even being 75 minutes it still felt a lot longer. It was a nice way for me to see the show without dropping a bundle on the Big Steppers tour and it was unique anyway.
ELO were poor, especially given I've always been a huge fan and had seen them at the 02 a few years before and they were incredible. Their Hyde Park show for Radio 2 when Jeff first started it up again absolutely blew me away when I saw it on TV too, so had high expectations that they'd nail the legends slot.
Musically they were spot on, but a combination of the crowd being lacklustre after 5 days in horrendous conditions, and Jeff's zero crowd interaction and clearly treating it as 'Just another gig' rather than the huge thing the Legend slot had become by that point, resulted in it being completely underwhelming.
Interestingly, the 'Wembley or Bust' show filmed a year later in scorching sunshine is one of the most joyous gigs I've ever seen, with the crowd (who had clearly all been on the sauce all day judging by the most incredible examples of Dad Dancing and intoxicating enthusiasm for all the songs) was everything the legend slot and crowd reaction should have been at Glasto.
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