It feels like everyone worth asking, and some who aren’t, have passed public judgement on Metallica‘s booking at this month’s Glastonbury Festival, so it’s probably only fair that the man responsible for one of the event’s most fondly remembered headline performances gets the chance to air his own thoughts on the subject.
In telling the BBC he believes festival-goers might be in a ‘fragile state’ by the time Metallica take to the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night, Pulp‘s Jarvis Cocker says: “They’ve probably not had much sleep and they’ve been indulging in certain things. So the main thing is to be a vague, warm, friendly presence. Whether a full-borne rendition of ‘Enter Sandman’ is going to fill those criteria I don’t know.”
Pulp were last minute replacements for The Stone Roses at Glastonbury in 1995 and went down a storm as they rode the wave of joy which had been stirred up by their hit single ‘Common People‘, and launched the bulk of their ‘Different Class‘ album which would be released a few months later.