Alex Turner has praised The Rolling Stones‘ Glastonbury headline performance, which he was lucky enough to witness from the side of the stage.
From that vantage point, the Arctic Monkeys frontman was able to observe the bandmates still enjoying a gang mentality pre and post gig despite all the trials, tribulations and successes of their long career.
“I’d never seen them before, and from where we were watching there was this little partition behind the drums, and we could see them all before they went on,” Turner has told the Telegraph.
“And it wasn’t like they all got out of different dressing rooms and went onstage – they were all stood there, having a buzz, laughing.”
“Then they went off and did their thing. And whenever they went offstage you could see they were loving it, chatting and stuff. And you thought, ‘Yeah, the Stones are still a gang’. Which was really cool to see, actually.”
The Rolling Stones headlined the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night of this year’s Glastonbury, 24 hours after Turner’s band had made their second bow at the event.