Tim Booth leading James at the Leeds First Direct Arena (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
James were denied their chance of opening Glastonbury at 11am local time this morning due to repair work being carried out around the Other Stage.
There was a 50 minute delay in total, reports NME, before head honcho Michael Eavis invited the assembled audience waiting for their festival to get underway to ‘move slowly forward’ – advice they might want to save for Adele tomorrow…
“Move slowly forward to the front,” he said. “James will be on stage in around six minutes. Thank you for coming, you really are the best audience in the whole wide world.”
There’s performances due from the likes of Frightened Rabbit and Editors on the Other Stage today before headliners Disclosure, while the main Pyramid Stage has Foals coming up from 8pm, immediately supporting top-of-the-bill Muse whose frontman Matt Bellamy told the Telegraph yesterday that he is expecting something, at some point, to go wrong during their set.
“Really, the stage is not yours,” he said. “There are so many components that are unpredictable and out of your control. So there’s no-one to blame if anything goes wrong – which it will.”