Jamie T live at Glastonbury 2022: indie national treasure returns in a blaze of glory

 

"Young dreams so difficult to beat," peruses a standard hanging in the John Peel tent. It's a sign of approval for the famous late DJ's main tune, The Undertones' 'High school Kicks', yet in addition feels fitting for this evening's main event on that stage (June 25). Jamie T's fundamental presentation collection 'Frenzy Prevention' turned 15 this January, which catches the quintessence of wasted young people thumping back modest alcohol at traffic intersections, getting into scrapes, and falling all through youthful love.

The response from the group at Glastonbury shows that T's star still can't seem to wind down, every melody met by raucous displays of approval and good wishes. After 'The Prophet', he begins unfastening his shirt, drawing in ensembles of whistles that he before long cooperates with, lifting his shirt. "Gut will get ya!" he chuckles into the amplifier, adding to the overjoyed state of mind filling the tent.

At the point when his band passes on the stage halfway through the set to pass on him to play his delicate new single 'St George Wharf Tower' all alone, the crowd doesn't try to fake interest - no shortcoming of T's or the melodies he peruses the room rapidly, and later on even trenches "another sluggish tune" ('Emily's Heart') from the setlist. He goes rather than discuss controlling bangers like 'Ready to rock 'n roll' - performed alone on an acoustic bass, very much like in his initial days - and the rattling song of devotion '368'.

Sadly, T being on a more modest stage than the Pyramid implies he just gets a little more than an hour to whip through his back inventory, and as fast as he burst into life in front of an audience, the set is practically finished. He goes out in a burst of magnificence, however, initial sending off into a group joining a version of 'Sheila', sending shouts of "Laaahndaaahn!" taking off up to the rafters. Then, at that point, he pulls off the 2007 British independent likeness Macca's visitor spots, presenting The Maccabees' guitarist (and maker on his new collection) Hugo White to assist him with tearing through two last tunes - a combustible 'Sticks 'n' Stones' and a pogo-commendable rendition of 'Carry on The Grudge's' 'Zombie'.

After a light first howl of the last option's chorale, T stops procedures to take off his shirt, empowering his fans' cheers as he stands gladly on the stage, arms overhead. "I don't give a flying screw anymore," he proclaims, an explanation that feels like an exhilaratingly freeing declaration and the ideal method for introducing another time of one of noughties nonmain stream’s most cherished craftsmen.