Glastonbury on Sunday, as it happened: The Cure close Glastonbury 2019 with 'Boys Don't Cry'
Final day of Glastonbury took place at Worthy Farm after a weekend of unprecedented good weather
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Your support makes all the difference.The Cure performed the closing set of the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2019, with a euphoric rendition of "Boys Don't Cry".
The goth rockers played a number of crowd favourites including "Friday I'm in Love", "The Forest" and "In Between Days".
During their set, frontman Robert Smith quipped that he was attempting to win the prize for saying "the least" during the performance, referring to his near-silence in between songs for the first half of the show.
The performance was preceded by Vampire Weekend on the same stage, along with shows across Worthy Farm by artists including Miley Cyrus, Loyle Carner, Dave, Flohio, Little Simz, Janelle Monae, Kylie Minogue and Years & Years.
Temperatures were slightly cooler following what appeared to be a near-record-breaking heatwave on the Saturday, that prompted one glamping site to ban showers due to a water shortage.
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"Hello again," Robert Smith introduces the band briefly. I think this is going to be a set for the history books.
Let me take this moment to remind you of one of the greatest ever Robert Smith moments, during The Cure's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I just unfollowed someone on Twitter because they openly admitted to not knowing who The Cure was. Just Google it, man.
When I saw them at BST Hyde Park last year they did a surprising number of "the bigguns" early on: "Boys Don't Cry", "Friday I'm in Love" etc.
Also: Me and a friend were running out to the field for the beginning of a set just as "Friday" came on, and we saw this massive seven-foot goth in all-black and chains (it was about 40 degrees) being carried out by three security guards like he was a giant worm or something (he was kicking a lot) and screaming "I F***ING LOVE THIS SONG!!!!"
Robert Smith just joked he's going for the award for "the person who says less" at Glastonbury. Bless. There isn't actually a record for that yet, but in 2017 Dave Grohl broke Adele's swearing record by surpassing her x33 use of the word "f***".
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