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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It's over a decade since Kylie had to pull out of her headline slot due to her breast cancer diagnosis in 2005. Impressively, and a little eerily, she hasn't aged a bit.
Sometimes you forget just how many hits Kylie Minogue has had, and then she whips out "I Should Be So Lucky" as only the second song of her Glastonbury set. "I wouldn't make you wait for this one!" she jokes. The crowd are waving in time to the music, and the dancers's large letters. What a peppy pop arsenal.
For the last minute or so the camera has been just focussed on a dancer strutting his stuff in homage to Klaus Nomi. To the average punter not quite a well versed in 80s synthpop (i.e. me) it just looks like a triangular waiter with a gothic pout. It's become clear that this has just been facilitating a costume change, but I'm still not entirely sure...why he's there?
Time for a gear change. Nick Cave has now joined Kylie on the Pyramid Stage, for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" and the crowd are waving some pre-planted red roses. It's certainly a gear change, but it works.
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