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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Of course she's saved one of her greatest bangers for last. "Spinning Around" is peak Noughties Kylie and she's even got a "flashmob" of volunteers breaking into the requisite dance moves.
And as Kylie's set comes to a close, so does my time on the Independent live blog. I'm handing over to the brilliant Roisin O'Connor.
I'm going to head over to the Other Stage on BBC iPlayer to watch a bit of my fave, Loyle Carner, then it's Miley Cyrus on the Pyramid Stage at 5.45pm!
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Robert Plant from The Cure has done an interview with Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 where he revealed that he had a strange first meeting with The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers:
JW: Brandon Flowers is the one person who is the most passionate about The Cure. Have you met him, have you done stuff together?
RS: Yeah I’ve met him a few times, yeah. The very first time I met him, he didn’t introduce himself, he just he thrust a bottle of very expensive tequila into my hands and ran off. I was like ‘Who was that?’. Since then I have had a conversation with him and he’s a lovely lovely man. They’re just masters at getting a crowd going.
Our critic Alexandra Pollard managed to get a clip of Miley performing that Ashley O song from Black Mirror
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