Benefits on their Glastonbury debut and plans for new music
nme.comBenefits have spoken to NME about making their Glastonbury Festival debut tonight (Friday June 23).The Teesside noise punks will be performing under the invitation of Billy Bragg on his legendary Left Field stage this evening, shortly after the mysterious set from The Churnups – widely believed to be Foo Fighters, or least something featuring Dave Grohl, after he was spotted on site earlier today.Still, Benefits frontman Kingsley Hall isn’t worried about pulling a big crowd shortly after. “We’re not up against them,” replied Hall. “As soon as they finish, we start.
There’s no crossover. If you’re really quick, you can get from the Pyramid to the Left Field in 10 or 20 minutes. Get a jog on.
Yesterday when I was wondering around I saw two celebrities. I saw Richie [Anderson] – the lad who does the traffic for Radio 2.
I was proper starstruck and couldn’t speak to him. I also saw Joe Wicks. He could train people to do a jog around.”Ahead of their set tonight, Hall spoke to NME about Glasto dreams, the state of the world, Twitter furore at new bands, Royal Blood’s Radio One Big Weekend incident, and what to expect from the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album ‘Nails‘.Hall: “It was a weird one.
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