Foo Fighters, Cate Blanchett shock Glastonbury followers

US rockers Foo Fighters have arrived for his or her shock Glastonbury Competition set on the practice as Australian actor Cate Blanchett joined US duo Sparks on stage.

Nice Western Railway (GWR) revealed “rock royalty” had used its service to get to the competition at Worthy Farm in Somerset on Friday.

Foo Fighters and their entourage had unique use of a first-class carriage for his or her journey from London Paddington to Bathtub.

The band performed the competition’s foremost stage on Friday in a slot billed underneath the identify The ChurnUps.

Posting an image of frontman Dave Grohl with GWR workers member Brendan Cropper, the official account tweeted: “Even rock royalty is aware of that there is no such thing as a higher approach to journey to Glastonbury than by practice!”

Grohl devoted the final tune of the shock foremost stage set to the band’s late drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Hawkins died instantly in March aged 50 whereas the group was on the South American leg of its world tour.

Glastonbury crowds got “a brilliant particular deal with” when Blanchett made a shock look with US pop-rock duo Sparks.

The Oscar-winning actress stars within the music video for Sparks’ current single The Lady Is Crying In Her Latte.

Opening band’s competition set on Friday, singer Russell Mael advised crowds “we now have a brilliant particular deal with tonight”.

“We did a video for this tune lately and we had the good honour of getting the good actor Cate Blanchett be a part of us – the place are you Cate Blanchett?” she mentioned.

Blanchett then appeared on stage, sporting a yellow swimsuit, inexperienced glasses and crimson over-ear headphones – the identical outfit she wore for the Sparks music video – to roars from the group.

After displaying a sequence of energetic strikes to the tune, which she carried out whereas standing nonetheless, Blanchett bowed and left the stage with out saying a phrase.

Sparks – Ron and Russell Mael – met Blanchett in Paris final 12 months, previous to her rampant success throughout the 2023 awards season for her efficiency in Todd Discipline’s movie Tar.

“We met Cate Blanchett in Paris on the Cesar Awards final 12 months, little understanding {that a} 12 months later one of many nice actors of our time – and a splendid individual – would graciously consent to lending her booty-shaking expertise to the primary video from our new album,” the Mael brothers mentioned beforehand.

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