I can't remember the set-list fully, they started off with Blind, Last Gas and All You Good Good People as usual, and played all the album tracks with the exception of Now You're Nobody, finishing off with the Good Will Out, and an encore of That's All Changed Forever. They also played "Free Ride" which was beautiful. The stage set-up was pretty impressive, with a massive EMBRACE logo made out of light bulbs at the back. The gig was brilliant (sound quality seemed OK to me, though some others dispute it - but there again I was quite near the stage.) The only complaint I have is the fact that both Ian Brown and Primal Scream were on at the same time. And of course the weather - spirits weren't dampened by rain itself but all the resulting watery-muddy sludge (apparently worse than last year) made movement difficult and moshing impossible for the audience.
T Kihara
(Taken from Western Daily Press Glasto Souvenir Issue)
EXPECTATIONS had been raised to frankly unreasonable heights, so Embrace's
headlining spot was inevitably a bit of an anti-climax.
The audience made songs such as One Big Family seem like exercises in irony.
But this was no Roses-esque humiliation either - Danny's touchingly off-key
vocals captured the right atmosphere of struggling against the odds, which was Glastonbury all over
, really.
Best Song - MY WEAKNESS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
Best Moment - The Embrace flashing-light logo, that looked as if they'd nicked it from a Pontefract bingo-hall.
Worst Moment - The audience gruesomely trying to emulate Danny's off-key drone on Come Back To What You Know.