Olivia Rodrigo may have inspired with her headline slot at Glastonbury Festival, but the performer confirmed she was terrified before heading on stage.
One of the biggest festivals in the world, the Worthy Farm event proved almost too much for Rodrigo to handle. She explained that just before heading on-stage she felt a wave of anxiety and wondered whether she was up to the task of headlining the festival. Rodrigo would go on to pull out all the stops with her Glastonbury Festival performance, which included an appearance from The Cure‘s Robert Smith. What could have been an anxiety-riddled disaster became one of the highlights of that year’s festival, with Rodrigo confirming that the moment soon turned “magical” when she made her way onto the stage.
Speaking to the BBC about her time at the festival and what she did to calm her nerves, Rodrigo admitted she had three bowlfuls of sticky toffee pudding at a hotel before heading to the festival grounds. She said: “I remember having like a near anxiety attack in the bathroom, like, ‘How am I going to do this? I don’t know if I’m ready.’
“But something overcame me the second I stepped on stage and started singing. I felt, like, totally calm and so in my element. I’m not very spiritual or religious, but it’s moments like that where I feel music is just so magical that you just can’t really describe it.”
Rodrigo went on to explain that she had three bowls of dessert before heading to Worthy Farm, where she put on a memorable show which featured two covers of The Cure and a four-song encore. She said: “I stayed at this [hotel] that had the best sticky toffee pudding, and I was like, ‘You know what? I gotta do it. If the toffee’s really hot and the ice cream melts on top, it’s really good.”
A full setlist for Rodrigo’s Glastonbury Festival show can be found below.
- Obsessed
- Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl
- Vampire
- Drivers License
- Traitor
- Bad Idea Right?
- Love is Embarrassing
- Pretty Isn’t Pretty
- Happier
- Enough for You
- Friday I’m in Love (The Cure cover with Robert Smith)
- Just Like Heaven (The Cure cover with Robert Smith)
- So American
- Jealousy, Jealousy
- Favourite Crime
- Deja Vu
- Brutal
- All-American Bitch
- Good 4 U
- Get Him Back!
Though Rodrigo would not play Maggots for Brains during her set, she confirmed the song had received a few changes before its release that only she seemed to notice. Rodrigo said: “I love that song musically, and there’s a lot going on – a lot of harmonies – and literally in the car, I was like, turn that backing vocal up just one decibel. I was getting kind of weird about it. Nobody else will notice.”
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