Little Simz stuns Glastonbury with awe-inspiring set
On June 29th, Little Simz made herself be known as a future headliner of Glastonbury Festival after delivering an iconic set on the Pyramid Stage.
Simz made her Glastonbury debut in 2016 when she took to West Holts, returning to headline the same stage six years later. In between the two performances, she turned The Park into the Grey Area in 2019, providing one of the weekend’s most impressive sets despite her mid-afternoon billing. Despite her previous showcases in Pilton, it’s the Pyramid Stage that’s rightly now her home.
The Mercury Prize-winner has been keeping herself out of the spotlight, and maintaining all of her focus on her prestigious slot at Glastonbury, which is her only live date of the year. Needless to say, this quality-over-quantity approach paid off significantly on the Pyramid Stage.
Performing before a headliner of Coldplay’s size can be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, many are agonisingly waiting for the main event and not interested in anything else apart from their favourite band. However, as Little Simz proved, it gives artists a chance to win over a mass crowd who may not be familiar with their work.
Upon being announced to perform, Simz told the BBC: “I think my Glastonbury journey has just been so unique, but, you know, the fact that they’ve supported me and kept bringing me back to do bigger stages, different times and stuff. Yeah, it really is. It is special.”
The hip-hop star added: “I remember walking off [in 2022] and saying, ‘I’ll see you next time on the Pyramid’, and it actually happened.”
Following her impressive performance at Worthy Farm, it somewhat feels inevitable that Simz will return to Glastonbury in the future as a headliner and become only the second British rapper, after Stormzy, to achieve the honour.
While the set was short on special guests, despite rampant rumours she would be joined by Stormzy, that didn’t matter as Simz didn’t need the assistance from anybody else to occupy the Pyramid Stage and had more stage presence than Pilton could handle.
Furthermore, following her performance, Simz returned to the Pyramid Stage later that evening to feature on an unreleased track with Coldplay, which is likely to appear on their forthcoming album, Moon Music, set for release on October 4th.
Watch Little Simz perform ‘Woman’ at Glastonbury Festival below.