Glastonbury 2024: Watch The Streets cover Black Sabbath classic
During their set on The Other Stage at Glastonbury Festival on June 29th, The Streets paid tribute to fellow Birmingham heroes Black Sabbath by covering ‘Iron Man’ before playing ‘Fit But You Know It’.
The maverick move that crosses musical boundaries saw Mike Skinner lead his backing band through the introduction to the classic track by The Streets, but the lyrics were wrapped up within the music of the Black Sabbath effort. On paper, it sounds like it shouldn’t work, however, The Streets somehow found a way to pay homage to the Brummie icons respectfully.
After previously headlining the John Peel Stage in 2019, which led to an overcrowding issue as thousands were left unable to enter the jam-packed tent, The Streets were unsurprisingly promoted to an outdoor stage for this appearance in 2024.
Glastonbury is also a festival very close to the heart of Skinner, who only truly grew to understand the full magic of the event over the last decade. Speaking on the Sidetracked podcast on BBC Sounds, he said of his relationship with the iconic event: “It’s not until you go on stage and realise it’s completely different to anything else on the Earth.”
He continued: “The other thing for me was when I started DJing because when you watch Glastonbury on TV, you’re watching all of the big shows that are travelling around the world that are doing the other festivals, but when you DJ, and go up the hill, y’know, for me actually, that was the thing that really opened Glastonbury up to me was leaving the big stages and thinking, ‘This is crazy.’”
The set saw The Streets deliver a career-spanning set with Master Peace joining Skinner for the relatively new track ‘Wrong Answers Only’ and also airing Original Pirate Material favourites such as ‘Don’t Mug Yourself’ and ‘Weak Become Heroes’.
A true highlight of the set saw Skinner embark upon a crowd-surf during a rendition of the heartbreakingly emotional ‘On The Edge of a Cliff’, which originally appeared on The Streets’ fourth album, Everything Is Borrowed.
Earlier in the day, during their secret set on the Woodsies Stage, Kasabian played a similar trick to The Streets by interpolating the introduction from Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’ into their euphoric anthem ‘L.S.F.’, which went down a storm with the heaving tent.
Glastonbury Festival runs from June 26th until June 30th, and Far Out is on the ground at Worthy Farm to provide coverage directly. This year’s event is headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA.
Watch The Streets honour Black Sabbath at Glastonbury below.
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