Glastonbury 2024: Watch Yard Act perform ‘Dream Job’
Two years after their Glastonbury Festival debut, Yard Act returned in emphatic style on the Woodsies Stage and showed why they are one of the best live bands that Britain has to offer.
Performing after Kasabian, who were the highly-anticipated special guests at Glastonbury, was always going to be a difficult task considering the band previously headlined the Pyramid Stage in 2014. Many would have found this a daunting proposition, but Yard Act handled the pressure with ease and blew the roof off the tent.
Yard Act didn’t get the memo relating to second album syndrome, with 2024’s follow-up, Where’s My Utopia, seeing the Leeds band take their artistry to new heights and evolve musically, which only aided their live set.
In a four-and-a-half-star review of the album, Far Out wrote: “It is, in many ways, a concept album that examines the social science of the so-called ‘tricky second album syndrome’. Musically, they avoid this mythical syndrome’s clutches, but they know that’s not enough. That’s never been what the accursed syndrome is about—they know that their day of derision will come…and it will come. Yard Act are almost definitely a band soon to be relegated to the ash heap of history. They’ll be cast there by a coterie of cool people vaccinated from the appeal of collective fun.”
‘Dream Job’ is a highlight from the record and their Glastonbury set. Before their set, frontman James Smith spoke exclusively with Far Out about what to expect from the show and even referenced the hit track: “It feels ace, top, mint, boss, class, sweet, deece. Yeah, not bad. Good! This year will be better because we aren’t as knackered as last time. And it will be bigger, too, because there are seven of us on stage now.”
Meanwhile, in the same interview, Yard Act’s Sam Shipstone said of the band’s first experience of Glastonbury in 2022: “We made some wicked, unexpected connections at the last one and met some wonderful people. Glastonbury has got a proper welcoming communal air that is unlike any other festival, and it started some unlikely conversations!”
Following Yard Act on the Woodsies Stage are Sleaford Mods, who will take to the tent before Gossip headline. Meanwhile, Little Simz is set to perform on the Pyramid Stage before Coldplay make their highly-anticipated comeback to Worthy Farm. Disclosure headline The Other Stage following a set from The Streets.
Watch Yard Act perform ‘Dream Job’ at Glastonbury Festival below.
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