Glastonbury 2025: Watch the Libertines perform ‘Don’t Look Back Into the Sun’ on the Pyramid Stage
On the last day of Glastonbury until 2027, with the festival set for a gap year next summer, a string of legends are taking to the Pyramid Stage. Indie stalwarts The Libertines graced a swollen crowd with nostalgic banger ‘Don’t Look Back Into the Sun’.
The classic 2003 track is the band’s signature tune with over 120million listens on Spotify. Prior to today’s rendition, the band had played the tracks twice at Worthy Farm, but never before to such a vast crowd.
The performance was also all the more poignant given the recent passing of Libertines’ frontman Pete Doherty’s former Babyshambles bandmate, Patrick Walden. In a touching tribute, Doherty recently wrote, “Used to call me Petey! huh!? Jesus that’s a shot in the heart – you brought joy to so many f*****g people mate.”
His open letter continued, “I was in Mexico lately, and a kid in the street had a tattoo of you and a shambles French dog on his chest, so I got the French dog tattooed the next day, meant to call you and tell you…. telling you now Pat mate.”
Throughout the Libertines’ emotive set, there was a sense of the poignancy of Walden’s recent passing. They honoured their late friend with a riotous show full of hits, but none went down better than this indie disco classic.
Prior to their performance, Celeste and The Selecter had got the ball rolling on the Pyramid Stage. It will also see a legend slot show from Rod Stewart before Nile Rodgers and Chic, Noah Kahan, and Olivia Rodrigo close events on the festival’s famed main stage.
This year hosts over 3,000 performances on over 100 stages with a whopping 210,000 officially in attendance. Seemingly, the Libertines attracted a fair chunk of them to their first set at the farm since 2022. No doubt, they’ll be back again in the future, perhaps even vying for the legends slot before long?
Watch The Libertines’ performance of ‘Don’t Look Back Into the Sun’ below. You can catch their full set on BBC iPlayer.
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