Paloma Faith made the Pyramid Stage her own and paid tribute to Amy Winehouse with a ‘Back To Black’ cover at Glastonbury 2024.
Faith’s Glastonbury set ran from 13:45 to 14:45 this afternoon (June 30), between performances from Seasick Steve and Shania Twain.
Faith began with her cover of Cass Elliott’s ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ before saying, “We love you Amy, you’re here in spirit,” and launching into Winehouse’s 2007 hit.
After Faith performed ‘Bad Woman’, the second single from her latest album The ‘Glorification of Sadness’, released in February, she gave an emphatic speech in which she dedicated the song to single mums: “I know it’s hard, I’m doing it!” she said, bemoaning that girls are told, “Be a good girl, always behave’, [because] it’s not right. I’m a bad woman and proud, and I hope that you are gonna raise your daughters to be bad women too.”
Throughout her set, it felt like a party atmosphere on stage with a number of backing singers, musicians and dancers all coordinated in black and red outfits as Faith worked her way through her discography, taking festivalgoers on a journey through her trademark soulful, jazzy pop.
Paloma Faith covering Back To Black by Amy Winehouse this is huge
— didyoujustsaywig (@2002scoobydoo) June 30, 2024
paloma singing back to black for amy i’m sobbing that was everything 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 #Glastonbury2024 #palomafaith
— scarlett 💘 (@scarlettfricker) June 30, 2024
Faith paid tribute to her “LGBTQ friends” with ‘Cry on the Dancefloor’, too, ordering the crowd: “Keep dancing people, it’s time to rave … put your hands together,” and dedicated ‘Sweatpants’ to married couples in the audience, urging them to stay together and quipping, “The dating apps are terrible, everyone on there is mental.”
She hopped around her discography, from earlier songs like debut single ‘Stone Cold Sober’ – for which she donned a red cowboy hat – and ‘Upside Down’, before which she thanked long-standing fans for their loyalty, to ‘Lullaby’ and ‘Changing’, collaborations with house DJ Sigala and drum ‘n’ bass duo Sigma respectively.
“I’ve talked too much so I”m not allowed to address you again, but it’s been fun” she said at the end of her set, before launching into her 2014 single, ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’ to finish off an extremely strong hour of music.
Paloma Faith’s Glastonbury 2024 setlist was:
‘There’s Nothing More Human Than Failure’
‘How You Leave A Man’
‘Bad Woman’
‘Stone Cold Sober’
‘Picking Up the Pieces’
‘God in a Dress’
‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ (Cass Elliot cover)
‘Back to Black’ (Amy Winehouse cover)
‘Let It Ride’
‘Sweatpants’
‘Upside Down’
‘Can’t Rely on You’
‘Lullaby’
‘Changing’
‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’