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Dior oozes ‘bourgeois cool’ at Paris men’s fashion week MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015 38 An Iraqi vendor sells fruit in a street in the capital Baghdad during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan yesterday.—AFP Kanye gives defiant performance at Glastonbury anye West gave a defiant performance at Glastonbury on Saturday night, challenging critics Kwho said he was unsuitable for the event by declar- ing himself the “greatest living rock star”. The US rapper delighted many core fans with a 100-minute set on the Pyramid Stage that included big hits and new material, but did little to win over those festival-goers who came along out of curiosity. Wearing blue denim with a white splat- tered paint effect, West spent most of the set alone on a bare stage under a ceiling of hundreds of powerful spot lights, although he took a trip above the stage in a crane for “Touch the Sky”. “Thank you all for coming out tonight, thank you for coming to see me,” he said in a rare moment of engage- ment with the crowd. West’s performance opened with “Stronger” and closed with “Gold Digger”, and included a guest appearance by Justin Vernon of folk band Bon Iver, who lurked in the shadows on the edge of the stage as the rapper strode around. At one point, West sang part of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”-a bold move before declar- ing: “You are watching the greatest living rock star on the planet!” The decision to give West the coveted Saturday night Kanye West performs on The Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, Saturday.—AP photos slot caused controversy among fans of the festival, which is better known for its rock and folk music, and 135,000 peo- ple signed a petition to get him dropped. Emily Eavis, Glastonbury’s co-organizer and daughter of founder Michael Eavis, said she had even received death threats over the booking, but insisted that he was an artist “mak- ing the most exciting music at the moment”. There was cer- tainly huge support in the crowd for West, who repeatedly went silent to allow the fans to sing along, and won cheers when he dedicated one song to his wife Kim Kardashian, who was in the audience. But the set was at times chaotic. Just minutes in, an audience member, comedian Lee Nelson, jumped onto stage and had to be removed by security, while West stopped several songs to restart them. Joshua, 26, said he was disappointed. “I love all his stuff, but I found him crap tonight,” he said. “You’ve got to respect the crowd. His ego was outside the Pyramid-he doesn’t understand Glastonbury.” “I’ve never been in an audience more willing The Dalai Lama addresses an audience near the Stone to love a headliner and be so disappointed,” wrote Times English comedian Simon Brodkin , playing his character Circle as he visits the Glastonbury Festival of Music and The Dalai Lama addresses an audience near the Stone columnist Caitlin Moran on Twitter.—AFP Lee Nelson, interrupts American singer Kanye West as Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Circle as he visits the Glastonbury Festival. he performs on the Pyramid Stage. Pilton in Somerset, South West England yesterday. Grateful Dead enthrall faithful in first of 5 final shows he songs still ran long. To the uninitiated, the through “Cumberland Blues,” “Born Cross-Eyed” Subarus and luxury sedans than VW buses. There ence with “Space,” an improvised percussive inter- and a bushy beard that makes him resemble the communal rituals of the faithful fans proba- and a 20-minute-long “Viola Lee Blues” that gave were fewer vendors selling tie-dyed T-shirts, glass play accompanied by rhythmic psychedelic Lorax, came alive while singing “Spanish Lady” Tbly looked strange. Was it trippy? Well, this Phish front man Trey Anastasio, who had the hon- pipes and jewelry than in the past, but enough to graphics. Bob Weir, the former baby-faced band and taking the vocal duties that used to fall to was a Grateful Dead show, after all, the first in a or and pressure of serving as Garcia’s surrogate on remind tailgating concert-goers they were in the heartthrob who now has a full head of white hair Garcia on the melancholy “Morning Dew.”—AP handful over the next week that are said to be the guitar, his first challenge on a solo. right place. “I have this feeling about all the bands last. The four surviving members of the Dead, As “Viola Lee” was ending, a rainbow arced from the 60s - you want to see them one more joined by a trio of well-versed companions, across the sky above the stadium like a smile from time because they gave you so much,” said Larry launched their “Fare Thee Well” mini-tour on beyond. The vast majority of the audience, which Johnson, 64, of Seattle, who went with three col- Saturday night in Northern California, where the included former flower children with more than a lege buddies. The second half of Saturday’s show legendary jam band got its start 50 years ago and touch of gray in their hair as well as millennials got off to a slow start as the reunion band, which almost two decades after the death of beloved who were babies when Garcia died - were inclined included Bruce Hornsby on piano and keyboards, lead guitarist Jerry Garcia. to appreciate every chord, so grateful were they struggled to find its footing on “That’s It For The During a performance that featured a little just to be there. “I’m in the right place at the right Other One” and “Dark Star.” more than 3 1/2 hours of music, the group’s so- time and all the right people are here with me and called “core four” - rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, it’s all perfect,” said Sabrina Donahue, 47, a media- The energy started bassist Phil Lesh and percussionists Mickey Hart tion teacher from Montana who attended the “To me, this show feels like a big rehearsal,” Erik and Bill Kreutzmann - unreeled a set list featuring show with her “best hippie soul sister” - a veteran Keegan, 39, of Southern California observed, both crowd-pleasers and more obscure pieces of over 300 Dead shows in the late 1980s who adding that he still was enjoying himself. “The from their early catalog. The band got the Levi’s now works as a school district superintendent in notes are all there but they don’t add up.” The Stadium crowd of about 80,000 into its customary California. “The only difference is we’re keeping energy started building again when they tackled loose-limbed groove at the start with familiar ren- our shoes on now,” the educator, Michelle the iconic “St Stephen.” Anastasio delivered his ditions of “Truckin’” and “Uncle John’s Band.” From Hutchins, 47, said. finest fretwork on the song. Per Dead tradition, there, the rest of the first set veered unevenly The parking lots around the stadium had more Hart and Kreutzmann fully re-engaged the audi- The Grateful Dead perform at Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Rehearsal..

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