Historic Headliner
Whereas speaking about Suzanne’s upcoming dwell reveals, Basic Pop wonders if we are able to anticipate to see her at any festivals this summer season, earlier than relating her landmark headline efficiency on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage again in 1989.
“No festivals this 12 months,” the singer concedes. “It’s the primary time in like 25 years I haven’t toured throughout the summer season.
“As for that Glastonbury present, effectively the day itself was overshadowed by this weird dying menace that my bass participant had obtained. So, I needed to play sporting a bulletproof vest… that wasn’t very festive [laughs]. It was all very bizarre and hectic, however in the end it was a second in time that I’m very pleased with.
“The group hadn’t been informed what was occurring, however they have been so heat in direction of us and appeared to stretch method off into the horizon. Sure it was an iconic second, nevertheless it was additionally very intense.”
Since Vega’s historic efficiency at Glastonbury, plenty of solo feminine artists together with Sinéad O’Connor, Adele, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, SZA and Olivia Rodrigo, have gone on to headline the hallowed Pyramid Stage. Whereas festivals slowly tackle an obvious inequality that exists inside lineups, the likes of Kylie Minogue, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Chappell Roan, Ariana Grande and the aforementioned Billie Eilish and Beyoncé, are main the best way within the charts.
So, is Suzanne heartened to see the tide showing to shift throughout the music business?
“Yeah, I feel it’s nice to see the tables turning,” she says with a smile. “It’s actually superior. In a humorous method, due to the success these girls are having and the truth that girls like Joan Baez and Patti Smith are nonetheless going robust, it makes me really feel like I nonetheless have a future and never only a previous.”
