Wolf Alice Joined Nme Backstage at Glastonbury 2025 to Discuss Their New Album 'The Clearing' and reflect on the 10th Anniversary of Their Debut Album, 'My Love Is Cool'. Check Out The Full Interview Below and Watch Some of the Video Above.
The Band Were Second from Top On The Other Stage Yesterday (June 29), Performing Just Before The Prodigy for Their Biggest Glastonbury Set SO Far. It Followed to Mid-Afternoon Pyramid Stage Slot in 2022, Which the Group Nearly Missed After Getting Stranded in America.
“That was the Worst 48 Hours Ever,” Guitarist Joff Oddie Recalled. “So Stressful. We Misset a Flight-ORY CANCELLED A Flight Going From La. We Were Supporting Halsey at the Hollywood Bowl and then we were just in the airport. It was just on a complete Knife-edge the Whole time. We Lreded and I Think We Had Three Hour Stage Or or Something Like That.
“They promise us a Police Escort and When We Got Here, It was Literally Four Lads,” Drummer Joel Amey Aided. “Four Lads All in Bucket Hats and High Vises on quad bikes.”
Check out the full chat with oddie and amey below.
NME: Hello Wolf Alice. How's Your Weekend Been I know?
Joel Amey: “Mine's Been Good. You Know What? This is the second time i've Done Glastonbury Where I've Not Been Drinking And I Think, Controversially, It's Actual Not as big as I Remember it. That's My Big Takeaway. I've Around Easy Peasy. It's. Been Great and Chilled.
TODAY YOU'R Playing Second from Top On The Other Stage. You've Been Playing Some Small Shows and Other Festival With New Music In The Set – How's It Been Going Down I know?
Amey: “I Think Really Well. We've played to some reality Amazing crowds. We've Been Around a Few European Cities. We've Been to Ireland Playing Some Disquain Towns and They Were Incredible. We Played a Song Called 'Thorns' in Ireland and then We Played a Song 'The Sofa' in The Other in The Other. Towns. And We've Been Playing 'Bloom Baby Bloom', So that's Three, and I've Loved Playing Them All, and the Old Songs As Well. REALLY GREAT. “
Do you feel like your Relationship with the Old Stuff Has Changed Because of the New Songs You've Aided Into the set?
Amey: “I Feel Like My Relationship with Playing Music Has Changed Because of the New Album. The way I Personally Choose to Perform or Even The Way I Choose to Play the Drums, Has Been Formed by the Experience of Making 'The Clearing'. You look back on old Things and you're like, 'Oh, With I Play. It Like That?
You Mentioned 'The Clearing' There, Which is out in August. How would you say 'Blue Weekend' and the Response to Songs like 'Delicious Things' Influenced This album?
Joff Oddie: “I Think Very Much. I Think We Were Buoyed by the Songier Songs Being Things That People Really Connected to and we Spent a Lot More Time Working On Those Constituency, Songy Song Parts of the Songs. It's the Hardest Thing in the world to Write a Really Concise Song in A – I Don't Wanna Say Pop Structure, but you know what I mean.
Joel, You Wrote a song on the album Called 'White Horses' …
Oddie: “It's Really Good!”
It's so good. What can you tell US about the story Behind that song?
Amey: “Thanks, Joffy. It's about My Family, Actuary. We'd Kind of Done Writing For 'The Clearing' in the Tail End of Whatever Year it was, and I was Really Influenced by what the other Three Had Been Doing. That was the main Sonic Influon, which was had. Loads of Acoustic Guitars and Harmonies and Stuff Like That. Song like that and See If I Could Make a Hybrid of the Two.
“So I have a demo that was like that, that had me doing some vocals on. Yeah, It's a song about my family, about my history. In the overriging sense of 'the clearing', we were sato of lot of these songs are like a Moment of Peace, where you know this Maybe There's More Forest to Go Through, and 'White Horses' is a little bit like that when it's a Moment of Reflection on MySelf, where I'm like from From and Maybe Where I'm going, but with necessary you have anSwering it. “
Earlier This Month Marked 10 Years of 'My Love Is Cool' …
Amey: “And we were here with you! Do you want to make US Feel Old?! “
We were all together! What are your memories of releasing that album?
Oddie: “Memories? Not a Lot! It Was So Much Fun, Though, Wasn'T It? I Honestly Don't have Many Memories.”
Amey: “I do Remember Driving to Glastonbury in [tour manager] Johnny Hasket's Beat-Up People Carrier, Eating Magnum Ice Creams in the Car. We Were Number One in the [mid-week] Charts at the time and Everyone on site was like 'ohhh!' We Woke Up On Sunday And We Were Number Two in the Charts and Everyone was more chill Around Us After That. Before, Everyone was like, 'pint? Pint? ' On Sunday, Everyone was like, 'No'. “
Nme Gave Wolf Alice's Glastonbury 2025 Performance Five Stars, Writing: “The Energy They Pour Into Today's Set Feels Like That of A Band Who Should Be Topping The Pyramid Stage Next Time They Play World Farm. As the set Ends with 'Don't Delete The Kisses' – A Strong Contender for For One of the Best, Most Dizzyingly accurate Love Songs Ever Written-That feeling Only Intensifies.
Elsewhere, The Festival was Headlined by the 1975, Who appeared to Tease a New Era at the end of their set, Neil Young, and Olivia Rodrigo. The Latter was Joined on Stage During Her Performance by The Cure's Robert Smith to Cover Two of the Band's Songs.
Secret Sets Across The Weekend Came From gross, Who performed Her New Album 'Virgin' in Full, Lewis Capaldi, Who complete His Glastonbury 2023 Set on the pyramid stage, and Haim, Who Celebrated Their New Record 'I Quit'. Pulp Were Also Revealed As The Mystery Band Behind The Pseudonym Patchwork.
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