Beyonce brought the sunshine to Glastonbury. Somehow the very idea of the urban pop queen strutting her stuff in mud-spattered wellies and pac-a-mac seems wrong, Christian Louboutin Platforms illustrating the disparity between her glamorous image and the down and dirty dairy farm festivities. 
But the weather proved obliging, drying the gloopy surface just in time for Beyonce and her dancers to take to the Pyramid stage on Sunday in improbably high heels. When her husband Jay Z played Glastonbury, there were questions about whether hip hop fitted the festival’s hippy spirit, but Beyonce has a band to match the best, a ripe horn section and a voice capable of pyrotechnical twist and turns to match any lead guitar solo.
A great, sassy frontwoman who knows how to lead a call and response,Christian Louboutin Wedges she ended the festival with a real party spirit. “I always wanted to be a rock star!” she yelled.
It is sometimes suggested that Glastonbury isn’t really a rock festival any more, and there is some truth in that: it’s more like an-end-of-the-world party being staged at the scene of a humanitarian disaster. But this year they did showcase some of Britain and Ireland’s most epic rock bands.
U2 missed last year’s sunshine festival because Bono put his back out. They finally made it this year, in the drizzle. Bono sang a snatch of Jerusalem, serenading the bedraggled revellers with a vision of England’s green and pleasant land. To be fair, you couldn’t really see the mud from the Pyramid stage, just a vast hillside of humanity, waving flags, burning flares and singing along in lusty voice to Where the Streets Have No Name,Christian Louboutin Boots a song written about a desert but which applied just as easily to Glastonbury’s blitzkrieged fields.
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