{"id":3190,"date":"2025-06-27T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/lorde-opens-glastonbury\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:03:00","slug":"lorde-opens-glastonbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/lorde-opens-glastonbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde Opens Glastonbury With Surprise \u2018Virgin\u2019 Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/04\/Secondary-General-Use-Photo-Credit_-Thistle-Brown-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"856\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lorde surprised early risers this morning (June 27) at the opening day of the U.K.\u2019s massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/03\/glastonbury-2025-lineup\/\">Glastonbury Festival<\/a> with a set on the Woodsies stage, during which she performed her brand new album, <em>Virgin<\/em>, in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much for being with us on the day that\u00a0<em>Virgin<\/em>\u00a0is born,\u201d the New Zealand-reared singer told the crowd. \u201cWe decided to play the whole record for you, front to back. This may be a one of one, you know? I didn\u2019t know if I\u2019d make another record to be honest, but I am back here, completely free. And I\u2019m so grateful to you for waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/mitch-rowland-new-album\/\">Mitch Rowland Is \u2018Ready\u2019 For His Second Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/stephen-bishop-final-album\/\">Stephen Bishop Jams With Yacht Rock Royalty On Final LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-robin-wilson-of-gin-blossoms\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:\u00a0Robin Wilson of\u00a0Gin\u00a0Blossoms<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of the 11 <em>Virgin<\/em> songs had been played at a proper concert before today\u2019s set, which concluded with the vintage favorites \u201cRibs\u201d and \u201cGreen Light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glastonbury continues today with performances by the 1975 and Alanis Morissette and will also feature Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo, Rod Stewart and Charli xcx throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As for Lorde, she will embark on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/lorde-virgin-tour\/\">extensive world tour<\/a> in support of <em>Virgin<\/em> beginning Sept. 17 in Austin, Tx. The European segment of the jaunt will start Nov. 9 in Luxembourg and conclude Dec. 9 in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>Among the opening acts are Blood Orange and Jim-E Stack,\u00a0both of whom contributed to\u00a0<em>Virgin<\/em>, as well as the Japanese House,\u00a0Nil\u00fcfer Yana,\u00a0Chanel Beads,\u00a0Empress Of\u00a0and\u00a0Oklou.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lorde performing What What That for the first time at Glastonbury<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4tfcS8LbW\">pic.twitter.com\/w4tfcS8LbW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lorde Updates <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.1.0\/72x72\/1f9ec.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\uddec\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.1.0\/72x72\/26d3.png\" alt=\"\u26d3\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"> (@LordeUpdatesBR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LordeUpdatesBR\/status\/1938557276022796698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorde surprised early risers this morning (June 27) at the opening day of the U.K.\u2019s massive Glastonbury Festival with a set on the Woodsies stage, during which she performed her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lorde","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}