Glastonbury 2024: Watch Justice perform dance classic ‘We Are Your Friends’
The West Holts Stage saw Justice deliver an indie disco classic in the shape of ‘We Are Your Friends’ in its final set of the weekend at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. It closed things in riveting style for a packed crowd.
The classic track from 2006 arose after Simian remixed the French duo’s single ‘Never Be Alone’, creating a collaborating track that then became part and parcel at indie nights all over the UK in the 2000s. A swollen audience lapped it up in the final throes of their Glastonbury 2024 experience.
Justice last played the festival way back in 2017, once again on The West Holts Stage. This year, they faced competition for crowd count from The National who were headlining the Other Stage, and SZA who was playing before the smallest Pyramid Stage crowd of the weekend by some distance on her debut appearance at the festival.
Justice followed on from Nia Archives, who had similarly brought a large number over to the far-flung West Holts area. Earlier in the day, Brittany Howard, Jordan Rakei, Steel Pulse and Balming Tiger had all warmed up the stage for Justice.
The gig is actually somewhat of a comeback gig for the duo. Hyperdrama, their new album which was released in April, is their first release since 2016. Speaking ahead of its release, they commented: “We don’t run after hits.”
Xavier De Rosnay continued: “By the time we finish producing an album, we’re already too late to be concerned about being out of fashion.” That certainly has never been the case with ‘We Are Your Friends’, however, they put a bit of a remixed spin on it especially for Glastonbury, keeping it fresh for a mass exhibiting the last of their energy after five days of 30,000 steps.
The duo also commented on the fact that their is a nostalgia-led renaissance of their signature sound presently, telling the Guardian: “We hear more stuff now that sounds like what we used to do in the mid-2000s, and we get requests from pop artists asking for precisely this type of music, but this is not something we want to do.”
That seemed apparent at Glastonbury this year with Bloc Party prying plenty of punters and Charli XCX spinning a load of ’00s hits dduring her DJ set. But none did it with quite the fidelity of Justice.