{"id":99468,"date":"2019-06-29T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/29\/stormzy-at-glastonbury-2019-review-a-glorious-victory-lap-for-black-british-culture\/"},"modified":"2019-06-29T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T23:32:00","slug":"stormzy-at-glastonbury-2019-review-a-glorious-victory-lap-for-black-british-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=99468","title":{"rendered":"Stormzy at Glastonbury 2019 review \u2013\u00a0a glorious victory lap for black British culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyramid StageNot only is this headline performance a show of supreme talent, it also underlines how Stormzy\u2019s talent and charisma has pushed forward UK rapThe notion of Stormzy headlining the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury is an intriguing one. On the one hand, an artist who\u2019s only released one album being elevated to such a rarefied status \u2013 up there with Jay-Z, Paul McCartney, U2 and the Rolling Stones \u2013 seems unprecedented. On the other, a persistent rumour around the site suggests that Stormzy\u2019s show cost more to stage than any other in the festival\u2019s history. That may or may not represent one of the histrionic myths that annually circulates around Worthy Farm \u2013 festival-goers with long enough memories to remember Glastonbury before the arrival of the internet and its fact-checking powers may recall the story that used to go around in the 90s that Cliff Richard had unexpectedly died. But watching Stormzy perform, you can believe it. His set opens with the kind of pyrotechnics that most acts would use to triumphantly conclude their performance and it doesn\u2019t really let up from that point on. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/jun\/29\/stormzy-glastonbury-review-pyramid-stage\" target=\"_blank\">Stormzy at Glastonbury 2019 review \u2013\u00a0a glorious victory lap for black British culture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyramid StageNot only is this headline performance a show of supreme talent, it also underlines how Stormzy\u2019s talent and charisma has pushed forward UK rapThe notion of Stormzy headlining the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury is an intriguing one. On the one hand, an artist who\u2019s only released one album being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}