{"id":53245,"date":"2025-12-05T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/olivia-rodrigo-live-at-glastonbury-a-bbc-recording\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:17:27","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-live-at-glastonbury-a-bbc-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/olivia-rodrigo-live-at-glastonbury-a-bbc-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo ‘Live at Glastonbury (A BBC Recording)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tOlivia Rodrigo<\/a> loves to bust out her rock moves<\/a>, so it makes sense that she\u2019s reviving one of the old-school classic-rock traditions: the live album. Live at Glastonbury (A BBC Recording)<\/em> captures her onstage this summer headlining at England\u2019s most legendary festival, where she was universally acclaimed as the hit of the weekend. It\u2019s a twin-vinyl testament in the mode of Kiss<\/a>\u2019 Alive!<\/em>, Neil Young<\/a>\u2019s Live Rust<\/em>, or Peter Frampton<\/a>\u2019s Frampton Comes Alive!<\/em>, available in magenta or periwinkle. But it\u2019s a lot more than just a tour souvenir. It\u2019s a double-live-gonzo coronation moment for Olivia as the truest rock & roller of our moment, a master of every move whether she\u2019s serving pop-punk bangers or piano-ballad weepers.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom start to finish, from \u201cObsessed\u201d to \u201cGet Him Back,\u201d she rampages through a 90-minute set, stomping in her Doc Martens and winning over this notoriously tough crowd. The Glastonbury moment that went viral came when she surprised everyone by bringing out the Cure<\/a>\u2019s Robert Smith<\/a> to duet on a couple of his classics. \u201cHe\u2019s perhaps the best songwriter to come out of England,\u201d she announced. \u201cHe is a Glastonbury legend and a personal hero of mine!\u201d The goth elder was positively beaming from ear to ear\u2014not a sight you see every day. But when they mesh for \u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d and \u201cFriday I\u2019m in Love\u201d here, it\u2019s just like a dream.<\/p>\n

\n\tLive at Glastonbury <\/em>could serve as a greatest-hits compilation, for an artist with only two albums\u2014yet one who\u2019s already sitting on top of a classic songbook at 22. It documents her 2025 tour of rock festivals around the world, with her full-on punk attack. Her original Guts<\/em> tour was already a fantastic pop show, as seen in last winter\u2019s Netflix special. But for the 2025 version, she ditched all the fussy theater-kid energy and reinvented herself as a bloodthirsty rock & roll animal, red in tooth and claw, with her kick-ass female band. That energy comes across loud and clear on Live at Glastonbury<\/em>. She seizes the role of upholding the Nineties feminist punk legacy \u2014 when she and her band kick out the jams, they update the feral grunge fury of L7 or the Breeders<\/a> or (Olivia\u2019s childhood faves) Babes in Toyland<\/a> into something fierce and new.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis tour definitely deserves a live testament, and Glasto captures Olivia in her peak of rock-star glory. \u201cI\u2019m so excited that I\u2019m so excited that we were able to make this vinyl to act as a little time capsule of this performance,\u201d she writes in her gatefold liner notes. \u201cThe set was probably the most exhilarating 90 minutes of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGlastonbury is one of England\u2019s most cherished music traditions, a place where legends are made or broken. Olivia first played there in 2022 at the tender age of 19, confessing that she\u2019d previously never even been to a festival, let alone played one. But she proved her Britpop fangirl credentials by bringing out Lily Allen for \u201cFuck You,\u201d kicking off the current Lilyssaince<\/a>. She also named each individual judge on the U.S. Supreme Court responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade that weekend, and led a chant of \u201cWe hate you! We hate you!\u201d As a California girl who grew up idolizing England misery pin-up boys like the Smiths and the Cure, she understands the Glasto spirit. Before she headlined this year\u2019s festival, she was seen in the crowd enjoying the Pulp set, sitting on her boyfriend\u2019s shoulders and screaming along as Jarvis Cocker sang \u201cCommon People.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe begins with \u201cObsessed,\u201d a bombastic explosion of paranoid rage and petty jealousy, going from a whisper to a scream \u2014 it says a lot about Olivia\u2019s musical ambition that she dares to open her set with this one. But the energy level never flags, as she leads massive sing-alongs of her stripped-down intimate ballads \u201cDriver\u2019s License\u201d and \u201cHappier,\u201d her Eighties synth-pop raves \u201cSo American\u201d and \u201cLove Is Embarrassing,\u201d her Pavement<\/a>-style drooper \u201cFavorite Crime.\u201d It\u2019s a trip to hear a quarter-million voices belt the vulnerable poetry of \u201cVampire.\u201d But the big climax comes on Side D, as she signs off with a four-song barrage of pop-punk ragers: \u201cBrutal,\u201d \u201cAll-American Bitch,\u201d \u201cGood 4 U,\u201d and \u201cGet Him Back.\u201d (If what you crave in a live album is a knockdown finale, it\u2019s up there with the \u201cClock Strikes Ten\u201d ending of Cheap Trick at Budokan)<\/em>. She\u2019s never sounded so unrelentingly upset.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cOne thing that you guys should know about me is that I fucking love England!,\u201d Olivia tells the crowd, in her introduction to \u201cSo American.\u201d She explains her love for pub culture (\u201cI love how nobody judges you for having a pint at noon\u201d) and the sweets. \u201cTrue story \u2014 I have had three sticky toffee puddings since I have arrived at Glastonbury.\u201d But her favorite thing about England? \u201cAs luck would have it, I also really love English boys!\u201d She charms the crowd with the story of how she wrote \u201cSo American\u201d about her beau, actor Louis Partridge. \u201cI wrote this next song while I was falling in love with this boy from London,\u201d she says. \u201cI would make fun of him for eating a jacket potato with beans inside of it, and he would make fun of me for pronouncing things very American. \u201cI\u2019m headlining Glaston-berry<\/em>,\u201d like it\u2019s a berry. So I took all of our little inside jokes and I made a song out of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHer band keeps the aggro level high for all four sides. Guitar heroes Daisy Spencer and Arriana Powell revel in their spotlight solo showcases \u2014 in one of the show\u2019s awesomely flamboyant moments, Olivia would crawl down the catwalk during \u201cBad Idea Right\u201d to kneel before the guitarist and worship her six-string majesty. It\u2019s a classic piece of old-school rock show-biz, yet she made it feel fresh and dramatic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the emotional highlight comes when Olivia sings with another one of those English boys close to her heart, Robert Smith. (\u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d and \u201cFriday I\u2019m In Love\u201d have already been released as a stand-alone single.) O-Rod always loves to team up with her heroes, ever since she joined Billy Joel onstage a couple of years ago to do \u201cDeja Vu\u201d and \u201cUptown Girl.\u201d She made it a specialty of her summer tour \u2014 one of the most joyful live experiences of 2025 was seeing David Byrne join her onstage at New York\u2019s Governors Ball, for the Talking Heads<\/a>\u2019 classic \u201cBurning Down the House,\u201d ending it with a long, hilarious, and touching dance-off. They made it a poignant celebration of the sheer love of music-making. When she headlined Lollapalooza in Chicago, she brought out Weezer for a memorable duet on \u201cBuddy Holly.\u201d There\u2019s no denying it: Olivia singing the line \u201cyou need a guardian\u201d to Rivers Cuomo is definitely a sign of the times.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe\u2019s a longtime Cure superfan \u2014 who can forget the footage of teen Olivia in the car belting \u201cBoys Don\u2019t Cry\u201d? \u2014 so both stars bring pure enthusiasm together. After they sing \u201cJust Like Heaven,\u201d she calls him \u201cthe coolest, nicest, most wonderful man ever.\u201d Smith\u2019s known for not always suffering fools gladly, but for any hardcore Cure freak, it\u2019s heart-melting to hear him have so much fun onstage, grinning over at her as he sang, \u201cI\u2019ll run away with you.\u201d It\u2019s a tribute to the strange but beautiful long-running bond between mopey English rock boys and the SoCal sad girls who love them. Olivia even posted a backstage photo of them doing shots together, which was so American of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFans can always hope for more OliviCure collaborations \u2014 love to hear her sing \u201cOne Hundred Years\u201d or \u201cLullaby,\u201d just as it would be a treat to hear him croon \u201cHappier.\u201d But their \u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d stands as a cross-generational moment for the ages. Like everything else on Live at Glastonbury<\/em>, it shows why Olivia\u2019s at the top \u2014 and why she\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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