Despite “technical issues” The Cribs “really enjoyed” their Glasto show

Earlier today, The Cribs overcame an array of technical obstacles thrown their way during their show on The Other Stage, but unsurprisingly, managed to make it all look a bit effortless.

“It’s not the most unusual thing!” the band’s Ryan Jarman assured DIY, when we grabbed the band after their appearance to ask about their acrobatic guitar moves. “It was not in a good way, it was fucking up; it was cutting out… When it’s a gig like this, a gig of this size, and there are so many people there, that kinda pisses me off.” Not to worry though, that pesky guitar got what it deserved, when it was thrown ten feet in the air at the end of their set. “I don’t really want my guitars to let me down, but at the same time, I don’t want to be a primadonna about it. It’s a good way of dealing with it because to be honest, you can either get stressed out on stage and it’d be obvious, or you could just be like, ‘Well, let’s turn this into catharsis’, so it ended up being part of that. It’s a good way to end the set.”

Luckily, their equipment going haywire didn’t change how the band felt about their set in general. “I feel like we enjoyed the gig,” agrees Gary Jarman. “We’ve got a lot of experience doing festivals and outdoor stages but when we first started, it felt very alien to us. We were used to playing in the small underground scene. Doing big, outdoor stages always felt really weird, but now I feel like we’re most used to doing this than we are anything else. We really enjoyed the gig, regardless of the technical issues.

“We’re not the kind of band who has in-ear monitors and wireless guitar packs,” Ryan continues, highlighting what makes the band so wonderfully chaotic to watch. “We’re not quite at that robotic stage just yet. That means you leave more to chance, but to us, we don’t want the shows to feel like we’re just going through the motions. To play on a stage like that is still surreal and big and weird but you want it to feel different to some degree.”