Bring Me The Horizon stay firmly in the present at Glastonbury 2016

The sun’s finally come out at Glastonbury (about time!), and Bring Me The Horizon are blasting the hell out of the Other Stage, making the trees quake in their boots with whacked-up sonics, and liberal side-helpings of dry ice. Leaning away from the band’s screamo side, and firmly in the direction of ‘That’s The Spirit’, today the focus is firmly on the new.

It’s a mixed reaction, here, with the assembled crowds varying between pockets of wild, moshpit constructing obsessives, unbothered punters, and slightly bemused men in camping chairs being crushed by flailing limbs. Oli Sykes’ calls for crowdsurfers to surge forward for high-fives are answered hesitantly - he responds by calling the audience “pussies” - before a sea of bodies finally fly over the front barrier, writhing around in the mud, and getting promptly carted out by security. Elsewhere, in between the likes of ‘Throne’ and ‘Sempiternal’ cut ‘Anti-Vist’, Oli does his best to whip up the crowd into a frenzy.

A slightly through-the-motions one-two punch of ‘True Friends’ and ‘Drown’ closes out proceedings in a puff of blaring smoke before Oli and band promptly march off in silence, without a single glance back.

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