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So a certain Gallagher brother with a penchant for living back in 1997 spoke out & criticised Jay-Z for headlining the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury a few weeks back, well Noel who is the prick now?

2008 will go down in Glastonbury historical echalons as the weekend that Hip Hop stole the show at the world famous celebration of music and culture.  Friday saw Dizzee Rascal & Lupe Fiasco perform “big” sets to thousands of fans showing their usual lyrical dextrerity flipping between the new school and the old with their well known hits and a few collabos in between. Notably Dizzee performing an acoustic version of new track “Dance with Me” with lanky Scot Calvin Harris knee deep in mud for the Beeb.

Saturday saw Wiley popping up with the nerdiest band in years Hot Chip to spit some bars over their cover of “Wearing my Rolex” on the other stage in the evening which had just about half of the Glastonbury faithful jumping and dancing like they were the headliner that night but Jay-Z was a long way off yet.

Jay-Z gave a great set opening with a parody to his Oasis mockers by performing “Wonderwall” before going into a mashed up version of “99 Problems” and dropping hit after hit including “Girls, Girls, Girls” & remixes of “Mundian To Bach Ke” and Goldfrapp, his set was a little down-tempo at times but it was Jay’s first major UK headline appearance at a festival so knowing what will and won’t work for a UK audience is trial & error, but it was a strong performance and it made you realise how much of a strong back catalogue the man has!

So after a stupid drawn out media arguement I think we come back to remember that festivals are a celebration of music and not one genre in particular!

Watch Dizzee and Calvin Harris perform acoustic version of “Dance Wiv Me”

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