Watch Bob Vylan be part of Smooth Play for ‘One Extra Day Will not Damage’ at Glastonbury 2024

Smooth Play had been joined onstage by punk duo Bob Vylan at Glastonbury 2024 – watch footage under.

Throughout their stint on the Different Stage final Sunday (June 30), drummer Isaac Holman informed the gang: “We’re gonna invite some buddies onto the stage,” earlier than the band joined them for a riotous efficiency of ‘One Extra Day Gained’t Damage’.

Bob Vylan have been a major pressure within the trajectory of Smooth Play, and had been partially liable for the duo altering their identify from Slaves in 2022, following conversations between Vylan vocalist Bobby and Holman.

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When the band introduced the change two years in the past, it was coupled with a statement explaining that the unique identify was imagined to mirror “the grind of day-to-day life,” with the acknowledgement that it didn’t “change the truth that the identify Slaves is a matter”.

Holman later defined he’d mentioned the racial insensitivity of the band’s identify with Bobby. “He principally stated we had been one among his favorite bands however he wouldn’t put on our merch,” defined Holman.

Guitarist Laurie Vincent additionally stated on the time: “If he felt uncomfortable about liking us, there should be others who really feel the identical method.”

Of their assertion, the band wrote that they'd “responded to criticism of the identify from a spot of concern and defensiveness,” and shared fears about dropping their id as a unit alongside the identify.

“It took years of remedy to see previous that,” Vincent informed NME. “In the long run, it simply turned tiring. I didn’t wish to construct a life round a reputation that clearly made individuals uncomfortable. It took a whole lot of rising up however now we’ve performed it, it feels proper.”

Reflecting on Glastonbury’s most magical moments, NME reviewer Sophie Williams wrote that their set “celebrated their friendship and regarded in the direction of a recent begin” after the band have “been by means of the wringer lately”.

“The Kent punks (FKA Slaves) have overcome respective psychological well being points, life-altering grief and rivalry in the direction of their identify change as a band; after Vincent’s companion handed away in 2019, the duo went on an prolonged hiatus, and for a sizzling minute, it appeared like they had been intending on by no means returning to the stage,” she stated.

“Via remedy and perseverance, they made their electrifying return to Worthy Farm this yr. Although the gang spent a lot of the set gleefully dancing and roundhouse-kicking away, it was the reflective single ‘Every little thing And Nothing’ that conjured an actual second of intimacy.

Because the acoustic observe’s last chords rang out, Holman and Vincent hugged it out for a couple of minutes, proving generally cry is all you want. Right here, large moshpits met even larger feelings.”