See Dua Lipa Bring Out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker at Glastonbury
Singer and her Radical Optimism collaborator performed two tracks, Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know the Better” and the single “Houdini”
Dua Lipa and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker perform during day three of Glastonbury Festival 2024 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2024 in Glastonbury, England JOSEPH OKPAKO/WIREIMAGE
Dua Lipa headlined the Glastonbury Festival on Friday night, and during her set she brought out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker to join her on a pair of tracks.
During her main set, Lipa first welcomed Parker for a rendition of Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know the Better,” a track off the band’s 2015 LP Currents.
For Lipa’s final song of the evening, the Radical Optimism single “Houdini,” she was again joined by Parker, her co-writer and co-producer on the track, on guitar.
As Lipa told Rolling Stone in our February cover story, she enlisted Parker — “I was so nervous because I’m just such a fan of Kevin’s,” she said — to join the songwriting sessions for the album that would become Radical Optimism in the summer of 2022.
The sessions also included Lipa collaborator Caroline Ailin, electronica auteur Danny L Harle, and folky-pop balladeer Tobias Jesso Jr. “I remember thinking it was a genius move to get that combination of people together,” Parker says. “Like, hats off to her.”
Parker is credited as a co-writer on seven of Radical Optimism, including the singles “Training Season” and “Illusion.”
From Rolling Stone US.
