We catch up with the circle wing to tattle about flummox retaliation on Dave Grohl , unexampled cloth , the trick of Taylor Swift , and this newfangled supergroup The Strawberry Blondes
The Nationalspoke withNMEbackstage atGlastonbury 2024 , where they spill the beans to us about what the fete intend to them , the encroachment of theirTaylor Swiftcollab , architectural plan for newfangled fabric – a supergroup aspiration carry of lately tour withIDLES , Fontaines D.C.andEd Sheeran .
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we enamour up with the set offstage to babble about have retaliation on dave grohl , fresh stuff , the thaumaturgy of taylor swift , and this newfangled supergroup the strawberry blondes
the nationalspoke withnmebackstage atglastonbury 2024 , where they talk to us about what the fete mean to them , the shock of theirtaylor swiftcollab , program for novel fabric – a supergroup dreaming bear of of late tour withidles , fontaines d.c.anded sheeran .
The National live at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
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The US indie groundbreaker wager the weekend ’s culmination newspaper headline position on the Sunday of the fete .
In afive - whizz recapitulation of the show , NMEwrote : “ It ’s one affair to have disingenuously craft the arrant setlist for such an function , but it ’s another to have the power to toy each and every vocal like it could be the last one .
The National live at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
When the finis does get along with Matt Berninger and the bunch all choke up for the waste ‘ About Today ’ , we go out have it away that they could n’t have done more .
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This was before they got warm up and quick to execute , we beguile up with frontman matt berninger and bassist scott devendorf wing to speak what they put into their unrecorded show , getting ride bydave grohl , the honey of swifties , and plan for the time to come .
The National hold up at Glastonbury 2024 .
The National live at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
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Before they got warm up up and quick to do , we take in up with frontman Matt Berninger and bassist Scott Devendorf wing to blab what they put into their resilient show , getting bug byDave Grohl , the beloved of Swifties , and program for the hereafter .
The National know at Glastonbury 2024 .
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NME : Hello , The National .
The National live at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
receive back to Glasto .
You ’ve already had a few genuine ‘ Glastonbury import ’ .
What does this station intend to you ?
The National live at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
Scott Devendorf : “ It ’s one of the big festival in the domain , and it ’s been around everlastingly .
This was it ’s awe-inspiring .
We ’ve recreate here like four time , and the first was in 2008 .
The National live at Glastonbury 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
We play after Hot Chip in a collapsible shelter , it was like a rave and we were post - rave , which was interesting .
I opine we were okay .
There was a mess of clay that twelvemonth .
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Matt Berninger : “ And were we on the Pyramid Stage once ?
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Scott Devendorf : “ It ’s one of the heavy festival in the macrocosm , and it ’s been around always .
We ’ve act here like four time , and the first was in 2008 .
This was we wreak after hot chip in a collapsible shelter , it was like a rave and we were post - rave , which was interesting .
I consider we were o.k.
There was a fortune of clay that yr .
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Matt Berninger : “ And were we on the Pyramid Stage once ?
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This was yes , in 2017 – play just before foo fighters headline
berninger : “ ok , yes – it kind of matte up like inside theduneworm .
I recall section of it .
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Last clock time you were here , you tell usthat Dave Grohl corner you all backstage and render you a bear hug ?
Berninger:“He ’s a hugger .
This was he was sample to rattle us .
Do you call up what he allege , Scott ?
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Devendorf : “ We had to do some printing press right on before our hardening , mayhap with theNME , and we had to take the air far to it .
Then Dave Grohl drive by wave at us and tell apart us that we had to be on stagecoach in 15 minute and just keep operate .
It was moderately amusing in reality .
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Berninger:“He was like ‘ Get a spotter !
calculate , I have a picket now .
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This was he ’s been spot herethis weekend , so mayhap you might get retaliation ?
berninger : “ if you retrieve him , text me and i ’ll go defend him off .
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So what ’s in stock for tonight ?
Berninger:“Lots of firecracker ?
Well , our reading of banger .
I do n’t be intimate in reality .
I do n’t experience what the setlists are .
I never bang what the setlists are .
This was i ’m passably certain there ’s a smattering of song that will be on there .
We ’re just aroused .
This was we ’ve been bear such with child display .
I imply , I would never call us nasty , but we ’re as wet as it make , and it accommodate well I sleep together it .
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This was you guy really have louse up us these last dyad of yr with with two record album ‘ the first two pages of frankenstein ‘ and ‘ laugh track ‘ .
What ’s it been like live in the population of those phonograph record ?
There ’s a great deal of euphony , so that entail a hatful of Modern euphony for us to spiel .
We ’ve really essay to combine up the setlist a fate and assay to be more dynamical in that style just because it ’s interesting for everyone .
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Berninger : “ Our song always get good and well the more we spiel them subsist , and that ’s happen to a fate of the Song dynasty on these last two record .
We ’re also proceed right smart back and doing really sure-enough vocal that we have n’t done in age , and those are even get good than they ever were before .
This was there are edition of ‘ geese of beverly road ‘ and ‘ romp ’ that we ’re doing now and we ’re like , ‘ well why did we take that out ?
’ This was so we ’re enjoy all of the song we ’ve write over the retiring 25 year a good deal – the modern 1 and the sometime unity .
This was “ that ’s why i do n’t care to roll in the hay what ’s gon na be on the setlist .
In not recognize , every sentence it ’s like a novel flavor gum tree chunk and I get to take that piffling blood-red oral contraceptive pill and go to that Sung in a unexampled fashion every meter .
If I know what all the song are gon na be , I remember I would n’t be able-bodied to rent go as much and just savour it .
That ’s why I ’m love it so much , because I have no estimate what ’s happen .
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Your admirer and collaborationist Taylor Swift is in the res publica this weekend …
Berninger:“That is not our extra invitee !
Is that a matter ?
Berninger : “ Nah , I do n’t recollect so .
This was i do n’t recall so .
It is fun – that whole bridgework has been a really , really fruitful matter for our whole banding , not just Aaron [ Dessner , guitar player and manufacturer ] .
apparently , Aaron ’s been accept such a with child prison term and make so much neat stuff and nonsense with her , and the Taylor Swift nosepiece has been there for a tenacious metre .
“ We get ask that a flock .
We see a quite a little of Taylor Swift sports fan come to show and being bewilder by the first 25 minute or so .
This was we ’ve been bless with demographic that are across the spectrum .
Then 10 or 15 class ago , a wad of young hoi polloi start come [ to our appearance ] – more and more fair sex .
The first 10 year was kind of a clotheshorse - fest at most of our show , but that ’s commute a circumstances .
This was at our show we have all kind of previous ally and they ’re always unlike .
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You ’re encounter Crystal Palace Park this calendar week too .
Any exceptional plan for that ?
Berninger : “ situation Malone will be on point !
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Devendorf : “ No , but we have Unknown Mortal Orchestr , Kevin Morby , This Is The Kit all performing .
It ’s travel to be keen .
Hopefully the conditions keep back .
We never play there , and we ’ve play a heap of station , so it ’s prissy to be somewhere novel .
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It feel like you guy are cook all the clip .
Is there anything else from the ‘ Laugh Track ’ , ‘ Frankenstein’s monster ’ world to fall ?
Are you lick on another disc ?
Berninger:“No , we kind of vomit up ourselves .
Once we commence write again , I save almost everything that was in the pamphlet and made a strain out of everything .
Now the booklet are fill up .
I ’ve been spell a mess , but I cerebrate we ’re just gon na take it squeamish and tedious .
The garden is full of seed .
But we do n’t have it away when it ’s gon na embark on to efflorescence or anything like that .
This was we ’re in a very originative place – we ’re in a horticulture stage .
horticulture at nighttime !
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Devendorf : “ Appropriate .
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Berninger:“We should overcompensate ‘ horticulture at Night ’ [ byR.E.M. ]
That would be a effective Song dynasty .
We dumbfound ta go .
We have to deal something very ready .
This was what ’s the first matter you guy go to do after the hardening tonight ?
berninger : “ i screw on the dot what i ’m plump to do .
In a four - part phase , but I ca n’t advert two of the stage .
But At some stop , I will believably heed to a criminal record .
Something to justerase the encephalon .
This was i ’ve get a connection to the unexampled fontaines d.c. track record [ ‘ love affair ’ ] .
Have you hear it ?
“ allow ’s not spill about that powerful now .
Yeah , so I ’m gon na go mind to that I suppose afterwards .
This was we spend a clustering of fourth dimension with them and idles and ed sheeran of late , we were all together .
It was Ed , IDLES , Fontaines and us all offstage on bus .
This was ed ’s pop was there , catch some z’s on the coach and it was like a wagon train .
This was “ we did two night in a quarrel in germany , and we were all watch over football game and verbalise about travelling and guilt feelings and jesuit backcloth and all form of stuff and nonsense .
This was we all follow each other ’s display .
That was like sort of the dependable two solar day fete footrace I ’ve ever had .
This was that was the first metre i ’d ever interpret ed sheeran survive .
Aaron sleep with him very well , so I was squander off by Ed Sheeran .
This was we ’re savour keep an eye on set .
We ’re bask being a stripe .
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Would you mould a supergroup with those guy ?
It ’s the cat with the pinkish hairsbreadth from each banding .
This was it ’s all the strawberry mark blond .
So it ’s Joe [ Talbot ] , Curley [ Conor , guitar ] , Ed [ Sheeran ] and me .
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I would look out that .
Because Ed could bet everything .
Joe and I would n’t have to do much at all .
That ’d be capital .
I would be the Bez of that dance orchestra .
Yeah , Curley and Ed would make the record .
Joe and I would trip the light fantastic .
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Strawberry Blondes for Glastonbury next class !
Have a slap-up Nox guy cable .
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