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Saturday at Glastonbury, the day controversal headliners Metallica performed on the Pyramid. They may have pleased those of whom watched, but the contigent of which watched were a small minority of the 170,000+ on Worthy Farm. Other highlights from day two consisted of Royal Blood, Wolf Alice, Jagwar Ma, Bombay Bicycle Club, MGMT, Pixies, Imagine Dragons, Manic Street Preachers, Jack White and Jake Bugg. 

Saturday's highlights begun with powerful Brighton duo Royal Blood. Mike and Ben played a huge set on the John Peel Stage, performing tracks from their forthcoming debut album 'Royal Blood', which we cannot wait for. The Pyramid is beckoning... Next up were Wolf Alice, fronted by Ellie Rowsell, the indie quartet never fail to please. Jagwar Ma played the Park Stage on Saturday afternoon, the electric psychedelic groove they possess was on show in a storming set from the Aussies. Bombay Bicycle Club also played on Saturday, despite them not appearing on the bill until Sunday, the band played a secret set in a rammed BBC Introducing tent, people even begun to lift the tent up to see what was going on. MGMT were the headliners on the John Peel Stage on Saturday and the pyschedelic pair from America performed a mesmerising set. Highlights been their classics 'Kids', 'Electric Feel' and also 'Time to Pretend'. Pixies were up next on the Other Stage, after just releasing 'Indie Cindy', their first album since 1991, the Massachusetts rockers are back. Likewise with the Kaiser Cheifs yesterday, there were a strange nostalgia as the crowd were a mixed bag. The 1980's contigent were present, but the 2014 contigent were also present, but each equally enjoyed a brilliant set from the Pixies. Modern day American rockers Imagine Dragons were another highlight from Saturday at Glastonbury, performing tracks from their debut album 'Night Visions', fronted by Dan Reynolds, Imagine Dragons are a brilliant live act and 25,000 spectators at the Other Stage witnessed this. Everyone was On Top Of The World, if you'd pardon the pun. Manic Street Preachers were back and on the Other Stage yesterday evening and everyone was inevitably going manic. James, Nicky and Sean didn't fail to please. But would they ever? As we were edging forever closer to Metallica, after another reasonably wet day on Worthy Farm, Jack White performed tracks from his latest album 'Lazerretto' on the Pyramid. The mystical character wowed the crowd with his dark magic and also claimed to have brought the sun that appeared midway through his set along with him. Jake Bugg was next, headlining the Other Stage, clashing with Pyramid headliners Metallica. But it appears the singer/songwriter stole the show on Saturday. Attracting a bigger crowd than the official headliners must be some proud moment for Bugg, but it's no wonder as to why Jake attracted a much bigger crowd. He well and truly proved he can pull off being plugged.

The Pyramid was next. The biggest talking point of the whole festival was next. Metallica was next. 

The setlst: 

1 Creeping Death

2 For Whom the Bell Tolls

3 Wherever I May Roam

4 Sad but True

5 Fade to Black

6 Cyanide

7 The Unforgiven

8 The Memory Remains

9 One

10 Master of Puppets

11 Nothing Else Matters (Preceded by Welcome Home (… more)

12 Enter Sandman

- - - Encore - - -

13 Whiskey in the Jar (Lena Bourne Fish cover)

14 Seek & Destroy (The Frayed Ends of Sanity outro jam)

Were they worthy headliners? Or were they at the wrong festival? One thing's for sure, they were certainly loud. Pre-performance, a bear hunting parody was the key talking point. A film appeared on the screen, four bears holding rifles shot some hunters. The bear masks were removed to reveal the members of Metallica. The screen then displayed a message: "Are you ready for Glastallica?', and the band appeared on stage. This clearly being an answer to the critics who started a petition to remove the band from the bill when lead singer James Hetfield previously appeared in a bear hunting documentary. But did Metallica answer the critics with their performance? Well, only a small minority of the 170,000+ witnessed their set. Maybe that answers the question. But, they did what they did best and brilliantly. A very powerful performance matched by a very powerful stage prescence. But, you either love them or you hate them. Should they have been headliners? That's for you to decide. 

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