Glastonbury headliners The 1975 have unveiled a new live album that is now streaming and can be pre-ordered on a limited edition vinyl. Still… At Their Very Best (Live From The AO Arena, Manchester, 17.02.24) was launched unexpectedly on Friday, March 7, just a day after the Glastonbury 2025 lineup was made public, featuring The 1975 as the Friday night headliner at the U.K. festival in June.
The vinyl edition of the live album, recorded during one of the band’s home performances in Manchester last year as part of their Still… At Their Very Best Tour, is crafted on triple clear vinyl, as indicated on The 1975’s website. It is projected to release on May 30, 2024 via Dirty Hit.
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The Still… At Their Very Best live performance from Manchester follows the 2023 debut of a live recording from The 1975’s previous tour, At Their Very Best, captured at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 2022.
Still… At Their Very Best opens with a seamless sequence of tracks from the band’s latest studio effort, 2022’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
“Don’t dwell in nostalgia. Please don’t. Just don’t do it,” frontman Matty Healy tells the audience as the setlist transitions to “A Change of Heart,” from The 1975’s top-charting, and highest-ranking album on the Billboard 200, 2016’s I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It.
With the Friday release of Still… At Their Very Best live, The 1975 also introduced a newly stylized band logo in an updated font on social media. They appear to have been working on new music for an upcoming album possibly titled God Has Entered My Body, with fans eager for a sneak peek at Glastonbury, if not before their appearance at the festival.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I have no insights regarding legacy or the future. I can’t say if anyone will remember us. However, if we are remembered, I hope it’s for this,” Healy states on the freshly released live album, providing an emotional introduction to one of the band’s early hits, the cathartic “Robbers,” from their self-titled debut in 2014.
The first segment of the 30-track album concludes with amorous vibes from the mainstage, featuring the heartfelt trio of “Fallingforyou,” “About You,” and “When We Are Together,” before proceeding to the “Consumption” segment of the concert, an acoustic B-stage showcase that begins with media noise, wherein Healy performed “I Like America & America Likes Me,” with 1975 tourmate Polly Money leading on their Phoebe Bridgers collaboration “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America.”
“Hello,” Healy greets. “I didn’t have much prepared to say. But I suppose this part is meant to be slightly awkward, as it’s just me alone under the spotlight.”
“You have no reason to feel sympathy for me; I’m a nepo baby,” he quips. “My mother [Denise Welch] was on Coronation Street, so they granted me a No. 1 album in America. That’s just how it works! That’s how it goes, baby!”
Telling the Manchester crowd, “We are immensely proud to come from here, and, um, I apologize if I’ve ever disappointed you or anything.”
The latter segment of the live album has The 1975 cutting loose — “Let’s crank up a banger and then we can start on requests, sound good?” Healy banters with fans before “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You) — while celebrating their time together, expressing affection for bandmates and close friends Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald, and George Daniel.
“I’m going to be earnest for a moment,” Healy declares at one point. “There are so many f—ing solo artists out there, and the reason for this is that media has become so individualized. You won’t gather around the TV with friends or parents; you consume your own stuff. So every band, when they attract younger fans, they each have an Instagram, creating this incentive for the individual behind the group. But we began when we were 13, so the notion of the individual was non-existent. Trust me. Unite and create something larger than yourself. That’s my advice — for everything. I’d be f—ed without them — you know that! I’d be f—ing peddling roses on Brent Cross Roundabout.”
The 1975’s latest live offering wraps up with rousing sing-alongs “Love It If We Made It” and “Sex,” leading into the high-energy climax of “People.”
Check out the complete track list below:
“The 1975”
“Looking for Somebody to Love”
“Happiness”
“Part of the Band”
“Oh Caroline”
“I’m In Love With You”
“Change of Heart”
“An Encounter”
“Robbers”
“Me”
“You”
“Fallingforyou”
“About You”
“When We Are Together”
“Consumption”
“I Like America & America Likes Me”
“Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America”
“If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”
“TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME”
“It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)”
“Menswear”
“Chocolate”
“The Sound”
“Somebody Else”
“Guys”
“I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
“Love It If We Made It”
“Sex”
“People”
- Source: NEWHD MEDIA
