SEVENTEEN on making history at Glastonbury: “We’ll try to blow their minds with this weapon that we have”
This Friday (June 28), the 13-member group will become the first-ever K-pop act to perform on Glastonbury‘s main stage as British festivals slowly begin to catch up with the scene’s global boom.
“It’s such an honour, we’re super grateful,”
Seungkwan tells NME over a video call from a nondescript room in HYBE’s Seoul office just weeks before the big moment.
“Some of the audience members might not know us that well, but we just hope that everyone would leave with the impression that these guys can really smash it on stage.”
His comments nod to a marked difference between this and SEVENTEEN’s previous festival performances. Where other events tend to announce their line-ups while tickets are still available – or before they go on sale – Glastonbury sells out months in advance of much, if any, of the bill being revealed. Instead of performing in a field full of their fans, known as CARATs, they’ll likely face a crowd largely unfamiliar with them and K-pop as a whole.
“We actually tend to enjoy that challenge,” Seungkwan says, unfazed by the prospect.
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Other than a headlining set at Lollapalooza Berlin in September, SEVENTEEN’s touring slate post-Glastonbury is currently unclear, although they’ve been teasing a new run of dates kicking off later this year. Those shows, they’ve hinted, will include another visit to the US, but as yet, nothing has been confirmed for Europe.
“We know how much our fans are waiting for us there,”
Seungkwan assures.
“I can’t say for sure at this point in time, but we’re definitely talking to the company, and we want to make it happen.”
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The last of those stadium shows (for now) landed on the boyband’s ninth anniversary and took them to the dizzy heights of a second sold-out night at Yokohama’s Nissan Stadium, the biggest performance venue in Japan.
“Venues definitely have significance when it’s so large-scale, and it was definitely a surreal experience,”
Seungkwan nods.
“We felt so honoured and grateful and blessed to receive so much love and support.”
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Despite all the group have achieved so far, going into their 10th year, it still doesn’t feel like they’ve hit their peak. Instead, they continue to grow and progress, level up and add new facets to their artistry – a rare feat this deep into a career. Aside from the motivation they’ve received from their fans, Seungkwan says the reason behind this is quite humble:
“We just try to do our best every single day, encouraging and prodding each other along as we go.” He adds a cheeky but fair caveat to his point:
“I don’t really know what the secret behind our success is – if we knew that, we would have become successful much earlier.”
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Regardless of how they assess their triumphs so far, what is certain is, moving forward, SEVENTEEN will continue to push themselves even further. They’ll release another album later this year but are tight-lipped on where they’ll take things from here.
“We’re also excited to see what new challenges we will be taking on later this year, but one thing I’m sure of is that CARATs and all of the audience out there are going to be blown away once again by the breathtaking piece of music that we will be putting out,”
Seungkwan teases confidently.
“We will put our heart and soul into the new album, as we have been doing up until now.”
https://www.nme.com/features/music-interviews/seventeen-making-history-glastonbury-2024-first-k-pop-act-3768334
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