A mountain bike accident, a missing Rod Stewart, and 80,000 people waiting for a miracle.
It’s Glastonbury Festival 1995. The Stone Roses pull out of their headline set after a mountain bike accident and Rod Stewart is unavailable. Last minute replacements, Pulp, take to the stage to face 80,000 people. They deliver a set ‘regarded as one of the best in the festival’s history’ climaxing with the era-defining song, Common People, and in the process catapult themselves to the forefront of the Britpop movement – an achievement that 12 years earlier seemed like an impossible dream.
Direction
Eve Wood captures the genuine terror and triumph of last-minute destiny.
Sound
That Common People crowd singalong will give you full-body chills.
Editing
Seamless weaving of archive footage with intimate band interviews.
Director
Eve Wood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This performance cemented Pulp as working-class heroes against the middle-class Oasis vs. Blur narrative.
The Stone Roses' John Squire actually broke his collarbone mountain biking on a journalist's bike he'd borrowed for a photo shoot.
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