Wunderhorse reflect on 'Midas' success and talk new music at Glastonbury 2025

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Wunderhorse frontman Jacob Slater joined NME backstage at Glastonbury to talk about the band's recent success with their second album 'Midas' and discuss the "hopeful" direction of their new music

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00:00Hi, I'm Rhiann Daly and I am backstage at Glastonbury with Jacob from Wonderhorse.

00:09How's your Glastonbury going so far?

00:11It's in its very early stages. I've only been here an hour.

00:15What are your plans for later? Who are you going to try and see?

00:18The usual thing. I usually don't look at the line-up until I'm there and then I turn up.

00:23And usually someone who has a better idea of what's going on will lead me somewhere.

00:27You're playing on the Park stage later today. This comes at quite a big moment for you guys.

00:32Obviously Midas had such a big response to it. It's been massive for you as a band.

00:35What does that album mean to you and the response mean to you as a band?

00:39Well, I'm just glad people were into it. I mean, we sort of took a less commercial route for the second record.

00:45So I think it's a testament to the record that people still kind of stayed with us and were into the slightly newer sound.

00:52Hope people turn up, you know?

00:53I'm sure they will. You put out a new song, The Rope, earlier this month. What can you tell me about that song?

00:58Kind of how that came about?

00:59I mean, I'm trying to maybe write something a little more hopeful these days.

01:03Midas was pretty bleak. So maybe that's a kind of bridge to whatever we're going to do next.

01:07Why are you trying to be more hopeful?

01:09Can't do the same thing forever. Maybe hope's a bit more out of our comfort zone.

01:14I think you should always be a little bit out of your comfort zone in terms of what you're writing.

01:19Have you been working on lots of new music lately?

01:21A few ideas flying around, but nothing concrete yet.

01:25We're sort of just focusing on doing shows and getting that to a high standard, you know?

01:31So that'll all come later, I think.

01:33And you played Ali Pali recently, which is a massive show, sold out months in advance.

01:37How was that gig for you guys?

01:39That was surreal. Sort of felt like it was someone else's gig till the day, you know?

01:42Oh no, we're actually playing it. It was great. I tried to take a minute.

01:47Usually those bigger shows, the adrenaline's very high and you don't really remember much.

01:51So I tried to breathe a bit and then she'd kind of take it in. So I think I'll remember that one.

01:56Thank you for that one.

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