Music : Glastonbury 2007 - Iggy Pop & The Stooges

The Other Stage - Saturday, 23rd June 11pm

At Glastonbury the nearest you can usually get to a headliner is around 30 feet. And that's if you've been on the barrier since before lunchtime - sacrificing food, drink and basic sanitation - and you're the sort of fanboy/fangirl lunatic that goes through rock stars' rubbish bins and sends them death threats.

Not when that headliner is Iggy Pop though.

This guy's been breaking down the barrier between band and fan years before Pete Doherty or Dominic Masters had even invented the concept of a guerilla gig a couple of years ago. Tonight was no different, as he beckoned up hundreds of drunken, muddy devotees during a raucous ‘No Fun'. “These are the world champion Glastonbury dancers,” Iggy said of his temporary new bandmates. “We're having a moment here”.

When he wasn't filling the stage with fans, he and his band tore through a peerless greatest hits set – including ‘TV Eye', ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog' and ‘LA Blues' – that proved that Iggy's still punk's top dog. His torso is as deliciously ripped-to-the-core as ever – you have to say he looks fantastic for 60 – he's still the ultimate rock'n'roll performer , charging round the stage like a man a tenth of his age, diving into the crowd and proving that the modest crowd that turned out were right to forgo bowing down at the church of Brandon on the Pyramid Stage in favour of these punk legends .

All hail king Iggy: the coolest man onsite – nay the planet – by an absolute freaking mile.

Best Song: ‘No Fun'.

Best Moment: The stage invasion.

The Stooges played:

‘Loose' ‘Down On The Street' ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog' ‘TV Eye' ‘My Idea Of Fun' ‘Dirt' ‘Real Cool Time'' ‘No Fun' ‘1970' ‘Mindroom' ‘Fun House' ‘LA Blues' ‘Skull Ring' ‘Trollin'' ‘1969' ‘She Took My Money' ‘Not Right' ‘I'm Fried' ‘Little Electric Chair'

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