A militaristic dance routine of various leather-clad hunks and a snippet of the famous sample from Primal Scream’s Loaded from the biker movie The Wild Angels, of Peter Fonda saying “we want to get loaded, we want to have a good time” made a suitably bold/camp opening for the entrance of Dua Lipa, Britain’s latest hi-octane pop star, to reach Pyramid headliner status. And from there the Kosovan-English singer rose to the occasion: plenty of big singalong hits, a (little too) spot-on vocal delivery, lots of sultry and/or pneumatic dance routines and, if not the most characterful performance of all time, then certainly one that could fill the vast space before her.
One Kiss set the tone of the evening: escapist, super slick, pop
