“A Crouch End choir gained themselves tens of thousands of new fans at the weekend as they backed Kinks star Ray Davies on stage at Glastonbury. Thousands shunned the football and flocked to see the Crouch End Festival Chorus sing with Davies, who played the traditional ‘legends slot’ on the main Pyramid stage on Sunday afternoon.”
Rhiannon Evans in the Ham & High
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“Ray Davies fills the Pyramid stage’s living-legend slot with aplomb. By dedicating a beautiful choral version of See My Friends to Kinks bassist Pete Quaife, who died on Wednesday, he makes the rest of the set crackle with emotion. The Crouch End Festival Chorus stays on for performances of Waterloo Sunset and Days that are so full of tenderness and loss they could make grown men weep. A famously grumpy cove, Davies has never looked happier.”
Dorian Lynskey in The Guardian
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“The former Kinks man is sublime with the Crouch End Festival Choir backing him up”
From ‘The magical moments that made Glastonbury’, by Daniel Fahey and Dan Davies on Virtual Festivals
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“Joining [Ray Davies] on stage were the Crouch End Festival Choir who added another level of heart wrenching raw emotion as the man cracked through legendary song after legendary song.”
From Glastonbury Festival review on Safe Concerts
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“Crouch End Festival Chorus joined [Ray Davies] for most of the set and added a brilliant wall of sound harmony to sounds like ‘You Got Me’ and the jolly ‘The Village Green Preservation Society’. The real highlight though came in ‘Days’ … . Dedicated to The Kinks’ bassist Pete Quaife who died last week, it was utterly spine tingling emotional. Ray cried, I cried. It was, as they say, a ‘moment’.”
From ‘Thank you for the Days’ on Karinski.net
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