My bandmate James Shaw... concentrating. Photograph: David Levene
The key to creating a festival anthem is having a song that will sneak up on people. At Glastonbury in 2005 we were lucky enough to have our track, We Are Your Friends, being played at seemingly every tent we walked past. But by that point, the song was three years old, it had been through various remixes and that summer it came to a head.
We Are Your Friends was sneaky but it also seemed to comply with that argument which says an anthem has to be inclusive. The chorus was a really basic line, and Justice had given it that extra tweak it needed, but it doesn't exclude anybody and that's what you want to hear at festivals.
While you can imagine the rules for making an anthem in your head, it's difficult to predict what people will want to listen to this time around. I don't see Ed Banger [the record label that's home to Justice] or electro being a winner this year. I think it has to be pretty well known already to do that, if people are going to catch on.
If I was to have to make a prediction I might go for Golden Skans by the Klaxons which, I have to confess, I was involved with, but is familiar to people and has that hook.
The Arctic Monkeys are another band who have those kind of songs, like Mardy Bum or Fluorescent Adolescent. I remember hearing Fluorescent Adolescent when it first happened and it's kind of weird because I heard it in a totally different environment to this but you can still imagine it being played here. And also, with their song 505, it's such a big sweeping thing that you could imagine it being played on a stage like this. I think they both could be an anthem.
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