Watch Sigrid cover Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ with an orchestra
Sigrid and the BBC Concert Orchestra performed a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ – check it out below.
“Old Man” originally appeared on Young’s 1972 “Harvest” album, but was reworked by Sigrid for Radio 2. Taking to social media shortly after the performance, Sigrid called it a ‘”honor”.
“So today I was able to sing and play piano on ‘Old Man’ like I do at home, but with the BBC Concert Orchestra,” she added. Check out the stunning performance below:
Sigrid also performed “Bad Life” and “Don’t Feel Like Crying” during the session.
Talk to NME before the release of her debut album ‘Sucker Punch’, Sigrid said her ideal collaboration would be with Neil Young, “but I know that’s not going to happen. In my dreams, it would be Neil Young. My family would be dying of joy.
Earlier this year, Sigrid teamed up with Bring Me The Horizon for ‘Bad Life’ after she and Oli Sykes spent time together at Reading Festival 2021.
“It might not be the most likely collaboration, but we’ve been fans of each other for a while and we’re so happy to be able to collaborate on this song,” Sigrid said before adding that the song “tells the story of when things get rough and it can feel like you’re never going to stop feeling sad.
Meanwhile, backstage at Glastonbury, Declan McKenna recounted NME that he also wrote a new “wild” song with Sigrid.
“I don’t think it’ll be on (my third) album, but then we were like, ‘What did we just do?'”
He continued: “We were all in it [a studio] together, and we had never met before. We wrote a song from the point of view of a losing clown [their mind] to a group of kids, and gets super pissed at the end of the song. It’s getting really aggressive!”
the old NME The cover star went on to say that the currently untitled track “has to be released globally at some point.”