OPENING with the banger “I never used to listen, now I do”, Confidence Man instantly turned me into a fan.
I’ll be honest and say I was aware of them but had never listened to a tune, and oh, how I’d been missing out!
The electro-pop, synth-laden sound coupled with energetic choreography was perfect for the TRNSMT sunset crowd.
With the band raised on silver spiky inflatable platforms, the set electrified the sun-weary crowd.
Confidence Man made me a fan at Glasgow TRNSMT 2025 (Image: Newsquest/Gordon Terris)
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With vocals that remind you of every 80s pop princess and the beats to match on Does It Make You Feel Good? They had the crowd in the palm of their hand from the outset.
“How you feeling TRNSMT” was met with cheers as the duo who front the band bounded from side to side on the stage.
The band leave their platforms to perform yet more impressive choreography as they flip frontwoman Janet Planet (Grace Stephenson) head over heels, and not for the only time in the show.
All My People started a two-step that would make a Creamfields crowd jealous.
“Where you at Glasgow?” is met with cheers from a crowd rejuvenated from a day of sweating in 28-degree heat.
It felt like as the day cooled off, the TRNSMT crowd finally heated up.
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A sea of hands reached for the beams of sunlight streaming towards the stage, which featured some of the most impressive productions of the day.
Air horn blasts and outfit changes aplenty kept the energy high as they genre shift seamlessly into more funky disco-esque numbers.
Aptly named It Feels Like A Different Day brought the crowd out of a sun-soaked slumber – you really will struggle to find a better act at working a crowd.
After an intergalactic interludes and costumes from Mars – they rip into Party Of The Year (COOL) where they’re all hip thrusts and champagne sprays, what a party!
Stripping off to raucous cheers for Gossip, they belt out the lyric “You only reap what you sow” and get the energy they’ve given out back from the enthralled audience.
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(Image: Newsquest/Gordon Terris) Jumping down to the front of the stage before the finale, they loosened off any lethargy from the pre-50 Cent crowd.
Blending from pop to house to disco and everything in between, they’re a real eclectic music fan’s delight.
I genuinely did not stop dancing from the start to the finish of their set – the perfect tonic to mid-evening festival fatigue.
Do they have Confidence Man? Yes. And they certainly should have – their show will be hard to beat this weekend.