Pop superstar Shania Twain’s huge tour rider revealed ahead of her Glastonbury legend slot performance

SHE’S the queen of country music and will deliver one of the performances of the weekend at Glastonbury Festival.

And Shania Twain and her talented band’s tour rider is suitably stocked with goodies to power them through a fun and rowdy sing-along set.

Ahead of their legend slot appearance on Sunday afternoon, Shania’s lead guitarist Lindsay Ell, 35, revealed what’s fuelling them on the road.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun from backstage at Shania’s huge Belfast gig, she said:  “Oh my goodness. I mean, see, what’s important on riders is things that make you feel at home and things that make you just really comfy before you go on stage.

“So, you know, vegetables and fruits and protein bars all that is pretty boring and standard, but there’s always like a few like local fares. Like there’s lots of Cadbury chocolate in our dressing room right now, which I’m definitely excited about, and I will say there’s always really good champagne close.”

It’ll be a party atmosphere at Worthy Farm when Shania takes to the stage to run through her greatest hits.

Fans can expect a career-spanning set with her breakthrough album Come On Over featuring heavily.

There will be a surprise or two thrown in too, though Lindsay was careful not to give away too much.

“There are definitely some surprises in the mix which I am not abreast to say,” teased Lindsay. “But this show is so exciting it is literally all the hits, bam, bam, bam, every song you’re like ‘oh my goodness’.

“My favourite people to go to watch you forget how many great songs they have. This whole set is massive, generational hit songs, and I am so honoured to be a part of this show.

“Shania’s set is one people definitely don’t want to miss because they will be singing the entire time.”

Shania and her band will arrive at Worthy Farm on Sunday morning and are keen to experience as much of the festival as they can in their short time there.

“I wish I could stay overnight,” said Lindsay. “I wish I could camp the whole weekend. It’s my first Glastonbury and I’m truly so excited to be able to bucket list check that, but we’re going to be able to get there super early in the day and sort of take in all of the festivities.

“We’ll get to hear a bit of the music after her and then we’ll need to get on the bus and go on to the next place, but we’re going to take in as much as we can while we’re there for sure.”

Lindsay is an established solo artist in her own right and got the gig playing with Shania after striking up a friendship while supporting her on the road last year.

The skilled guitarist, who is also the host of Canada’s Got Talent, practised between 12 and 14 hours a day to make sure she nailed Shania’s back catalogue and did justice to original players Brent Mason and Dann Huff.

This whole set is massive, generational hit songs, and I am so honoured to be a part of this show

Lindsay Ell

She said: “It’s been one of the coolest experiences because my musical heroes and my favourite guitar players like John Mayer has played with The [Grateful] Dead and Stevie Ray Vaughn went out with David Bowie for a few years and so I was like this is this is just truly what dreams are made of and is such a cool part of my story.”

GOING SOLO

In 10 days time Lindsay will headline her own show at London’s Omeara.

She admits it’s more intimidating playing in front of a smaller crowd but is relishing debuting some new music there.

“There’s just something about fans up here that is just different,” she said.

“People listen to lyrics and listen to guitar solos and really pay attention to every word that’s coming out of my mouth.

“I remember my first few shows I played in London, I was so surprised how loud the audience was singing to like B-sides off my record and I’m like ‘how do you know all the words to this song? This is crazy’.

“So I just cannot wait to get in that venue and feel the energy of the crowd and get to share with them some new music.

“I’ve been working on a bunch of new music the past couple years. I will be releasing new music in September so I’m going to be sprinkling some snippets of that at the Omeara on July 8.”