Cassyette’s debut festival appearance was quite the trial by fire. Imagine turning up to play an early afternoon slot towards the end of the first big live music event since lockdown, and being invited to join the opening night headliner in front of 10,000 gig-starved fans beforehand. The genre-shredding singer-songwriter had just recorded the blazing Off With His Head collaboration with Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, so it made sense when Frank invited her to join him onstage for his slot at the Download Pilot in June 2021. “I was so nervous,” she recalls. “My set wasn’t until the Sunday and Frank was headlining on the Friday, so that was the first festival experience I’d had as a performer, and it was insane! I looked out and there was just a sea of peopl...