Metallica recently announced their "wish-list" show, a headlining gig at the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, June 28th. Drummer Lars Ulrich spoke with Emily Mackay from Theguardian.com about it.

Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Theguardian.com: Some people have suggested a metal headliner won't work at Glastonbury – much like Noel Gallagher scoffing at Jay Z in 2008.

Ulrich: "Jay Z came out and played Wonderwall, right? So maybe we gotta go out and do our rendition of Wonderwall. We'll start with Wonderwall and we'll take it from there. Ha ha, listen, you've just gotta go out and be yourself and be proud of what you're doing."

Theguardian.com: Sonisphere is also the first time you and Iron Maiden have ever co-headlined in the UK. I know you're a huge Maiden fan, but Bruce Dickinson has also said that they're better than Metallica...

Ulrich: "I will never argue with that. I will always support Bruce Dickinson in whatever nonsense he says. That's part of the fun. So go Iron Maiden! It's fine."

Theguardian.com: What's the strangest time you've ever had at a festival?

Ulrich: "The first time we played at Monsters of Rock at Donington in 1995, there was a pig's head that was thrown up onstage while we were playing. If you just pause for a second and walk through that, step by step… like, just… first you gotta acquire a pig's head, which I guess you can maybe buy at a butcher's or slaughter yourself. Then you've gotta be motivated to carry this pig's head to the gig and keep it with you. Then you've gotta get it in the venue. Then you've got to get up to the front, still with this pig's head. And at some point, you've gotta launch the pig's head up onstage for it to land in close proximity to the singer. It was just lying up there for the better part of the set. It was a truly bizarre thing. And that was our first British festival experience. I'm not sure that anything has really matched that since on the bizarre scale, and that's 30 years ago."

Read more at Theguardian.com.