Neil Younger says he has pulled out of a scheduled efficiency at Glastonbury 2025 due to the BBC’s partnership with the pageant. In a weblog submit on Tuesday (December 31), Younger lamented that the broadcasting firm, which is government-owned, had taken “company management” of the famously anti-commercial, nonprofit UK pageant, which neither hosts model partnerships (apart from with some media shops) nor permits adverts on-site, aside from these of chosen charities. However the BBC, stated Younger, “wished us to do a number of issues in a manner we weren’t excited about. It appears Glastonbury is now beneath company management and isn’t the way in which I bear in mind it being.”
Younger, who headlined the pageant in 2009, greater than a decade after the BBC partnership started, added that it had been “one in all [his] all-time favourite out of doors gigs,” however was now “a company turn-off.” His stand towards one of many world’s most beloved festivals—which final yr donated some $6.4 million to charities, The Guardian notes—is the newest in a sequence of objections to the music trade at giant, notably taking difficulty with Spotify and Ticketmaster.
The one performer to have been formally confirmed for Glastonbury 2025 is Rod Stewart, who will play the Sunday-afternoon legends slot.