Neil Younger has pulled out of this 12 months’s Glastonbury Pageant, citing interference by the pageant’s broadcasting companion, the BBC.
Posting on the Neil Younger Archives web site, Younger says, “The Chrome Hearts and I have been wanting ahead to taking part in Glastonbury, certainly one of my all-time favorite outside gigs. We have been informed that BBC was now a companion in Glastonbury and needed us to do plenty of issues in a manner we weren’t fascinated by.
“It appears Glastonbury is now underneath company management and isn’t the way in which I bear in mind it being. Thanks for coming to see us the final time! We won’t be taking part in Glastonbury on this tour as a result of it’s a company turn-off, and never for me prefer it was once. Hope to see you at one of many different venues on the tour.”
The BBC has been the official broadcast companion of the occasion since 1997 and has expanded its remit within the years since. The Company launched its “Introducing” stage in 2007 and renewed its broadcast rights in 2017. Final 12 months’s occasion was the primary to be broadcast globally. Younger has performed Glastonbury as soon as, in 2009, when he headlined the Pyramid Stage alongside Bruce Springsteen and Blur.
This 12 months’s Glastonbury Pageant, which shall be held at its conventional house at Worthy Farm in Piltdown, Somerset, England, between Jun 25 and June 29, is already offered out. Headliners haven’t but been introduced, however Rod Stewart will fill the standard late-afternoon legend slot on the ultimate day of the occasion. He final performed at Glastonbury in 2002.
“I’m completely thrilled to announce that I’ll be taking part in Glastonbury 2025!” mentioned Stewart. “In spite of everything these years, I’m proud and prepared and greater than capable of take the stage once more to pleasure and titillate my mates at Glastonbury in June. I’ll see you there!”
