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 publish 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 (in addition to with some media retailers) nor permits advertisements on-site, aside from these of chosen charities. However the BBC, mentioned Younger, “needed us to do loads of issues in a means we weren’t curious about. It appears Glastonbury is now below company management and isn’t the way in which I keep 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 every of [his] all-time favourite out of doors gigs,” however was now “a company turn-off.” His stand in opposition to one of many world’s most beloved festivals—which final yr donated some $6.4 million to charities, The Guardian notes—is the most recent in a collection of objections to the music business at giant, notably taking challenge 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.