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 retailers) nor permits advertisements on-site, apart from these of chosen charities. However the BBC, stated Younger, “needed us to do numerous issues in a approach we weren’t interested by. It appears Glastonbury is now beneath company management and isn’t the best way 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 “certainly one of [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 12 months 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 concern 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.
