Neil Younger says he has pulled out of a scheduled efficiency at Glastonbury 2025 due to the BBC’s partnership with the competition. In a weblog put up 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 competition, which neither hosts model partnerships (moreover with some media shops) nor permits advertisements on-site, apart from these of chosen charities. However the BBC, mentioned Younger, “wished us to do a number of issues in a manner we weren’t enthusiastic about. It appears Glastonbury is now underneath company management and isn’t the way in which I bear in mind it being.”
Younger, who headlined the competition 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 in opposition to one of many world’s most beloved festivals—which final 12 months donated some $6.4 million to charities, The Guardian notes—is the most recent in a sequence of objections to the music business at massive, 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.
