Neil Young has withdrawn from his scheduled look on the UK’s Glastonbury Music Festival in 2025, citing issues that the legendary occasion has taken a “company flip.”
The musician’s points with Glastonbury apparently stem from its ties with the BBC. In a observe posted to his web site, Neil Young Archives, Younger wrote, “We have been advised that the BBC was now a associate in Glastonbury and needed us to do numerous issues in a method that we weren’t desirous about. it appears Glastonbury is now beneath company management and isn’t the best way i keep in mind it method being.”
“We is not going to be taking part in Glastonbury on this tour as a result of it’s a company flip – off, and never for me prefer it was once,” Younger added. “Hope to see you at one of many different venues on the tour.”
It’s price noting that Glastonbury’s partnership with the BBC isn’t new; for years, the British public service broadcaster has aired parts of the music pageant throughout its varied tv and radio stations. In actual fact, as Rolling Stone factors out, Younger’s most up-to-date efficiency at Glastonbury in 2009 was broadcast on the BBC.
Younger is ready to tour in 2025 together with his new band, The Chrome Hearts, which options Micah Nelson on guitar, Spooner Oldham on organ, Corey McCormick on bass, and Anthony LoGergo on drums.
Apart from confirming Rod Stewart within the Sunday teatime legend slot, Glastonbury has but to formally announce its 2025 lineup. The pageant will happen June Twenty fifth-Twenty ninth in Pilton, UK.
