Neil Young 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 retailers) nor permits advertisements on-site, aside from these of chosen charities. However the BBC, mentioned Younger, “wished us to do plenty of issues in a manner we weren’t fascinated about. It appears Glastonbury is now below company management and isn’t the best way 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 “one in all [his] all-time favourite outside 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 newest in a sequence of objections to the music trade at massive, 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.
