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, aside from these of chosen charities. However the BBC, stated Younger, “needed us to do a variety of issues in a manner we weren’t fascinated 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 “one among [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 12 months donated some $6.4 million to charities, The Guardian notes—is the newest in a collection of objections to the music business at giant, notably taking situation 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.