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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
Kanye West to headline Glastonbury
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 17 March 2015
I had a pang of sadness about not going to the Glastonbury Festival for the first time in several years last night, when it was announced that Kanye West will be this year’s Saturday night headliner. That’s going to be some show. And I’ll have to watch it on television. Oh well, at least it’s not being shown on ITV.
Emily Eavis said that she was “thrilled” at the booking. Not everyone was though. Predictably, someone launched a petition demanding that the set from one of the few musicians in the world big enough to headline the festival be cancelled and a “rock band” be scheduled instead.
It’s not clear if these people realise that the Foo Fighters have already been booked for the Friday night of Glastonbury. I’m not sure there are any other rock bands left who could do the big headline slot other than them. I mean, they had to get bloody Kasabian in to do it last year. These are challenging times.
If there’s going to be any cancelling, I think the Eavises should drop all other headliners and just put Kanye on three nights in a row. That or book Beyonce and Beck for the other nights.
