Neil Young will headline Glastonbury 2025 in spite of everything. After writing in a weblog submit this week that the BBC was exerting “company management” over the sponsorship-free, nonprofit pageant, he backtracked in a new post this morning. “Fortunately, the pageant is now again on our itinerary and we stay up for taking part in!,” he wrote, blaming “an error within the info obtained,” with out elaboration.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis wrote on Instagram this morning, “What a begin to the 12 months! Neil Younger is an artist who’s very near our hearts at Glastonbury. He does issues his personal method and that’s why we love him.”
The BBC has been partnered with Glastonbury in an unique broadcasting deal since 1997, lengthy earlier than Younger final headline, in 2009. However Younger lamented in his earlier submit that the broadcasting firm, which is government-owned, had “wished us to do loads of issues in a method we weren’t inquisitive about.”
It stays to be seen how a lot, if any, of Younger’s set shall be televised or uploaded on-line, as is customary for headliners. In 2009, the BBC mentioned Younger had restricted the published of his set to 5 songs after months of negotiations. BBC News notes that Mark Cooper, who was then the chief producer of the BBC’s Glastonbury protection, mentioned on the time, “They imagine within the reside occasion and retaining its thriller and that of their artist. You most likely gained’t discover too many Neil Younger performances accessible freely on TV or on-line. He typically prefers the viewers to search out his albums.”
