Neil Younger will headline Glastonbury 2025 in any case. After writing in a weblog put up this week that the BBC was exerting “company management” over the sponsorship-free, nonprofit pageant, he backtracked in a brand new put up this morning. “Fortunately, the pageant is now again on our itinerary and we sit up for taking part in!,” he wrote, blaming “an error within the info obtained,” with out elaboration.
Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis wrote on Instagram this morning, “What a begin to the yr! Neil Younger is an artist who’s very near our hearts at Glastonbury. He does issues his personal means 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 put up that the broadcasting firm, which is government-owned, had “needed us to do a whole lot of issues in a means we weren’t thinking about.”
It stays to be seen how a lot, if any, of Younger’s set will likely be televised or uploaded on-line, as is customary for headliners. In 2009, the BBC mentioned Younger had restricted the printed of his set to 5 songs after months of negotiations. BBC Information notes that Mark Cooper, who was then the chief producer of the BBC’s Glastonbury protection, mentioned on the time, “They consider within the reside occasion and retaining its thriller and that of their artist. You in all probability gained’t discover too many Neil Younger performances out there freely on TV or on-line. He usually prefers the viewers to seek out his albums.”
