To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Glastonbury 2024 organiser Emily Eavis has defended the festival’s line-up amid criticism about the lack of rock acts on the main bill. This year, popstar Dua Lipa, pop rock band Coldplay, and R&B singer SZA will headline the Pyramid Stage , with country pop icon Shania Twain taking the coveted Legends slot on Sunday. Despite there being several rock acts headlining other stages at Worthy Farm, a lack of rock performers on the main stages has left some of the festival’s longest fans feeling unhappy .
But Emily, 44, has insisted that the main line-up at Glastonbury moves with the times and only reflects the current state of the music industry. ‘I think the line-up reflects what’s happening in the music world at the moment – there aren’t a lot of new rock acts to choose from if I’m honest,’ she told PA. ‘Hopefully that will emerge again, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead – and that was great, but music changes all the time and right now this is where we’re at.
’ Follow all the latest Glastonbury news, updates and pictures in our live blog. She then said that in years when the line-up has featured large numbers of rock acts, the festival is then criticised for featuring too many of them. ‘Every year, we’ve been criticised for being too rock, too grime, too hip hop, too pop – it’s just part of our year.
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