Neil Young‘s flip-flopping with Glastonbury continued Saturday because the BBC introduced the rocker’s headlining set tonight on the pageant will in actual fact be live-streamed.
Earlier this week, the British broadcaster launched its Glastonbury schedule, and Younger’s set was noticeably absent; a spokesperson for the BBC confirmed that “at the artist’s request, we won’t be live streaming” Younger and the Chrome Hearts’ Saturday set.
Nonetheless, within the days since, Younger apparently had a change of heart because the BBC revealed Saturday that his Pyramid Stage set will livestream in any case. “We’re delighted to verify that Neil Younger’s headline set from Glastonbury on Saturday will probably be broadcast dwell to audiences throughout the UK on the BBC,” a BBC spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
“Will probably be on iPlayer’s Pyramid Stage stream from 10pm, in addition to BBC Two and Radio 2. Our on-demand plans proceed to be finalized.”
(Whereas Younger has offered an in depth, incessantly up to date travelogue of his European tour on his Archives site, he has not but commented on the BBC state of affairs.)
Again in January, after Younger was among the many first artists named for the 2025 Glastonbury, he introduced he was pulling out of his headlining gig as a result of pageant’s partnership with the BBC.
“We had been instructed the BBC was now a associate in Glastonbury and wished us to do lots for issues we weren’t inquisitive about. It appears Glastonbury is now underneath company management and isn’t the way in which I bear in mind it being,” Younger mentioned on the time. “We is not going to be enjoying Glastonbury on this tour as a result of it’s a company turn-off, and never for me prefer it was.”
Nonetheless, days later, Younger rejoined the festival, writing that he left “attributable to an error within the data obtained” and that “fortunately, the pageant is again on our itinerary and we sit up for enjoying!”
Younger final carried out at Glastonbury on June 26, 2009, with the BBC solely airing parts of his set. “The BBC has spent the final couple of months speaking to Neil’s administration about how a lot of his set we’d be capable to present on TV, radio and on-line over Glastonbury weekend,” they wrote in a statement to fans wondering why the whole thing wasn’t shown. “Neil Younger’s profession has been carried out on his personal phrases. Final evening Neil’s administration agreed to let TV and radio broadcast 5 songs as they watched and listened to his efficiency. They consider within the dwell occasion and retaining its thriller and that of their artist.”
