With the general day of Glastonbury 2024 upon us, pageant organiser/booker Emily Eavis says that she would have appreciated to have noticed extra rock bands on her circle of relatives’s farm over the last weekend, however that this wasn’t an choice this yr as “there aren’t a large number of new rock acts to make a choice from.”
In a brand new [paywalled] interview with The Telegraph, Eavis admits that, regardless of who’s booked for the enduring English pageant, inevitably she’s going to obtain criticisms from some quarters that the line-up is “too rock, too filth, too hip hop, too pop”, however argues that the invoice each and every yr “displays what’s going down within the song international in this day and age.”
“There aren’t a large number of new rock acts to make a choice from if I’m truthful,” Eavis tells the British newspaper. “Optimistically that can emerge once more, my heyday used to be 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead… and that used to be nice however song adjustments always and presently that is the place we’re at.”
The Pyramid Degree headline acts for this yr’s pageant are Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, with the genre-straddling PJ Harvey arguably the one artist at the web page’s major level who may well be labeled as a “rock” act, for individuals who insist on labels.
Then again, the Louder-endorsed likes of IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Voice of Baceprot, Top Vis, Backyard Act, NewDad, The Closing Dinner Celebration, Downside Patterns, Kim Gordon and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets both performed, or are because of play, around the web page from June 28-30.
Again in Might 2019, Steel Hammer‘s Merlin Alderslade saluted the Glastonbury staff for in any case “embracing” steel, because the organisers had made area within the iconic Shangri-L. a. fields, two years in the past, for the Earache Information-curated Scum level, which noticed performances from Napalm Loss of life, Ho99o9, Hacktivist, Wormrot and extra.
Closing yr’s match, in the meantime, featured a chief level headline set from Weapons N’ Roses on June 24, Queens Of The Stone Age topping the Different Degree invoice on June 25, a ‘secret’ set from Foo Opponents, and appearances from Nova Twins, Manic Side road Preachers, The Hives, The Hu, Maneskin, Viagra Boys and extra.
