With the ultimate day of Glastonbury 2024 upon us, pageant organiser/booker Emily Eavis says that she would have appreciated to have seen extra rock bands on her household’s farm over the previous weekend, however that this wasn’t an choice this yr as “there aren’t a number of new rock acts to select from.”
In a brand new [paywalled] interview with The Telegraph, Eavis admits that, irrespective of who’s booked for the long-lasting English pageant, inevitably she’s going to obtain criticisms from some quarters that the line-up is “too rock, too grime, too hip hop, too pop”, however argues that the invoice annually “displays what’s occurring within the music world in the mean time.”
“There aren’t a number of new rock acts to select from if I’m trustworthy,” Eavis tells the British newspaper. “Hopefully that can emerge once more, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead… and that was nice however music modifications on a regular basis and proper now that is the place we’re at.”
The Pyramid Stage headline acts for this yr’s pageant are Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, with the genre-straddling PJ Harvey arguably the one artist on the location’s primary stage who could possibly be categorised as a “rock” act, for individuals who insist on labels.
Nevertheless, the Louder-endorsed likes of IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Voice of Baceprot, High Vis, Yard Act, NewDad, The Last Dinner Party, Drawback Patterns, Kim Gordon and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets both performed, or are resulting from play, throughout the location from June 28-30.
Again in Could 2019, Steel Hammer‘s Merlin Alderslade saluted the Glastonbury workforce for finally “embracing” metal, because the organisers had made area within the iconic Shangri-La fields, two years beforehand, for the Earache Data-curated Scum stage, which noticed performances from Napalm Death, Ho99o9, Hacktivist, Wormrot and extra.
Final yr’s occasion, in the meantime, featured a primary stage headline set from Guns N’ Roses on June 24, Queens Of The Stone Age topping the Different Stage invoice on June 25, a ‘secret’ set from Foo Fighters, and appearances from Nova Twins, Manic Road Preachers, The Hives, The Hu, Maneskin, Viagra Boys and extra.