Neil Younger’s on-off relationship with the BBC and Glastonbury seems to have been resolved, for now, and the singer’s set can be proven stay tonight on the nationwide broadcaster.
Yesterday, the BBC stated the enduring singer’s efficiency on the Pyramid Stage wouldn’t be obtainable to look at at Younger’s request, with the BBC planning to as a substitute present Charli XCX’s efficiency from the Different Stage.
As of the previous couple of minutes, this has been reversed.
“We’re delighted to substantiate that Neil Younger’s headline set from Glastonbury on Saturday can be broadcast stay to audiences throughout the UK on the BBC,” stated a spokeswoman. “It will likely be on iPlayer’s Pyramid Stage stream from 10pm, in addition to BBC Two and Radio 2. Our on-demand plans proceed to be finalised.”
Younger’s relationship with Glastonbury and the BBC has been rocky for months.
Earlier this 12 months, after he had been confirmed as headliner, he and his Chrome Hearts band initially stated they had been pulling out of the nation’s greatest music fest as a result of it was beneath the “company management” of the BBC. This was additionally reversed shortly afterwards.
Younger’s will he-won’t just isn’t the largest controversy at this 12 months’s Glastonbury, which is attended by greater than 200,000 folks and kicked off correctly yesterday.
In a couple of hours’ time, controversial Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap will take to the West Holts Stage and the BBC continues to be not clarifying the way it will go about protecting the set.
One of many group’s members, Mo Chara, is presently bailed on a terror cost after displaying a flag at a London gig in assist of Hezbollah – a proscribed terrorist group within the UK. This got here a couple of months after counter-terrorism police stated they had been assessing movies of a bandmember allegedly telling followers at a gig: “The one good Tory is a lifeless Tory. Kill your native MP.”
In a Guardian interview yesterday, the band stated they had been “in character” when displaying the flag. “S**t is thrown on stage on a regular basis. If I’m presupposed to know each f***ing factor that’s thrown on stage… I’d be in Mensa, Jesus Christ,” stated Mo Chara, AKA Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh.
All eyes are educated on Kneecap and in what kind they seem on the nationwide broadcaster, which has stated “our plans will make sure that our programming will meet our editorial pointers.”
