Music|The British broadcasting company BBC traditionally shows the concerts of the festival live and as recordings.
Musician Neil Young will not perform this year at the Glastonbury festival in Britain. According to Young, the festival’s collaboration with the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC means that the event is “dominated by corporate power”.
Neil Young’s has been published on the website a short information on the matter.
“Chrome Hearts and I were really looking forward to performing at Glastonbury, which I think is one of the best outdoor festivals,” the release states.
Actually the festival performers are usually announced during the spring. Only Rod Stewartin have been officially announced to perform at Glastonbury this coming summer.
Neil Young performed at Glastonbury in 2009. According to the BBC at the time, the artist there were many discussions with the organization about ithow much of the performance could be broadcast and recorded.
The BBC has been around for a while broadcast Glastonbury concerts as live broadcasts on different platforms and later presented them as recordings.
The BBC would not comment Young’s public statement.
Neil Young has been careful about publishing his music and issues related to publishing connections over the years.
For example, he has encouraged the employees of the streaming service Spotify to resign. He has also raved about the sound quality of the service “fucked up and fired up”.
He too removed his music Popular from Spotify The Joe Rogan Experience because of the podcast. Young accused Spotify of allowing the spread of false information about the coronavirus and vaccines.
In March 2024, Young announced that he would return it to the service of his music. Young justified his return by the fact that Joe Rogan’s podcast was also available on Amazon and Apple’s streaming services.
“I can’t just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did with Spotify, because then my music would only be on a few streaming services, so I’m back to Spotify, in the sincere hope that the sound quality of Spotify will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music the way we’ve made it,” Young wrote in a statement at the time.