Arctic Monkeys, Gun N’ Roses, and Elton John are headlining the 2023 Glastonbury Music Competition, signifying a extra legacy centered – and really male — course for the long-lasting British occasion. And whereas calls have intensified in recent times for music festivals and awards exhibits to diversify their payments, Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis says a “pipeline” drawback inside the business is in charge for not growing headline-worthy ladies artists.
Chatting with The Guardian, Eavis insisted that variety of all identities was a giant Glastonbury focus, noting that 46% of the lineup options individuals of coloration (48% of the names on the invoice are ladies). “We’re attempting our greatest so the pipeline must be developed,” Eavis stated. “This begins method again with the file firms, radio. I can shout as loud as I like however we have to get everybody on board.”
After all, Lizzo — who’s performing proper earlier than Weapons N’ Roses on Saturday, June twenty fourth — undoubtedly has the star energy to headline, however the band was confirmed to play the competition earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic even started. “She may completely headline,” Eavis stated of Lizzo. “Most of the artists may. However the headline slot had already been promised to another person.”
Reserving Weapons N’ Roses within the first place got here after a lady artist set to headline “modified her touring plans,” Eavis stated. She didn’t reveal the musician in query, however Taylor Swift was because of carry out on the canceled 2020 installment of the competition, and her upcoming “The Eras Tour” contains dates by way of Glastonbury.
Subsequent 12 months, Eavis says, two ladies will headline Glastonbury, marking each artists’ first time on the competition. Nonetheless, Blondie, Carly Rae Jepsen, CHVRCHES, Kelis, Lana Del Rey, Maggie Rogers, Rina Sawayama, The Chicks, Warpaint, and Weyes Blood are among the many ladies performing this 12 months, and a number of other of them have headlined a competition earlier than.
Set for June twenty first to twenty fifth, Glastonbury’s preliminary 2023 lineup announcement options 54 artists, whereas extra names will likely be introduced at a later date. Take a look at the lineup poster beneath.
