Glastonbury’s official X account confirmed with a post at 9:22am that all tickets for this year’s festival have now sold out.
Earlier this week Glastonbury has disappointed rock fans without any great rock bands.
Fury from rock fans after Glastonbury announce pop-heavy line-up including Dua Lipa and Shania Twain.
The furore was fuelled by Noel Gallagher, brash but much-loved Epiphone-toting Oasis loudmouth, who had said the festival was “built on a tradition of guitar music”. (The Sun)
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” he added. “Sorry, but Jay-Z?”
As Joan Jett once sang, I love rock and roll… and would love to think that it had a more prominent place among the myriad acts that make Glasto the greatest music festival on earth.
Put it this way, say the Rolling Stones weren’t touring America in June and Mick Jagger had agreed to strut and shimmy his way across the Pyramid Stage, it’s all anyone would be talking about.
Furthermore, there’s no Springsteen, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam or Metallica on the bill. No Macca or Elton because they’ve just done it. And no chance of a reunion by Led Zepplin or Pink Floyd.
As for Britpop, Blur had their moment at Wembley last year. Noel and Liam still need to kiss and make up (perish the thought).
So we’re left with Glasto stalwarts Coldplay, God bless ‘em, who, under Chris Martin’s guidance, will do a lovely, phone-lights-in-the-air show.
But they simply haven’t got riffs at their disposal like the monsters that usher in Satisfaction, or Highway To Hell .
On the plus side, because Glastonbury is so huge and diverse, there’s rock gold to be found in them there Somerset pastures. Idles, The National, The Breeders and two lots of Irish rabble rousers, Fontaines DC and The Mary Wallopers, among them.
But to borrow from Led Zepelin, let’s hope it won’t be a long lonely lonely lonely time before the Pyramid Stage rocks and rolls again.
