Glastonbury live-stream festival: Coldplay, Michael Kiwanuka and Haim to perform
The organisers of Glastonbury have announced that Coldplay, Damon Albarn, Haim, Idles, Jorja Smith, Kano, Michael Kiwanuka and Wolf Alice will perform at Live at Worthy Farm, a ticketed live-stream event to be broadcast on 22 May.
The five-hour film, directed by Grammy-nominated film-maker Paul Dugdale, will be presented as an uninterrupted production, tracing the arc of what festival co-organiser Emily Eavis called “one continuous wild night” at the festival, via festival landmarks including the Pyramid stage, the stone circle and the notorious south-east nightclubbing corner…
When Glastonbury returns in full, Eavis said she would remain committed to achieving gender equality on the festival’s lineup, as she has previously pledged. A recent wave of UK festival announcements for summer 2021 was criticised for heavily weighting male performers. “It’s not an accident any more, it’s a statement of exclusion,” Maxie Gedge of Keychange, the PRS Foundation’s initiative encouraging music festivals to commit to balanced lineups, told the Guardian.