Neil Younger is again on the invoice at Glastonbury.
Three days after saying that he’d pulled out of a deliberate efficiency at this yr’s version of the venerable English music competition, the 79-year-old rock legend mentioned Friday that the gig was “happily” again on his touring itinerary and that he and his collaborators “look forward to playing.”
Younger had written Tuesday on his web site that he and his band the Chrome Hearts “were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in. It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being.”
On Friday, Younger up to date his submit and blamed an unspecified “error in the information received” for his cancellation.
“What a start to the year!” competition organizer Emily Eavis wrote on Instagram shortly after Younger’s announcement that he’d reversed his determination. “Neil Young is an artist who’s very close to our hearts at Glastonbury. He does things his own way and that’s why we love him.”
Based on the Guardian, Younger tussled with the BBC — which the paper mentioned has partnered with Glastonbury for almost three many years — when he headlined the competition in 2009 over how a lot of his set it may broadcast.
In March, Younger put his music again on Spotify after pulling his catalog in 2022 to protest what he described as vaccine misinformation unfold by podcaster Joe Rogan.
Younger introduced Friday that he’ll situation a beforehand unreleased album known as “Oceanside Countryside” on Feb. 14. The LP was recorded in 1977 and options two units of songs: one carried out solo by Younger and one carried out with accompaniment by Ben Keith, Rufus Thibodeaux, Karl T. Himmel, Joe Osborne, Tim Drummond and the Band’s Levon Helm.
