Amid accusations of a “pale, male and stale” lineup, kemioliviax found pockets of joy at the legendary music festival, as well as reasons for hope
After 162,000 steps, four nights in a row of walking home at sunrise to get at least three crucial hours of sleep, and trekking around a field to hear some of the world’s greatest living performers, Glastonbury has come and gone. Due to all of the above, I’ve only just managed to claw back my grasp on the English language to articulate the takeaway from this year’s musical marathon: that this country’s POC underground deserves a leg up.
But there were so many glimmers of hope and demonstrations of progress. Elton John had probably seen all of the discourse surrounding the Pyramid’s diversity problem this year. During what had been announced as his final live performance, the musical legend chose to diversify the mainstage and affirm rising artists of colour, knowing almost everyone on Worthy Farm would come to watch the historic moment.
While the initial release of the lineup evoked debate as the headliners were mostly white and male, if you accepted that the Pyramid Stage was not your central focus this year you were free to discover new and experimental artists.
Fatima, who is 25, described the choice of greying headliners as “baffling” and “irrelevant” to contemporary music lovers and found, as a first-timer, the judgement of not going to see Guns and Roses wasShe added: “I think Glastonbury given its status has a duty to search for good diverse talent because it is out there and so [the pipeline] statement feels a bit lazy, when you book good talent people will inevitably have a good time and go again and again to any further shows they might have.
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