After initially pulling out of Glastonbury due to concerns about corporate control, Neil Young has reversed his decision and confirmed he will be performing at the festival.
Neil Young has confirmed he will be performing at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, blaming “an error in the information” he received for his initial decision to pull out of the festival. The Canadian singer said earlier this week that he had turned down the offer to perform at Worthy Farm because it was “under corporate control ” of the BBC .
Writing on his Neil Young Archives blog, the Harvest Moon singer said: “Due to an error in the information received, I had decided to not play the Glastonbury festival, which I always have loved. “Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing! Hope to see you there!” Young, 79, who last headlined the festival in 2009, wrote a previous post on Tuesday, suggesting that the corporation had imposed rules that were not to his liking. Young said Glastonbury had asked him and the band to “do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in”. He said: “It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being. Thanks for coming to see us the last time! “We will not be playing Glastonbury on this tour because it is a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be. Hope to see you at one of the other venues on the tour. Love Neil. Be well.” Despite retracting his decision and announcing he will be performing, Young has still not yet been confirmed as an act by this year’s festival The Canadian musician had been booked to play Glastonbury in 1997 but pulled out after cutting his left index finger while making a ham sandwich. He returned in 2009 but viewers at home were disappointed that only a few songs from his set were broadcast over the weekend. The corporation explained at the time: “Neil Young’s career has been conducted on his own terms”,
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