Breaking News

Oasis' Noel Slams Hip-Hop Headline














Noel Gallagher has spoken out against the decision to recruit a hip-hop star to headline Glastonbury.

The Oasis guitarist blamed the failure to sell all the festival tickets on the decision to get Jay-Z to perform.

Organisers have insisted that slow sales are down to fears of more wet weather, but the 40-year-old Oasis star said it is "wrong" to have a hip-hop headliner.

He told the BBC: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance.

"Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?' I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."

Oasis headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 1995 and 2004, with the event selling out on both occasions. Last week, 35,000 tickets remained available for the Somerset event, which is usually an instant sell-out.

Robert Richards, who assists Michael Eavis, has denied that getting Jay-Z to headline is slowing ticket sales, saying: "The weather has been a factor and that is bound to dampen people's enthusiasm but there is a real buzz about the place now. We are praying for sunshine.

"This claim about the headliners is complete nonsense. There are thousands of acts at Glastonbury and many revellers come to the festival without any intention of seeing the headliners.

"Anyway, I, for one, firmly believe that Jay-Z will go down in history as one of the great headliners."

An advert for the "most extraordinary festival anywhere in the world", was published in a national newspaper on Monday.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

No comments