Glastonbury Festival: Low Sales, Jay-Z Pull-Out Rumors Making Everybody Cranky
Registration for tickets to the Glastonbury Festival re-opened today, following relatively sluggish sales since Sunday. In previous years, tickets to the three day British event sold out within hours, but over a fifth of the 137,000 tickets remained unsold after the first day. While some blamed the horrible weather that plagued the Festival over the last three years, others claimed that planned headliner Jay-Z was the cause of the lack of enthusiasm. And you know Hov doesn’t appreciate that.
After Jay-Z announced he would headline the upcoming four-day O2 Wireless Festival at Hyde Park (an indoor gig) a week after Glastonbury, rumors spread that he would drop out of the earlier festival, offended by claims that British campers aren’t psyched to wait through three days of mud (and bands like Kings Of Leon) to see him. Word even got out that Prince might replace him. But Glastonbury organizer Michael Eavis says such claims are rubbish.
Speaking to XFM, Eavis said that the reports of a possible Jay-Z cancellation were “completely unfounded” and “nasty, malicious rumours”. “The Sun was carrying a story that he was pulling out,” he continued. “I’m not sure where they got from, probably from the people that were doing a show in London the following week [the Wireless festival in Hyde Park, which Jay-Z is set to headline], because they were tying to sell tickets for their show.”
Jay-Z’s great and all, but I really can’t think of a context where I would be disappointed if he wasn’t magically replaced by Prince. Songs, concerts, candid tabloid snaps with Beyonce–Prince would always be preferable.
Jay-Z Ready To Pull Out Of Glastonbury [FestivalWise] Prince replacing Jay-Z at Glastonbury? [DigitalSpy] Michael Eavis: ‘Jay-Z Is Not Pulling Out Of Glastonbury’ [NME]
