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| Glastonbury urged to boost number of women in headline slots | |
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| Festival-goers were preparing to see Kylie’s eagerly awaited performance on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury on Sunday, but her performance comes amid further criticism of the lack of women in major headline slots. | |
| When it was announced in March that Janet Jackson, who played the Pyramid stage on Saturday, was to perform at Glastonbury, she tweeted a poster for the festival to her fans, but with the order of the acts altered to make it appear that she had top billing. | When it was announced in March that Janet Jackson, who played the Pyramid stage on Saturday, was to perform at Glastonbury, she tweeted a poster for the festival to her fans, but with the order of the acts altered to make it appear that she had top billing. |
| The three headline acts on the festival’s Pyramid stage this year are all men – Stormzy, the Killers and the Cure. Only three of the acts in the 12 headline slots on the festival’s four main stages are female-led. Acts like Janet Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus and Kylie are in less prominent slots. | The three headline acts on the festival’s Pyramid stage this year are all men – Stormzy, the Killers and the Cure. Only three of the acts in the 12 headline slots on the festival’s four main stages are female-led. Acts like Janet Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus and Kylie are in less prominent slots. |
| Since 2007, eight out of 10 headliners at Glastonbury (82%) have been all-male. Beyoncé in 2011 and Adele in 2016 have been the only female soloists to headline. | Since 2007, eight out of 10 headliners at Glastonbury (82%) have been all-male. Beyoncé in 2011 and Adele in 2016 have been the only female soloists to headline. |
| After the announcement of the Glastonbury lineup, singer songwriter KT Tunstall said: “I have to say it’s still a bit depressing looking at the lineups of festivals. Because it’s been discussed – everyone knows it’s an issue. | After the announcement of the Glastonbury lineup, singer songwriter KT Tunstall said: “I have to say it’s still a bit depressing looking at the lineups of festivals. Because it’s been discussed – everyone knows it’s an issue. |
| “I don’t think it’s a big, bad white bloke going ‘no women’. I think it’s a really deep systemic problem at all stages of music.” | “I don’t think it’s a big, bad white bloke going ‘no women’. I think it’s a really deep systemic problem at all stages of music.” |
| Organiser Emily Eavis told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs last week that she was often the only woman in meetings with music moguls and that some male executives still insisted on speaking to her father, Michael Eavis, who co-created the festival at the family’s Worthy Farm in Somerset. | Organiser Emily Eavis told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs last week that she was often the only woman in meetings with music moguls and that some male executives still insisted on speaking to her father, Michael Eavis, who co-created the festival at the family’s Worthy Farm in Somerset. |
| “The live music world has been so male-dominated,” she said. “I go to meetings with just tables of men. Some were great, and some just refuse to accept that they had to deal with me.” | “The live music world has been so male-dominated,” she said. “I go to meetings with just tables of men. Some were great, and some just refuse to accept that they had to deal with me.” |
| Eavis said she still aimed to create an equal gender balance of performers at the festival, after the Guardian revealed in 2015 that the lineup then was 86% male. | Eavis said she still aimed to create an equal gender balance of performers at the festival, after the Guardian revealed in 2015 that the lineup then was 86% male. |
| “We are working towards 50/50,” she said. “Some years it’s 60/40. It’s a challenge we’ve really taken on, and I’m always totally conscious every day that the gender balance should be right.” | “We are working towards 50/50,” she said. “Some years it’s 60/40. It’s a challenge we’ve really taken on, and I’m always totally conscious every day that the gender balance should be right.” |
| As the heat raged on Saturday, a new tent at Glastonbury, the Parlay Parlour, hosted a panel of women to talk on the subject of “Our Bodies, Our Rights”. The space has been set up by the White Ribbon Alliance, as part of its global What Women Want Campaign, with the aim of being a space for women to discuss equality and politics. | As the heat raged on Saturday, a new tent at Glastonbury, the Parlay Parlour, hosted a panel of women to talk on the subject of “Our Bodies, Our Rights”. The space has been set up by the White Ribbon Alliance, as part of its global What Women Want Campaign, with the aim of being a space for women to discuss equality and politics. |
| Speaking on the panel, the Labour MP Jess Phillips said that progress on gender equality was being reversed. “We are in a dangerous and critical area where the religious right in this country and the rightwing politics of this country will take us backwards,” she said. | Speaking on the panel, the Labour MP Jess Phillips said that progress on gender equality was being reversed. “We are in a dangerous and critical area where the religious right in this country and the rightwing politics of this country will take us backwards,” she said. |
| “Our politics are rubbish but our people are brilliant. We are some of the best, most brilliant people, and they can’t take it if we don’t let them.” | “Our politics are rubbish but our people are brilliant. We are some of the best, most brilliant people, and they can’t take it if we don’t let them.” |
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