The Glastonbury Festival will on Saturday livestream a
concert featuring Coldplay at its famous farm site in southwest England, after
the coronavirus pandemic led to the blockbuster event’s cancellation for the
second consecutive summer.
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The five-hour virtual show will also include performances by
Damon Albarn, Wolf Alice, Haim, Michael Kiwanuka and others from well-known
stages around Glastonbury’s Worthy Farm, including the Stone Circle and Pyramid
field.
Organizer Emily Eavis, who announced in January that the
annual event was canceled for a second year, said it would be “like the
festival but without people”.
“We’re very excited to be able to show the farm in a way
that people have never really seen it, with these incredible artists,” she told
BBC radio.
The event will be livestreamed and played on delay across
four international time zones and tickets cost £20 (JD20), with Eavis adding
there will be “a number of unannounced surprise performances”.
Paul Dugdale, the event’s director, said he hoped to
recreate the event’s sense of adventure.
“The overarching vision of it was to... just try and take
people on a bit of a journey.
“Glastonbury is an adventure, and you never quite know
what’s around the corner and often the best parts of the festival are the parts
you weren’t expecting, and that’s really fun,” he said.
Britain is gradually opening up after its latest
COVID-19 lockdown, and the timing of the Glastonbury event, when many smaller venues
will be hoping to reopen, drew some criticism.
“I think what the live industry really needs right now is
some collective, collaborative, joined-up thinking,” Mark Davyd, founder and
chief executive of the
Music Venue Trust, wrote on Twitter.
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