It’s likely that most acts decent enough to headline are already fully booked for the summer.
Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK
eleijeep@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
They couldn’t just get a new headline act?
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
addie@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.
Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Glastonbury is about as non-standard as it gets.
towerful@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Well the point is that he should never have been the headline to start with.
And now all the sponsors have pulled out, because they don’t want to be associated with a festival that is promoting a person like Kanye.Evotech@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nah they were just afraid of the riots.
thelardboy@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I imagine there’s a clause in the contract that he gets paid in full if they cancel him, but only a small %age if they cancel the whole thing.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
The sheer fact he was the “headline” to began with was sad.
spagbolioli@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
still a huge audience out there for him, the uk has prevented all types of people from entering the country in the past including jews including members of the israeli government www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xgk1ek19lo
ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Members of the isreali government makes sense. I don’t think that’s the gotcha you may be thinking.
spagbolioli@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
indeed, the uk regularly bans people it doesn’t like entering the country
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_people_banned_from_ent…