Look. Guys. I can only apologise for the almighty jinxing.
My working theory is initial negotiations with Glastonbury were around the blurring of these lines, and an agreement was struck between Young and Glastonbury with them believing they could sway the BBC. But as time dragged on Glastonbury couldn’t get anyway negotiating with the BBC hence they had to go back to Neil and renege on the initial agreement and admitted they couldn’t meet the terms.
Fundamentally believe the TV / Streaming / Worldwide sales ability is the crux of his issue - but to be “booked” and then for him to publicly denounce whatever happened. It’s more than his team just didn’t read the document. Has to be the above for me, that there were attempts to bend the rules but BBC wouldn’t agree and forced the festivals hand.
Whole thing is just really sour. I sincerely hope he does more than one UK date, and it isn’t during Glastonbury week. I’ll be unfathomably pissed off if after he pulled out of Glastonbury and then I can’t even go to his own date.
Could well explain some of the ridiculous scheduling on the Pyramid in particular
Interesting discussion anyway. Makes my decision to spend as little time as possible in “Babylon” all the more justified (from a personal POV)