- by Jason Gregory
- Friday, April 25, 2008
- filed in: Indie Festivals
The Kooks have criticised the Glastonbury Festival over its size and the decision to include Jay-Z as a headliner this year.
Despite saying that the festival was “the best in the world”, they said that “something like that (Glastonbury) can't really carry on.”
“It's getting too big. We love playing Glastonbury, but we couldn't walk anywhere last year as it was so full,” the band said.
“And where you have so many people there it's hard to get a vibe."
Writing in today’s edition of the Daily Star, the band also said they felt it was a “weird” decision to have US rapper Jay-Z headline this years event.
"We have always thought that Neil Young could be the best artist you could possibly have at Glastonbury - and The Eagles and Bob Dylan."
The Kooks, whose second album ‘Konk’ topped the UK charts last week, revealed that they were planning to hold their own festival in Brighton over the "next couple of years."
"We have been talking about holding our own [festival] down south, somewhere like Stamner Park near Brighton where we live,” they said.
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- fucking idiots. they should have gone in 99 when it was properly full.
- Urgh look at the Kooks jumping on the bandwagon of criticising Glasto. Shut it Brighton bummers. You’re shit and you know are. New album to promote by any chance?!
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- its a festival boys, if it wasn’t full of people it’d be a farm.
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- Kill them. With burning.
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- The kooks sound like a right bunch of tossers! i,m not fussed of jay-z but give him a chance, he,s only going to be on the stage for may be 2hours, like they say glastonbury is massive there are other stages and fields to go and have a look at, it must be so hard for micheal eavis to try please everyone! it wont stop me from going, fair play the only band that would now are the krappy kooks!!
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