The Kooks Criticise Glastonbury Over Festival's Size

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.