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Dear Glastonbury Goers

I’m already fed up listening to the “we don’t want hip-hop at our Indie lovefest” nonsense. This is Jay-Z we’re talking about. What would you rather have, another Kaiser Chiefs/Arctic Monkeys knock-off?

Indie acts are a dime a dozen these days and far less interesting because the scene is flooded with them. But still you want a festival filled with wall-to-wall clones. How unimaginative of you.

In my very humble opinion, Jay-Z is a living legend. Okay, a living legend with a stupid name, but let’s not fall out over the details. The guy’s been charting all over the world with awesome hip-hop tracks for years - Big Pimpin’, 99 Problems, Roc Boys …the list goes on and on.

And he’s earned his rock stripes through a collaboration with Linkin Park back in 2003 (in fact, they’re rumoured to be playing together in the UK this year).

Jay-Z could be good for Glastonbury…if you let him

The fact that you absolutely refuse to accept a rapper as the headliner for Glastonbury this year speaks volumes about your musical snobbery and how little you actually care about the festival itself. Why? Because, if Jay-Z could attract a different kind of music fan, then Glastonbury opens up to a whole new audience.

Better still, there’s a chance that the Jay-Z fans who attend might have their eyes opened to a whole new world of Indie music that they might otherwise have shied away from. Everybody wins.

For my part, I’m glad Michael and Emily Eavis have taken such a bold move to diversify the line-up at Glastonbury this year, and I hope they’re not discouraged by the backlash. 

They say all good things come to an end, and that applies to reunited megabands like The Police. They’ve decided that after 30 additional US shows in May and July (and 15 European gigs in June), they’ll hang up their helmets for good. Maybe the police/helmet pun wasn’t too obvious there :)

The band - featuring Sting, Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland - will not be continuing to work together, and it has been emphasised that this is their final tour. No Spice Girls style “wave a wad of notes in our faces and we’ll see what we can do” incentives here.

Their reunion tour has been one of the most successful tours of all time, and The Police will have played to in the region of 3 million fans and grossed over $340 million dollars by the time they’re resting on their private jets home.

According to Billboard, the additional dates are in cities that haven’t previously been visited by the tour, giving more fans the opportunity to see The Police live before they disappear for good.

I get the feeling that the band have no more interest in continuing as a nostalgia act. And in stark contrast to the aforementioned Spice Hags, it’s nice to see a band who can celebrate their legacy without feeling the need to milk it so blatantly.