With the ultimate day of Glastonbury 2024 upon us, competition organiser/booker Emily Eavis says that she would have appreciated to have seen extra rock bands on her household’s farm over the previous weekend, however that this wasn’t an possibility this yr as “there aren’t loads of new rock acts to select from.”In a brand new [paywalled] interview with The Telegraph, Eavis admits that, regardless of who’s booked for the long-lasting English competition, inevitably she’s going to obtain criticisms from some quarters that the line-up is “too rock, too grime, too hip hop, too pop”, however argues that the invoice every year “displays what’s occurring within the music world in the mean time.”“There aren’t loads of new rock acts to select from if I’m sincere,” Eavis tells the British newspaper. “Hopefully that can emerge once more, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead… and that was nice however music modifications on a regular basis and proper now that is the place we’re at.”The Pyramid Stage headline acts for this yr’s competition are Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, with the genre-straddling PJ Harvey arguably the one artist on the location’s essential stage who may very well be categorised as a “rock” act, for individuals who insist on labels. Nevertheless, the Louder-endorsed likes of IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Voice of Baceprot, Excessive Vis, Yard Act, NewDad, The Final Dinner Celebration, Downside Patterns, Kim Gordon and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets both performed, or are on account of play, throughout the location from June 28-30. Again in Could 2019, Metallic Hammer’s Merlin Alderslade saluted the Glastonbury crew for lastly “embracing” metallic, because the organisers had made area within the iconic Shangri-La fields, two years beforehand, for the Earache Data-curated Scum stage, which noticed performances from Napalm Loss of life, Ho99o9, Hacktivist, Wormrot and extra.Final yr’s occasion, in the meantime, featured a essential stage headline set from Weapons N’ Roses on June 24, Queens Of The Stone Age topping the Different Stage invoice on June 25, a ‘secret’ set from Foo Fighters, and appearances from Nova Twins, Manic Road Preachers, The Hives, The Hu, Maneskin, Viagra Boys and extra. The newest information, options and interviews direct to your inbox, from the worldwide house of other music.