BBC fans switch off in furious complaint amid calls | UK News

Britain’s largest summer season competition has come to an finish but it was not without controversy as BBC viewers issued a comparable complaint about the protection. Glastonbury Festival drew in 200,000 music fans to Worthy Farm in southwest England – but it’s been one of essentially the most controversial editions in latest reminiscence. BBC viewers took to social media to air their “annual complaint” about the dwell protection as others known as for the favored competition to be cancelled altogether.

Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has confirmed that the competition will take a 12 months off in 2026 to help the land at Worthy Farm get better. The competition held yearly has come to a close this 12 months after 1000’s of music lovers partied laborious on Worthy Farm over the best half of a week. But some viewers watching from home shared their frustrations over some of the musical acts.

One X consumer vented: “Glastonbury needs to be cancelled permanently.”

Another commented: “Here comes my annual complaint about Glastonbury coverage by the BBC – it’s so bad! Please @glastonbury consider another provider for your streaming. Iplayer is terrible and there is never enough crowd interaction.”

A 3rd argued: “Glastonbury itself should be defunded and shut down. Glastonbury has had chance after chance after chance to self-monitor and it has failed. It now needs to be refused a licence.”

A fourth raged: “Honestly, i am profanity**G DONE with this s**t this year! The lineup has been s**t, its been plagued by technical glitches….. and the acts that have performed have been either degenerates or f*****g woke. #Glastonbury.”

Another added: “That’s it. I’m turning the TV over.”

However, others got here to the organisers defence, as one stated: “Seeing complaints about Glastonbury as a whole being too political, I think music in general hasn’t been political enough in the past decade.”

Another added: “Every 12 months the BBC does brilliant Glastonbury coverage and ever year there are a torrent of complaints on twitter (‘why didn’t they show x?’ etc.) If/when the BBC is reduced to just another ‘content provider’ who else is going to do that?”

The complaints come after musician Bob Vylan sparked outrage as he chanted a sequence of controversial slogans during his Glastonbury efficiency.

Meanwhile, controversial Belfast rappers KneeCap made headlines in the lead-up to the competition, after a number of MPs, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, known as on Glastonbury to pull the band from the line-up, due to their defiant pro-Palestinian remarks and band member Mo Chara being charged with a terror offence.

Other large acts who carried out at the weekend included Sir Rod Stewart, Doechii, Charlie XCX and Olivia Rodrigo.