A huge British popstar’s intimate Glastonbury gig has been cancelled.
PinkPantheress – real name Victoria Beverley Walker – was scheduled to play a 30 minute slot on the Levels stage in Silver Hayes at 11pm on Thursday.
But now there has been a major change in the set schedule as Roza Terenzi will play 10.30pm to midnight, in between a Confidence Man DJ set and Marie Davidson.
Fans of PinkPantheress will not be left disappointed as she will instead grace the Woodies Stage at 7.30pm on Friday.
Taking to Reddit, eagled-eyed fans welcomed the decision as they believed the star was too popular for the original schedule as they said it would have been ‘rammed’.
One penned: ‘Was going to be dangerously rammed.’
A huge British popstar’s intimate Glastonbury gig has been cancelled amid rising fears from festival bosses
PinkPantheress – real name Victoria Beverley Walker – was scheduled to play a 30 minute slot on the Levels stage in Silver Hayes at 11pm
‘Probably for the best, having anything remotely popular on the stage (especially on Thursday) is always a recipe for disaster.’
‘Could have seen that coming, why even book it then.’
‘Yeah everyone knew it would be carnage from the moment it was announced.’
A spokesman for Glastonbury told the Sun: ‘This change was absolutely not as a result of overcrowding fears, the artist was simply no longer able to make this performance. But she is still playing her Woodsies set.’
Pink Pantheress found fame on TikTok and has had a top 10 in the UK singles and album charts, respectively, as well as being nominated for three Brit Awards.
The Pink Pantheress’ news comes after some of the UK’s biggest politcal leaders demanded another act to be pulled from the festival lineup.
The Prime Minister has called for Kneecap to be dropped from Glastonbury after one of the band members was charged with a terror offence.
Following similar calls from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Sir Keir Starmer said it was ‘not appropriate’ for the Irish rappers to perform at the festival.
She will instead grace the Woodies Stage at 7.30pm on Friday and Roza Terenzi will from 10.30 instead
Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, is accused of displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah, while saying ‘up Hamas, up Hezbollah’ at a gig in November last year.
The 27-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning following the alleged incident at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London.
In an interview with The Sun, Sir Keir was asked if he thought the trio should perform at Glastonbury, to which he replied: ‘No, I don’t, and I think we need to come down really clearly on this.
‘This is about the threats that shouldn’t be made, I won’t say too much because there’s a court case on, but I don’t think that’s appropriate.’
It comes after Conservative Party leader Ms Badenoch said she thought the BBC ‘should not be showing’ Kneecap’s performance at the festival.
Ms Badenoch said in the X post, which was accompanied by an article from The Times that claimed the BBC had not banned the group: ‘The BBC should not be showing Kneecap propaganda.
The Pink Pantheress’ news comes after some of the UK’s biggest politcal leaders demanded another act to be pulled from the festival
(From left) Kneecap band members Mo Chara, JJ O’Dochartaigh and Moglai Bap at the Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) Awards at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre in February
‘One Kneecap band member is currently on bail, charged under the Terrorism Act.
‘As a publicly funded platform, the BBC should not be rewarding extremism.’
Ms Badenoch has previously called for the group to be banned from Glastonbury, and last year Kneecap won a discrimination case against the UK Government after she tried to refuse them a £14,250 funding award.
Kneecap took aim at Ms Badenoch in their latest single, The Recap, which was released just before their headline set at London’s Wide Awake festival in May.
The song mocked the politician’s attempts to block their arts funding and the Conservative Party’s election loss.
