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Seven million tune in for BBC Glastonbury
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 30 June 2009
We don’t do much Glasto news coverage once the event is up and running here at CMU because I remain unconvinced 150 news stories that follow the pattern “band booked to play Glastonbury play Glastonbury” are all that interesting to anyone. But, while the Beeb is guilty of providing some of that kind of coverage too, I do see the value of the BBC actually recording the bands playing.
As do 7 million other people it seems, because that’s how many people the Corporation reckon tuned into their TV coverage of the big music fest at some point over the weekend, with 1.9 million people thought to have watched their screening of Blur’s headline set on Sunday night.
No wonder demand for Glasto tickets is so much lower these days than a few years back – why tolerate the mud and all those silly flags blocking your view when you can watch it all from the comfort of your sofa. Perhaps that’s why footage of Tom Jones and Tony Christie dominated the red button interactive service this year – a clever bid to make real music fans buy tickets for the real thing next year.
Elsewhere in Glasto news, Michael Eavis has said he already has four acts lined up for next year, which will be the festival’s 40th anniversary. Two of the four apparently have never played the festival before.
