ProperTea

A thousand times this.

I think she'll definitely do it at some point. She came to the NME Awards to give Emily Eavis the godlike genius award which suggests she has some kind of connection to the festival to me: https://www.nme.com/news/music/billy-bragg-and-taylor-swift-strike-up-friendship-after-presenting-godlike-genius-at-nme-awards-2020-2609286 Her current vibe though seems to be to just absolutely drag every possible penny out of all of her fans so I can't see it being for a while.

(I say all this as someone who's going to the Eras tour 😅)

Because Taylor is one of the most financially focussed artists in history - the Margaret Thatcher of pop. She'll make loads more money from her own tour to add to the billion she already has, and can do Glastonbury at some point in the future for the street cred when she's done rinsing her fans by getting them all to buy 72 limited edition vinyls of every release.

I get the impression he's no longer really involved in the festival in terms of decision making and Emily is firmly in charge now.

The next wet year is going to be the big test I think!

Interesting to note that Dua Lipa's 2020 livestream concert was produced by Block 9: https://www.block9.com/work#/dua-lipa-studio-2054/ Glastonbury Festival’s Emily Eavis told the BBC “I absolutely loved Dua Lipa's one (livestream). It was designed by the team behind Block9, one of our late-night areas, and it really captured that proper club feel. It had us dancing around in the living room, by the fire. It really set the bar for live streams, I think, and I heard 5 million people tuned in, which is huge”

Sorry to post a Daily Heil link but apparently she's doing a stadium tour this summer... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12794069/Dua-Lipa-embark-stadium-tour-year-huge-success-Future-Nostalgia-roadshow-Shes-going-2024.html

I googled the sentence and this thread is the only thing that appears, so I think it's new copy.

Could she not just lip sync the whole thing like Dolly Parton or Janet Jackson?

I think between the two sites it's 15,000 but I have no idea where I read that!

Just to add to this, it's not my experience either. It was strictly enforced in 2023 for me.

I wonder if part of the issue is the homogenisation of music tastes - everyone wanting to go and see the same things, which wasn't so much of a thing even ten years ago?

And the problem with having a lot of ticketholders who go there by chance, is that you'd then have tens of thousands of the hardcore crew, the ones usually rewarded for their perseverance, that used to go every year, trying to break in. So the problem of jibbing would intensify massively in the event of a lottery system, I reckon.