Musicrooms.net: Jay-Z Not To Blame For Glastonbury Registration Falls

Jay-Z Not To Blame For Glastonbury Registration Falls
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MusicRooms on 26 March, 2008
 
It was previously reported that organaiser Michael Eavis had said that
registration had fallen dramaticly after announcing Jay-Z as one of the main
headliners.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Eavis said: “There’s not as many as last year
because we haven’t got the super, big, big, big sort of headlining act
anymore. We’ve gone for something middle range, although Jay-Z is huge in
America.
“But it’s not like Radiohead or a Muse or a Coldplay or an Oasis, is it? So
we didn’t expect the demand to be quite as high.”
Now Emily Eavis has said that she thought that figures were down because of the
bad weather in the last two Glastonbury festivals, in 2005 and 2007, were
characterised by mud and rain, putting people off, and that suggestions that the
announcement that Jay-Z would be playing a headline slot was to blame were
unfounded.
"I'm sure it's because of the weather," she told NME.COM. "People only remember
the last festival, so if it was really muddy… I don't blame them, to be
honest. Everybody needs a rest."