Those without tickets for Glastonbury this year will for the first time be able to watch events unfold live across the event’s multiple stages as part of an expansion to the BBC’s online music coverage.
The BBC plans to have cameras streaming live footage on its digital media players throughout the weekend, while other BBC music series such as the Radio 1 Live Lounge sessions and Radio 2 In Concert gigs are also to be made available as live.
“Our ambition this year is to offer music fans unprecedented coverage of live music,” Tim Davie, acting BBC Director General, has said.
“On desktop, mobile, tablet and connected TVs, we will bring BBC audiences closer to the music they love by offering a full performance or festival-goer experience for those who can’t be there.”
The Rolling Stones and Mumford & Sons are considered as favourites to be headlining June’s Glastonbury festival, which is returning in 2013 after taking a year off, while the Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Lady Gaga are other acts to have been linked with bill-topping performances on Worthy Farm’s Pyramid Stage.