Fatboy Slim: ‘Glastonbury has run out of big headline acts’

Fatboy Slim has suggested Glastonbury has run out of ‘big headline acts’.

Coldplay were back for their fourth headline appearance in 2016, along side Muse who returned to the Pyramid Stage for a third time. This year, meanwhile, Radiohead are also set for a third headline after celebrated performances in 2003 and 1997, and Norman Cook believes this all proves Glastonbury organisers are struggling to find fresh names for their main stage.

“It’s better organised every year and less chaotic, it’s more middle class, it’s less dangerous,” he told NME. “It used to be quite a hairy place to be at times. I think sometimes, the big headline acts – they’ve kind of run out. You know, once they’ve got Springsteen and The Rolling Stones, they almost got Prince then he died.

“They’ve run out of people who would really impress you as a headliner, so poor old people like Muse and Coldplay keep coming back and people are like, ‘oh Christ, Coldplay and Muse again’.”