It’s been a busy week in the battle for equality as Florence and the Machine kick Glastonbury in the balls, Helen Mirren slams James Bond and the heroic Harriet Tubman looks set to be the first woman to be printed on US dollars
Condolences to Dave Grohl, who, owing to a fall on stage in Sweden, is in a wheelchair and unable to perform at Glastonbury. And congratulations Florence Welch! Who, along with her trusty Machine, will be replacing Grohl’s band, the Foo Fighters, as the Friday headline act on the Pyramid stage. We don’t want to rub salt in the wound here, but this is great news and not just for Florence’s fans. Not since 1999 and Skunk Anansie has a female-fronted British band headlined Glastonbury. Nineteen. Ninety. Nine. And before that, it was Shakespears Sister in 1992. In fact, in all of Glastonbury’s 45-year history, you can count the female headline acts – band or solo – on one hand. The aforementioned bands aside, Beyoncé, Suzanne Vega and Sinead O’Connor are the only women to have got the big slots at the festival. Kylie Minogue would have joined that number, but pulled out when she discovered she had breast cancer in 2005.
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I’m so sorry to hear that Dave Grohl has broken his leg. I met him when we were just starting out and he is honestly one of the most wonderful people I have ever met. Glastonbury have asked us to step in which is an incredible honour. We hope we will be able to give you just as good a Friday night as the Foos ...
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It’s ridiculous. And ’twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It’s so annoying.”
Important that we look at these things pragmatically and realistically. Girls don’t go to the pharmacy unless something has happened and they need care.”
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