• towerful@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      Well the point is that he should never have been the headline to start with.
      And now all the sponsors have pulled out, because they don’t want to be associated with a festival that is promoting a person like Kanye.

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      2 days ago

      I imagine there’s a clause in the contract that he gets paid in full if they cancel him, but only a small %age if they cancel the whole thing.

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      3 days ago

      It’s likely that most acts decent enough to headline are already fully booked for the summer.

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        2 days ago

        Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.

        Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.