All six main stages at next month’s Glastonbury pop festival will be streamed live this year for the first time, the BBC said today.
And talks are now under way with headline bands including the Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys and Mumford and Sons over who will be among more than 120 performances to be broadcast from Somerset as they happen.
Promising that the festival will be “the most digital ever,” presenters including Glastonbury first-timer Chris Evans and veterans Steve Lamaacq, Jo Whiley and Mark Radcliffe will host three days of performances.
More than 250 hours of live coverage and streaming will be available across TV, radio and online, with Nick Grimshaw, Craig Charles, Lauren Laverne, Gemma Cairney and Dermot O’Leary also joining the presenting team.
Bob Shennan, BBC controller of popular music, said they would “reinvent music coverage.”
