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Festival Promoter Defends Metallica Headline Booking

06/17/2014
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(hennemusic) Glastonbury Festival promoter Michael Eavis is defending his booking of Metallica as the first metal band to headline the prestigious event later this month following criticism that the group doesn't fit with the spirit and image of the weekend festival.

"We have been going for so long that people don't expect us to put on a heavy metal band," Eavis tells the BBC. "We had Rage Against The Machine and we have had lots of fairly heavy metal bands in the past but this is not a typical headline. We usually have bands like Radiohead, Coldplay and U2, the Rolling Stones, but I am really looking forward to them."

"There's no other band in the whole history of the festival that has been so keen to play," the promoter added, "they will do the best set of their lives here." more on this story

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