The petition to cancel Kanye West’s performance at Glastonbury Festival is still going strong, although the signatures haven’t reached the 150,000 yet (134,419 at the moment), and this makes me wonder: how many would they need to really cancel the show?
But forget about it, it will not be happening, Kanye will play the festival on June 27th and organizer Emily Eavis has just spoken to Digital Spy about what to expect from the rapper’s performance:
‘I think he’ll create an incredible show. What he’s talking about at the moment is very exciting. I think he’s going to take it big. I can’t say anything – I can’t give anything away!’
There was never any doubt about this, but you can’t ignore these 134,000 signatures, at least some of the crowd is gonna be aggressive, and how are they getting prepared for this? Eavis, who revealed she has received death threats after booking West, said: ‘You’re always prepared because there’s always controversy with whatever you announce. You kind of know there’s going to be stuff, but yeah, there was obviously a lot.’ Always prepared but she didn’t say exactly what they could do if things heat up.
A few days ago, Dave Grohl spoke to The Sun, as we all know, the Foo Fighters frontman broke his leg last week at a concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, so the band had to cancel their tour dates, including their headlining slot at Glastonbury. However, the ever outspoken Grohl gave his opinion about West’s upcoming performance. He revealed a Kanye-McCartney-Foo Fighters could have happened (too bad), but he was also still very confident about the rapper’s success, although the set could go either way:
‘I think maybe Kanye’s personality might be harder to swallow than his music. But these are the moments that make for great moments in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.’
‘You’ve got more attention on that Saturday night set from Kanye than maybe anything else. Who knows what will happen? He could walk out there and have 100,000 people bottle him on stage or he could walk out there and show the world that nothing else matters except for that moment. And I’m sure that is what he will do.’
‘To me there is nothing more punk rock than having him stand on stage in front of 100,000 people after thousands of people petition for him to not be there.’
Sure, and Grohl knows a lot about punk rock – I am being a bit ironic there – but how do you think Kanye will react when these 100,000 people bottle him? He is a very unpredictable guy who jumps on stage when he disagrees with an award, so the show could be epic or a total disaster! Will Kanye have what it takes to turn this moment into a punk rock moment, or will he look like a cry-baby? I don’t want to suggest bad ideas, but may be someone in the front row will have the good taste to wear one of these ‘Kill the Kardashians’ shirts, proudly displayed by Slayer guitarist at a recent gig, and so who knows what could happen?