With one of the distinguished slots on the upcoming Glastonbury Competition it might be assumed Rod Stewart was in for a tidy payday. Nevertheless the enduring rocker, who will play the ‘legends’ slot on the pyramid stage on June 29 has claimed it’ll value him cash to carry out on the pageant as a result of their comparatively tiny charges for acts. Rod is the rule slightly than the exception and everybody from Paul McCartney to Coldplay have performed for a lot lower than they might often demand for a present, one thing which has been confirmed by the pageant’s founder Michael Eavis.
Rod not too long ago advised the Radio Occasions the paycheque he’ll get from pageant bosses isn’t sufficient to cowl his bills and he shall be overlooked of pocket. “It was about eight months in the past once I was requested to do it, perhaps a bit longer. Nevertheless it didn’t match with my schedule as a result of I’ve obtained to convey everyone again from America,” he stated. Rod is presently heading up his personal Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace on the Strip – and to carry out at Glastonbury means flying the tools, staging and all his crew again to the UK. He stated: “It’s going to value me £300,000 to do it they usually solely pay you about £120,000. So it’s going to value me.”
Rod is believed to earn round $2.7million per Vegas present and his Galstonbury set shall be an hour and 45 minutes, so not a lot shorter than his common set regardless of the lowered charge. the legends slt has beforehand performed host to artists corresponding to Dame Shirley Bassey, Barry Gibb, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie.
Whereas Glastonbury organisers have by no means disclosed precisely what artists are paid, they’re very open in regards to the truth the pageant exists to earn cash for charity. They intention to donate at the least £2million yearly to the official charity companions Greenpeace, WaterAid and Oxfam, in addition to different good causes. This will lower in moist and wet years, because the pageant prices extra to placed on when that occurs.
With the precedence being fundraising all of the performers need to compromise. Founder Michael Eavis as soon as revealed in an interview that Coldplay and Paul McCartney have been each paid round £200,000 for historic headline units.
“Though it sounds quite a bit, they might have charged me much more,” he stated. Certainly parade.com have reported Paul has grossed near $6million for a person live performance up to now.
Michael and his daughter Emily, who now books the majority of the acts alongside together with her husband, have been very open in regards to the monetary association saying the pageant’s performers often get “lower than 10%” of what they might command from different festivals
In a 2017 interview with BBC Radio 6, Emily acknowledged: “We’re not in the identical bracket as everybody else in terms of paying artists huge charges.”
Their cost construction is well-known on the pageant circuit. Bestival organiser Rob Da Financial institution has beforehand stated Glastonbury is “the one present that artists will play without cost or for a lowered value.
“They cap their price range and even the headliners do not receives a commission greater than 500 grand, I feel, which is affordable for a number of the headliners they usually’ve had quite a lot of them. So, that is proof of its big, big affect,” he stated.
