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Glastonbury boss skipped Kanye West's set

Written by . Published: June 29 2015

Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis skipped Kanye West's controversial headline set at the event on Saturday night (27Jun15) because he is "not a fan" of the rapper's music.


Eavis, who founded the festival in 1972 and now runs it with his daughter Emily, came under fire for booking the hip-hop star for the 2015 event and more than 130,000 angry fans signed a petition demanding West be replaced with a more traditional rock act.


West attracted a large crowd for his Saturday night set, but Eavis has now admitted he decided to skip the show and watch the Moody Blues instead because he is not a fan of the rapper's material.


He tells NME, "I wasn't there, I was at the Moody Blues... (I am) not a fan of that kind of music... (but I heard it went down) reasonably well."

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