#GAReads | The 1975 commit to playing only gender-balanced music festivals

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“The 1975 commit to playing only gender-balanced music festivals“:

Matt Healy, frontman of Brit award-winning band the 1975, has said the group will only perform at festivals with a gender-balanced lineup.

Healy was responding to a call by the Guardian’s deputy music editor Laura Snapes for the band to “add a condition to your rider that says you’ll only play festivals that commit to X% (ideally 50%!) acts that include women and non-binary performers”. He wrote: “Take this as me signing this contract – I have agreed to some festivals already that may not adhere to this and I would never let fans down who already have tickets. But from now I will, and believe this is how male artists can be true allies.”

He added: “I’m sure my agents are having kittens right now but time’s up man people need to act and not chat.”

Read Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes’ full article at The Guardian here…