Author Benedetta Baldin – 17.1.2026<\/p>\n
Brian May has explained why Queen<\/a> continues to decline to perform at the renowned Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom, as per Loudwire<\/a>.<\/p>\n Artists from a wide range of genres participate in the event, which usually happens in early summer each year. In recent years, rock and metal bands including Guns N\u2019 Roses, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Prodigy have performed at the event; however, Queen has never done so. May told Daily Mail that Queen and festival creator Michael Eavis\u2019 political disagreements are the cause, a claim he has made multiple times. <\/p>\n I wouldn\u2019t do\u00a0Glastonbury\u00a0next year because of the politics of the people who run it. Unless that changes, I won\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n The \u201cpolitics\u201d in question are related to animal rights, specifically badger hunting. <\/p>\n They like killing badgers and they think it\u2019s for sport and that\u2019s something I cannot support because we\u2019ve been trying to save these badgers for years. And they are still being killed for years, so that\u2019s the reason we\u2019re missing out on it.<\/p>\n Because the event organizers are aware of Queen\u2018s animal rights activism, the band was never invited to perform.<\/p>\n Eavis has previously discussed May\u2019s opinions on badger culling, the government-approved killing of badgers to stop the spread of TB in cows in England.<\/p>\n He\u2019s a danger to farming. He doesn\u2019t care about the badgers \u2013 he doesn\u2019t know anything about it at all.<\/p>\n Queen and Adam Lambert last performed together in February of 2024. May hinted that the band might be working on certain projects, even though they haven\u2019t decided to go on a full tour once more.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know when Queen will be back onstage, it\u2019s an unknown we\u2019ll take it day by day. It was time to take a break and spend time with family, take stock\u2026 But never say never about not coming back, the rebuild of\u00a0Queen Two\u00a0is coming back and there are a couple of things you haven\u2019t heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author Benedetta Baldin – 17.1.2026 Brian May has explained why Queen continues to decline to perform at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1005,59,57,58,50,1006,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-375306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-brian-may","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-queen","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}