Not all of The Rolling Stones are thrilled about their headline slot at this year’s Glastonbury festival, with drummer Charlie Watts admitting he hates playing outdoor gigs.
The Rolling Stones will headline the 2013 festival alongside the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Mumford & Sons. However, Watts has revealed that performing outdoors is difficult as a drummer, due to the weather effects on his instrument.
“I don’t want to do it,” he says in an interview with The Guardian. “Everyone else does. I don’t like playing outdoors, and I certainly don’t like festivals.
“The worst thing playing outdoors is when the wind blows, if you’re a drummer, because the cymbals move… It is really hard to play then.”
Watts will have to put up with outdoor performances more than once this summer, as the band are confirmed to perfom a huge Hyde Park gig on 6 July – which the rest of the band seem thrilled about.
75% of The Rolling Stones are looking forward to their Glastonbury headline slot
“We did a few shows in London and New York last year… and had such a good time that we thought… let’s do some more,” Mick Jagger said in a press statement.
“You wonder why you had such a long lay-off, man, because it’s the life and blood of us,” guitarist Keith Richards concedes in a video clip that accompanied the announcement.
