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Glastonbury asked to ditch Metallica over bear killing

By | Published on Wednesday 4 June 2014

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So Metallica’s upcoming appearance at Glastonbury is still proving controversial, though at least now not because of any question over whether or not their music is suited to the music festival.

A new Facebook page has popped up, asking Glastonbury to ditch the band from the line-up due to the announcement that frontman James Hetfield is to narrate a new US documentary series, called ‘The Hunt’, about bear hunting.

“Metallica’s lead singer James Hetfield is a big game hunter and promoter”, says the protest organisers. “We believe this is incompatible with the spirit of Glastonbury and brings its good name into disrepute”.

Glastonbury and Metallica have so far not commented on this latest controversy, but Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich did recently suggest how the band might deal with naysayers on the night of their performance, telling The Guardian: “Jay Z came out and played ‘Wonderwall’, right? So maybe we gotta go out and do our rendition of ‘Wonderwall’. We’ll start with ‘Wonderwall’ and we’ll take it from there”.

You might think he’s joking, but here is Ulrich’s actual rendition of ‘Wonderwall’:

That ought to placate everyone. And if any bears are still complaining, we’ll have James shoot them dead.



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