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Coldplay. Shania Twain. Add to this year’s Glastonbury line-up that BBC News presenter who always pops up in dark shirts. The Beeb’s Ros Atkins, who has long moonlighted as a drum & bass DJ, announced today that he will be playing a set at the festival in June.
It's frankly incomprehensible that I'm tweeting this – but here's the line-up for Stonebridge at @glastonbury and, to my great excitement and astonishment, I'm on it. What started with a one-off drum and bass set for BBC6Music two years ago has ended up here. Very grateful for… pic.twitter.com/JZWe6DplTm
— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) May 15, 2024
In a 2022 interview, the BBC’s News and Analysis Editor claimed he’d abandoned the decks but a change of a heart, and a series of sell-out gigs, has resulted in his invitation to play the Somerset festival. Atkins’s BBC colleague and jungle music aficionado Amol Rajan could serve as a warm-up act.
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