Ellie Goulding has criticised music festival bookers for not giving female musicians an equal representation on their bills.
The singer, who has just released her new album 'Delirium', made the comments in a new interview with Rolling Stone, saying that although she was a festival headline act, she was one of very few women on the line-up of any event she plays.
“Generally I feel like as a woman in music, the one thing that I’ve noticed, which I’ve said before very openly, is that I feel that there aren’t as many women representing festivals," she said. "it’s very man-heavy. I mentioned some specific festivals that are very male-band heavy. I play festivals all the time — I’ve headlined probably 50 festivals this year. Are there any other women? No, not really.”
She also made comments about the media's treatment of female musicians, saying "I feel like in the media, it’s disguised as other things. For example, when I’m in a swimsuit and I don’t look good, the media says “flaunts her bikini body.” They’re desperately trying to say something negative, but they can’t because they’d get so much sh*t. So personally as a female musician on the road, I feel like I’ve had a lot of respect, but there are certain things that are still unfair.”
