

On Tuesday, famed British festivals Reading & Leeds dropped their 2020 lineups, and it was dismal—only three of the 18 acts on the main stage feature women. Of the total 91 acts revealed, only 20 are women or include non-male performers. (It should also be mentioned that Reading & Leeds are not part of the 45 international music festivals and conferences who signed the 2018 Keychange initiative vowing to establish and maintain a 50/50 gender balance on their lineups by the year 2022.) Like many music fans upset with the unequal booking, The Guardian’s deputy music editor Laura Snapes criticized Reading & Leeds head Melvin Benn on Twitter for not giving “a shit about representation.”