The 1975 say they won't play festivals that aren't gender-balanced

The English pop-rock band has pledged to no longer play festivals that have too few female artists on the bill. The 1975 singer Matty Healy made the promise to Guardian journalist after this year's Reading and Leeds festivals were criticised for a gender imbalance. Only 20 of the 91 acts on the initial line-up are women, which made the journalist ask Healy to promise not to play festivals with far too few women, to which he agreed saying "people need to act, not chat".