SWEDISH pop star Zara Larsson has had enough, and demands that UK music festivals sort out their line-ups now. A BBC study found only 13 per cent of 2022 festival headliners are a female solo act or an all-female band. “They need to book more women,” she told us. “It’s not like women aren’t making music.”
The Symphony singer, right, says it is the tip of an industry-wide gender imbalance. “It’s behind the scenes as well. I’ve been in many sessions with only men, when I was really young, speaking about weird topics. People are like ‘my dick is this big’, ‘I’ve f*cked this many girls’,” she says. “I don’t want to be in a room with just men anymore. I’m over it.” Larsson is building a female team to make a change, but faces a dilemma. “I really want an all-girl band, but I’ve been with my band seven years now — I just don’t have the heart to fire them!” They live to play another day.
