Radiohead will not play at the Glastonbury Festival in Britain this year because of what they call “the ecological disaster” of poor public transport to the event and other big shows like it.

In an article published by British newspaper The Sun, frontman Thom Yorke wrote that his band was doing “everything we can to minimise our impact on the environment.”

He expressed concerns that most people attending Glastonbury will drive to its rural south-west location in England “with one or two people in the car.”

Yorke explained: “What we’re trying to do now is only play in areas that have a public transport infrastructure in place. So that rules out Glastonbury for this year. Maybe we can work out a plan for the future.”

Yorke said he has looked into ways he can personally protect the environment, writing “I am trying to build a system under my house that heats it naturally from the ground.”

His band has also reduced the need to fly their gear around the world by getting two sets of instruments.

Yorke has been spreading his green message in other ways. He was in Belgium on Wednesday to urge leaders at the European Union’s headquarters to drastically cut carbon emissions by 2020.

“If we don’t get stuck in now, in 20 years’ time it will be worse and things will be more extreme,” he said.






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