Protesters are plotting disruption at U2’s long-awaited headline gig at Glastonbury tonight.
The Irish band is expected to face a visual protest from campaigners angry at the group’s alleged tax avoidance in Ireland.
Direct action group Art Uncut is planning to unfurl a giant inflatable before the BBC cameras as the band take to the Pyramid Stage.
Campaign member Anna Walker (32) said: “Everyone there will see it. If the BBC do not broadcast it, there is little doubt that it will have been an editorial decision.” Placards will also be held up declaring: “Bono pay up”.
Fellow campaigner Charlie Dewar said: “U2’s multimillion-euro tax dodge is depriving the Irish people at a time when they desperately need income to offset the Irish Government’s savage austerity programme.
“Tax nestling in the band’s bank account should be helping to keep open the hospitals, schools and libraries that are closing all over Ireland.
“Bono is well known for his anti-poverty campaigning but Art Uncut is accusing him of hypocrisy.”
With heavy rain forecast this afternoon, the 170,000-strong crowd will continue to party in a 900-acre mud bath as the main acts get under way.
Claire Austin, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, said the wet weather could dramatically improve over the weekend.
Tomorrow and Sunday should be largely dry, with temperatures possibly topping 25 degrees on the last day.
This year's event also sees Coldplay and Beyonce headlining.
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