内容摘要：On Easter Sunday morning as the minds and mouths of many turned to the thought of demolishing chocolate eggs, Matt Trevelyan was thinking about protecting actual eggs.

On Easter Sunday morning as the minds and mouths of many turned to the thought of demolishing chocolate eggs, Matt Trevelyan was thinking about protecting actual eggs.

"The feeling and the general experience right now is that opportunities are afforded much more for a certain demographic," they say."And because of that, they're then taken away from women and other marginalised communities."

For that to change, Hanni says diversity needs to be seen as an opportunity and not "a problem"."You need someone to actively say, 'This year's going to be different'," they say."And part of the problem is no one's deciding that."

Slam Dunk would have been "naive" not to expect some backlash to the line-up announcement, Hanni says, and even though more acts are yet to be revealed, they agree with Alannagh that it doesn't set the best tone for what to expect."If you're embracing the idea that representation is a positive thing, then I think you would understand that that needs to come from day one," they say.

Cherym, Panic Shack and ARXX all agree the alternative scene can be a "boys' club".

In other genres though, 2024 has been punctuated by women breaking records, from"It's the first look and the look is 99% male."

in 2017 found that 80% of festival headliners were male and dozens of festivals went on to pledge to achieve aBut by the time 2022 arrived, Newsbeat discovered that

In 2018, campaign group Keychange presented a manifesto to the European Parliament calling for more to be done to improve representation in the industry.This year, it released a