Talking about a new generation … festivals ditch the ‘heritage acts’

Why the rock gods of the past are headlining elsewhere as they are dropped from line-ups at US music eventsCoachella, the spring rite of passage for tens of thousands of California teenagers, kicks off this weekend with the familiar components: a superb desert vista, a funfair, stages for music, tents with DJs, celebrities and fashion.As a festival it could hardly be described as counter-cultural, yet this year there has been a minor revolution: after years of promoting re-formed oldies acts as