Last month, the BBC announced that this year’s Glastonbury would be its “first truly digital” edition, with performances from the festival broadcast over four channels, four radio stations and other digital services.

That same week, however, it emerged that festival headliners The Rolling Stones weren’t playing ball, with the group’s Mick Jagger telling the BBC that they would not be able to stream past the first four songs of the band’s set. Some put it down to the fact that the group are planning to release their own live DVD this year, centered around their 50 & Counting tour, but a source of The Independent‘s claimed that “It’s not about money. This show will go around the world. If there’s torrential rain it will play havoc with their performance and they want to sound and look at their best. There’s a lot of factors out of their control.”

After crisis talks between the Stones and the Beeb, it now seems that a compromise has been reached: viewers will be able to watch the first hour of the group’s performance, which is scheduled to last two hours and fifteen minutes. Speaking yesterday, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis claimed that “I think they’re all friends now. They’re going to be playing for about an hour for the TV. I think Mick Jagger wanted to play to the people here, rather than a TV show” [via The Guardian].

Earlier this year, we spoke to Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis, along with the teams behind Lovebox, Stop Making Sense, Sonar, MUTEK and many more to find out the best way to run your own festival… and, crucially, not go bust.