Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner: 'Metallica at Glastonbury doesn't add up'

Metallica's Saturday night headline slot at Glastonbury Festival has been seen as a controversial choice by many, and now 2013 headliner Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys has said he doesn't think the booking 'adds up'.

Arctic Monkeys topped the Glastonbury bill in 2013 alongside Mumford & Sons and Rolling Stones, and Turner claims that he believes his band are a perfect booking for the festival, but feels Metallica may not be suited to the 'hippy' audience at the festival.

"I'm not sure it adds up," he tells Time Out in a new interview. "I know we'd buzz off it, but fundamentally could you have Metallica in the hippy nucleus?"

Turner is no stranger to Glastonbury, having performed at the festival many times during Arctic Monkeys hugely successful career, and also recalls one of his strangest and most celebrity-packed incidents at the festival's iconic Stone Circle.

"I did the stone circle thing," he added. "I was dressed as a crocodile because Lily Allen had a load of fancy dress costumes. I remember wrestling James from Klaxons in the mud as the sun rose."