It is great that at last the Leeds Festival gives the city the opportunity to attract some of the biggest names in popular music. Let's stop complaining about things, and let music fans, young and old, enjoy everything that the Leeds Festival brings before Leeds is limited to weekly tea dances at the local church hall. As for Eminem, let him have his say. Strangely, his critics like the sounds of their own voices and we hear what they say more often than the target of their anger. Although it is not my favourite style of music I think that it is small minded to judge him when he is merely taking on a persona for the sake of expressing himself.
Life is full of sexism etc.
Eminem is a very intelligent rapper and you only have to look to his recent hit single 'stan' to realize that he tells a story in the song looking through the eyes of another person . Despite Eminem's colourful language and controversial subject matter in his lyrics I do feel he is immensely talented with his thought provoking music. I would welcome his arrival at Temple Newsam fully. Terence C Jolley - Barnsley. Anyone who has a full compliment of brain cells knows that not one man or women chooses to be gay but through an inbalance at birth a persons sexuality is determined.