Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has donated a part of the 'good causes' money raised via this year's Festival to the Latin American banana industry, reports BBC online (...
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has retracted a statement he made earlier to the press where he blamed the new sound system for not being strong enough for the site.
Having studied a full report from the Glastonbury site environmental team following the Killers’ se...
After much speculation that the 'special guests' were Pete & Carl - or a thousand other acts - it's been revealed that it's in fact those stars of CCTV Hard-Fi. They'll be headlining the Love Music Hate Racism Night, performing at 11:45pm.
Hard-Fi will no doubt ...
We can all dream of brilliant sunshine for Glastonbury this week, but it looks as though it will only be a dream. Depending where you look weather forecasts vary a little, but they all have common theme: rain.
While it's possible that Glastonbury might escape a torrent...
The BBC will launch a new stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
24 acts will play on The BBC Introducing... stage, which will feature UK artists nominated by BBC new music shows all across the country and picked by a panel of music experts (including...
find out what the charity will be up at this year's festival
(added Thursday 14 June 2007)
Take action on climate change, visit their carbon gym, buy lovely retro clobber and say hello to Oxfam stewards at this year’s Glastonbury...
This year Oxfam is asking Glasto-goers to make the ...
30,000 Glastonbury festival goers are expected to show a little love to the person next to them, and break a world record in the process.
The aim is to get as many couples as possible to kiss simultaneously to break the previous record of 6,400 set in Hungary just a fe...
WaterAid will once again be making a welcome appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival, with their friendly volunteers looking after all your water and toilet needs, two of life’s little luxuries that are all to...
Shelter, a charity set up to help homeless people in Britain, have announced on their website that Joss Stone will be the main act on the Leftfield stage for Friday's 'Shelter day' at Glastonbury fe...
Glastonbury Festival is to have a new area - called Trash City - which is to be sited in the Circus & Theatre fields.
Setting the scene is Mutoid Waste Co. - legendary anarcho art and party collective and originators of the warehouse party, creating their...
Hidden away on the Glastonbury website, a small number of acts are confirmed as playing in the Lost Vagueness Ballroom.
With the Ballroom having entertainment of all sorts - including ballroom dancing, cabaret, circus, flamenco, aerial shows & jiving lessons - confirme...
the StrummerVille bandstand & Chinese Cinema Palace
(added Wednesday 30 May 2007)
This year at Glastonbury, festival goers will get the chance to perform on stage.
Strummerville, a registered charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians, will be presenting the 'Strum...
Glastonbury Festival are hoping to get 100,000 people to sign up to the I Count climate change campaign.
Festival goers attending the event will be given a special wristband with the "I Count" mes...
The Late 'n' Live tent returns to Glastonbury Festival this year, showcasing new music from the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent competition, along with other new performers.
The tent is supported by ...
From Monday 21st May http://www.spotthebull.co.uk are giving away a pair of tickets every day in the run-up to the festival. There are 40 tickets (20 pairs) to give away to the lucky winners!
To enter the compe...
According to a story on BBC 6 Music (here), the Rolling Stones were approached to play Glastonbury Festival this year after all - something Mick Jagger had previously denied.
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Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis has told The Guardian about the plans for the Park area, which is new this year.
Sited on a field in the adjoining Park Farm that her ancestors farmed before they moved to Worthy Farm, Emily said "I really wanted it ...
Glastonbury Festival is to give away toilet rolls to its attendees.
Nouvelle are sponsoring the recycling, and as part of the deal free toilet rolls will be available from the information points on site.
That's another good reason for people not to us...
plus 1000 tickets still available via Western Daily Press
(added Monday 23 April 2007)
Yesterday's's sale of tickets for this year’s Glastonbury Festival have now sold out.
However, there's to be a further sale of coach and ticket packages online through www.seetickets.com/g2007 on Thursday 26...
The Chemical Brothers have confirmed their appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
In a press release for their new album 'We Are The Night', it states "The Chemical Brothers have exclusively announced that they will be headlining the Other Sta...
Tickets for this year’s Glastonbury Festival have now sold out, (including ones that include coach travel).
General tickets went on sale at 9am this morning (Sunday 1st April) and sold out within two hours. If you were lucky enough to get tickets then you should...
eFestivals has had many little chats with Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis over the last week, but he's not been giving much away.
One bit of new news that slipped out of his mouth following today's successful licence decision is that Shirley Bass...
Glastonbury Festival has been granted a licence for this year. Mendip District Council heard the application yesterday, and made their decision last night, but have only made the announcement now.
The licence that the Festival has been granted is for 177,500 (13...
The licence hearing for Glastonbury Festival is happening today at the Mendip District Council offices in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, and may run into tomorrow. Whether it does or doesn't, the decision won't be announced before tomorrow.
Although it seems unlikely...
Over the last three nights, the Glastonbury Festival 'emerging talent' competition has been holding its finals, with eight bands each night performing in front of a panel of judges that included festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, for the chance to win slots on th...
Glastonbury Festival has named the finalists for their 'emerging talent' competition, where, unlike with other festivals, the winning bands get to play on the most prestigious stages and on the same bills as the biggest names, rather than on an 'unsigned stage'.
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The opportunity to register to be able to try to buy Glastonbury Festival tickets closed at midnight last night, with just under 400,000 registrations having been made.
Subject to the licence application being approved by the council, there's in theory around a 35% cha...
Midnight tonight was the deadline for registrations to be able to buy Glastonbury tickets this year - but Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has said that a strict cut-off 'isn't very Glastonbury', so the registration process has been extended for five days until midnight on Mon...
According to an article in today's Independent (here), Dame Shirley Bassey has been approached to play at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
According to ...
Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has told BBC 6 Music (here) that Motown legend "Smokey Robinson is set to confirm an appearance". Excellent!
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Mendip Council, which issues the licence for Glastonbury Festival, have put on their website details about the licence hearing. The hearing is set for just a week before tickets are due to go on sale, for Monday 26th March. A decision on the application is expected to be m...
Adjagas from Sápmi (also known as Lapland) have confirmed in a press release that they will open the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival this summer.
It is actually the second time they have received this invitation, having been unable to play in 2005 due to t...
The Killers have told how headlining this year's Glastonbury Festival will be the highlight of their tour.
Speaking to Teletext's Planet Sound, guitarist Dave Keuning said "It's going to be the highlight of touring this album. We turned down headlining...
eFestivals will be offering the chance to win Glastonbury tickets - but not quite yet. Our competition will run after all the tickets have been sold in April, giving those people that missed out on buying a ticket the chance to still attend this year's Festival.
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Glastonbury Festival have just announced that when tickets go on sale this year (on Sunday 1st April), buyers will be able to purchase upto four tickets in a single transaction.
Michael Eavis has issued the following statement:-
“This year, becaus...
The first 24 hours of the Glastonbury registration process saw around 30,000 people successfully submit their details and their photograph online, so that they're registered to be able to buy tickets when they go on sale on Sunday 1st April. Around 100,000 downloads of the form h...
The Glastonbury Festival pre-registration website - for those that want to buy tickets for this year's Glastonbury Festival - has now gone live.
There's no need to rush - you can register at an time between now and midnight on Wednesday 28th February 2007...
Details of the pre-registration process for those that want to buy tickets for this year's Glastonbury Festival has now gone online.
Registration for the festival opens this Thursday. Anyone wanting to buy a ticket will need to register between 8am Thursday 1st Feb...
Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis was a speaker yesterday at the Event Show in London, and gave some details of changes to the Festival for 2007.
We'll start with something very important - beer! Budweiser will no longer be providing the beer at the Festival...
According to an article in the latest issue of Music Week, Bjork is to headline Glastonbury Festival's Other Stage on the Friday night.
Other information revealed by Martin Elbourne (the man who books the bands for Glastonbury's Pyramid, Other, and John Peel sta...
After a few days of scrabbling around eFestivals can reveal who we're pretty sure you'll see line-up on the Pyramid Stage this June.
After all the speculation and denials, we expect Friday to be headlined by The Killers. Saturday night should see the Arctic M...
The first band has self-confirmed on their website their appearance Glastonbury Festival - happening at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th June (with the gates opening on the Wednesday).
Best known for (the awful) Tubthum...
BBC 6 Music has exclusively reported that neither Kylie or The Killers are going to play next year's Glastonbury Festival.
6 Music interviewed Emily Eavis, and she told them that Kylie's year was already too packed with gigs. She said: "She's got a...
Back in the summer, Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis mentioned that he'd booked an act for 2007 that hadn't played (or played together?) for 35 years and who were once the biggest in the world, and that no one would guess who it was. Some people have pre...
eFestivals has just had a little chat with Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis, and he has confirmed the date tickets will go on sale.
The same as last year, the tickets will be sold on a Sunday, to give as many people as possible the opportunity...
Jake Shears has told Xfm (here) just how keen he is for the Scissor Sisters to play next year's Glastonbury Festival.
He told them “I would absolutely love to play Glas...
Glastonbury Festival has announced the details of its 'Competition for Emerging Talent 2007', which gives new acts the chance to play at Glastonbury Festival.
Four winning acts will be given the chance to play on the Acoustic, Jazzworld, and John Peel Stages and in the...
eFestivals recently caught up with Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis, to ask him about the Festival's future and another refusal by U2....
With the Festival's future now seemingly assured, it looks like the yearly licence worries will be a thing of the past, a...
While the crème of the supposedly reputable music publications were yesterday announcing the headliners of next year’s Glastonbury Festival, eFestivals decided to sit back, relax and wait for them to get it all wrong...again.
Never ones to lightly jump on the rumour mi...
Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has told BBC's 6 Music that the Festival will make it even harder for tickets to be re-sold next year.
He said "We seem to be ahead of the field on it which is rather weird - me being a rather humble dairy farmer from Somer...
This week in most years 150,000 Glastofarians will have rising excitement, bags will be packed, weak excuses given to work for sickies, and weather forecasts become the most interesting thing in the world. But this year there's no Glastonbury and despite grand claims by some othe...
Glastonbury - The Film goes on general release today, and it's the only chance for people to experience the famous Glastonbury vibe this year.
Getting rave reviews - the only downside for some people is that it's a little long at two hours eight minutes - the fi...
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