plus Be Your Own Pet, Black Cherry, The Long Blondes, and more
(added Tuesday 13 May 2008)
Glastonbury Festival which takes place over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June has added a few more names to this year's line-up.
The new additions include Martha Wainwright whos has been added to the main stage. The Other Stage sees the addit...
Glastonbury Festival which takes place over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June has published the cinema line-up for this year's festival.
There are three screens this year showing films, the Marquee indoor screen, the Outdoor screen, and a screen sho...
Hexstatic, Metronomy, Plump DJs, Imperial Leisure, Rennie Pilgrem & The TCR All Stars, and many more
(added Wednesday 7 May 2008)
Glastonbury Festival which takes place over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June has extensively added to the list of artists performing at the Dance Village area, and added two new stages, Silent World and the Igloo.
The extensive additions include ...
new talent winners The Golden Silvers, and The Travelling Band plus many more
(added Thursday 1 May 2008)
The line-up of acts has been announced for the Late n Live stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival, which happens from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June, with the site open from Wednesday 25th June at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
...
Shangri La, Crossiant Neuf, Theatre, Cabaret & Circus, Kidz Field
(added Wednesday 30 April 2008)
There are some new additional stage line-ups of acts heading for this year's Glastonbury Festival which happens from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June, with the site open from Wednesday 25th June at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
Although not yet confirme...
Shakin' Stevens to open Pyramid Stage on Saturday?
(added Monday 28 April 2008)
It looks as though the line-up for this year's Glastonbury Festival 2008 which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton might have been revealed, a day before the official unveiling, at midnight on Tuesday 29th April.
Someone has posted on the eFestivals...
young musicians get the chance to play Glastonbury Festival
(added Friday 25 April 2008)
Young people aged between 13-24 who would like to play at Glastonbury Festival can enter the 'Share A Stage' competition by filming themselves performing either alone, or with their band, and uploading the video onto YouTube. The closing date for entries has been ex...
Glastonbury Festival's late night entertainment has a renowned history, in past incarnations it has been Lost Vagueness, the infamous Traveller's Field and way back when, the Experimental Music Fields.
This year there will be a new nocturnal entertainment area ...
According to Radio One Groove Armada will be closing the Other Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival as headliners on Sunday 29th June.
Groove Armada are the latest in a quick succession of confirmations for the festival held at Worthy Farm, Pilton...
Jamie T, The Cribs, Biffy Clyro, The National for Glastonbury Festival
(added Friday 18 April 2008)
According to the BBC (here) Glastonbury Festival has announced the first acts for the John Peel stage.
There will be four headliners for the stage named after...
Glastonbury Festival are asking festival goers to leave the car behind, start their festival experience early and help protect the environment at the same time.
The Festival is offering combined Festival and coach tickets to take festival-goers direct from 17 ma...
new study reveals Festival's benefit to worldwide economy
(added Thursday 10 April 2008)
Glastonbury Festival (including the Glastonbury Extravaganza and the Equinox 'Pilton' Party) benefits the worldwide economy by a staggering £73million reveals a unique study for Mendip District Council published today about the economic impact of the Somerset event.
...
eFestivals asked weather prediction experts www.metcheck.com/ for a prediction for this year's weather over the period of the Glastonbury Festival, and here's what they told us:
Although we're expectin...
you can register and then buy tickets from 4pm today
(added Tuesday 8 April 2008)
Anyone wishing to buy a ticket for this year's Glastonbury Festival who didn't register is being offered a new chance to register and buy tickets for this year's event.
Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis explained, "We've had a lot of enquiries from...
Rumours are surfacing that Jay-Z might cancel playing Glastonbury, although the Glastonbury sources we've spoken to this morning say that he is still scheduled to play.
eFestivals has received several rumours about this over the last week, but they were so vague that w...
Anyone who has registered and wants to buy tickets to the Glastonbury Festival which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, near Glastonbury, Somerset from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June can still buy them right now..
The ticket costs £155 for a week...
Fed up with his Festival and Festival goers having to cope with mud every year, Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has just announced plans to install a mini-monorail around Glastonbury.
Having just received planning permission for the 3.8 mile circula...
playing Thursday night and Brixton Academy RAR gig
(added Tuesday 1 April 2008)
Festival-favourites Levellers have been confirmed as headliners for the union-organised Glastonbury Left Field on Thursday night headlining an evening of music in support of Anti Slavery International – the campaign continuing the fight against slavery and pe...
and all finalists are offered the chance to play at the festival
(added Monday 31 March 2008)
Last night saw the final night of the Glastonbury new bands finals competition held in Pilton and at the end festival organiser Michael Eavis announced the two winners as The Golden Silvers as the new band 'Oasis, Coldplay' type winner and The Travelling Band as the...
playing Friday night for Miscarriages of Justice Organisation
(added Tuesday 25 March 2008)
It has been confirmed by Left Field organisers that Alabama 3 will be headlining Glastonbury Festival's Left Field stage on Friday 27th June in a night which will highlight and support the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO).
MOJO is a huma...
if you want to buy a ticket you must have registered
(added Monday 17 March 2008)
The deadline for Glastonbury's pre-registration scheme has ended. Anyone who wants to buy tickets to the Festival which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, near Glastonbury, Somerset from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June when they go on sale on Sunday 6th April neede...
Love the Farm – Leave No Trace with biodegradable tent pegs
(added Thursday 13 March 2008)
Today, the first of the new biodegradable pegs were ceremonially banged into the Worthy Farm grass by festival organiser Michael Eavis as the 'Love the Farm – Leave No Trace' initiative for Glastonbury Festival was officially launched. A message that Eavis says is w...
it is definitely not due to public transport infrastructure
(added Thursday 13 March 2008)
Radiohead's Thom Yorke has cleared the air with festival organisers over that statement which was reported in 'The Sun' newspaper where Thom says, "My words were taken out of context and implied we were not playing Glastonbury because there was no public transport infra...
Editors, Goldfrapp, The Enemy, and The Fratellis to play
(added Thursday 13 March 2008)
The Guardian online (here) have reported that Editors, Goldfrapp, The Enemy, and The Fratellis are among the bands that will play this year's Glastonbury Fe...
Anyone wishing to buy a ticket for this year's Glastonbury Festival now has just one more week left to submit their registration. Registration for the 2008 Festival will stay open until midnight on Friday 14th March, with tickets for the Festival going on sale to those who...
It's been announced that the replacement late-night area for Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury Festival is to be called Shangri La.
Covering over 40 acres - three large fields - Shangri-La will encompass 12 separate stages and many other surprise attractions....
You have to wonder how Radiohead's Thom Yorke has travelled to Glastonbury in the past, not by bus or train. The media is awash with Yorke's revelations in The Sun (...
Kate Nash's 'people' have announced that the singer is to open the Glastonbury Festival 2008 which will take place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, near Glastonbury, Somerset from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June. The festival's gates open for early arrivals on ...
Martin Elbourne who assists Michael and Emily Eavis with booking the bands at Glastonbury Festival has confirmed, whilst talking to eFestivals, that The John Peel Stage at the Festival is to double in size.
Elbourne, who said he had pretty much finalised booking...
NME (here) have reported that Massive Attack will headline the second stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
The article also adds Manchester's emo-guitar band Elbow have co...
Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis, daughter of farm owner Michael Eavis, has announced that Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy, or CSS as they are better known, are to return to the festival to play The Park Stage.
Emily a...
The Left Field Stage at Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that they will celebrate 30 years of Rock Against Racism with a very special line up on the Saturday night bringing together the original RAR supporters with new bands who support the fight against ra...
According to Q Magazine (here), "insiders" have told them who the other two Glastonbury Festival headliners are.
They say that the Friday is to be headlined ...
The speculation is over and Jay-Z will headline this year's Glastonbury Festival. Organiser Michael Eavis told the BBC (here) that it will be the '99 Problems' rapper.
...
potato pegs for all, and please keep it clean this year
(added Friday 1 February 2008)
As those of you who have registered for Glastonbury Festival 2008 which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June have seen, there's an important message for this year's Festival goers upon completion of the proces...
According to a bulletin posted on Lost Vagueness' Myspace (here), "after ten monumental years, the ‘festival within the festival’ which is Lost Vagueness will NOT be happening at Glastonbury 2008...
if you want a ticket to the festival you need to register
(added Friday 1 February 2008)
Glastonbury Festival 2008 Registration has opened today (Friday 1st February) at 9am and will remain open until midnight Friday 14th March.
Everyone who plans to the come the Festival must register, and this year, for the first time, that includes childre...
According to reggae legend Jimmy Cliff's website he's playing Glastonbury Festival on Friday 27th June.
Jimmy Cliff, whose hits include 'Sittin' in Limbo', 'You Can Get It If You Really Want', 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People' and '...
Glastonbury Festival organisers have announced they will extend the registration period, before it even opened, for those wanting to be eligible to buy tickets from the previously advertised closing date.
You can now register anytime between 9am on Friday 1st Fe...
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has started his annual habit of dropping hints of who's playing at the Festival this year.
Last night when asked by BBC Points West about his aim to attract a younger audience to Glastonbury (...
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has now officially confirmed that if you want to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2008, you will first have to register.
Michael explained, "I want to keep up the momentum we gathered last year by stopping ticket touting altog...
Glastonbury Festival have - via their offical sponsor Q Magazine (here) - revealed the ticket buying details for this year. We've checked these details directly with Gl...
Arabella Churchill, granddaughter of Winston and daughter of Randolph Churchill, who had worked alongside Michael Eavis in helping run Glastonbury Festival since 1971 died early yesterday.
Michael Eavis has made the following tribute on the Festival's website:
...
Today there's conflicting stories about Led Zeppelin and a possible world tour.
According to reports, a "friend" of the band is saying that Led Zeppelin are putting together an 18 month world tour, that will start with them playing at next year's Glastonbury ...
While both Radiohead and Kylie looked almost certain for Glastonbury Festival only a week ago, it now looks as though neither will be seen at Worthy Farm next summer.
Kylie looked as though she might be playing when her initial tour dates were anno...
have you got what it takes to play at Glastonbury?
(added Friday 30 November 2007)
Glastonbury Festival has launched its Glastonbury New Talent 2008 competition – a search for unsigned bands and solo artists who may earn themselves a slot on one of Worthy Farm’s famous main stages.
The competition is open to UK (or UK-based) artists not...
Kylie has just announced her "KYLIEX2008" tour to promote the release of her new album “X” (released this week), and there's a convenient gap for Glastonbury Festival in the schedule.
However, eFestivals isn't too sure that too much can be taken from this...
Radiohead's Ed O'Brien has told BBC 6 Music that the band are putting together a tour next year, and that they might play at Glastonbury Festival.
Talking about playing Glastonbury O'Brien said "Everything's on the agenda, if they want us, yeah I mean,...
Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has today been collecting his CBE from Liz Windsor the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Eavis has been awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for "services to music", having first held 'Worthy Farm P...
The Verve's frontman Richard Ashcroft has told xFM (here) that he'd like the band to headline Glastonbury next year.
The recently reformed band - with their original classic l...
Emily Eavis, daughter of Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis, is launching a regular London gig night, though which new bands might get the chance to earn a slot to play at the Festival.
...
It's been reported that you feel that overall the attendees of Glastonbury Festival are too middle class and too old, and this has caused the Festival to lose its edge. As someone who's attended the last seventeen wonderful Glastonbury Festivals, I've noticed things change too....
Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis has said that there will be some changes made to the way tickets are sold for next year's Glastonbury Festival, which is expected to take place from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June.
In an attempt to attract you...
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