A unique feast of music set on a huge site offering a grand scale of entertainment unlike any other festival in the world. For five days the Pilton farm plays host to a tented city in Somerset. As well as music from nearly every genre imaginable on over 50 stages, there's performing arts with cabaret, theatre, circus, children's entertainment, poetry, healing, green crafts and information and much more. Vibrant, spontaneous, colourful, and hugely entertaining. The dates for the 2010 Festival confirmed as Wednesday 23rd to Sunday 27th June.
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Line-up
The first headliner to be confirmed playing on the Friday is U2, and other confirmed acts are Jack Johnson, My Luminaries, and The John E Vistic Experience. As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2010 rumours, updated as we receive information.What's on?
Expect something like 2,000 performances at 50 or so venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, something will be replacing the departing Leftfield stage, poetry, green crafts and information and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!Music on the main stages runs from around 11am each morning until 00:30 on the Friday and Saturday and midnight on the Sunday (longer stage running times than just about every other festival), with entertainment on some of the smaller stages running later (until 6am in Shangri-La).
Festival organiser and farmer Michael Eavis says, "The Festival's long awaited 40th anniversary celebrations start here... I'm fully confident that the anniversary line-up will be just that little bit special when it is revealed next year. We want as many people as possible to be part of the celebrations and to enjoy what we do here."
Tickets
Tickets for Glastonbury Festival have sold out. There will be no more tickets on sale until sometime early in 2010. The deadline for ticket refunds is Friday 7th May 2010.
All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets will have two options. They can either buy a full weekend ticket at a price of £185 + £5 booking fee (plus £4.95 postage).
Alternatively, tickets can be reserved at a cost of £50 per ticket. To pay off the outstanding balance of £135 per ticket, where a deposit of £50 per ticket has already been paid, click here.
For more details about registering and ticket information click here.
Coaches
You can buy coach tickets direct to the Festival from National Express from most major towns & cities at a reduced price until 31 December 2009. Information about these services will be available on the National Express website as well as the facility to book online.Tickets for Seetickets' coaches to next year's 40th anniversary Festival are now on to buy them, click here.
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Registration
Everyone who has a ticket to the Festival must be registered, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets and do not need to register. Each ticket features a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable.If you want to check what your registration number is, or when your registration is valid until, click here.
Registration will reopen at 9am on Monday 12th October 2009. In order to buy a ticket festival goers must be registered, with online registration only taking a few minutes, this needs to be completed at least 48 hours before trying to buy a ticket. Online registration for 2010 can be carried out by clicking here.
Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go back on sale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2010.
Checks will be made at the gates and if you are clearly not the person whose face is printed on the ticket you will be denied entry.
Festival Ethos
The Festival wants people to think about their journey to the Festival, to use public transport, or if coming by car to share transport with others. The Festival is committed to minimising the amount of waste, and managing the on site collection of that waste efficiently, 'reduce, reuse and recycle'.Glastonbury Festival believes that work begins at home, at Worthy Farm. Looking after the fields, the hedges and the livestock has always been the Festival's number one concern, and it is what life is all about.
Festivals goers should think responsibly when they are packing their things to take to the Festival, and not bring items that will end up in Landfill, or that they won't want to take back home again, remember to "Limit what you bring, and clean up behind you."
Opening times
The Festival has applied for a change in the licence so that early arrivals are able to park up from 9.00pm on the Tuesday. Campervan and caravan areas would be open from noon on Tuesday. All vehicles must be off the site by 5.00pm on the Monday. At this stage this proposal has not yet been agreed by the Council.The Festival site is not expected to open before 8.00am on Wednesday 23rd June, with traffic problems so great on Wednesday at 2009's event. From 8.00am on Wednesday pedestrian gates operate 24 hours a day until the end of the Festival. If you have any problems with your ticket, or getting on site, there are enquiry cabins at each pedestrian gate to assist you.
World Cup coverage
England will be playing a couple of World Cup games during the 2010 Festival. The game on the Wednesday night will be shown on the Pyramid Stage screens. The other game, which it looks like they'll be playing on the Saturday or Sunday will be shown on site somewhere.For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.
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