line-up for Leftfield at Glastonbury Festival announced

The line-up for this year's Leftfield "pop and politics" tent, at next month's Glastonbury Festival has been announced.

This year's curator Billy Bragg will be joined by Carl Barat, Reverend And The Makers, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Frank Turner, Thea Gilmore, Paul Heaton, The King Blues, and Lucky Soul at the stage which after a year out returns at a new location in Holts Field.

As well as the musical line-up the tent will also play host to a Comedy Hour, Bill's Big Round-up, and debates on important issues such as Global Solidarity, Climate Change and the Fight for Green Jobs, The Banker's Crisis, Beating the BNP, Another World Is Possible, and Stop the Cuts concerning the proposed axing of the official Festival radio station - 6 Music, and the Asian network.

The tent's curator, Billy Bragg announced, "Leftfield is back after a year's sabbatical and the timing couldn't be better. Come along and take part in our daily debates, stick around to see which songwriters I can pull together from around the site for Bill's Big Round-Up, enjoy some edgy comedy in our Comedy Hour spot and to top it all off, spend the evening listening to blistering live performances from artists with an activist edge. It's all in the Leftfield. The fightback starts here!"

The tent is expected to start up around midday with a couple of debates running until 3pm then from 4pm there will be three or four artists collaborating with one another in a hootenanny, sitting on stage together swapping songs and playing along with each other, then from 6pm the bands take to the stage.

The announced line-up is as follows:
Friday 25th June
Carl Barat
Reverend & The Makers
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly
Comedy Hour
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Global Solidarity
Debate: Climate Change and the Fight for Green Jobs

Saturday 26th June
Billy Bragg
Frank Turner
Thea Gilmore
Comedy Hour
Bill's Big Round-upv Debate: This is a Banker's Crisis
Debate: Beating the BNP

Sunday 27th June
Paul Heaton
The King Blues
Lucky Soul
Comedy Hour
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Another World Is Possible
Debate: Stop the Cuts - 6 Music/Asian network

Glastonbury Festival is headlined by U2, Muse, and Stevie Wonder on a bill which also includes Dizzee Rascal, Vampire Weekend, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Orbital, Shakira, Pet Shop Boys, Scissor Sisters, Seasick Steve, Jackson Browne, Faithless, Jack Johnson, Ray Davies, Slash, The Flaming Lips, Hot Chip, Florence And The Machine, and many, many more.

To see the line-up in full, along with the latest rumours for some of the other stages, click here >> or to view it on as a list click here.

The SOLD OUT event will mark the 40th anniversary of the Music and Arts Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, where Michael Eavis first opened his gates for business in September 1970. Glastonbury Festival runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside.

eFestivals' Glastonbury World Cup 2010 in support of WaterAid

Once again this summer players, mainly members of the eFestivals forums, are coming together to be part of the England vs The Rest Of The World football match, which will be raising funds for WaterAid on Thursday 24th June at the Festival.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis has challenged the event to raise £6000 for WaterAid and thus provide enough money to provide the cost of building three water wells. Water is something that we all take for granted but other people aren't so lucky.

The event begins at 1pm at the Pyramid Stage field with prematch entertainment from Hobo Jones & the Junkyard Dogs who will be doing a 40 minute set with the World Cup match will start after that.

WaterAid will again be on hand with collection buckets at the game, and people who can't make it to the event can make an online donation at http://www.justgiving.com/glastoworldcup2010.

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