Acts NOT playing Glastonbury 2010?

[Bort]

It seems overwhelming since there are countless acts and only a tiny percentage will play Glasto, but when it comes to noteworthy acts, it can help narrow things down when trying to predict the lineup. Or at least it does for other festivals. We do this for Coachella all the time...keeping tabs of acts that have been debunked along with those rumored or leaked.

So that having been said, anyone know of any noteworthy predicted/desired/rumored acts that definitely aren't playing?

[droneoid]

The Rolling Stones

[sifi]

Led Zeppelin.

Pink Floyd.

Get over it.

[Jonny Hobbs]

David Bowie

Greenday

[popcornmaster]

The Beatles probably won't show up

[eFestivals]

Bon Jovi.

[msutherlandglasto08]

Michael Jackson can't make it!

[The Nal]

Gary Glitter

[Davness]

Mystic Knights of the Demon Realm

[LittlemissC]

Madonna

Fleetwood Mac

Radiohead

[Bort]

Oh yeah, forgot to start off the list.

Rolling Stones (band debunked when announcing no tour)

Green Day (Emily Eavis said so)

David Bowie (official site debunked, pr firm debunked)

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings (touring the states that whole weekend)

Not officially debunked but have circumstances that decrease their likelihood:

Massive Attack (not invited yet, doubt they will this late)

Orbital (not invited yet)

Pavement (playing San Francisco on Friday, rumored to be playing Los Angeles on Sunday)

Emmy the Great (said next tour and Glasto will depend on the new album, still awaiting official word on status of this album)

[abu hamster]

Queen (with stand in Non Frddy Singer)

[Red Day]

Radiohead

But maybe Thom solo

[Bort]

Oh yeah, I forgot about no Radiohead anywhere in 2010.

Thom with his new band or solo and acoustic (or both!) would be great.

[The Nal]

Radiohead

But maybe Thom solo

[Langdale Wolf]

I think someone needs to start a Radiohead thread.......

[MEGABOWL]

It seems overwhelming since there are countless acts and only a tiny percentage will play Glasto, but when it comes to noteworthy acts, it can help narrow things down when trying to predict the lineup. Or at least it does for other festivals. We do this for Coachella all the time...keeping tabs of acts that have been debunked along with those rumored or leaked.

So that having been said, anyone know of any noteworthy predicted/desired/rumored acts that definitely aren't playing?

[Langdale Wolf]

Great idea, I was having a scan round the web yesterday and I think we can rule out the following as not touring: -

DE LA SOUL

N.E.R.D.

SONIC YOUTH

ELBOW

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

BEYONCE

PORTISHEAD

SNOW PATROL

DUFFY

RAZORLIGHT

Q-TIP

BOB DYLAN

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

LITTLE BOOTS

MIA

THE WOMBATS

THE CORAL

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

THE PRETENDERS

TV ON THE RADIO

PHISH

PJ HARVEY

[sifi]

Bob is touring. Bob is always touring. He's been on the same tour for nearly twenty five years. He's just touring somewhere else.

[plaskins]

The Coral releasing an album this year (hopefully before the summer festival season). Found this on their myspace:

Hello everyone. We've just returned from RAK studio's in london and completed seven tracks with producer John Leckie for the new album. Sessions went really well with new tracks such as 'Rovin Jewel', 'Green is the colour' 'Sandhills' and 'Butterfly House' completed, among others. We're booked in for another session soon and will hopefully have a full album by the late spring. Tracks are sounding amazing, stay tuned for more updates!

Edited February 16, 2010 by plaskins

[MEGABOWL]

But that doesn't rule them out of Glastonbury though.

Just makes them less likely I'd say.

[Toilet Duck]

There's a lot of blind speculation going on in this thread to be honest. Just because bands/artists aren't touring doesn't mean they won't play the odd festival (including Glasto). Just because bands/artists aren't playing festivals doesn't mean they won't play Glasto's 40th...(for example, DCFC will supposedly be playing later in the year, just nothing released yet, Arcade Fire have no tour dates planned, but many seem to think they'll play (I'd be surprised), and SFA turn up lots of times so I'd hope to see them at the 40th!)...

I think what Bort was suggesting here was for us to list bands DEFINITELY not playing (ie, the band themselves have ruled it out, their tour pages show they are playing somewhere else, or one of the eavii has ruled them out).

So, easiest way to keep track of things is to post a link to the source of the info when naming the band/artist...

eg Bowie http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/48616

Though WTF does the NME know!

[LondonTom]

Great idea, I was having a scan round the web yesterday and I think we can rule out the following as not touring: -

LITTLE BOOTS

[jackarmy]

Exclusives Elsewhere:

AC/DC

Rage Against The Machine

Aerosmith

Jay-Z

Seemingly unlikely:

Kasabian - playing other festivals and difficult to see where they could fit in on the lineup really.

[Sabcully]

This would be the best Festival that never happened.