Phil Hartnol of Orbital has told BBC 6Music News that the electronic duo want to play Glastonbury this year.
BBC 6Music posted on Twitter “Phil Hartnol of Orbital has told 6 Music they want to play Glastonbury’s 40th Anniversary. Emily and Michael?”
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No further information is available at present.
The Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band will be performing at the Glastonbury Festival this year, it was announced today.
Former Red Dwarf star and BBC 6Music DJ Craig Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band in 2009 with help from listeners to his Funk and Soul Show on 6Music. His radio show listeners were asked to vote for their own fantasy band line-up, and a band was formed from some of their suggestions.
At a Maida Vale recording session late last year, the band featured
John Turrell
Dionne Charles
James Taylor
Eddie Roberts
Snowboy
Mike Bandoni
Ernie McKone
The Haggis Horns
See our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page for a list of confirmed and rumoured acts..
This weeks new additions to the Glasto 2010 line-up.
Aeroplane – Fri
Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band
Bex Marshall
Brigitte DeMeyer
Christy Moore
Corinne Bailey Rae
Eastroad
Example
Jack Johnson
Judy Collins
Mungos Hi Fi – Arcadia – Sun
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel – Avalon – Sat
Tankus the Henge
The Bootleg Beatles – Fri
Trev and Kev
Vid Warren – Sun
Wolfmother – Sun
Yearner – Sun 12pm
For a full list of the acts who have self confirmed for Glasto, see our Glastonbury Festival 2010 line-up page. If you know of an act who should be on our line-up page, please post the details on our forum’s self confirmation thread.
Australian hard-rock band Wolfmother are to play Glastonbury on Sunday 27th June this year.
Wolfmother who are supporting AC/DC on a tour of Australia this month, will be hitting the European festival circuit this summer with appearances at Download, Hyde Park and Rockslide as well as Glastonbury.
See our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page for a list of confirmed and rumoured acts..
Worthy Farm, the site of the Glastonbury Festival will soon have the UK’s largest private solar electricity system.
Michael Eavis will install 1,500 square metres of solar panels that will be capable of producing enough electricity to power 40 homes.
The solar cells will installed on the roofs of the barns which house the farm’s dairy cows.
Michael told the Press: “This is going to be a fantastic project and we are very excited about starting work on it.
“We are always thinking about how we can improve the site and make the Festival and the farm greener.
“We have had renewable energy at the Festival since 1979, and we have tried to do more and more each year. This is going to be a flagship project which will make a huge difference to our carbon footprint not just during the festival but throughout the whole year.”
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel keyboardist James Lascelles has revealed that they will be playing the Avalon Stage on Saturday 26th June at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Corinne Bailey Rae has confirmed that she’ll be performing at Glastonbury this year.
When asked by BBC 6Music presenter Lauren Laverne if she was playing any festivals this year, the ‘Put Your Records On’ singer replied “We are definitely doing Glastonbury.”
See our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page for a list of the acts we know are playing.
At the Event Production Show launched today (2nd Feb) at London’s Olympia, Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis announced that Muse and will headline Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Saturday and it is “probable” that Stevie Wonder will on Sunday. They join U2 who have already been confirmed as the Friday night headliner.
Michael also revealed that flags will not be banned at this year’s festival, they had discussed a ban, but Emily wanted the flags to stay.
This year’s line-up is “pretty much finalised”, according to Emily Eavis.
She told Radio1 Newsbeat “We’re pretty much sewn up now. We’re still confirming the Sunday night headliner.
“Apart from that we’ve pretty much finalised the Pyramid Stage, which is good.
“There are rumours about everyone I think. I think this is the first year that people genuinely don’t know who is going to be playing, which is a good thing.”
She added “We’ve got amazing highlights from the full 40 years and also some people who haven’t played before, one headliner in particular.”
See our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page for a list of acts we already know are playing.
Adrian Edmondson and The Bad Shepherds have confirmed on their website that they will be playing the Avalon Stage on Sunday 27th June at Glastonbury 2010.
Irish singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy is to play Glastonbury on Friday 25th June. A spokesperson for the former Eurovision Song Contest entrant said
For all you summer festival lovers – we are pleased to announce that Brian is confirmed to play at the Glastonbury Festival 2010. The festival runs from 23rd – 27th June and Brian is due to be performing there on Friday 25th June. Stage details will be announced closer to the event.
For the rest of this year’s line-up, see our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page.
Progressive House DJ Nick Warren is booked to headline the Dance Village at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. The day and stage he’s performing on are currently unknown, though this information will be posted here when it is available to us.
Nick will also be playing the Glade Festival with Way Out West in July.
For the rest of this year’s line-up, see our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page.
Vampire Weekend have been booked to play Glastonbury on Friday 25th June says Emily Eavis. Emily tweeted “YES, FRIDAY 25th?” to 6Music DJ Laura Leverne and “…they have already been booked i promise!” to another twitter user when asked about the band.
@emilyeavis
For the rest of the line-up, see our Glastonbury 2010 line-up page.
Glastonbury Festival organisers are seeking to change their licence to allow them to open the car parks on Tuesday each year rather than Wednesday as it is at present.
If Mendip District Council approve the application, the festival will be licensed until 2016 adding an extra four years to the current licence.
The consultation deadline for interested parties is 20th January 2010 and a final decision will be made in February.
An application for more camping space has also been made.
In an interview with Lauren Laverne on 6Music, Emily Eavis strongly hinted that Dizzee Rascal and Bodger & Badger will be performing at Glastonbury this year. When asked about Dizzee, she said “We’ve gotta have Dizzee, I think that’s a given.”.
Laverne also asked Eavis about other acts who are rumoured to be playing, though she declined to comment except for Green Day who she said will not be attending this year.
“A lot of bands really want to play but because we’ve only got three nights to headline, I think a lot of people are going to be doing secret sets. There will be a lot of surprises, more than we’ve ever had.
“It’s really interesting booking it because a lot of bands are saying, ‘We really want to do it but how about we open the Pyramid Stage rather than close it?’ And it’s like, ‘That’s a good idea’. There’s quite a lot of stuff going around, so that’s exciting,” she said.
You can listen to the full interview on BBC iPlayer until 1PM 11th Jan here (starts 42:10)
See our Glastonbury line-up page for details of the other acts playing this year, and visit the Glastonbury Forum for the latest line-up rumours and gossip.
Emily Eavis has stated that the England vs Slovenia World Cup football match will be shown during Glastonbury on the Pyramid Stage screens at 3pm Wednesday 23rd June 2010.
Emily revealed the World Cup plans when asked by a Glastonbury going England football fan on Twitter whether they were showing the England World Cup matches during Glasto.
This is what was said
@emilyeavis World Cup dilemas! Whats the plan? Show the wednesday game on pyramid but not show the (likely) saturday evening game…correct?
1:44 PM Dec 7th from web
@eddie_metal yes we’ll be showing the weds game on the pyramid screens sir
about 20 hours ago from web in reply to eddie_metal
The potential England match on Saturday (26th) will be held while the festival is in full swing, so it won’t be possible to show the football on the Pyramid Stage screens, though it is possible that it will be shown elsewhere on the Glastonbury site such as on the cinema screen.
Considering you’ll be at the World’s greatest festival on a Saturday night, I’m sure you’ll be able to find something far better to do than watch football!
Somerset’s favourite band The Wurzels have confirmed that they will be playing Glastonbury next year.
In an interview with What’s On Somerset, Tommy Banner discusses the Glastonbury Festival with Giles Adams
And so nearly 40 years later came the
overdue chance to play at the Glastonbury
Festival. “I missed the visitor ticket
deadline two years running, so after thesecond time I thought I would drive up to
Worthy Farm and see if I could get some
there. I was on my way back out when
Michael Eavis was coming in with his
daughter. I introduced myself and said
`What do we have to do to appear at our
own festival?`. Michael did not know that
we had not appeared there, despite playing
festivals at Reading, Guildford and Isle of
Wight. Here we were with the best festival
in Europe on our doorstep and we had not
played there, it was ridiculous.”“Later on I got home and there was a
message on the answerphone from
Michael, offering us a slot on the
bandstand. We did it, it was manic but it
literally was a bandstand. The speakers
were below the low stage as it was
designed for the audience to be seated
around. So we had feedback problems, it
did not work well.”“So the next year, we were offered another
slot and promised another stage. No
information was coming through and then
the week before we were told it was the
bandstand again. So we pulled out. Our
manager was getting calls from other
managers saying `What on earth have you
done!`. The decision got huge publicity.”“In 2008 we were on the Avalon stage. It
was the best gig we have ever done. It was
our festival, our home, the best reception
we have ever had, the best we have ever played. Before we were on, we were sat
in a portakabin. We went up the ramp and
all of us were choked at the crowd and
the reception. After all these years in the
business, it was amazing to have such
an adrenalin rush. At other gigs, people
have come specifically to see you. At
Glastonbury there is so much going on,
so much competition that to draw such a
crowd was amazing.”
They are booked to appear again next year
but there is much to do before then. Last
year was the busiest that they have ever
been.
In an interview with Dutch radio station 3FM, De Staat said they are playing Glastonbury next year.
When asked (in Dutch) what was the best thing they did in the Summer, they answered “Spelen op Lowlands, Sziget en volgend jaar Glastonbury.” // “Play at Lowlands, Sziget and next year at Glastonbury”.
WAT IS HET LEUKSTE DAT JE DEZE ZOMER NOG GAAT DOEN?
“Spelen op Lowlands, Sziget en volgend jaar Glastonbury. En in het najaar doen we een tour langs de grote zalen van onder meer Watt en de Melkweg. We gaan het groots aanpakken en andere dingen doen dan de afgelopen tour. De Staat to the Max.”
Squeeze singer/songwriter Chris Difford confirmed that they will be playing Glastonbury and Isle of Wight festivals next year.
Difford said to Mark Collins in an interview on Wave 105.2 FM “We are going to tour next year as Squeeze, so we are trying to keep the flame burning if you like… What’s happening is Glenn and I are go away for a couple of weeks in April and we’re going to write some songs to see what that’s like…and then in the summer we’re going to do some festivals including the Isle of Wight and Glastonbury.”
Listen to the interview here
U2 frontman Bono has said that they are “delighted and humbled” to be headlining the Pyramid Stage at next year’s Glastonbury Festival.
“Everyone in the band is very excited about it,” Bono told the BBC.
Asked if he would use the festival to promote his anti-Aids/HIV campaign, Bono said: “I think it will just be about the music on that day, and that spirit that seems to take over everybody in that sacred ground.”
He added: “We’ll certainly be well-rehearsed, we’ll be coming straight from the tour.”
23rd - 27th June 2010
