According to the latest edition of Q Magazine (A Glastonbury Festival sponsor), U2 and Elbow will be topping the line-up on the Friday of this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
This is what they have to say.
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If true, and we have no reason to believe that it isn’t, this means that U2 will join Coldplay and Beyonce as this year”s headliners, with Elbow playing the sunset slot before U2 on Friday.
In an interview with BBC Newsbeat, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey dropped a big hint that the British band will be hitting Worthy Farm this summer.
The 36-year-old also gave strong hints that Elbow will be taking to the stage themselves at Glastonbury.
He told Newsbeat: “I’m not sure what I’m allowed to tell you and what I’m not.
“We are definitely going to be playing some festivals in the UK – all the best ones, let’s put it that way.”
You can read the full interview here.
Only two acts so far have been officially confirmed for the Glastonbury 2011 line-up, they are the Saturday and Sunday night Pyramid Stage headliners, Coldplay and Beyoncé, with U2 tipped to take the Friday slot. However, a number of other acts have self confirmed themselves, or been confirmed by a reputable 3rd party for the festival.
These are the acts who have confirmed themselves or been confirmed for the Glastonbury 2011 line-up.
The official Glastonbury Festival website has confirmed that Coldplay will headline this year’s event on Saturday 25th June.
Coldplay, who have been rumoured to play for a while, join Beyoncé who’s closing the festival on Sunday, as Pyramid Stage headliners. This leaves only one headline slot available on Friday, which is widely expected to be filled by Irish rockers U2.
Full story on the Glastonbury Festival website.
Coldplay fuelled speculation that they will be playing Glastonbury last night when they posted a not so subtle hint on Twitter.
This is what they tweeted “where me and chris went climbing today pH http://yfrog.com/h290pdj“
The link tweeted takes you to this image
The shadow in the image is instantly recognisable to many Glastonbury fans as that of the skeleton frame of the iconic Pyramid Stage.
It’s doubtful they visited Worthy Farm, home of Glastonbury Festival, just to see the cows.
Everyone knows Coldplay will headline Glastonbury on Saturday, but no one has admitted it yet.
You can read the original Coldplay tweet here.
English rock band The Libertines are getting back together to perform at Glastonbury this summer according to British tabloid The Sun.
The band fronted by Pete Doherty, are apparently booked for a slot near the top of the bill on the Other Stage.
You can read the full story here.
Beyoncé has been confirmed as the Sunday night Pyramid Stage headliner by her record company, Columbia Records.
The former Destiny’s Child star, who visited Glastonbury in 2008 to watch her husband Jay-Z headline the same stage, will perform a 90 minute set to close the festival.
The R&B singer is said to be excited to return as a headliner. “This really is the biggest festival in the world and I cannot wait to perform there. Everyone who attends is really appreciative of music and is in such a good mood that entire weekend,” she said. “I’m pumped just thinking about that huge audience and soaking up their energy.”.
U2, Coldplay, and Beyoncé are to headline this Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury this summer according to Holy Moly
The entertainment website claims to have exclusive information that U2 will headline on Friday, Coldplay on Saturday and Beyoncé will close the festival on Sunday.
Holy Moly have been correct with their Glastonbury line-up predictions in the past and all three acts have been rumoured to play for a while. U2 pulled out last year due to Bono’s back injury, then later released a song titled “Glastonbury”, so have been widely expected to play this year, Michael Eavis said last year that Coldplay would be returning this year, and Beyoncé is obviously the American female act who hasn’t played the festival before that Michael said he’d been trying to get for “yonks and yonks”, so we have no reason to doubt that this information is correct.
You can read the full Holy Moly story here.
English guitarist Newton Faulkner confirmed on Twitter today that he’ll be performing at Glastonbury Festival this summer.
Newton revealed his Glastonbury plans when asked by Twitter user @Ladybugnina
whether he was returning to the festival this year, though he wasn’t able to specify a day or stage.
This is what was said.
@Ladybugnina Nina Ladybug@NewtonFaulkner please say you are going to do #Glasto again!
To which he replied
@NewtonFaulkner Newton Faulkner@Ladybugnina I’ll be there, not sure what stage but I’ll be there.
See our Glastonbury Festival line-up page for more self confirmed artists.
Noisettes singer Shingai Shoniwahas has revealed to celebrity and style website very.co.uk, that they will be performing at several major UK festivals including Glastonbury this summer.
This is what the Zimbawe born singer had to say.
Shingai exclusively revealed to Very that they are signed up to do every major festival in the UK this summer for promotional activity, meaning that we’ll be seeing at her Glastonbury, Reading and V as well as more boutique festivals like Secret Garden Party and Oxygen.
You can read the full interview here.
