Kasabian have said that they want to headline Glastonbury in 2013.
Guitarist Serge Pizzorno told the Daily Star,
“One thing I really want to do before all this ends is to headline Glastonbury as we’ve always had an incredible time playing there. The one thing you need to pull off a good Glastonbury headline show is fucking good tunes and we’ve got enough of them to do that.”
Lead vocalist Tom Meighan added,
“All we need is a phone call from Michael Eavis and we’ll be there for 2013.”
Emily Eavis has said on Twitter that the Glastonbury 2011 line-up will be be announced at the end of April.
In reply to this tweet by @joeayre
“Leeds fest lineup was predictably unexciting, V and glasto are duking it out now, let’s see what @emilyeavis pulls out the bag midapril”
“End of April, we’ll be there!”
Emily has also revealed that the date of the much anticipated ticket resale will be announced later today.
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.
Image curtsey of @markcollett182
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.
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.
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.
Fun Lovin Criminals frontman and BBC 6Music DJ Huey Morgan has revealed that he will be playing Glastonbury this year, and also speculated whether Radiohead will be there too.
He said,
“We had Phil Selway,on the show a couple of weeks back, and he was saying he might see me at Glastonbury because I’m gonna be playing, and if he’s going to be there he might be playing. I don’t know, because he’s got a family and what not, he might not want to bring his whole family there, so they might be playing, who knows?”.
This was said immediately after playing Radiohead – Just, suggesting that “they” referred to Radiohead, though Selway could have originally meant that he’ll be there with one of his other projects, or even just to see some bands. As Huey said, who knows?
Huey Morgan didn’t clarify whether he’ll be playing with the Fun Lovin Criminals or doing a DJ set. We’ll let you know as soon as we have more information.
You can listen and judge for yourself using the BBC iPlayer (skip to 8 mins). This recording is only available to UK IP addresses until 4:02PM Sun, 13th Feb.
For a list of acts who have already confirmed that they’ll be playing Glastonbury this year, see our line-up page. If you have information about an act playing Glastonbury that is not already on our list, then please feel free to post what you know on our Glastonbury forum, or just pop in for a chat about all things Glasto.
According to The Sun newspaper, the Glastonbury 2011 Pyramid Stage headliners will be U2, Prince and possibly Coldplay.
The Sun were the first to confirm U2 as headliners this year before they had to pull out due to Bono’s back injury. So will it be two years in a row that the often maligned newspaper has trumped everyone else to the first Glastonbury headline confirmation?
All three acts have been heavily rumoured to play for months, so it will be no surprise to many Glastonbury fans if they do play.
This is what The Sun has to say.
GLASTONBURY 2011 is lining up to be a real royal affair.
PRINCE and rock kings U2 have signed up to top the bill.
COLDPLAY are likely to fill the third headline slot too, with the final details being thrashed out. The festival isn’t for another eight months but founder MICHAEL EAVIS has clearly been grafting hard masterminding the best music event in years.
You can read the full story here.
As soon as we find out more, we’ll report it here.
Watch this space.
Contrary to recent reports in the media about Glastonbury Festival 2012 being “cancelled” because of a lack of available police officers and port-a-loos due to the London Olympics, Avon & Somerset Constabulary and Michael Eavis have issued statements debunking the story, which appears to have been started by the Daily Mail.
A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Constabulary said this this afternoon.
Media reports have incorrectly stated there will not be enough police officers available to allow the festival to go ahead in 2012. The Olympics will no doubt make 2012 a busy time for us. However, if the festival organisers choose to hold a festival that year we would find a way to police it – after all the show must go on!
You can read the full statement here.
According to the This is Somerset website, Michael Eavis made this statement about the reason for there being no festival in 2012.
We have a year off anyway every fifth year and have just pushed that forward a year. It is nothing to do with portable toilets.
We are having a total year off, no Glastonbury Festival, no Pilton Party, no Extravaganza.
The fact that there is no festival is 2012 is hardly news. It was officially announced in January 2009 that the fallow year was going to be pushed back from 2011 to 2012 which was widely known long before the official announcement.
The media are running a non-story.
