First Wave Of Bands Announced For Glastonbury

Glastonbury organisers have unveiled the first wave of bands set to take to the Worthy Farm stage in June this year.

This morning (29/03/2016) Glastonbury Festival released a huge list of bands who will play at the iconic event. The bands include: New Order, The 1975, Kurt Vile, Grimes, The Last Shadow Puppets, Beck, Wolf Alice, ELO, PJ Harvey and LCD Soundsystem.

This years three headliners - already announced - are Adele, Muse and Coldplay. Jeff Lynne's ELO will play the "legendary" Sunday afternoon slot which in recent years has been filled by Dolly Parton, Lionel Ritchie and Kenny Rogers.  Elsewhere, The Syrian National Orchestra, whose members have had to flee their native land, are also set to perform having already planned a concert with Damon Albarn on the 25th of June in London.

For the full list of bands (see poster) visit www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk 

Adele to Headline Glastonbury 2016

Adele to Headline Glastonbury 2016

Adele has announced that she will headline the Pyramid Stage at this years festival.

The pop-star revealed the news whilst performing at The O2 in London where she played six nights. "Who's going to Glastonbury this year?" she asked. "See you there. I'll be there. I'll be headlining on the Saturday night this year." 

Glastonbury organisers later confirmed the news via Twitter. Adele joins Muse and Coldplay as the third headliner at Glastonbury which takes place in June. 

Adele's latest album 25 is currently atop the UK album charts having sold 19 million copies worldwide. 

Why Kanye West Should Be Allowed To Headline Glastonbury

Why Kanye West Should Be Allowed To Headline Glastonbury

Rock culture still seems to be obsessed with some archaic idea of what constitutes ‘real music’, while the rest of the world has stopped caring and gotten on with making exciting new sounds. The recent petition against Kanye West headlining Glastonbury is sad proof of that.

In case you missed it, Kanye West will be headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival on the Saturday night. While he may not be everybody’s cup of tea, most festival goers are excited about this as Glastonbury’s past headliners have been rather dull. They tend to be ‘heritage acts’ that are considered to be a safe bet (U2, The Rolling Stones) rather than fresh and exciting musicians who are at the top of their game. You would expect then that Glastonbury booking Kanye West, a globally recognised and exciting musician would be greeted with cheers. However, some members of the public are extremely angry about the news. So much so that one man has gone as far as to create an online petition to ban Kanye from headlining and asks festival organisers to let a "rock" band play instead. Neil Lonsdale who started the petition, wrote that the Kanye booking was not an exciting prospect but in fact a “musical injustice”.

First of all, Glastonbury festival is a festival for the contemporary arts. This does not just mean music. Glastonbury is a haven for the weird and wacky, within five seconds of arriving at the festival you could see an old man dressed as a baby. This wackiness doesn’t just describe some of the people at Glastonbury, it also describes what happens on some of the stages. Why then should a group of people or an artist be excluded from this festival where they celebrate a variety of things? Kanye West is a multi-award-winning artist and a global star who has received critical acclaim. This in itself shows that he is more than worthy to headline Glastonbury.

There are multiple stages at the festival too, it’s not like you have to watch Kanye perform. So if you along with Neil are really that bothered about Kanye and you don't want to see him, don't watch him. Just go to a different stage to witness something you may not have expected or you can simply head to your tent and attempt to settle down for the night. 

Foo Fighters to Headline Glastonbury

Foo Fighters Confirmed to play Glastonbury

It has been confirmed this evening (18 Feb) that american rock legends and arguably the biggest band in the world at the moment Foo Fighters will headline Glastonbury festival this year. The band who won an NME award for best international group announced during the ceremony that they will be headlining the Somerset based festival via a video message.

Foo Fighters are the first headline act to be announced for the festival and will fill the Friday headline slot. There are still many rumours as to who else will headline the festival including Fleetwood Mac and Florence and the Machine neither of which have been confirmed.

Foo Fighters released their eight studio album Sonic Highways in November 2014 through RCA records and it peaked at number two in the UK album charts hit number one in America.

News: First load of Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in 14 minutes

 First load of Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in 14 minutes

General admission tickets for the world-renowned festival will go on sale at 9am on October the 5th.

The festival released 15,000 early bird coach package tickets with travel and admission into the festival included. These tickets went on sale on October the 1st and sold out in less than a quarter of an hour. 

Emily Eavis - daughter of festival founder Michael Eavis - posted on twitter saying "Wow, all 15,000 coach + ticket packages went in 14 minutes! That's amazing. (If you missed out, the rest are on sale at 9am on Sunday.)" 

As stated, general admission tickets for Glastonbury will go on sale on Sunday October the 5th priced at £220 plus a £5 booking fee for the weekend, however, registration for next years festival has already closed. 

Many bookmakers have been offering various odds on bands and artists which are the most likely to headline the festival in 2015, which this year saw Arcade Fire, Metallica and Kasabian take centre stage. 

According to updated odds from bookmakers, Fleetwood Mac are the favourites to headline one of the nights in 2015 priced at 4/6 with Muse and AC/DC tied at 3/1. Other bands and artists who have strong odds are The Stone Roses at 7/1 and both Prince and Elton John who are priced at 8/1. 

The line-up for the festival will not be announced by the organisers until spring next year, and the festival will take place from the 24th and 28th of June 2015.