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Glastonbury Festival Sold Out, But Eavis Maintains Headliners Will Be Debutants
Tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival sold out in record time on Sunday (October 6, 2013), with 120,000 tickets - costing £210 each - being snapped up in around one and a half hours. Over...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 07 October 2013
Glastonbury 2014 Tickets Sell Out In Record Time Of Just 1.5 Hours!
Glastonbury Festival came back with a bang this year following a one-year hiatus in 2012 due in part to the London 2012 Olympics. The return of Somerset's most famous summer event was such a success...
By Joe Wilde in Music / Festivals on 06 October 2013
Glastonbury 2014 Headliners Are First-timers, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode?
Glastonbury Festival boss Michael Eavis has revealed that he has more or less signed the headliners for 2014, teasing that neither act has played the historical music gathering in the past.In an interview with NME,...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 04 September 2013
Did Beyonce Ban Channel 4 From Broadcasting V Festival Performance?
After 2011's triumphant headlining set at Glastonbury, Beyonce Knowles returned to the British festival calendar to top the bill at V Festival over the weekend. The problem is that Glastonbury is chilled out, and nice...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 19 August 2013
Mumford & Sons Take Dig At Glastonbury Crowd During Olympic Park Show
Mumford & Sons headlined a one-day festival at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park last night (July 6, 2013) playing to a 60,000 strong hometown crowd. The band closed out the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 08 July 2013
A Week In Music, Kanye Has A New Edge, Robyn And Snoop Switch Genders And Glastonbury 2013 Sees Landmark Performance From The Stones
Albums of the week... Following 2011's massively successful collaborative album with Jay-Z 'Watch The Throne', Kanye West makes a return with a new solo effort entitled 'Yeezus'. He proves yet again that he is one...
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 02 July 2013
Glastonbury Festival 2013 In Pictures: Sun, Cider And The Rolling Stones [Pictures]
And that's it. Another year passes and Worthy Farm closes its gates on the Glastonbury Festival revellers for another 12 months. Though there's always the distant murmur of someone professing it "the best Glastonbury ever,"...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 01 July 2013
The Rolling Stones At Glastonbury Vs. Die Hard- And The Winner Is...?
The Rolling Stones headlined at Glastonbury on Saturday (29th June) but the viewing public were more interested in watching Bruce Willis' 1988 classic action film, Die Hard, according to The Daily Mail. 2.54 million tuned...
By Elinor Cosgrave in Music / Festivals on 01 July 2013
The Rolling Stones, Public Enemy And Elvis Costello Bring Worthy Farm To It's Knees: Glastonbury Day Two Round-up
After decades of failed attempts, Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis finally managed to book the biggest rock group of all time for the world-renowned UK festival, and with an absolutely riotous set that had the...
By Joe Wilde in Music / Festivals on 30 June 2013
Haim Bassist Gets Ill During Glastonbury Festival Set
One of the three Haim sisters fell ill whilst on the Pyramid Stage today at Glastonbury Festival (28th June) - Este Haim began falling ill in the middle of the first of the band's two...
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 28 June 2013
Schoolboy Blues: Mick Jagger Wanted To Be A Teacher!
Mick Jagger considered being a teacher, a politician and a journalist. 'Start Me Up' singer revealed his early career plans during a televised interview. Speaking on the Today programme, The Rolling Stones singer said a...
By Elinor Cosgrave in Music / Festivals on 28 June 2013
Liam Gallagher Opens Glastonbury Festival With Oasis Songs [Pictures]
Liam Gallagher and his band Beady Eye played an unbilled set at the Glastonbury Festival on Friday morning (June 28, 2013), officially opening three days of music set to be headlined by Arctic Monkeys, The...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 28 June 2013
Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye Open Glastonbury Festival With Morning Set
Liam Gallagher was given the enviable job of opening the 2013 Glastonbury Festival with a surprise set on The Other Stage on Friday morning (June 28, 2013). The singer, who aired his dismay for the...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 28 June 2013
Get Lucky? Odds In Favour Of Daft Punk Playing Surprise Gig At Glastonbury
Daft Punk might have the most successful single of the year, having recently hit the billion mark on sales for Get Lucky, but the band remains as mysterious as ever. Case in point: Glastonbury. Thomas...
By Victoria Pavlova on 28 June 2013
Glastonbury Weather Dries Up Ready For The Big Acts
Many Glasto goers woke up to the pitter patter of rain on canvas this morning as Wednesday's warm, humid weather well and truly dissolved into rain. By the Thursday evening, the site was drenched -...
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 28 June 2013
Alt-j Kick Off Glastonbury Festival With Surprise Set
Mercury Music Prize winners Alt-J kicked off Britain's legendary Glastonbury festival on Thursday night (27Jun13) by playing a surprise set for revellers.The Something Good hitmakers staged a secret show at the William's Green stage, and...
By WENN on 28 June 2013
Glastonbury Festival Weather 2013: Get Your Wellies On
The weather forecast for the Glastonbury Festival this weekend does not look brilliant: expect a lot of cloud. However, those visiting the Glastonbury Festival this year may be pleased (or rather not depending on your...
By Elinor Cosgrave in Music / Festivals on 26 June 2013
The Forecast Looks Good For A Sunny Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival will be returning after a year off this weekend (June 28 - 30) and after a year away it looks as though at least one classic Glasto tradition will be void from this...
By Joe Wilde in Music / Festivals on 24 June 2013
Arctic Monkeys Return With New Single 'Do I Wanna Know' [Listen]
Arctic Monkeys have returned with 'Do I Wanna Know,' the first single to be taken from their fifth studio album.The new track, first played at a concert in California last month and subsequently used as...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 19 June 2013
Dalai Lama's Monks To Play Glastonbury
Festival goers may turn to hallucinogenic drugs or alcohol for mind altering experiences this summer but a peaceful group of Buddhist monks will help you seek enlightenment through meditation.To coincide with the 100th anniversary of...
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 12 June 2013
Here's The Catch: Rolling Stones Ban Bbc From Broadcasting Glastonbury Set
Ah, there had to be a catch didn't there? Surely the Rolling Stones weren't going to accept a relatively paltry fee for headlining the Glastonbury Festival when they could be selling out Wembley Stadium or...
By Michael West in Music / Festivals on 31 May 2013
A Week In Music - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Progress From Punky Roots With Mosquito, 30 Seconds To Mars' 'Up In The Air' Comes With A Warning And Daft Punk Break Records With 'Get Lucky'
Albums of Note... Yeah Yeah Yeahs have returned after a lengthy break, with Mosquito. It’s a marked step in the band’s evolution and a further step away from their punky roots. Mosquito has opened up...
By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 29 April 2013
Glastonbury Hopefuls Left Disappointed As Last Tickets Sell Out In An Hour
If you’re still after a ticket for this year’s Glastonbury festival, think again. The final batch of tickets went on sale today at 9am and sold out in just over an hour, The Guardian reports....
By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 22 April 2013
Got That Festival Spirit? Charlie Watts Doesn’T - He Really Doesn’T
For everyone shelling out £200+ for a Glastonbury ticket, you can pretty much be sure that their dreams include winning the lottery or playing the Pyramid Stage. But it turns out, not even all rock...
By Jack de Aguilar in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 04 April 2013
A Week In Music - James Blake Still Seeking His Niche, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Triumph With Lily Cole Video, Eels Stage A Love-in In Bournemouth
Albums of Note... It’s been a long two years since James Blake released his debut eponymous album and now, the pioneering producer returns with Overgrown, album number two. Peppered with quality collaborations, with hip-hop legend...
By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 02 April 2013
Glastonbury 2013 Line-up Revealed, But Is It A Let Down?
“Boo, the Glastonbury line-up’s rubbish … Yaaay, the Glastonbury’s line-up’s amazing.” It happens every year, but so it goes when you’re a festival the size of a large town with about 100 hundred stages which...
By Contributor in Music / Festivals on 28 March 2013
The Rolling Stones Are Finally Set To Rock Glastonbury
The line up for this year's Glastonbury Festival was announced yesterday and it didn't disappoint one bit, with veteran rockers the Rolling Stones named the headline act - making the upcoming show, quite unbelievably so,...
By Joe Wilde in Music / Festivals on 28 March 2013
Michael Eavis Has His Sights On Rolling Stones To Headline Glastonbury 2013
It looks like Glastonbury 2013 may already have its first big name already sorted, with festival organiser Michael Eavis admitting that he is on the verge of signing The Rolling Stones as the closing act...
By Joe Wilde in Music / Festivals on 12 October 2012
Pet Shop Boys: Music Has Too Much Ego
Pet Shop Boys think modern pop music has too much ''ego''.The 'It's a Sin' hitmakers - who formed in 1981 - believe artists used to write ''poetry set to music'' but current chart acts use...
By Bang Showbiz on 07 September 2012
The Xx 'Dream' Of Writing For Beyonce
The xx ''dream'' of writing a song for Beyonce. The 'Crystalised' band were honoured to meet their Pop Idol earlier this year, and would love to contribute a track to one of her future albums.Bass...
By Bang Showbiz on 29 August 2012
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