News Glastonbury '09
Huge band to play secret special show at Glastonbury
It's been revealed by Glastonbury organisers that a huge band will play a secret show on The Park stage over the festival weekend.
However, we won't find out who the band is as Glasto are worried they're so big that a leak would cause health and safety problems.
Emily Eavis made the revelation in an interview to BBC6music, saying: “There's a really top surprise on The Park which will definitely not come out because otherwise we'd have a health and safety issue. You can start guessing.”...for more info
New Campsite announced (May 2009)
The will be a pre-pitched camping village this year at Glastonbury for all you lazy gits who can't be arsed to lug your tent to the festival...actually sounds quitr a good idea. The new camping ground will be called PraxisTent Glastonbury Tent Village. The tents will be situated just outside the Festival site, on a campsite with its own entrance close to King's Meadow (where the Stone Circle can be found). there are toilets and hot showers for your exclusive use. Prices start at £125 to hire a two-person tent. for more info
Kasabian Confirmed for Saturday Night (May 2009)
Glastonbury have announced on their website that Kasabian will be perfoming on Saturday night (27th) to check out who else has been confirmed by them click here
Radiohead back in the recording studio
Althougth there's no chance they will performing at
Glastonbury this year, good news is they are back in the recording studio and 'enjoying themselves'
"We just went in last week,"said bassist Colin Greenwood during a conference at the Great Escape festival. "It was really good. It was really noisy and chaotic and really fun."
"We're at the stage where we've got the big Lego box out and we've tipped it out on the floor and we're looking at all the bits and thinking, what next? We've got lots of ideas but we don't decide what we're going to do until we've finished the thing. It's all up in the air, but it was up in the air last time."
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Glastonbury Headliners for 2009?
There's been plenty of speculation over who might be headlining next year's Glastonbury Festival, and eFestivals is now in a position to state who we believe will be seen on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in June.
Just to make it clear, we do not know for certain that these acts will be the headliners, but we do have confidence in these names. It's very often the case that eFestivals is first to correctly state who will headline Glastonbury Festival, and we think we've got it right again here. However, only the festival itself is able to confirm the acts that are playing, and a spokesman has today told us that nothing is yet 100% confirmed. read more
Early tickets available for Glasto 2009
Fans wanting to attend next year's Glastonbury Festival will be able to reserve their tickets six months earlier than normal for a £50 deposit.
From October, 100,000 tickets will be made available.
Organiser Michael Eavis said they were changing the ticketing system because of the confusion surrounding the sale of this year's tickets.
They will be put on sale on 5 October ahead of other music festivals in the hope this will avoid 2008's slow sales.
Mr Eavis said he expected there to be a high demand for next year's festival.
"Everybody wants to come - everywhere I go people say 'oh we should've been there and we're so fed up about it' because it was so good," he said.
No Festival for 2011
Michael Eavis has come out in strong praise for all those involved in this year's "sold out" Glastonbury at a press conference today. Inevitably though, questions largely focused around on Saturday night's headline performance, Jay-Z. Labelling it a "fantastic" performance, Eavis seemed genuinely pleased the hip Hop star had defied press expectation and been "a triumph of a show". In particular, Eavis took time to mention enjoying the tongue-in-cheek opening to Jay-Z's set - a video montage of the various press headlines and celebrity surrounding the rapper's appearance, a move Eavis called "inspired". He went on to assure that hip hop artists would continue to have a presence at the Festival but wouldn't be headlining next year. "You can't do the same thing twice can you?".
Michael also took time to praise Amy Winehouse. "She was on brilliant form, wasn't she?" he stated before moving on to recognise her health concerns. Yet Michael was also quick to defend miss Winehouse over an alleged incident involving her hitting a man attempting to fondle her as she reached into the crowd. Speculating about the event he said, "well, wouldn't you?" and laughed the incident off as "a Prescott situation".
In terms of the running of the Festival, there was mixed new in terms of its financial and administrative success. Though Eavis confirmed the credit crunch and fuel prices had pushed up the cost of diesel by around £160,000 for the Festival, he noted around half a million pounds had been saved through restructuring of the clean-up operation. However, on the subject of the Festival's big environmental initiative, new eco-friendly bio-degrable tent pegs, Michael had to agree to being less successful, having only used half of them. “It’s a shame – we had wall to wall sunshine for 5 days before the event which was wonderful... the ground was just too hard”. He did agree though that the new pegs had raised awareness: "People know now to count their tent pegs back into their tent bags".
As for ticket sales, Michael welcomed that it had taken so long for tickets to sell out "It means people can come if they want to come... it means they can make their minds up,not in a two hour window" - the standard sell out time for the Festival
Eavis has also confirmed that the Festival will take a break in two years time to allow for some rest.
Biodegradeble tent pegs are being launched at this years
festival (2008)
The eco pegs made from material derived from wheat and potatoes are being provided by The festival and Millets. Over 100,000 packs are to be distributed, with free packs of ten being issued to every festival-goer coming through the gate.
The pegs are 100% reusable so can be taken hom and used again and again, if theya re accidently left behind they are broken down by the soil in exactly the same way that organic matter is broken down.
The first of these new pegs we knocked into the ground at Worthy Farm by Michael Eavis on 13th March.
New late night area for this years festival! (2008)
The Team behind the 'Lost Vagueness' field are behind this new project, Debs Armstrong who is from the team said in a recent interview "I think it should be the front line of cutting-edge UK culture, whether it be performance, or decor or the way that a venue is run. It all feeds into a vibe. And it should be exciting, with unexpected things to find and discover.
It's not about big name bands, it's about strange little worlds that you stumble across. You might well find the most rocking vibe that you'll find all weekend, even if it's only in a 5-metre wide tent. For us, it's about creating these little autonomous worlds or zones based around weird and wonderful ideas."
The project is to be called 'Shrangri-La' not a lot can be revealed about the new project as the organisers don't want to create crowd control issues and anyway it's always nice to discover these things
