Glastonbury 40th Anniversary line-up coming together - who's on your wishlist?
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Michael Eavis says he already has some big names lined up for next year's 40th Anniversary festival.
Talking to reporters, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis is quoted as saying he already has "three or four" superstars lined up to headline the festival's 40th anniversary next year.
Giving nearly nothing away the chrome-domed festival organiser said "we've got one or two headliners that haven't played for a few years. They're all on the phone at the moment so there is the chance of something different again. The bands that have never played before will be thinking they should come." But don't get too excited, Michael added: "I seriously don't think that we can ever do it better than we have this year."
Reading between the lines, we're hoping he's talking about Prince, Radiohead, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Beastie Boys, Pulp, Elton John, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Manic Street Preachers, Suede and probably Coldplay. Who's on your wishlist?
Speaking previously at what they have planned, Michael's daughter Emily Eavis had this to say: "It’s our 40th anniversary next year. We’re talking to lots of bands at the moment about that, and we want to have a band from every year on the Pyramid Stage over the weekend and I think we’ll try and make a lot of the biggest performances on some of the tinier stages, so we’re going to do something really special for our 40th anniversary."
In other Glasto-related news:
Three people had to leave the festival with symptoms which were suspected to Swine Flu.
The death of Michael Jackson led to a various tributes in the form of covers. Dizzee Rascal did various songs (he told 6Music that it would have "felt wrong not to"), jazz-midget Jamie Cullum covered 'Thriller', Emmy the Great added some of 'Heal the World' lyrics to one of her songs and Little Boots played a version of 'Earth Song'. Franz Ferdinand didn't play a cover but did shout "Shamone motherfuckers!"
Mr Eavis has agreed pay a £3k fine for Springsteen running over curfew by 9 minutes. He said: "It's not a lot of money, come on - the last nine minutes were absolutely spectacular."
Eavis also announced that he had made enough money this time to donate extra to the festival charities, Water Aid, Greenpeace and Oxfam.
The BBC have run a lot of sets, here's some of our favourite bits:
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- “It’s Boss time” – Glastonbury Diary 2009, Saturday
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- Glastonbury from afar (a sofa) - A DiS Guide to Online & TV Coverage
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as the current Nine Inch Nails tour
is slated as their last ever i doubt we'll see them
The Horrors full set from the Park Stage
is available to stream here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2009/artists/horrors/
Suede?
Are Suede reforming? Doubt they were ever as big as, say, Blur but that'd be ok.
Think they also need to convince New Order to work together again.
did you see new order there a few years back?
it was embarrasing.
rolling stones, radiohead and prince please.
and talking heads.
Nope, saw them at Oxegen about 4 years ago though - thought they were still worth a shout.
Daft Punk would totally rock the place
and Beastie Boys ^_^
Stevie Wonder
and Prince would be sensational as headliners.
Jesus Christ - you hope they headline!?
Prince - fair enough
Radiohead - no thanks. They play all the fucking time all over the country and they'd be dull as fuck.
David Bowie - yeah.
Nine Inch Nails - lol, do you think it's Download Festival? Portishead - zzz past-it 90s boring advert musac
Beastie Boys - no-one cares about them any more
Pulp - Jarvis Cocker is a total joke.
Elton John - honestly...?
Arctic Monkeys - too little, no big tunes, already did it and were shit.
Muse - too Readingy. Appeal to too shit an audience.
Manic Street Preachers - no-one cares about them any more.
Suede - see above
Coldplay - why would you want that!?
Let's hope for The Stones, maybe a Faces reformation and not bothered who else - hopefully someone shit on the Sunday that draws all the dickheads.
how nice
I'd like to see Radiohead and Muse and Rolling Stones headline.
Muse aren't 'too readingy' you seem to like to sterotype your festivals. Muse headlined Glasto in 2004 and it was amazing!
I wasn't too impressed by the headliners this year. Prodigy was my favourite set on the other stage.
Radiohead - YES!
Arcade Fire, A MUST
some more fleet foxes would be awesome
Wouldnt mind arctic monkeys either
Radiohead, Daft Punk, Rolling Stones
for Fri/Sat/Sun would be pretty envy inducing since I won't be going next year.
Otherwise, Dr Dre, the White Stripes or the Arcade Fire aren't to be sniffed at
meths u are so not 69
Cold Play Yeahhhhh
lucien
put some pants on...looks like u forgot to dress LOL


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