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Glastonbury
Festival 2007 News |
All
the tickets have been sold on
April 1st - 137,500 tickets were sold in just two hours - 400,000
had registered. All
the failed ticket transactions have also been sold on.
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Glasto 2007 Latest
News
BBC Glastonbury
Festival Webcam up
Checkout the latest
that is going on at Worthy Farm. The BBC have got a webcam scanning the Pyramid stage location.
Watch it take shape over the next weeks! glastonbury
webcam
Glasto Big Kiss
This year the festival
plans an attempt to break the record for the world's biggest kiss! The
giant snog will take place when Madness take to the
main Lost Vagueness stage at 1.30am early Sunday morning - June 24th.
The current record is 6,400 kissing couples, but Glasto has the potential
to make 30,000 puckering pairs!
Licence Application
Mendip
District Council has awarded Michael Eavis a four-year licence for
the festival and agreed to 27,500 extra places, meaning more than
177,000 tickets
this year - 137,000
tickets to the event and just under 40,000 traders, staff and volunteers.
Green
Loo Roll
As part of the festival's green policy this year everyone
who comes to Glasto will get a free roll of 100% recycled toilet
paper. just don't forget to pack the peg for your nose!
Monkeys under
canvas
The
Arctic Monkeys plan to stay at the festival in a traditional Cherokee
tent, rather
than opt for a luxury hotel - much more fun!
New Glastonbury field at festival
A
new field - a 5-acre plot called Park
Farm, with two new stages and two new tents is
planned for this
year's extended festival site.There will be a second John Peel Tent
and another Acoustic Tent, a silent disco and silent cinema.
No Glasto roughing
it!
For £6,000
(plus VAT) you can go to the front of the queue and stay in the luxury
Camp Kerala,
a village of 75 Rajahstani shikar tents set up alongside the main
festival site. Relax under duck-down
duvets and order food from top chefs, while the rest of us queue up
for our noodles, toilets and beer!
Throw away tents
The
festival organisers are considering using eco-friendly tents this
year; they are made of cardboard and can be re-cycled after the
crowds
have gone home. Known as Myhabs the re-usable tents have a water-proof
coating inside and outside, and are supported by a rigid plastic
frame.
There will also be
a
lockable compartment for keeping valuables and solar-powered
light. The cardboard should be able
to withstand five days of rain - a good thing considering some
of the past wet and muddy festival conditions!
Glastonbury
Festival 2005
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Glastonbury
festival 2005 - been and gone!
Another brilliant festival - even the torrents of rain didn't stop the
fun.
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It could
only happen with the British climate - there we were all basking
in the glorious heat, clad in bikinis and shorts happily putting
up our tents - we'd all planned ahead and brought suncream -
as we settled down to what promised to be the best summer festival
ever......cut to Friday and we'd have all sold our souls for
a pair of wellies! The arrivees on Friday didn't get the chance
to get dirtier as the weekend went on - they arrived lagged!
However, the magic of Glastonbury worked its spell and most of us kept
smiling despite the sinking, sticky mud at its worst round the stages and
market place.
The people were as ever - chilled, happy and out to enjoy life that weekend
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Glasto
2005 - Coldplay, Killers and the White Stripes headline
Coldplay last
appeared in 2002 and were amazing, but in
2005 they pulled out all the stops and performed a fantastic 90 minute
set
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Chris Martin seems such a nice bloke and really knows how to
connect with the Glasto crowd - makes you just long to share a cup
of chamomile tea with him...Loved his quip, " Crazy frog where
are you now?" !! The first record
of their encore was the absent Kylie's ’Can’t
Get You Out Of My Head’, which seemed a nice touch.
Michael Eavis
has offered Kylie a headline spot at the 2007 festival.
Las Vegas group the Killers surpassed
all my expectations and stormed Pyramid stage and had the crowd singing themselves
hoarse with such
rousing
numbers
as, ’Mr
Brightside’, ’Somebody Told Me’ and ’All These Things That I’ve Done’. They
have truly arrived as a headline band this year - they set the festival alight
last year in the New Bands Tent. Can't stop playing their
cd since
I've been back home.
The White Stripes played a
great set with a
mix
of their old hits and new material - where was
Kate Moss when they
played ’I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself’?!!
* * * My festival
favourites - Kaiser Chiefs - lead singer Ricky
Wilson gave such a fantastic, energetic set - the audience was totally wowed with
the recent hits, ’I Predict
A Riot’, ’Oh My God’ and ’Everyday I Love You Less and
Less’. Ricky threw himself into his performance...and the crowd! along
with a giant inflatable dinosaur - I wanted it to go on and on...Ricky stayed
around for the rest of the festival loving the unique Glasto atmosphere.
Other highlights - where do you start? It was great to hear Garbage's
Shirley Manson back again - her powerful vocals reaching the corners of the
festival site. The sun shone on old Beachboy Brian
Wilson on Sunday - the voice was frailer but the spirit of his music lived
again - surfing the crowd became a reality for one girl as she stood on a malibu
board held high.
Pyramid
Stage
Coldplay
The Killers
New Order
White Stripes
Kaiser Chiefs
Doves
Garbage
Keane
Elvis Costello
Brian Wilson
Van Morrison
The Zutons
The Coral
Ash
Goldie Lookin' Chain
Jools Holland
The Thrills
John Butler Trio
The Undertones
The Subways
Taj Mahal
Hayseed Dixies
Town Band
Adjagas
Bellydance Superstars and the Desert Roses
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Other
Stage
Razorlight
Kasabian
The Bravery
The Futureheads
Athlete
Ian Brown
Fatboy Slim
Royksopp
Bloc Party
Interpol
Rufus Wainwright
Echo And The Bunnymen
The Dears
Cooper Temple Clause
Hot Hot Heat
Soulwax
Cake
Thirteen Senses
Brendan Benson
Martha Wainwright
Tom Vek
BlackBud
Dead 60's
KT Tunstall
Modey Lemon
Engineers
The Deadbeats
The La's
Babyshambles
Red hand Band
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Acoustic
Stage
Steve
Harley & Cockney
Rebel
The Beautiful South
Tori Amos
Paul Brady
Paddy Casey
Steve Earle
Henry McCullough
Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
Battlefield Band
London Community Gospel Choir
Declan O’Rourke
Glenn Tilbrook
The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain
Allison Moorer
Chas ‘n’ Dave
Patty Griffin
Mike Whellans:The One Man Blues Band
London Lasses
David Kitt
Ralfe Band
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Clayhill
The Deadbeats
Amos Lee
Tiny Tin Lady
Martha Wainwright
I Am Kloot
The Backbeat Beatles
Whalebone Polly
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Glastonbury
festival tickets 2005
112,000 tickets went on sale
on Sunday April 3rd and were sold out in just over 3 hours. Michael
Eavis had more than twice the number of operators this year
selling
tickets online and by telephone, which worked much better than
last year's fiasco.
The reality is that there are not enough tickets to go round
- too many of us want to go to the best festival of the year!
Ticket holders
now require photo ID. The tickets are sold
with identity cards which have a photograph of the
carrier
and include their name and address. No other sites or agencies
are allocated tickets, they are only available from the official
site.
Noise police
Apparently, to keep the locals happy 'noise stewards'
will be employed for this year's festival. They will
monitor noise levels in the village, so swift action can
be taken to
quieten things
down if needed back at the site. The Glade Stage is
being moved to the new dance area as part of the noise reduction
plans. Also
the dance tent will be given special 'silent disco'
headsets, so the fun can continue into the night...quietly!
Charity
As
well as raising funds for Oxfam, Greenpeace, Water Aid, Make
Trade Fair, and Forest Futures there are plans this year to donate
money to
victims
of the Asian
tsunami.
The New Stage was re-named the John Peel Stage, in
memory of the Radio One DJ. He was the voice of Glastonbury
for many listeners and viewers of the BBC's festival
coverage, and will
be greatly missed.
Peel's favourites, The
Undertones,
played a tribute to him.
Winners of the Glastonbury Unsigned Performers Competition, The Mad
Staring Eyes played a brilliant set.
Every
fifth year since 1987 has been taken off. After discovering a spring
on the farm there are plans to build a reservoir, which will provide
water for his huge influx of visitors.
Eavis commented:" We don't
do it because we have to do it and its not tied to
commercial interests."
Glastonbury -
a brilliant new film by Julien Temple covering the history
of UK's best-loved music festival
DVD July 2006
£6.98
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Glastonbury
Anthems – The
Best Of 1994 -2004
This DVD is now
available and includes footage of Blur, Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, Coldplay,
Prodigy and
many other of the last ten year's best festival acts - voted for
by festival fans. Also includes extras, such as an aerial tour of
the site from last year's festival and a visit to the Greenfields.
£14.98 |
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