Glastonbury Festival 2009: Full Line-up Announced

The Glastonbury Festival 2009 full line-up has been announced.One of the UK's biggest music festivals will be held June 26-28, 2009 at Worthy Farm in England. Headliners for this year's edition of the festival...

Glastonbury '90 per cent of tickets sold' - Eavis

Michael Eavis has announced that 90/% of this year's Glastonbury tickets are already sold and this despite the economic downturn. Last year ticket sales were slow and they've gone on sale earlier this year. Eavis...

Glastonbury Festival 2009 First Act Revealed

Still more than half-a-year away, Glastonbury organizers have confirmed the festivals first band. Major Major is the first official band scheduled for next year’s festival. The band got the spot at the massive...

NowPublic Roundup: Glastonbury 2008

As NowPublic member Zichi reported on Thursday, the Glastonbury Festival has undergone some significant changes in its 36 years of existence.The 2008 edition of the UK's monster music fest featured blistering...

Glastonbury 2009: a return to guitar band roots

Well this is a little odd. After all the press hullabaloo over whether Jay-Z would satisfy the guitar-loving Glastonbury crowd, and after Jay-Z's performance yesterday appears to have quelled all the doubters,...

'Awesome' Jay-Z beats Noel's rap at Glastonbury

"The rapper Jay-Z's position at the top of the Glastonbury bill has notoriously riled the likes of Noel Gallagher of Oasis, who implied it was the sort of thing that would never have happened in his heyday....

The plane that ended up perched on a villa roof after engine failure

"This was the damage after a light aircraft came down in France today.The small plane crashed into a village in Vezenobres, a small town with a population of 1,400 near the Southern coast of France, this...

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah! (update)

One would never wish financial hardship on anyone but 'Halleujah!' for the financial hardship that forces Leonard Cohen back on to the stage. Here Telegraph journalist Neil McCormick welcomes Cohen back with an in...

Amy Winehouse Added to Glastonbury Lineup

Ms. Rehab has been confirmed for Glastonbury -- maybe that means a Jay-Z / Winehouse duet is in the realm of possibility? That would offer some sweet sonic solace, after the madness of Amy's last few manic...

Yawn...Glastonbury Festival Lineup Leaked

Somehow I don't think that leaking this underwhelming lineup is going to do much for Glastonbury's already slumping ticket sales. Could this be the first year the festival doesn't sell out?"The lineup for...

Dizzee Calls Glastonbury's Jay-Z Decision 'Funny'

After Noel Gallagher called out Jay-Z as the reason for slow ticket sales to this year's usually guaranteed-to- sell-out-in-hours Glastonbury UK music binge, event organizers have stepped forward in defense of...

Hip hop at Glastonbury is wrong: Noel Gallagher

Publicly dismissing entire genres of music may well be the best way to lose friends, but Noel Gallagher has never been one to worry about appearances. He recently told the BBC that hip hop has no place at this...

Singer Pete Doherty jailed for 14 weeks

After evading justice many times, Pete Doherty is now actually going to jail."Pete Doherty spent the night in Wormwood Scrubs last night at the start of a14-week sentence for breaching a probation order.The...

Radiohead reduces ecological footprint

There aren't too many bands that can afford to say no to a gig for environmental reasons, but Radiohead is one of them.  As "Let Down" attests, Yorke has never been a fan of unnecessary transport, motorways...

Jay-Z, Neil Diamond to Headline Glastonbury Festival

UPDATE: Talk about catering to a younger, more urban audience, Glastonbury makes the smart move to bring in hip-hop's biggest star, Jay-Z, to perform at this year's festival."US rapper Jay-Z is to headline...

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