Glastonbury this year will be revealing a new stage for the festival. Glastonbury has always played and supported a large amount of musical genres and artists.

The new stage is the Bourbon Street Jazz n Blues stage. I cant say its a genera that i have ever heard off but i had been lucky enough to get a ticket, i would be checking this place out!! Again, the line-up is nobody i know but its all about hearing new things. Bourbon Street Jazz n Blues sounds like a stage with lots of old people playing trumpets! I’m going to do a bit of digging on You Tube today to educate myself!!

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New Glastonbury Stage

The owner of Glastonbury have revealed that Oasis Snubbed playing at Pilton farm last year. A couple of years ago, the organisers set up Jay-Z to headline Glastonbury, this was much to the dis belief of Noel Gallagher who openly voiced his feelings about having a rap star headlining Glastonbury.

It has been revealed that Oasis were then offered to Headline the year after but snubbed Glastonbury to play two dates at the V festival, the second of these dates were cancelled because the band fell out.

Michael Eavis has said that if they reformed, they would never play at Glastonbury in the future, they should have took up his offer in the first place.

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Noel Dumped Glastonbury

Glastonbury has a very long history, but with time it has always accommodated most if not all varieties of music, When Glastonbury first started dance music as we know it did not exist, a lot of the top Dj’s that rule the scene didnt exist, and now, Glastonbury have a whole village dedicated to it!

I wouldn’t go expecting a line-up to rival Creamfields or the other big dance festivals but you can certainly expect to hear some great music and sets from Dj’s you may not have heard of but can certainly deliver.

2010 looks like a great year for the dance village, they have urban dance in the east which will bring a different dimension and you can expect to see some great names such as Above and Beyond and Roger Sanchez.

With a line-up this big you are spoilt rotten for choice line-up is as follows:

-=THURSDAY=-

WOW!
Jaymo & Andy George (Live) // Hot Natured // Joy Orbison // Wax Tailor (Live) // Jamie xx // Boy George (Live) // Beardyman (Live)

PUSSY PARLURE
Annie Nightingale’s Opening Party (Celebrating 40 years at Radio 1) // Dave Seaman // Far Too Loud // Nero // Elite Force // DC Breaks // A1 Bassline
Drumsound & Bassline Smith (Live) // Professor Green (Live) // Doorly // Lewah

-=FRIDAY=-

EAST DANCE
Fatboy Slim // Chase and Status // Zane Lowe // Plan B // Rob da Bank // Example // Roger Sanchez // Bunny Come

WEST DANCE
Boys Noize // Simian Mobile Disco // Delphic // Fake Blood // Rusko // Chromeo // Aeroplane // Boy 8-Bit // Hannah Holland

WOW!
Futureboogie // Matt Tolfrey & Geddes // Jamie Jones // Crazy P (Live) // Horsemeat // Disco // Nneka (Live) // Back to Basics // Adam Shelton & Subb-An // PBR Streetgang // El Diablos Social Club // Christophe

CUBEHENGE
The Orb (Live) // Zero 7 DJ Set // Will Saul // Spooky // Iain Taylor (rEJEKTS) // Pete Gooding // Mamy Rock // The Magnet

PUSSY PARLURE
DJ Zorro // Jose Luis & Dancers // Julian, Mr M & Miguel Salsa Magic (Dance animation & audience participation) // Robin Del Castillo & his Latin Band (Live) // La bomba – Latin Explosion // Eclectic Ballroom // Andreya Triana (Live) // Bourbon // Warfare // Incredibly Strange Film Band (Live) // Take It 2 The Bridge // Secret Cinema Band (Live) // Feeling Gloomy // Sound Of Rum (Live) // Lovely Morning with Randy & Earls Old Record Club

-=SATURDAY=-

EAST DANCE
N-Dubz // Chipmunk // Kelis // DJ MistaJam // Tinie Tempah // Giggs // Chiddybang // McLean // Bashy // Donaeo // Roll Deep

WEST DANCE
Dubfire // Nick Warren // Mix Hell // Sander Kleinenberg // Banco de Gaia // Riva Starr // Neville Staple // Dub Pistols // Parker // Foreign Beggars

WOW!
Craig Charles Presents the Fantasy Funk Band // Craze // High Contrast // Redlight & // MC Dread // L-VIS 1990 // Breakage // Central Spillz (Live) // Hot D’Jour (Live) // Emalkay // Jakwob // Shortstuff // The Heatwave // Dub Boy ft Redskin

CUBEHENGE
Kissy Sell Out // A Skillz // Bimbo Jones // Pathaan // Paul Lyman // Baobinga // Adam Regan

PUSSY PARLURE
Swaparama (Live) // Jalapeno Sound System // Rock Idol (Live Karaoke) // Smoove & Turrell (Live) // Dr Rubberfunk // Taylor McFerrin (Live) // Western Soul // Reverend Sound System (Live) // Randy & Earls Old Record Club

-=SUNDAY=-

EAST DANCE
Above & Beyond // Crystal Castles // Filthy Dukes (DJ Set) // Professor Green // Yasmin // Naive New Beaters // Crystal Fighters // We Have Band

WEST DANCE
Magnetic Man // Jackbeats // Stanton Warriors // Adam F // Blasted Mechanism // Toddla T // Alex Metric Live // South Central // Jaguar Skills // A1 Bassline // Killaflaw // Virus Syndicate

WOW!
The Ratpack // Snap! (Live) // Tayo // Four Tet (Live) // Hyperdub with Kode9, Ikonika, Terror Danjah & Dark Star // Hudson Mohawke (Live) // DaM FunK (Live) // Roska // Untold // Wedge // Funkineven // Falling Up

CUBEHENGE
Norman Jay Good Times ‘Carnival King’ // Ashley Beedle // Craig Charles Funk & Soul DJ Set // Kormac // The Bee Keepers // Ray Mighty // RSD (Live) // Flora // 2 Kings

PUSSY PARLURE
Movits and dancers // Kormac with Full Swing Band (Live) // Twilight Players (Live) // The Correspondents (Live) // Dynamo Rhythm Aces (Live) // Movits and Dancers (Live) // Nick Love // Fat 45’s (Live) // Lord Fine Ear and Performers // Broken Hearts // Top Shelf Jazz (Live) // Trio Manouche (Live) // Randy & Earls Old Record Club

Lineup Taken From Facebook

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Glastonbury Dance Village 2010

Ive not blogged much about Glastonbury this year and in the past it has been a hot topic providing lots of news. In 2010 there doesn’t seem to have been as much hype surrounding the festival, if there has been, it has passed me by.

In more recent years there seems to have been a more pop edge to the festival creeping in and 2010 is no different, Shikera will be playing Glastonbury, don’t get me wrong, im sure she is a good performer, however if i go to a festival i don’t really want to listen to the people i hear on the radio all day at work! Thats the beauty of large festivals though, if i don’t want to listen to Shikera then that is more than ok because there is so much more going on.

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Shakira Does Glastonbury

This week seems to have been a boiling pot of Glastonbury Gossip, I’m sure its still very early in the process of confirming acts for next year but that doesn’t stop people talking. Last year if i remember correctly Madonna was an early name being thrown around and there seemed to be a long list of bands wanting to headline the festival including Take That if the gossip is to be believed.

This year however it is the Rolling Stones that are the favourites to headline the closing set on the Sunday. Sundays if the day when traditionally they have older acts to close the festival with likes of Bruce Springsteen  and Rolf Harris taking part last year.

According to Digital Spy, U2 and Prince also have short odds to perform at the festival. I think Prince would be something special for the 40th anniversary which i they will be pulling something out of the bag for. If they stick with the more modern bands such as Coldplay etc i think they are in major danger of having a festival the same as they always have.

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Rolling Stones To Headline?

This isn’t a joke post, Glastonbury 2010 has officially sold out. Tickets went on sale at 9am yesterday morning and now if you check our the website there is a polite little message stating that the tickets have now sold out. It took only 12 hours to sell all the tickets this year which i am surprised about

Glastonbury 2010 has not released any of the line-up yet and i don’t think they will until well into next year. 2010 is the 40th anniversary for Glastonbury which one of the reasons could be for it selling out in record time, Other reasons could be ‘the financial market’ but i don’t really buy into that as ticket sales started to slide before all this erupted with tickets not even selling out two years ago.

I think personally the deposit scheme could be one of the reasons for the increase in first day applications, our Glastonbury reporter this year has decided to take the deposit option and this year i think this option has opened the festival up for more people.

Anyway whatever the reason its sold out. If you still want tickets then a few may become available over the coming weeks as people who have already applied fall out or the payments are refused.

Keep your eyes peeled for more news and any chances of tickets.

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Glastonbury 2010 – SOLD OUT

Tickets for next years (2010) festival will be going on sale on Sunday 4th October. Tickets will be available for £185 as next year celebrates he 40th anniversary of the festival.

As per usual anyone wanting tickets will need to be registered and tickets can be found on seetickets.com, If you can buy your tickets outright then you have the deposit scheme that was introduced last year were you can place a £50 deposit on the tickets and then pay the remainder off at a later date.

Next years Glastonbury will be from the 23rd of June till the 27 June but if you want tickets then you must register before Friday October 2009

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Glastonbury EarlyBird 2010

Glastonbury 2009 will kick off today for 5 days of live music and acts in the middle of the english countyrside! The weather has been forcast to be nice but im sure everybody going will have their emergency wellies because after all, this is England!! The official lineups dont actually have any info on what is happening tonight and tomorrow, however a source that we have sent to the festival this year assures me that there are live bands on tonight and tomorrow though only on a small scale.

As always the BBC have got extensive coverage, They have the full lineups as well as audio and video’s from the event that will be updated through the course of the weekend, at the moment the BBC coverage will not start until Friday however once it does start it will be covered on Radio 6 Radio 4 and BBC 3 TV.

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Glastonbury 2009

Its not strictly festival news but glastonbury is only 8 weeks away and the volunteers of the town have been out in force cleaning graffiti of wall in the town, Soundds lovely! Problem is that some of the graffiti was painted on by Banksy the famous street artist who’s work is admired by the likes of Brad Pitt and is valued in the 1000’s.

The image was of Paddington Bear and is the second painting by Banksy that has been removed when cleaning the streets! The person who owned the wall it was painted on is said to be looking at their insurenace to see if they were covered and they have also been told they can make a claim against the Councill as the drawing was valued at £5000 and the owner of the wall already had a buyer who wanted to buy the painting!

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Glastonbury Banksy

Kasabian have been confirmed that they will be playing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury this year and along with Bruce Springsteen, Kasabian are being billed as Bruce’s very special guests!

In the past many people have done duets at Glastonbury and some of them have been very successful; Last year Hot chip were involved in a great duet (i cant remember who with!!) but the great duets of Glastonbury are always the un announced ones, I don’t think that a planned duet will be as good because it wont be raw and un rehearsed

Also billed as playing on the main stage will be Dizzee Rascal! The UK rapper will no doubt put on a great show but with his latest track being described as a dance track with rapping on it is it the best choice of a main stage artist? After last year i will reserve judgement of popularity till after the set has finished.

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Kasabin On A Dizzie Spring Stage