2010 marks the 10th anniversary for Global Gathering which has its home in Stratford upon Avon. Global has also fiercely battled with Creamfiields to become the countries best dance music festival, It is the favourite of a lot of people.
This year they have announced the first of the headliners. The first headliner is Faithless, not a massive surprise as if you are celebrating 10 years of a festival you need the best and in my opinion Faithless are the best you can get for a festival. Ive seen them before and they will make the weekend very special and no doubt sell those tickets a little faster!
The second headliner is Dizzy Rascal, last year Dizzy was performing at Creamfields which unfortunately suffered from the rain, This year i would expect the rain to be at bay ready for Dizzy to wow the crowds at Global. A couple of years ago Global put on Kanye West and to say the least i was very disappointed, Dizzy however is different in my eyes, He has lots of dance music elements in his music that crosses over very well. Armin Van Helden has had an influence on his last album producing some of the music being rapped over (bonkers was the first)
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.
The official end of the summer is imminent, all the festivals have had their go this year to impress and attract us back next year, Glastonbury has already won this little battle being the first festival of 2010 to completely sell out.
Its time however to vote, The UK Festival Awards are exactly what they sound like, they award festivals depending on what we say!
The categories are things such as ‘Best Major Festival’ and ‘best Medium Sized Festival’ I’m not to sure what the criteria are for being part of a category as some of the festivals are missing from categories id expect them to be in, there are also some festivals I’ve never heard of which obviously means i must try harder considering i write on a blog about music festivals!
If you want to take part in this years voting get onto the website now Uk Festival Awards.
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.
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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Creamfields 2009 brought together the very best in Dj’s and performers who put on an insane show for all who attended. 
Part of the show also entailed fireworks and pyrotechnics. Its nothing new but there was definitely more there this year than in years past. Many of the Dj’s had pyrotechnics coming from the stage at some point, especially Tiesto during his outdoor set. As well as this these small scale displays there was also a larger fireworks display on the Sunday evening which left everyone looking skyward! From the campsite the display looked great and all we needed was a stall to buy fireworks from and we could have joined in the display with our sparklers! Obviously a fireworks stand in a campsite is a ridiculous idea and such festivals will not allow you to enter with fireworks.
However the point of this ramble is that the more festivals need to impress to attract the crowds then the more fireworks they should use! Everyone loves fireworks.
It was only a couple of days ago when i was writing about the standard camping tickets selling out and saying that there is a warning on the VIP tickets that they are selling well. The time has come already that all the VIP tickets have now sold out for the event. The organisers have put a warning in place that they expect all tickets to be sold by next Wednesday, that’s one week today.
This news really excites me as it has been a long time since Creamfields actually sold out in advance. The festival selling out is a big issue as when Creamfields started it was the king of the festivals, then after around 2002 / 2003 i personally feel the excitement had gone a little, the hype surrounding the festival wasn’t as great, when ever you spoke to people they always changed the subject to Global Gathering. This year though it is different, the lineup is one of the strongest for a long time, ticket sales are showing the popularity is back and i feel there is a genuine fresh excitement for Creamfields 2009 that there hasn’t been for a long time (i have been to almost all the previous creamfields).
If you want a ticket now you will have to get single day tickets, as we mentioned they are now selling fast so don’t wait around. If you go to the dark side and buy tickets of eBay it IS NOT RECOMMENDED but if you do be careful, there going for a pretty penny on there now so you don’t want to be had.
Its not long to go now till Creamfields and the Standard camping tickets have now sold out. If you haven’t already got tickets and you want to camp at the festival then the only way to do it is to purchase VIP camping for the event which the organisers also say are selling out fast.
I noticed this weekend that the ’special offer’ price of £100 have had the ’spacial offer’ banner removed but the ticket price stayed at £100 for the standard weekend camping. I initially thought this was a sign the tickets may not be selling to quickly however i am happy to hear it has sold out as it shows the demand is still there for what i think is the best festival of the year.
Tickets are still available for the individual days and weekend tickets are still available for people who don’t want to camp over at the event.
Because the tickets have sold out and there will still be people wanting to stay at the event people are being warned over fake tickets for the event, If you but your tickets second hand or from an unauthorised retailer then you will have no guarantees that you will gain entry and you definitely wont get your money back!
If you are like me and you already have your ticket then sit back and relax!
I quite often chat about the music festivals on this website but from time to time a read things associated with the industry and like to blog about it, Its because of this that i am adding a new category to the site so that posts much like this one have somewhere to go.
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The Radio 1 essential mix is legendary, Being able to feature in an essential mix must be a great honor for a Dj. This year the essential mix will be live from Creamfields, im not sure if it is to be recorded to be broadcast or broadcast live, i would hope it was broadcast live.
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