Glastonbury

22nd of June 2007 - 24th of June 2007

Glastonbury 2008 takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, from June 27th to June 29th.

Ticket registration is now open and you must pre-register if you wish to buy a ticket. Tickets are due to go on sale on the 6th of April.

Q Magazine are reporting that the Kings Of Leon will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night (June 27th), Jay-Z takes the Saturday night slot (June 28th) with The Verve closing the proceedings on the Sunday night (June 29th).

Speaking about the line-up Emily Eavis, daughter of Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis, said:

“We are thrilled that these acts are headlining Glastonbury this year, from Kings Of Leon to Jay-Z to The Verve.

“It really looks set to be an amazing year, with some great performances all round. The Verve are a great Glastonbury band and they are finally doing the headline slot we have been waiting for for years.

“Jay-Z is coming all the way over especially, and he will undoubtedly do an incredible show, we are so honored to have one of the world’s greatest hip hop artists on the farm.

“Kings Of Leon are one of the most exciting live bands out there and they have come through the ranks at Glastonbury, from the new bands tent a few years back. We see them as part of the great heritage of Friday night headliners Radiohead, Coldplay, White Stripes.

“They’re ready to make that leap as well. As usual we will be announcing the full line up in June.”

Also confirmed for Glastonbury 2008 are Neil Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Hot Chip and British Sea Power.

About Glastonbury

It's the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.

It's like going to another country. It involves travel, and probably a queue to get in. Then you enter a huge tented city, a mini-state under canvas. The Law still applies, but the rules of society are a bit different. Everyone is here to have a wild time in their own way. The site has distinct socio-geographic regions. The more commercial aspects are around the Pyramid, Other and Dance stages, like the West End on a Saturday night has been removed to a field, beautified, and you're on every guest list, including the night time cinemas. And then there are more relaxed areas like the Jazzworld and Acoustic areas, and the family oriented areas like the Kidz Field, the Theatre and Circus fields, and an increasingly alternative aspect as you pass the Field of Avalon, the Tipi Field, and the Green Fields before you reach the hedonistic madness that is Lost Vagueness. And at the top of the site is the Sacred Space - its stone circle being a modern construction, and yet perhaps it has already seen as much celebration and ceremony as some of its foregoers.

The site is in a beautiful location - 900 acres in the Vale of Avalon, an area steeped in symbolism, mythology and religious traditions dating back many hundreds of years. It's where King Arthur may be buried, where Joseph of Arimathea walked, where leylines converge. And the site is ENORMOUS - more than a mile and a half across, with a perimeter of about eight and a half miles.

Then there are the people, in all their splendid diversity! There is only one common characteristic of a Glastonbury-goer - they understand that Glastonbury offers more opportunity than any other happening to have the best weekend of the year or even of a life-time, and they are determined to have it! You'll meet all kinds of people, of all ages, backgrounds, nationalities, lifestyles, faiths, concepts of fashion (or lack of it), musical taste; some will undoubtedly wear silly hats, or buy shirts that they'll never wear again. Until next year. The vibe is mellow and friendly.