This week’s festival news round-up
The old "stage times on hand" trick
Yes, I know, it’s only January but festivals are big business these days -Â gone are the times when you could buy a weekend pass for Reading half an hour before the gates opened. You’ve got to be on the ball now, so we’re bringing you our weekly round-up of all the top festy goss.
At the start of the week, Michael Eavis was parping on about how 98.264% of all Glastonbury tickets have been snapped up already. Is he telling porkies, or is the hype all worth it? With rumours flying around long before the gates closed on last year’s Jay-Z fronted washout, you can tell that everyone’s favourite farmer is just itching to namedrop.
Eavis said he would be “very surprised” if he were to lose any of the four big headline acts who are pencilled in. What do we think? Blur are nailed on – I’d remortgage my house, if I had a house or a mortgage. Annoying Blur wannabes Kaiser Chiefs could also be planning to upgrade from Yorkshire’s biggest skip, Elland Road, to the muddy fields of Glasto, and old-timers Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen are also hotly-rumoured.
Sneaking up on the hippy-fest’s coattails is the Isle of Wight Festival, who today announced their Friday night headliners. Crazy-mad bong-eyed bitch-slapper Keith Flint and his Prodigy are atop the tree, after yesterday subtly mentioning that Dave Grohl has fiddled sticks for their new record. Joining grass-haired Keith on the opening night will be Basement Jaxx, Pendulum and The Ting Tings.
You can’t have it all…
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Neil Young, The Boss and Blur is a certified cream dream.
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