Glastonbury Festival 2008

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The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts will be held on the weekend of 27th, 28th and 29th June 2008.^[1]

For more information on previous line-ups, visit the Glastonbury Festival line-ups page.

Contents 1 New Features 2 Ticket Sales 3 Confirmed Artists 3.1 Pyramid Stage 3.2 Other Stage 3.3 Park Stage 3.4 John Peel stage 3.5 Acoustic stage 3.6 Jazzworld Stage 3.7 Other major perfomers on small stages 3.8 Special Guests 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] New Features

The John Peel stage will double in size and have a screen outside of it to watch bands.^[2]

There will be a new Shangri-La area that will replace the Lost Vagueness area. It will contain 12 stages and will be open until 6am on the Saturday and Sunday nights.^[3]

Festival-goers will be provided with 10 free biodegradable tent pegs, to prevent damage to cows.^[4]

The festival site will expand by 40-50 acres.^[5]

[edit] Ticket Sales

The ticket registration system that was established in 2007 will continue in 2008 having won numerous awards, including Best Innovation at the 2007 UK Festival Awards ^[6]. Registration was available throughout February, online and from Millets camping stores, and closed on 14th March. ^[7] However, due to tickets not selling out, registration for the festival was re-opened at 4pm on Tuesday April 8th, allowing those who hadn't previously registered to purchase tickets.^[8]

In July 2007 organiser Michael Eavis stated that 40% of tickets for the upcoming festival will be sold via telephone in order to attract more teenagers to the event. Eavis was quoted as saying that the sale of tickets mainly on-line resulted in 2007's festival-goers being "Too middle aged and respectable".^[9]

Tickets sales have not been as numerous as previous years^[10], after tickets went public on April 6, only 100,000 were purchased, prompting Eavis to re-open registration two days later. Last year, the entire allocation of 137,500 tickets sold out in about two hours. There are a number of theories as to why this lapse in ticket sales has occurred but the largest theory is people have been put off due to the inclusion of Hip Hop artist Jay Z. Michael Eavis disputes this^[11], claiming that the lapse in ticket sales is due to a long run of poor weather conditions during the festival.

[edit] Confirmed Artists

These are the performers which have been confirmed by the official Glastonbury Festival website.

[edit] Pyramid Stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Kings of Leon The Fratellis Editors The Gossip The Feeling KT Tunstall Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly The Subways Kate Nash	Jay Z Amy Winehouse Manu Chao The Raconteurs James Blunt Crowded House Seasick Steve Martha Wainwright Shakin' Stevens	The Verve Leonard Cohen Goldfrapp Neil Diamond John Mayer Brian Jonestown Massacre Gilbert O'Sullivan Martina Topley Bird

[edit] Other Stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Panic At The Disco The Enemy We Are Scientists Foals The Hoosiers Ben Folds Vampire Weekend Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong Be Your Own Pet Hilltop Hoods	Massive Attack Hot Chip Elbow Duffy The Wombats Neon Neon Black Kids One Night Only Los Campesinos! The Golden Silvers The Travelling Band	Groove Armada The Zutons Pigeon Detectives Scouting for Girls Mark Ronson Jack Penate Newton Faulkner Black Mountain Hoodoo Gurus Black Cherry

[edit] Park Stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Pete Doherty Dizzee Rascal John Cale (Special Guest) Edwyn Collins The Duke Spirit Operator Please Sons & Daughters Santogold Beggars Magic Wands Island Line The Langley Sisters	Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) Battles MGMT (Special Guest) Shlomo Kool Keith Guilty Pleasures Alphabeat St Vincent Jape Eugene Mcguinness	My Morning Jacket Tunng Vetiver Laura Marling Mystery Jets Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl Cave Singers Alberta Cross Mumford & Sons Alan Tyler & The Lost Sons Redbridge Brass Band

[edit] John Peel stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
The Cribs Reverend And The Makers The Kills MGMT The Ting Tings The Young Knives Lightspeed Champion Make Model Glasvegas Patrick Watson Royworld	Biffy Clyro The Futureheads Band of Horses The Black Lips Vampire Weekend The Courteeners British Sea Power Holy Fuck The Teenagers Hilltop Hoods Emmy the Great Dogtanion	The National Spiritualized Crystal Castles The Long Blondes Stars (band) Rocket Summer Friendly Fires The Whip Yeasayer Folking Idiots

[edit] Acoustic stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Seasick Steve Sinéad O'Connor The Blockheads Arno Carstens Eddie Reader Camille O’Sullivan Eleanor McEvoy Devon Sproule Acoustic Stage Blues Club With Grainne Duffy	Gilbert O’Sullivan The Swell Season Featuring Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers Seth Lakeman Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders Thea Gilmore Sid Griffin & The Coal Porters Emily Maguire Acoustic Stage Blues Club With Grainne Duffy The Travelling Band	Joan Baez Suzanne Vega The London Community Gospel Choir Stackridge Tom Baxter Tift Merritt Foy Vance Acoustic Stage Blues Club With Grainne Duffy Amsterdam Lazenby

[edit] Jazzworld Stage

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Jimmy Cliff Estelle Fun Lovin Criminals Lupe Fiasco Candi Staton Alabama 3 Soha Phantom Limb Mankala	Ethiopiques Buddy Guy Imagined Village Joan Armatrading Eric Bibb Massukos The Blessing The Neil Cowley Trio Bedouin Jerry Can Band	Manu Chao King Solomon Burke Eddy Grant Dub Colossus Asere & Billy Cobham Balkan Beat Box Almasala Portico Quartet Sense of Sound

^[12]

[edit] Other major perfomers on small stages

• Avalon Stage: Will Young, The Proclaimers, Katie Melua
• Leftfield Stage: The Levellers, Kate Nash, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Reverend And The Makers
• Queen's Head: One Night Only, Kate Nash, Pigeon Detectives, Elbow
• Dance West Stage: Fatboy Slim

[edit] Special Guests

Special guests include Amy Winehouse and Neil Diamond, Jack Black of Tenacious D has said they will be playing Glastonbury in an interview with the BBC, although this has not been officially confirmed.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links