Boom! The Glastonbury festival organizers have revealed the full line-up for 2011. Paul Simon, BB King, Morrissey, The Chemical Brothers, Cee Lo Green, Kool & the Gang, Mumford and Sons and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists joining headliners U2, Coldplay and Beyonce who are set to play at Worthy Farm from June 24-26.
Check out the mega Glastonbury schedule of performers below!
It’s official: U2 have confirmed they will play at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. In a video speech at the 2011 NME awards in London, BBC News reports that The Edge announced that the band would headline the Pyramid Stage on June 24, which is a Friday night.
U2 were set to play last year’s festival, but plans were shelved when Bono injured his back. Their much anticipated show this year will be the band’s debut at the festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset. Coldplay and Beyonce have already been announced as the other two headliners.
Proving that their festival headliners can be just as underwhelming and obvious as we Yanks and our desert fests, NME reports that U2 and Beyonce are set to headline this year’s Glastonbury festival with Coldplay in England.
We’re almost a week removed from Gorillaz headlining performance at Glastonbury, where Damon Albarn and his cartoon band were asked to fill in for U2 who canceled due to Bono’s bad back. It’s tough for anyone to match a ‘U2-style’ show, but Gorillaz mixed exciting visuals and a damn fine roster of all-star guests to jazz up the performance.
The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, Snoop Dogg, Shaun Ryder, De La Soul, Bobby Womack, The Fall’s Mark E Smith, Bashy and Kano all joined Gorillaz on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage last Friday (June 25). But it was Lou Reed who made headlines when it was announced he’d share the stage with Albarn and Co.
Check below to watch Lou Reed perform with Gorillaz at Glastonbury!
Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson are BFFs. This is not really news since most of us know they both share an abundant love for marijuana and have in fact also shared a stage in Europe before – with Snoop smoking several joints on stage, of course. Each artist comes from a very different background and genre but are actually quite close in real life. They first met while they each on their separate tours in Amsterdam as revealed in a conversation Nelson had Sky News:
Update: Watch Lou Reed perform with Gorillaz at Glastonbury!
Who knows, maybe they’ll break out a Velvet Underground song or two. While that would be super awesome, though unlikely, it’s still going to be a treat to see Gorillaz joined by Lou Reed onstage during their Glastonbury set tomorrow night (June 25).
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band will headline the festival’s Pyramid Stage, and the duo is expected to be visited onstage by not only Reed, but other Plastic Beach guest stars including Mos Def, Kano, Bashy, Snoop Dogg and Shaun Ryder.
Due to Bono’s back surgery last week — you don’t think it gets any easier to carry the weight of the world and that ego once you’re over the hill, do you? — U2 has been forced to postpone or cancel several upcoming gigs, including a headlining slot in England’s Glastonbury festival. Glastonbury’s response? Replace one increasingly cartoonish band with a literal cartoon band: Gorillaz.
Although everyone on the West coast (or West coast-bound) is still buzzing about this weekend’s Coachella lineup, Glastonbury just got its attendees officially excited as they’ve finally revealed the entire lineup for 2010. Just as we’ve expected, it’s massive and glorious in every single way possible. Come June 23rd, Pilton be having a great time celebrating a 40th birthday.
There isn’t one music fiend (a completely true music fiend) who hasn’t heard of Glastonbury. Around the world, the festival is basically a household name. The annual magic that happens on the grounds of Worthy Farm in Pilton, England has brought festival goers some of the best lineups each year. So, it’s not a surprise that they’re going to go all out for their 40th anniversary.
Although founder, Michael Eavis, claimed that nothing could be better than having “the biggest band in the world” – U2 – headline, the rest of their lineup is looking just as magnificent. Glastonbury 2010 is Wednesday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 27th. Find out who else is playing after the jump!
