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The deadline for paying the deposit on your ticket (if for some reason you haven’t paid) has been extended by 48 hours.

You now have until 11.59pm on Tuesday 2nd March to get the rest of the cash together and grab your ticket.

Glastonbury Festival organisers have said there will be a resale of cancelled tickets and info will be announced “soon”.

Faithless

British band Faithless announced they will be playing Glastonbury Festival this year while on stage at the o2 in Leeds last night

The band last played in 2002 and I have been hoping they would play again since I started going, personally I can’t wait, but I know it’s gonna clash with something I really want to see

Gorillaz

Damon Albarn has also been speaking to the NME and has revealed that Gorillaz will be playing some “Big gigs” during 2010, but not Glastonbury Festival

“Are we playing any UK festivals? I wouldn’t want to go and play Glastonbury or anything because I think it would be very difficult and I would be setting myself a very high benchmark.
But we are definitely going to play some big gigs in the UK, or in England, or in London or whatever. This year. Definitely.

The band are sounding really good and I’m really excited about it. I try to keep myself busy, I don’t think it’s good to rest on your laurels.”

While speaking to NME.com at the NME Awards last night, Emily Eavis announce that

“We’ve got some amazing things coming in all the time,” she explained. “We’ve just had a confirmation from a completely random thing which we didn’t see coming and is totally amazing. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what it is but it’s worth waiting for.”

hit the NME.com link above to see a video of the interview

A tweet on The Chemical Brothers Twitter Account possibly hints at a Glastonbury Festival 2010 performance

Chemical Brothers Glasto Hint

The Stranglers

The Stanglers have confirmed on their website that they will be playing Glastonbury Festival 2010

A note on their homepage reads as follows

And they said it would never happen!

The Stranglers are playing at Glastonbury. Despite many years of rumours about feuds between the band and organisers, we can confirm they will be appearing at Britain’s best known festival in Pilton on Friday 25th June.

Unfortunately, the festival is already totally sold out but the band is following a Glastonbury tradition and will be playing a low-key warm up in the West country area the night before their appearance.

Details of the low-key gig must remain under wraps for the time being but we will announce the details through the site as soon as we are able. This gig is happening to reward any disappointed fans in the area (and beyond) who are unable to get into Glastonbury.

We’ll bring you the ticket link as soon as we have it. We also hope that for those of us unable to attend the festival, the BBC treats us to some great live footage of the band over the course of the weekend.

Muse

Finally we have proper confirmation that Muse will be playing Glastonbury Festival 2010

The band have added the date (June 26th) to both their website tour dates and their myspace tour dates

Also, over the weekend, a BBC journalist has tweeted that he has spoken to Stevie Wonder’s Manager who also confirmed his appearance at the festival.

Spoke to Muse last night too who confirmed Glastonbury. Stevie Wonder’s manager did the same.
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For the first time, Glastonbury Festival has been granted a new licence without a licence hearing.

The festival has been granted a new licence to run until 2016, with 2012 being used as a fallow year.

Other key facts of the licence are:

• No change in the number of ticket-holder and staff (177,500)
• The total amount of sound generated from stages will not increase
• The hours of alcohol sales will not increase
• The main emphasis behind security plans will remain the same
• The provisions of welfare and medical services will remain the same
• Extra Car Parking, Camper Van and Camping Space made available

As part of their new licence, organisers now have contingency plans in place to help minimise disruption to motorists and local residents. This includes opening the Car Parks on Tuesday Night instead of opening on Wednesday at gate opening time and a new access road.

As part of the new licence agreement, performances on The Pyramid Stage, Other Stage and Jazzworld Stage must finish at Midnight, smaller stages can operate until 12.30 and The Park Stage will have artists performing on it from the Thursday.

UPDATE:

The Campervan fields will be open from Midday on the Tuesday before the Festival. Toilets, water and refreshment facilities will be available.

The Car parks will be open from 9pm on the Tuesday before the Festival. Toilets will be available (as well as the areas being lit) but no refreshment facilities will be available.

DO NOT try and turn up in a car from Midday, you’ll be sent away until 9pm.

Further details can be found in the letter below from Melvin Benn to Mendip Council Read the rest of this entry »

The Wombles

Yes, you did read that right, The Wombles want to play Glastonbury Festival.

According to The Sun the band are in discussion with festival organisers to take a coveted Sunday afternoon slot on the Pyramid stage.

A source said: “Discussions have been opened about The Wombles playing Glastonbury.

“They’re certainly keen to be there.”

UPDATE:

Apparently Dave Grohl will be on drums as Bungo.

Glastonbury Festivals have been running a poll on wether flags should be banned from in front of the Pyramid Stage….and the results are in.

13,178 votes were cast (after the removal of duplicate votes) from 71 different countries.

Votes in favour of banning flags…. 5909 or 45%
Votes against banning flags…. 7269 or 55%

So, flags won’t be banned and to all those people that voted against the ban, this is what you have permitted…Thanks

flags