Virtual Festivals' weekly news round up
Reading, Leeds, ticket deals and sun celebrations
Photographer:Shirlaine Forrest
Daniel Fahey - 03 April 2009
Line-ups
The wait is finally over for Reading and Leeds fans with bosses treating festival-goers to three UK exclusive headliners: Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and Kings
Of Leon. Organisers didn’t stop there, as they announced performances from
Kaiser Chiefs, The Gossip and
Bloc Party as well. There may be
loads more acts to be added, but the first acts were enough to make sure all tickets were snapped up – making it the
fastest selling festival ticket so far this year.
Glastonbury, which only has returned tickets left to dish out,
has added Tony Christie to this
year’s bill. The crooner is set to take the ‘legends slot’ on the Pyramid Stage on the Sunday afternoon
following in the footsteps of Neil Diamond, Brian Wilson and James Brown.
It’s turning into a bit of an old
timers affair at the Isle of Wight Festival as well, with bosses confirming that Simple Minds will join Pixies and headliner Neil Young on the closing night of the event. The Script, Pigeon Detectives and Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin’ Chain have also been confirmed for the three-day bash.
From
the old to the young and Underage Festival bosses have snapped up Santigold for this year’s one-dayer as well as The Horrors, Patrick Wolf, Flash Guns and Mystery Jets.
In the battle of the boutique bashes, both Bestival
and Latitude confirmed more artists this week. Bestival announced Mercury Prize winning
Elbow as the final headliner as
well as The Horrors, The Big Pink and Doves, who were booked after Rob da Bank sent them
an open invitation to perform. Over in Suffolk, Magazine, Spiritualized and Newton Faulkner are the latest acts for Latitude joining
Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.
There are plenty of top names added to some of London’s leading
festivals with Royksopp, Laurent Garnier, Pendulum,
Chase And Status, Felix Da Housecat and more
set to Get Loaded in Clapham in August. While the same venue is set for a myriad of
top dance names the following day with Layo And Bushwacka!, Danny Howells, Nic Fanciulli and James
Lavelle confirmed to join South West Four headliners Orbital.
Sticking in the capital and Hard Rock Calling has
extended into a three-day festival for the first time in its history, with The Killers
confirmed as the Friday night headliners.
Elsewhere Glade Festival bosses
have been booking acts with a citrus slant, adding Limewax and Drop The Lime as well as Carl Craig, Annie
Nightingale, Sub Focus and ex-Prodigy man Leeroy
Thornhill.
Bob Marley’s band The Wailers will be heading over to Stoke Park, Guildford this
July for Guilfest along with Athlete, Eat Static and Imelda May, while Vetiver, Four Tet, Andrew Bird,
Phantom Band and Dirty Three are the latest
acts set for the Green Man Festival.
Tickets
The big ticket news this
week is that Reading, Leeds, Latitude and the Isle of Wight Festival have all endorsed secondary ticketing
for the first time, signing a deal with Viagogo. The partnership will guarantee the transaction and delivery of all the passes
in a secure buying and selling environment.
In an attempt to curb the credit crunch, Creamfields chiefs reduced the ticket price for first 5,000 tickets sold to just £100.
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here to get yours now.
Over on Virtual Festivals Europe
Elbow added the exotic Benicassim to their growing list of
summer performances where they will be joined by The Horrors who were also confirmed
for Barcelona's Primavera Sound. Over in Switzerland the infamous Montreux Jazz Festival revealed its full line-up which is to include Lauryn Hill, BB King
and Lily Allen. Further north Jarvis Cocker
was announced as headliner for Berlin Festival, Deadmau5 was announced for Roskilde,
Santigold is set to perform at Dour Festival (Belgium) and Supergrass are pencilled in for Finland's Provinssirock.
And finally…
After last year’s wash out,
Green Man Festival organisers are taking no chances with this year’s event getting Rollo Maughfling an Archdruid of
Glastonbury and Stonehenge to bless the site. "We performed a genuine Druids' blessing ceremony to celebrate the
Spring Equinox, bless the Green Man Festival site, and the Green Man Festival itself
in August,” he said. Best pack the sun cream then.
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