Springsteen confirmed

[Winston Legthigh]

No surprise....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/2...teen-blur-young

but still, woo!

[Alcatraz]

Christ the Guardian sounds like the Sun with its headlines and captions

Glastonbury returns to roots with Springsteen

[fingers_mark]

Christ the Guardian sounds like the Sun with its headlines and captions

How?

Resentment. Not heard much bad word about his performance?

[incident]

Holy f**k.

I've continually refused to let myself believe it up till now, but with an Eavis quote in there it might just be real. Given Bruces historic refusal to play Festivals is probably the most impressive booking any proper UK festival has managed to get for a number of years. Not only that, but the man really can deliver on any amount of hype - this is sure to be one of the all time great Glastonbury moments.

Full credit for breaking the story should go to eFestivals who were absolutely the first people to predict this several months ago. At the time I repeatedly insisted it wouldn't happen, you can't believe how happy I am that I was dead wrong.

[Pauljoanss]

Great news. I have been watching his Superbowl performance (have to use torrents because all taken off youtube), a bit over the top but loads of energy, its goin to be great.

Just hope big attractions on other stages at the same time otherwise may be a bit tight in that field.

[daveinafield]

i am now very excited, not seen Brucie since 1988 Amnesty tour i do hope he gets at least 2.5 hours, i remember Roger Waters getting a long slot.... am thinking about 9/9.30 pm start

set list wish list for me

Thunder Road

The Rising

Lonesome Day

Working on a dream

Born in the USA

Badlands

Darkness on the edge of town

The River (With long story please)

Growin up

Rosalita

Nebraska

Magic

Devils and Dust

The Ghost of Tom Joad

The Wrestler

Lucky Town

Gypsy Biker

The Last Carnival

Born to run

Jungleland

War*

[paulo999]

"Michael Eavis's daughter, Emily...confirmed that several bands who "self-announced" their presence at the event, such as Florence and The Machine, The Ting Tings, Doves and Franz Ferdinand, are indeed playing."

Knew the Doves were interested, but didn't know they'd self confirmed.

Cool.

[Al the CAT]

Subtle change of wording from the Telegraph website...

Bruce Springsteen to headline Glastonbury

Bruce Springsteen is expected to be announced today as the main headline act at this summer's Glastonbury Festival.

[sifi]

Michael Eavis's daughter, Emily, who co-runs the event and lobbied hard for Jay-Z's inclusion last year, indicated that the rest of the roster would, as always with Glastonbury, boast the full panoply of music styles.

Apart from rock / metal, obviously

[Grateful Ghoul]

Is there anybody alive out there? I said Is there anybody alive out there?

It's boss time!!!!!!!!!

Man I can hear it already and getting excited

[Chazeboy]

I know we all knew, (Well done efests AGAIN ) but im very excited now, YEE HA

[Sipperana]

Might have just come at the right time for me, having been a lifelong Springsteen naysayer who has recently been melted somewhat by the excellentNebraska album. I'd always put the Boss in the same bin as Dylan until I discovered the humour and rootsy bluesiness of some of the Zimmerman's work. Maybe seeing him at Glasto could do the same for Springsteen for me.

Good to see Florence is gonna be there. She was great at Brixton on Saturday night - something of the Janis Joplins about her, though better looking and thinner

[ThomThomDrum]

Bruce Who?

Now this is a big shock.............who the hell would of got this one???

[stonedhenge]

gutted by this news, the first time i goto glasto and we have a jumped up,over hyped, wwe wrestler wanna be as the main headliner, i have listened to his new albium, its rubbish, sounds like every song on it he is trying to copy someone one else's style, his old stuff is rubbish, f**k sake there better be someone good playing to justify buying a ticket without knowing who's playing. royally f**ked off. SORT IT OUT!

[Tugger2k]

gutted by this news, the first time i goto glasto and we have a jumped up,over hyped, wwe wrestler wanna be as the main headliner, i have listened to his new albium, its rubbish, sounds like every song on it he is trying to copy someone one else's style, his old stuff is rubbish, f**k sake there better be someone good playing to justify buying a ticket without knowing who's playing. royally f**ked off. SORT IT OUT!

[ThomThomDrum]

gutted by this news, the first time i goto glasto and we have a jumped up,over hyped, wwe wrestler wanna be as the main headliner, i have listened to his new albium, its rubbish, sounds like every song on it he is trying to copy someone one else's style, his old stuff is rubbish, f**k sake there better be someone good playing to justify buying a ticket without knowing who's playing. royally f**ked off. SORT IT OUT!

[DaveMac]

Good Lord Man! Chill...........Glasto is a lot bigger than one Gig..............You will enjoy it even if no one you like is playing............wait and see............

[paulo999]

+1

Glasto is MUCH more than the headliners

[Tugger2k]

gutted by this news, the first time i goto glasto and we have a jumped up,over hyped, wwe wrestler wanna be as the main headliner, i have listened to his new albium, its rubbish, sounds like every song on it he is trying to copy someone one else's style, his old stuff is rubbish, f**k sake there better be someone good playing to justify buying a ticket without knowing who's playing. royally f**ked off. SORT IT OUT!

[stonedhenge]

bloody better be someone else worth watching, bruce springsteen, it's almost laughable, we are in the year 2009, not 1970, HOW is he good enough to headline?? or is that what you all mean, the headliner's at glasto are always rubbish? hip hop shit last year? "the boss" this year, i could understand maybe popping along to see him if he was playing in the afternoon, between say ,fleetwood mac and blur,just to say you have seen him, but not the main event to go shouting about, if fact i'm quite embarresed to tell people that he is playing, cant wait to find out who is playing at the same time, but seriously, anyone who calls himself "boss" is gonna get flamed big time, i might even piss in a bottle and let him have it, now, altogether as one, "BOOOOOOOO!"

[stonedhenge]

actually, you should look on this as a blessing, not a curse.

seeing as this is your 1st time there, if you loved all 3 headliners on the pyramid, the only headline experience you'd come back with is that stage at 11pm.

this way you get to pick something way out there from any of the 30 odd music performance stages (or go for a bit of comedy, or theatre, or poetry) and truly have a rounded festival 1st time up.

belive some, some of the magic of the place can be found with a small crowd, watching/listening to a great performance that you and only a select few get to share.

[Mardy]

bloody better be someone else worth watching, bruce springsteen, it's almost laughable, we are in the year 2009, not 1970, HOW is he good enough to headline?? or is that what you all mean, the headliner's at glasto are always rubbish? hip hop shit last year? "the boss" this year, i could understand maybe popping along to see him if he was playing in the afternoon, between say ,fleetwood mac and blur,just to say you have seen him, but not the main event to go shouting about, if fact i'm quite embarresed to tell people that he is playing, cant wait to find out who is playing at the same time, but seriously, anyone who calls himself "boss" is gonna get flamed big time, i might even piss in a bottle and let him have it, now, altogether as one, "BOOOOOOOO!"

[robith]

bloody better be someone else worth watching, bruce springsteen, it's almost laughable, we are in the year 2009, not 1970, HOW is he good enough to headline?? or is that what you all mean, the headliner's at glasto are always rubbish? hip hop shit last year? "the boss" this year, i could understand maybe popping along to see him if he was playing in the afternoon, between say ,fleetwood mac and blur,just to say you have seen him, but not the main event to go shouting about, if fact i'm quite embarresed to tell people that he is playing, cant wait to find out who is playing at the same time, but seriously, anyone who calls himself "boss" is gonna get flamed big time, i might even piss in a bottle and let him have it, now, altogether as one, "BOOOOOOOO!"

[sifi]

He is one of the biggest selling artists of all time. He pretty much never plays festivals. Whether you like him or not is irrelevant - he is a HUGE act.

[Sam Crawley]

So Bruce confirmed. According to the article Emily said that "several bands who "self-announced" their presence at the event, such as Florence and The Machine, The Ting Tings, Doves and Franz Ferdinand, are indeed playing."

"Several".... "such as"... it's all a bit woolly. Is there a source press release or anything with more detail about? I have failed to find anything on the Orange site post 10am either. I note that the Telegraph article merely quotes the Guardian - strange old times, eh?