Glasto 2010 news item

[benisright]

Erm surely its going to be difficult to book / easy to guess certain years?

[bunchy]

Bloody hell I'm just starting to get excited about this year and now I've got 2010 to stress about.

[paulo999]

I see NME reported that the 40th anniversary would mean 40 acts...

...wonder who they're expecting for 1972 thru 1978, 1988, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006?

Edited March 3, 2009 by paulo999

[pedmills]

"We've got lots of them [former Glastonbury acts] who want to play next year," says Eavis. "My daughter has coined the phrase '40 bands for 40 years,' but I don't quite know what she means. We can't get T. Rex back can we? We are trying to go through the years a little bit. We've got so many headliners piling in for next year though. It's going to be a big one."

So by the sounds of it, the organisers are going to book some acts from previous years but its not going to a really rigid structure (i.e. an act from every single year and only acts which have played before on the Pyramid stage.)

[Un Adepte Des Raconteurs]

Stackridge (1970)

Fairport Convention (1971)

Peter Gabriel (1979)

Hawkwind (1981)

Van Morrison (1982)

Aswad (1983)

Joan Baez (1984)

Echo & the Bunnymen (1985)

The Pogues (1986)

Julian Cope (1987)

Pixies (1989)

The Cure (1990)

James (1992)

Robert Plant (1993)

Beck (1994)

The Prodigy (1995)

Smashing Pumpkins (1997)

Bob Dylan (1998)

R.E.M. (1999)

David Bowie (2000)

Faithless (2002)

Radiohead (2003)

Elbow (2004)

Ash (2005)

The Marley Brothers (2007)

Manu Chao (2008)

With Radiohead, Bowie and The Cure as headliners. And a lot of ego-suppression from the others!

For the ‘Greatest hits’ I’d go Billy Bragg, The Levellers, Orbital and Taj Mahal.

Now I’m going to fly my pig to Eldorado….