Glastonbury Festival confirm The Dead Weather

Jack White's The Dead Weather have been confirmed as appearing on the main, Pyramid Stage at this summer's 40th Anniversary Glastonbury Festival.

Jack White makes a return to Glastonbury Festival this June with his latest project The Dead Weather. The multi-talented musician who founded The White Stripes and The Raconteurs has joined forces with The Kills' Alison Mosshart to create an American supergroup with members of Queens of the Stone Age and The Raconteurs also in the mix. The band appeared at last year's festival as the surprise guests on the Festival's Park Stage.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis said, "We're always honoured to have Jack White at the Festival and he's given us some amazing sets over the years with The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. The Dead Weather played a surprise set in The Park last year which blew everyone away, so we can't wait to see them on the Pyramid Stage this year. Welcome back Jack!"

The Dead Weather join headliners U2, Muse, and Stevie Wonder on a bill which also includes Dizzee Rascal, Vampire Weekend, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Orbital, Shakira, Pet Shop Boys, Scissor Sisters, Seasick Steve, Jackson Browne, Faithless, Jack Johnson, Ray Davies, Slash, The Flaming Lips, Hot Chip, Florence And The Machine, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Groove Armada, Jamie T, Ash, The xx, Midlake, Empire Of The Sun, New Model Army, Lightning Seeds, Gomez, Sasha, Fatboy Slim, N-Dubz, Levellers, Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, Delphic, Curved Air, Kelis, The King Blues, Mos Def, George Clinton And Funkadelic/Parliament, and many, many more.

To see the line-up in full, along with the latest rumours for some of the other stages, click here >> or to view it on as a list click here.

The event will mark the 40th anniversary of the Music and Arts Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, where Michael Eavis first opened his gates for business in September 1970. Glastonbury Festival runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside. Festival tickets were priced at £185 and have all SOLD OUT.

eFestivals' Glastonbury World Cup 2010 in support of WaterAid

Once again this summer players, mainly members of the eFestivals forums, are coming together to be part of the England vs The Rest Of The World football match, which will be raising funds for WaterAid on Thursday 24th June at the Festival.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis has challenged the event to raise £6000 for WaterAid and thus provide enough money to provide the cost of building three water wells. Water is something that we all take for granted but other people aren't so lucky.

The event begins at 1pm at the Pyramid Stage field with prematch entertainment from Hobo Jones & the Junkyard Dogs who will be doing a 40 minute set with the World Cup match will start after that.

WaterAid will again be on hand with collection buckets at the game, and people who can't make it to the event can make an online donation at http://www.justgiving.com/glastoworldcup2010.

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