new late night areas for Glastonbury Festival revealed

More details have been revealed for the three new late night areas at next month's Glastonbury Festival called Block 9, The Common, and Unfair Ground.

The expansions to Glastonbury's late-night entertainment are added to the existing Shangri-La and Arcadia areas. Festival organisers have invested £200,000 to increase the entertainment on offer in the South East corner of the site. Festival organiser Emily Eavis said, "We were really keen to expand the number of late-night venues, because they were so busy last year and we wanted to give people more choice. I think with these new additions - plus existing areas like Shangri-La and Arcadia - it's fair to say that late-night at Glastonbury will never have been better!"

Block9

After the success of their acclaimed NYC Downlow, radical set designers Block9 are back. The crowning glory of the Block9 field is the brand new The London Underground, which sounds remarkably like the eFestivals mono-rail idea, done for an April fool in 2008, see here. A sinister, decaying tower block with a blazing tube train bursting from the top, this towering venue showcases London's sound system underground including YoYo, The Nextmen, The London Underground Posse, and Saxon Sound System. Plus, there will be disco, soul, funk and porn moustaches in the NYC Downlow with Horse Meat Disco and live bands and debauchery in DogFacedGeisha. Also here is The Pale Blue Door Tony Hornecker's infamous installation of a 2-storey, dilapidated New Orleans mansion and restaurant, as well as Vogue Fabric's Tranny bar, slum chic, cabaret, Gay Bingo, Steamy role play, Piano bar, Highest Heels, Dirtbox , Sink the Pink and much more! Sounds like it could take a whole night to explore their wonderland of incredible creations and serious sound systems.

The Common

The Common is home to bustling music venues, urban circus, late night bars, and a range of intimate sideshows. Watch performers on vintage Indian motorcycles at Ken Fox's incredible Wall of Death; expect the amazing, unusual, wicked sick, sorted, dirty and LARGE at Bassline Circus: rave to 360 degree visuals in The Igloo; grab a decapitated head at Hook-A-Head to win a prize; visit The Old Curiosity Shop to feast your eyes on bizarre artefacts and wondrous curios; hang out in the France based experimental music bar Wavefarm La Labobar offering out morphed delights and curious creations; or join Love Bullets in the 'Love Garden' for the ultimate daytime chill out following through to the definitive after-hours gathering.

The Unfair Ground

Glastonbury metalwork legends the Mutoid Waste Co. bring their party at the end of the world, featuring their latest sculptural lunacy: The Hellcopter, the nightclub of your wildest nightmares in the form of a Royal Navy helicopter crossed with a preying mantis. The brave can take a stroll down Sam Haggerty's Joker's Sideshow Alley or indulge in the hedonistic delights of The Acid House hosted by Bez. You can also prop up the bar at the Apocalypse Hotel, get down with the robots in Reverend Sharky's Church Of The Holyroller, and check out underground art in the MuTate Britain tent. Or join the lovely Strummerville people around their campfire. Click for more info.

Gorillaz, Muse, and Stevie Wonder headline 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, 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 SOLD OUT 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.

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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