line-up for Leftfield at Glastonbury Festival announced

The line-up for the popular 'pop and politics' tent known as Leftfield has been announced for next month's Glastonbury Festival.

This year's curator Billy Bragg, will be joined by as yet unannounced special guests on Saturday, plus acts with an activist edge including Bellowhead, Badly Drawn Boy, Sound Of Rum, Kid British, Wolfgang, Grace Petrie, and Raghu Dixit, as well as comedians Robin Ince, and Josie Long in the tent located in Holts Field.

As well as the musical line-up the tent will also play host to a Comedy Spot, Bill's Big Round-up, and debates on important issues such as Power In A Union, Global Solidarity, Technology Against The Cuts, Green Jobs & Sustainable futures, Equality In The Cuts Frontline, and Another World Is Possible.

The tent returns with the same programme format as last year, kicking off around midday with a couple of debates running until 3pm then from 4pm there will be three or four artists collaborating with one another in a hootenanny, sitting on stage together swapping songs and playing along with each other, then from 6pm the bands take to the stage.

The announced line-up is as follows:

Friday 24th June
Billy Bragg
Badly Drawn Boy
The Sound Of Rum
Kid British
Comedy Spot
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Power In A Union
Debate: Global Solidarity

Saturday 25th June
Special Guests (TBC)
Kid British
Wolfgang
Comedy Spot with Robin Ince
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Green Jobs & Sustainable futures
Debate: Technology Against The Cuts

Sunday 26th June
Bellowhead
Raghu Dixit
Grace Petrie
Comedy Spot with Josie Long
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Another World Is Possible
Debate: Equality In The Cuts Frontline

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The Pyramid Stage headliners are U2, Coldplay, and Beyonce. Other acts confirmed include Primal Scream, Mumford & Sons, Queens of the Stone Age, Morrissey, Biffy Clyro, BB King, Wu Tang Clan, Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tinie Tempah, Rumer, Pendulum, Plan B, Paul Simon, Laura Marling, Don McLean, The Low Anthem, Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes, The Wombats, The Vaccines, The Kills, Brother, White Lies, Friendly Fires, Jimmy Eat World, Jessie J, Kaiser Chiefs, Eels, TV on the Radio, Bombay Bicycle Club, Noisettes, Cee Lo Green, Chase & Status, Jimmy Cliff, DJ Shadow, Glasvegas, The Streets, Crystal Castles, Wild Beasts, Gruff Rhys, Caribou, Big Audio Dynamite, Warpaint, Brit Floyd, Deacon Blue, Suzanne Vega, Fatboy Slim, Professor Green, Pete Tong, Annie Mac, John Digweed, Subfocus & ID, Melanie, Terry Reid, System 7, Asian Dub Foundation, Lee Scratch Perry, Stereo MC's, The Wombles, Netsky, Bobby Friction, Gorillaz Sound System, Iration Steppas, Mark Thomas, Billy Bragg, Folkface, RSVP, Shlomo's Glasto Circus, Tony Benn, and many more. There are a few more of the smaller stages to be announced, and a few special guests to be confirmed.

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

Other attractions will include hands on craft, self-sufficient skill-learning, Hiroshima Peace Flame (burning since 1946), The Rabbit Hole, The Free University of Glastonbury, Mavericks Late Night Cabaret, Strummerville, Cubana Salsa Tent, Hurly Burly, Climate Camp Tripod Stage, HMS Sweet Charity, 'Babylon Uprising' Market Sound System, Arcadia, MP Caroline Lucas, The Dragon Field Underground Piano Bar, The Treehouse Café, The Cider Bus, White Ribbon Alliance Tattoo Parlour, The Crow's Nest Open Mic, The Pilton Palais cinema tent, The Worthy Farm Solar Array, Glastonbury FM, Worthy FM, sound artist Maria Marzaioli, The Glastonbury Firelighter daily newspaper and much, much more!

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