more details about The Common at Glastonbury Festival unveiled

new venues, and more acts including Reggae Roast, Mungos Hi Fi, YT, & Serial Killaz

By Scott Williams | Published: Thu 2nd May 2013

Glastonbury Festival 2013 - Mungos Hi Fi
Photo credit: Federica Pacifico

Glastonbury Festival 2013

Wednesday 26th to Sunday 30th June 2013
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£205 (secured with a £50 deposit) - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 177,500

More details have been revealed for The Common one of the late night areas at next month's Glastonbury Festival.

Trash City by day (around the festival site)
Returning in 2013, after it's arrival in 2010 The Common is home to bustling music venues, urban circus, late night bars, and a range of intimate sideshows. According to organisers this year sees, "The Common deepen its relationship with Latin America by re-imagining its spiritual folklore of its people and revealing a lost civilisation with a secret. Experience mesmeric tribal rituals designed to liberate mind and body, played out in the magnificent Temple."

New for this year is large scale venue. The Cave which will feature Reggae Roast, and Mungos Hi Fi, as part of a British reggae soundsystems and artists showcase on Friday night.

Saturday night sees Origin FM re-trace the evolution from acid house to drum & bass with DJs including Shut Up and Dance, Digital Niya Binghi.

On Sunday night The Cave hosts a special first bill of the Revolution Time Remixes EP Tour by Run Tingz Recordings featuring reggae legend YT, and Serial Killaz mixing original reggae vibes and upfront jungle and D&B sounds.

Another newly titled venue in The Common this year is The Temple featuring a line-up of "some of the best high priests of bass production, who will perform audio tricks to manipulate, stimulate and educate all inside the Temple."

On Friday night, The Vagabonds present a line-up featuring Newham Generals, Dusky, Phaeleh, and Jehst.

On Saturday The Common presents, Hot Cakes vs Jungle Cakes, with Deekline & Ed Solo. Whilst Bearded Kitten who in will once again mix tomato fights, paint fights and DJs to party to on Sunday alongside performances from the Invisible Circus throughout the night.

The now legendary tomato fight will return at 6pm, and then from 11pm until 5am the DJs takeover, with at 3am the tribal ritual of covering everyone in paint happening, Bearded Kitten promise 1,000 litres of UV colour will be sprayed out over the crowd.

Venues also include The Rum Shack themed as a desert outpost with a music programme of DJs still to be revealed featuring blues, folk, reggae, soul and anything else (literally) that pushes through the saloon doors. Plus a selection of quality rums, as well as, Mexican street food and BBQ fare.

The area has already announced it will host the crazy Carny folk home of Copperdollar, the fading Cuban cinema The Lost Picture Show, and the sumptuous boudoir of a 19th Century Havana bordello Los Artistas Bohemios.



Tickets have sold out for this summer's Glastonbury Festival which runs for five full days from Wednesday 26th June until Monday 1st July 2013 across a 1000 hectares (2470 acres) of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset. Resales of unwanted tickets will take place on Sunday 21st April 2013, for those who have registered beforehand so that they are eligible to buy a ticket.

A final release of a limited number of cancelled tickets, only available as coach and ticket packages (tickets are only distributed on the coach) will happen next week. It's expected the number of resale tickets will only be in the hundreds. In order to purchase these cancelled/refunded tickets in the resale ticket buyers must be registered beforehand to be eligible to buy a ticket.

Tickets are priced at £205 (plus postage and packaging, and a booking fee of £5). Tickets will be sold online at glastonbury.seetickets.com/ and via the Seetickets booking line 0844 412 4635. Ticket holders wanting to return their tickets have until until 11.59pm on Friday 3rd May to get a ticket refund.

These coach packages will be very limited in number, and only on select routes where a cancellation has made a seat available on one of their existing coaches. The final few coach packages will be released during the course of the week commencing 6th May. These tickets are entirely non-refundable and non-transferable.

The full line-up for 2013 has not yet been announced. The Rolling Stones, Mumford & Sons, and Arctic Monkeys headline with Bobby Womack, Dizzee Rascal, Primal Scream, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Elvis Costello, Portishead, Chase & Status, The xx, Foals, Example, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alt-J, Two Door Cinema Club, Public Image Ltd. (PiL), Tame Impala, Alabama Shakes, Editors, Chic Ft. Nile Rodgers, Public Enemy, The Weeknd, Seasick Steve, Major Lazer, Tom Tom Club, Maverick Sabre, Lianne La Havas, Crystal Castles, Hurts, Phoenix, Bastille, Everything Everything, James Blake, Johnny Marr, The Courteeners, Jessie Ware, Cat Power, The Horrors, Fuck Buttons, Django Django, Rodriguez, Dinosaur Jr, Calexico, Steve Mason, Palma Violets, Devandra Banhat, Michael Kiwanuka, Steve Winwood, Sinead O' Connor, Lucinda Williams, Glen Hansard, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Gabrielle Aplin, The Proclaimers, Martha Wainwright, Seth Lakeman, KT Tunstall, Ben Caplan, Beverley Knight, Crowns, Evan Dando, Gary Clark Jr, JJ Grey & Mofro, Josh Doyle, Lucy Rose, Mad Dog Mcrea, Molotov Jukebox, Newton Faulkner, Oysterband, Penguin Cafe, Shooglenifty, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Slim Chance, Simian Mobile Disco, Terakaft, System 7 vs Eat Static, Don Letts, Nas, Disclosure, Hot Natured, David Rodigan, Sub Focus, AlunaGeorge, Eats Everything, Rudimental, and The Congos, plus Malian singer Rokia Traore. In an act of solidarity with the musicians from Mali - where Islamists in the north have banned music - acts from the country will appear at the Festival each day. As well as Speakers include Caroline Lucas, and Tony Benn with acts such as The Portraits, Tankus the Henge, Telling the Bees, Rodney Branigan, and more.

There are still many more to be confirmed for the Festival, with much of the line-up still underwraps for Arcadia, The Common, Croissant-Neuf, The Field Of Avalon, Green Fields, Green Futures, Greenpeace, The Healing Field, Kidzfield, Leftfield, The Pilton Palais, Shangri-La: The Afterlife, Strummerville, The Unfairground, Introducing: The Arctic Dome, Blues, Genosys, Glasto Latino, The Glastonbury Free Press, Gully, Sonic, The Summerhouse, and William's Green.

As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2013 line-up and rumours, updated as we receive information.

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