Babylon Uprising to return to Glastonbury Festival - to celebrate 5th year

Babylon Uprising, the Somerset sound system, have announced they will be making a return to Glastonbury Festival in June to celebrate FIVE years of musical mayhem in the heart of the Festival’s market quarter.

They say (here), "2015 saw stand out underground sets from Benton, Mella Dee, Klose One, Despicable Youth and Woz billed alongside carnival mash ups from Jus Now, alongside roots and dubs from Irie Bingo, Gold Dubs and the Dub Smugglers. To name just a few…

"We look forward to opening our tent doors once more this year for another Babylon boat party (yes, the DJ booth is in a boat) and also to revealing some forward thinking additions for 2016, not least of them a homage to London’s legendary summer Bank Holiday street party: let’s hear it for Notting Hill Carnival meets Worthy Farm meets Babylon Uprising. Watch this space for more details soon!"

There's only a few hours left for both UK and international to pay their balances, ticket buyers only have until 11:59pm (BST) tonight, Thursday 7th April 2016 to pay their balances online.

Anyone who doesn't pay their ticket balance during the applicable week will be automatically refunded their deposit (minus a £15 admin fee) An additional £10 administration charge will be retained from any cancelled coach packages - (£15 ticket cancellation fee + £10 coach cancellation fee).

The balance due is £178 (plus a £5 booking fee) per person; plus a £7.75 transaction fee (postage and packing or box office collection) per order. Whilst paying your balance ticket holders will be given the option of booking ticket cancellation cover and car park passes priced at £35. Plus a chance to order a reusable drinks bottle to cut down on plastic pollution.

Those balances not paid by Thursday 7th April will be cancelled and with a refund of £35 (a £15 admin fee will be retained) automatically onto the card on which they were booked within 7 working days of the balance payment period ending. Those tickets will then be put forward to a re-sale, which is likely to be around the second weekend in April 2016.

To pay off balances, (click here).

Tickets purchased in resales after Friday 8th April 2016 must be paid for in full at point of booking (there is no deposit scheme offered for resale).

Tickets have sold out for this summer's Glastonbury Festival which runs for five full days from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset.

Those trying for tickets in the likely resale will need to be registered in order to book tickets in the resale.

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket in the resale. Online registration can be carried out by clicking here.

They join the previously announced Friday headliner Muse, Adele on Saturday and Coldplay on Sunday, PJ Harvey, Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra, Art Garfunkel, Cyndi Lauper, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Last Shadow Puppets, Sigur Ros, Ronnie Spector, Ellie Goulding, Explosions In The Sky, Foals, Beck, LCD Soundsystem, ZZ Top, Disclosure, New Order, Skepta, The 1975, Grimes, Annie Mac, Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music, Underworld, James Blake, Chvrches, Savages, Floating Points, Laura Mvula, Stormzy, Daughter, Little Simz, Vince Staples, John Grant, Band of Horses, Jess Glynne, Carl Cox, Nao, Fatboy Slim, Bring Me The Horizon, Richard Hawley, The Lumineers, Lady Leshurr, Rokia Traore, Guy Garvey, Kamasi Washington, Jack Garratt, AlunaGeorge, Hinds, Ezra Furman, M83, Kurt Vile (solo), Mercury Rev, Gregory Porter, Madness, Wolf Alice, Baaba Maal, Ernest Ranglin, Bastille, Roisin Murphy, Santigold, Years And Years, Dua Lipa, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bat For Lashes, Protoje, Two Door Cinema Club, Jake Bugg, Mac DeMarco, St Etienne, Blossoms, Of Monsters and Men, and Lapsley.. Plus the entrants for the Emerging Talent competition Bossy Love, Early Ghost, Gillbanks, Hattie Whitehead, Henry Green, Lady Sanity, Marcus McCoan, and She Drew The Gun.

The full complete line-up will not be announced until later this month. Expect something like 2,000 performances at over 100 venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information, site art, decor, and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

This year organisers particularly want to highlight the Festival's environmental policies which all ticket purchasers are required to subscribe to. The pledge must be agreed to buy those paying off their balances. It is not possible to attend the Festival without agreeing to Love the Farm, Leave no Trace.

Ticket holders for this summer's Glastonbury Festival are reminded to take part in their future by making sure they apply for an EU Referendum postal or proxy vote. You will find links to the form to postal vote here and proxy voting here. For more information (see the news page here).

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 2016 line-up & rumours, updated as we receive information.

Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

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