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The Curse of Glastonbury Continues

KT Tunstall - standing in a field. Glastonbury takes place in a field, and KT Tunstall is playing Glastobury, hence the relevance.

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Aidan Williamson

28th April 2008
At 18:41 GMT

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The leaking of this year's Glastonbury line-up has led to further misery for the 2008 incarnation of the event after it was greeted by an immediate backlash by the public.

The once esteemed festival has struggled to sell all of its tickets this year after the announcement of the main headliners were heralded as underwhelming. Now, the situation looks set to spiral after the usually closely guarded full line-up was revealed allegedly due to a photo appearing in the May 1st issue of Q Magazine which found its way into the public domain.

The big three of The Verve, Jay-Z and Kings of Leon are already known, but here's the rest of the line-up.

Glastonbury 2008 - Unconfirmed Line-up

FRIDAY, JUNE 27

Pyramid stage:
Kings Of Leon
The Fratellis
Editors
The Gossip
The Feeling
KT Tunstall
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
The Subways
Kate Nash

Other stage:
Panic At The Disco
the Enemy
We Are Scientists
Foals
The Hoosiers
Ben Folds
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
Vampire Weekend
Hilltop Hoods

John Peel stage:
Jamie T
The Cribs
Reverend And The Makers
MGMT
The Ting Tings
Young Knives
Lightspeed Champion
Glasvegas

SATURDAY, JUNE 28

Pyramid stage:
Jay-Z
Very Special Guest TBC
Manu Chao
The Raconteurs
James Blunt
Crowded House
Seasick Steve
The Hold Steady
Shakin' Stevens

Other stage:
Massive Attack
Hot Chip
Elbow
Duffy
The Wombats
Neon Neon
Black Kids
the Golden Silvers
The Travelling Band

John Peel stage:
Biffy Clyro
The Futureheads
Band Of Horses
The Courteneers/The Black Keys
Vampire Weekend
The Teenagers

SUNDAY, JUNE 29

Pyramid stage:
The Verve
Leonard Cohen
Goldfrapp
very special guest TBC
John Mayer
Gilbert O' Sullivan TBC

Other stage:
Groove Armada
The Zutons
The Pigeon Detectives
Mark Ronson
Scouting For Girls
Jack Penate
Newton Faulkner
Black Mountain
Hoodoo Gurus

John Peel stage:
The National
Spiritualized
Crystal Castles
Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Stars
The Courteneers/The Black Keys
Rocket Summer

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delilah

commented 2 years ago

to be honest - YES - a really flat, underwhelming and lacklustre line-up this year. true - its a big festival and there's lots going on... but really im so dissappointed with this. this collection of artists feels so safe... ive got to work out whether id be better off going on a holiday!

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John King

commented 2 years ago

I don't see how revealing the lineup a couple of days early is a "curse"? I wouldn't be surprised if it was deliberately leaked to spur on ticket sales.

The main stages will always reflect what's around at the time. In 2004/5 there was an explosion of new popular guitar acts such as The Killers and The Kaisers that brought a more mainstream audience to Glastonbury.

Now that wave of bands is very much over and there just isn't a lot of obvious big name festival acts around. They can't book The Killers every year.

So this year it's gone back to being a festival for people who are truly open-minded and genuinely enjoy a good mix of music, from big corporate acts up to some hippy bloke with a guitar trying to remember the words to stairway to heaven. People who enjoy going to see acts they would never normally touch with a bargepole and finding they enjoy it.

People who won't have a heart-attack just because Shaking Stevens is playing at 10am on the Saturday morning! (Ok he's just an Elvis impersonator that does his own stuff, but Oasis are just Beatles impersonators that do their own stuff, and they HEADLINED!)