Muse have just announced that they will headline the Friday night of this year’s Festival, on June 24th.
This will be the band’s third Pyramid headline appearance. They will also become the first act to top the bill on all three nights, after headlining Sunday in 2004 and Saturday in 2010.
Earlier this month, Muse won the Best Rock Album award at the 2016 Grammys.
They join Coldplay (Sunday night) as confirmed headliners for Glastonbury 2016.
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For those of you asking, the Electoral Commission has confirmed that it will not be possible to have a polling station at the Festival for the EU Referendum on Thursday, June 23rd. But it is definitely still possible to vote!
To take part in the EU referendum you must be registered to vote. You can register to vote here. To check whether you are already registered to vote, you will need to contact your local electoral registration office. To find the contact details, enter your postcode in the Your local area section here.
Voting by proxy means that you appoint someone you trust to vote on your behalf. The person that you appoint as a proxy must also be registered to vote. The deadline for applications to vote by proxy in the EU referendum in Great Britain is 5pm, Wednesday 15 June. The deadline for applications to vote by proxy in Northern Ireland is 5pm, Friday 3 June 2016. You can download the form here.
To vote by post in the EU referendum, voters in Great Britain had to submit a postal vote application by 5pm on Wednesday 8 June 2016, while voters in Northern Ireland needed to submit a postal vote application by 5pm on Friday 3 June 2016.
We’re very pleased to confirm that PJ Harvey is returning to Glastonbury for the first time since 2004 to perform on the Other Stage at this year’s Festival.
Emily Eavis revealed the news at the NME Awards, where Glastonbury won the Best Festival award. The Libertines also won Music Moment Of The Year for their surprise Glastonbury 2015 set.
Listen to Emily talking to BBC 6 Music at the ceremony below…
And here’s Michael and Emily at the ceremony (photo: Ed Miles)
Coldplay today became the first headline act to be confirmed for Glastonbury Festival 2016. They will top the Pyramid Stage bill on Sunday, June 26th.
The band will become the first artists to headline Glastonbury on four occasions, following previous Pyramid Stage headline appearances in 2002, 2005 and 2011. Their 2011 set was later voted the Top Glastonbury Moment of the event’s long history by BBC Radio listeners.
The Glastonbury performance will be Coldplay’s only festival show of this year’s A Head Full Of Dreams Tour.
We’re very pleased to report that Glastonbury has been named International Music Festival of the Year at the 27th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards in Nashville.
This is the tenth time that the Festival has won this prestigious award, and Michael Eavis was there to collect the prize.
We are extremely happy to confirm that Jeff Lynne’s ELO will be coming to Glastonbury for the first time this year.
The Electric Light Orchestra will follow on from Dolly Parton (2014) and Lionel Richie (2015) in the Sunday teatime slot, on June 26th.
We’re very pleased to announce our EMERGING TALENT COMPETITION 2016, which will give new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s Festival.
The free-to-enter competition is supported by PRS for Music and the PRS for Music Foundation. The winners will also be awarded a £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS for Music Foundation to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will also each be awarded a £2,500 PRS for Music Foundation Talent Development prize.
Acts from any musical genre could enter the 2016 competition FOR ONE WEEK ONLY from 9am Monday 18th January until 5pm Monday 25th January 2016. To enter, acts needed to supply a link to one original song on SoundCloud – which is free to join – plus a link to a video of themselves performing live (even if it’s only recorded in a bedroom).
Entries to the competition are now closed.
Recent Emerging Talent Competition entrants include hotly-tipped R&B singer Izzy Bizu (a 2016 BRITs Critics’ Choice and BBC Sound Of 2016 nominee) and fast-rising young rapper Isaiah Dreads. Last year’s winner was singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, who has since signed a management deal with Q Prime, who also manage Metallica, Muse and Foals.
Once the entries are in, a panel of 40 of the UK’s top music writers will help compile a longlist of 120 acts. The longlist will then be whittled down to a shortlist of 8 artists by judges including Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, before the live finals at Pilton Working Men’s Club in April decide the winning act. In both 2014 and 2015, all eight of the finalists were offered slots at that year’s Festival.
Says Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis: “New music has always been a huge part of what we do at Glastonbury, and the Emerging Talent Competition has become an incredible way for us to discover – and help draw attention to – the very latest talent.”
Vanessa Reed Executive Director of PRS for Music Foundation says: “This is a brilliant opportunity for up-and-coming music creators from across the UK to get vital support at an early stage in their music careers, to develop their talent and also perform at the iconic Glastonbury festival. We’re looking forward to seeing which talented new artists apply.”
Throughout its long history, Glastonbury Festival has fully and publicly committed to sustaining and improving the environment where the Festival takes place, alongside a policy of reducing the impact of the Festival’s 200,000 attendees on the wider environment, particularly in regard to emissions, discharges, vehicle movements and noise pollution.
The Festival has also worked closely with its major charity partners, Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid, since the 1980s, to raise awareness of global environmental issues and highlight innovative and practical solutions.
Regretfully however, during the last two Festivals (in 2014 and 2015) some pollution has unintentionally made it into the stream running through the site, due to issues including a faulty tank and through Festival goers urinating on the land.
With the causes already identified and analysed, Glastonbury Festival continues to work with all stakeholders, including the Environment Agency, on ways to prevent and safeguard against any problems in the future.
Substantial improvement work on the site’s infrastructure has already begun and will continue over the coming months. At the same time, the Festival will again work rigorously with all of its contractors and staff to raise awareness of the environmental issues involved and the importance of preventing further incidents.
Working alongside our charitable partners, these important messages about protecting the land will also be shared with the Festival’s ticket holders as we continue our work to reduce the Festival’s impact on the environment.
“He’s one of the three greatest of all-time: Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie.”
Michael Eavis
“His show in 2000 was utterly amazing. The best gig I’ve seen here. What a sad day, what a loss.”
Emily Eavis
David Bowie performs Heroes at Glastonbury Festival 2000 (taken from the 2006 Glastonbury film).
Photo: Jason Bryant
CALLING ALL POETS, spoken word artists, raconteurs, stand-up poets and slam champs…
2016 is awaiting your assault on the bastion of beastly wordsmithery in the freakish fields of Worthy…
Lo! We at Poetry&Words are once again opening the floodgates to all you wizardly wonderful poetry fiends. So, if YOU want to perform your work on Glastonbury Festival’s poetry stage, then this is your chance! We’re looking for applications from experienced writers and performers, with something quite excellent to offer the audience of the world’s biggest greenfield arts festival.
If you think that could be you, then please e-mail poetryandwords@hotmail.co.uk with a short Bio and 1-3 video and/or audio files of you performing your work, preferably to a live audience. We’d prefer web links, but attachments (of manageable size!) will also be accepted.
We can only view one application per person. Further applications will not be considered, so send us your best stuff first time around! Don’t send Word files of your poems or links to your books. However good they are, it’s the performance element we need to be able to judge as well.
We do pay a fee, but this is only small, and overseas poets in particular should note that we are unable to provide travel expenses. Guest tickets are also beyond our power, but booked poets will receive a ticket for themselves as well as a camping pitch backstage of the Poetry&Words tent.
The deadline for applications is, strictly, 5pm on Friday 4th March 2016. We regret that we cannot view any applications received after this time, so please make a note of the deadline and make sure you submit as much in advance as possible. Don’t miss your chance!
We hope that you’ll understand that, given the positively elephantine volume of applications we receive every year, we are not physically able to respond to requests for feedback or advice, or to let every applicant know how they’ve done. Successful artists should hear back from us by two months after the deadline.
You can also find us at:
facebook.com/GlastonburyFestivalPoetry
youtube.com/user/PoetryandWords
poetryandwordsblog.wordpress.com/
Photo: Anna Freeman by Matt Gillett