The Arctic Monkeys will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday

 

The full line-up of musicians to perform at the Glastonbury festival later this month has been announced.

 

The Who, The Killers and Arctic Monkeys will be headlining on the Pyramid Stage during the three-day event.

 

Among the more than 200 acts listed are Rufus Wainwright, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, The Gossip, Paul Weller, Chemical Brothers and Shirley Bassey.

 

The festival, which starts on 22 June, will be the largest yet, with an extended capacity of 177,500.

 

John Peel Stage

 

That figure was agreed as part of a new four-year licence for the festival, taking it up to 2010.

 

"The line-up this year is so good we've even surpassed ourselves," said organiser Michael Eavis.

 

"You could not dream up what has happened to this festival. It never fails to amaze me."

 

Mr Eavis added that he is most looking forward to the performance of US singer John Fogerty on the Jazz World stage - and would then watch The Killers on the main stage afterwards.

 

Kasabian, The Fratellis, Bloc Party and The Kooks are among the other big acts which have been confirmed to play on the largest stage at the festival.

 

On the second Other Stage, Bjork, The Coral, Editors and Babyshambles will perform.

 

Headlining the John Peel Stage will be Hot Chip, The Twang and The Gossip.

 

It is the first time music lovers have had to register for tickets for the Somerset festival.

 

In March around 400,000 people registered by sending in their details and a photo of themselves in the hope that they would eventually be able to buy tickets.

 

Organisers have since hailed the registration process as a success as they say it has prevented touts from buying tickets.

 

This year festival-goers will be asked to make a difference to climate change by reducing their carbon footprint.

 

As well as eating organic food, washing in carbon neutral showers, using eco-friendly toilets and being supplied with recycled toilet paper, revellers will be invited to join the I Count campaign.

 

It details 16 steps to reduce their environmental impact, and aims to sign up 100,000 people in three days.

 

A small number of returned tickets go on sale on the See Tickets website on Sunday.

 

Full line up at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6710645.stm

cool,but i will miss coldplay

yay Grim Northern Social :D

looks like the Main Stage is where its at....

Looks like a pretty disappointing line-up to me. No Coldplay, Keane, Snow Patrol or Travis. What's the point?

And wasn't Kylie supposed to be headlining?

That's not dissappointing at all! Sounds pretty good to me.

Hope all the members who are going have a great time!

not so good this year

So the Arctic Monkeys gets the 3rd best headlining slot...

 

Shame The Killers are the main main Saturday headliners :(

So the Arctic Monkeys gets the 3rd best headlining slot...

 

Shame The Killers are the main main Saturday headliners :(

 

That's what I was saying. Well lame. Doesn't live up to the hype this time around.;)

what a boring lineup......... :sleep:

what a boring lineup......... :sleep:

 

Affirmative, oh neighbour...................... :rolleyes:

This year festival-goers will be asked to make a difference to climate change by reducing their carbon footprint.

 

As well as eating organic food, washing in carbon neutral showers, using eco-friendly toilets and being supplied with recycled toilet paper, revellers will be invited to join the I Count campaign.

yeeeeeeeah. the festival i just went to claimed to be environmentally friendly, but they didn't even have separate recycling bins. bullfuckingshit.

It's not as good as it SHOULD be given they had a year out....

 

FUCKING ARCTIC MONKEYS :angry:

It's not as good as it SHOULD be given they had a year out....

 

FUCKING ARCTIC MONKEYS :angry:

 

Exactly. I've never been able to understand what all the fuss is about.:angry:

 

The Kaisers aren't even there!:stunned:

 

FUCKING ARCTIC MONKEYS :angry:

 

:thumbsup:

Who cares... :dozey:

 

I wanna go soooo bad! :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry:

^Now I'm pretty relieved I'm NOT going. I'd have had to consider getting a refund!!:rolleyes:

Well it would be your fault for having far too narrow tastes then :P

 

I'd probably be out of breath half the time just from running between tents trying to see everyone I want to.

I'm VERY happy with the line-up and cannot wait. :dance: x 100,000 etc, etc

Dang, that's a great lineup. So what if there is no Coldplay? There are plenty of other good acts!

I think the line-up is great! Don't know what's wrong with it... The only thing which would annoy me is the fact that I'm probably not able to see all my favourite bands, because they're playing simultaneously.

Glastonbury lineup a mix of stars and the obscure

 

The lineup for the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, to be held June 22-24, was finally made public Friday and features typically eclectic mix of familiar names and obscure acts from well left-of-center.

 

As previously reported, the respective nightly headliners on the main Pyramid Stage will be Arctic Monkeys, the Killers and the Who, with the Kaiser Chiefs, the Kooks and Kasabian taking second billing.

 

Amy Winehouse, The Kooks, James Morrison, Arcade Fire, Iggy and the Stooges and the Chemical Brothers are among the top-shelf artists booked.

 

“I`m getting on a bit with age, but I`m still enjoying it like mad, actually,” Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis tells Billboard.com. “To hear the Killers on the car playing ‘Bones’ - it is such a fantastic song - I thought, ‘This is what it`s all about.’ They just moved up a scale from last Glastonbury (2005). Of course Coldplay, Radiohead and Oasis have all done it in the same pattern.”

 

Glastonbury organizers recently cleared a licensing hurdle with the local Mendip District Council, which will allow the event to cap its capacity at 175,000 for four-consecutive years.

 

Some 144,000 of that is ticketed; the remainder is largely allocated to staff, artists and crew. In reality, the gathering will be similar in size to the populations of the British town of Swindon or the city of Bath.

 

Eavis, the dairy farmer who founded Glastonbury on his site in 1970, has introduced this year a controversial “tout-proof” ticketing initiative, which required festivalgoers to pre-register and offer a photo-counterpart.

 

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