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Festival impresario Michael Eavis said he hoped nearly 175,000 people will attend in 2007.   He revealed plans to expand the site beyond his own Worthy Farm, taking in an extra 100 acres from neighbouring farms. Mr Eavis said he hoped the extra space would make life more comfortable for festival-goers if the 2007 event is hit by bad weather similar to the rains that turned the site into a quagmire in 2005.   He said: "We are looking at having 10,000 extra people involved like performers, backsta

Festival impresario Michael Eavis said he hoped nearly 175,000 people will attend in 2007.   He revealed plans to expand the site beyond his own Worthy Farm, taking in an extra 100 acres from neighbouring farms. Mr Eavis said he hoped the extra space would make life more comfortable for festival-goers if the 2007 event is hit by bad weather similar to the rains that turned the site into a quagmire in 2005.   He said: "We are looking at having 10,000 extra people involved like performers, backsta

Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has said he knows some of the big names who will play at next year's festival - but is keeping them to himself for now.   "We do have acts confirmed but I can't tell you," he said, adding that reports of Bruce Springsteen headlining the event in June were "absolute rubbish".   Mr Eavis remained "really hopeful" that Kylie Minogue, who pulled out last year after her cancer diagnosis, would play. Organisers have said they hope to let up to 20,000 more fans atte

LONDON (Reuters) - Glastonbury Festival has won permission to sell 27,500 more tickets this year for Britain's biggest open-air music event.   Council chiefs in Somerset granted organisers a licence to stage the festival for the next four years with an increased capacity of 177,500 revellers.   But even despite the expansion, thousands of music fans will miss the chance to see a line-up rumoured this year to include The Who, Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys. Even before the final line-up has

Glastonbury, The Movie, will be available on release on 2-disc Region 2 DVD on July 17, 2006. The features:   - Shuffle track feature enables viewers to substitute in alternative performances/bands throughout the duration of the film - 12 extra live performances including: Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, White Stripes, Beck, The Killers, Goldfrapp, Oasis, Paul McCartney, REM, Nick Cave and Radiohead - 20 minutes of celebrity interviews from the likes of Coldplay, Noel Gallagher John Peel, James Br

Glastonbury, The Movie, will be available on release on 2-disc Region 2 DVD on July 17, 2006. The features:   - Shuffle track feature enables viewers to substitute in alternative performances/bands throughout the duration of the film - 12 extra live performances including: Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, White Stripes, Beck, The Killers, Goldfrapp, Oasis, Paul McCartney, REM, Nick Cave and Radiohead - 20 minutes of celebrity interviews from the likes of Coldplay, Noel Gallagher John Peel, James Br

The Glastonbury Festival has set up his own record label.   The Glastonbury Phonographic Society has been put together specifically to release classic live Glastonbury performances on CD and DVD.   The first album - 'Music From Glastonbury The Film' - is the live soundtrack to the recently released Julien Temple-directed 'Glastonbury' film. Over the coming months there are plans to release a number of live albums and DVDs of performances from the festival - the label is currently in talks with D

The Glastonbury Festival is hoping to expand its capacity by 20,000 for the 2007 festival.   The event is taking a break this year, as it does every five years, but organisers are now trying to work out how to get more punters through the gates.   All 112,500 weekend tickets sold out in less than three hours last year, reflecting the festival's growing popularity. The total capacity is 153,000, including passes for staff, media, artists, locals and guests. Melvin Benn, who runs the operational

The Glastonbury Festival is hoping to expand its capacity by 20,000 for the 2007 festival.   The event is taking a break this year, as it does every five years, but organisers are now trying to work out how to get more punters through the gates.   All 112,500 weekend tickets sold out in less than three hours last year, reflecting the festival's growing popularity. The total capacity is 153,000, including passes for staff, media, artists, locals and guests. Melvin Benn, who runs the operational

It will be just like the festival but without the mud. Many of the big names to have graced the Pyramid stage and the bars over the past three-and-a-half decades will converge on London tomorrow for the premiere of Glastonbury, the movie.   Julien Temple, whose previous films include The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and Absolute Beginners, has woven together miles of footage, professional and amateur, to create a record of the festival by which all other outdoor music events are judged. Glastonb

It will be just like the festival but without the mud. Many of the big names to have graced the Pyramid stage and the bars over the past three-and-a-half decades will converge on London tomorrow for the premiere of Glastonbury, the movie.   Julien Temple, whose previous films include The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and Absolute Beginners, has woven together miles of footage, professional and amateur, to create a record of the festival by which all other outdoor music events are judged. Glastonb

A registration system for Glastonbury Festival tickets has opened.   The system - designed to stop touts - requires fans to submit a passport photograph to go on their tickets. Fans will be able to register their interest online or by post and those registered will be able to apply for the £150 tickets from 1 April. The Who, The Arctic Monkeys and Bjork are the only acts so far confirmed for the 22-24 June festival. Some 137,000 tickets will be sold to the public.   The registration website -

Tickets for the Glastonbury festival have sold out in under two hours.   Fears that a registration system, designed to prevent touting, would put off fans were not realised when 400,000 signed up. The 137,500 tickets which were available to the public were snapped up just one hour 45 minutes after going on sale on Sunday at 0900 BST.   Organisers said they were happy with how the sales went despite websites and phonelines struggling to cope. Sell-out   In 2005, when the last Glastonbury Festi

LONDON • A new pre-registration system for music fans wanting to go to this year's Glastonbury Festival starts yesterday to ensure that every ticket features a passport-sized photograph of its owner.   "It's a much fairer system," said Michael Eavis, who owns the farm in southwest England where the festival has been held since 1970. "It means unscrupulous people won't be able to sell their tickets on for a profit. I assure you that your details will not be used for any other purpose."   Those

Since it's the 'T In The Park' weekend it seems only fitting to devote much of this week's column to the DVD release of Julien Temple's enjoyably grubby documentary Glastonbury (available from 16 July).   If only because it captures something of the spirit of a music festival without having to endure thousands of sunburnt Neds hurling half-drunk pints into the crowd while doing vocal approximations of the guitar riff from Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out.   Piecing together archival material, inte

Global digital music sales figures are being officially reported for the first time today as part of IFPI's (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) total world music sales statistics showing continuing growth in online and mobile music worldwide.   Record company trade revenues from digital sales globally nearly tripled in value, from $400 million to $US 1.1 billion in 2005. The total number of digital single tracks downloaded online or to mobile phones rose to 470 million units,

U2, Oasis, Robbie Williams, Coldplay And Kylie Minogue are among the acts expected to wow crowds at the world’s biggest ever concert to help save the planet.   Former US vice president Al Gore invited some of the world’s most influential media figures to a top secret London meeting last Friday (09FEB07) to plan the record-breaking gig. An insider says, “It was the most stellar array of media figures you could ever see but to get all those people in the room on a Friday night shows how willing t

The world will witness the largest ever music concert- THE LIVE EARTH CONCERT- on 7th July, 2007- all in the name of saving our planet.   The series of eight worldwide concerts were announced by ex-U.S. vice president Al Gore at a press conference in Los Angeles on 14th Feb, 2007. "The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement.” Mr. Gore said.   The number of musicians slated to perform in the concerts is enormous. Red hot chilli peppers, Black Eyed Pe

The 2006 Mercury Music Prize shortlist has been announced, and the twelve albums chosen by the esteemed judges, ain’t exactly a bunch of happy choons.   Announced by dear old Jools Holland in London yesterday, the finalists were whittled down from more than 250 entries and the lucky beggars going head-to head include Thom Yorke, the Editors, Richard Hawley, Muse, Arctic Monkeys and newcomers the Guillemots.   Despite most of them being a tad on the miserable side, the biggest ‘shock’ is the lack

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Coldplay really have us in a pickle. Ever since their website was changed a while back to reflect an outer space theme - UFO's, and other 'alien' goings-on, Coldplayers have been keeping one thought on the universe as a theme for LP5.   This weekend though, the latest theories have taken us where nobody has gone before - Star Trek IV - in particular the bit where the whales communicate with an alien probe that visits Earth sometime in the late 23rd century. This is because that, according to som

LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs' private equity arm and Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR submitted separate bids for BMG Music Publishing, people familiar with the sale said on Monday.   The people, speaking on condition of anonymity, said GTCR bid as part of a team led by U.S. media executive Charles Koppleman, while Goldman Sachs Capital Partners bid alone.   The two groups submitted bids by Thursday's deadline. One of the sources said the bids were between 1.25 billion euros (844 milli

This morning is Colin Montgomerie's idea of heaven. He will load his golf clubs into his Bentley and drive from his home in Oxshott, Surrey, to St Andrews to defend his title in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. There will be music blaring all the way.   "I can't wait," the Scot said. "I'll be listening to Coldplay, and I'll have it on so loud that the car will be vibrating."   And the estimated duration of the 480-mile journey? "Shorter than it should be," he replied. All of which would su

Google Inc. snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion today in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the online video revolution.   The all-stock acquisition unites one of the Internet's marquee companies with one of its rapidly rising stars. The price makes YouTube, a still-unprofitable startup, by far the most expensive purchase made by Google during its eight-year history. Although some cynics have questioned YouTube's staying power, Google is betting that the po

After becoming Internet moguls, Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are dipping their toes into Hollywood.   The pair are executive producers of a low-budget, independent film to be released next year, "Broken Arrows," written and directed by a friend of theirs, Reid Gershbein.   Though Google's founders routinely hobnob with Hollywood stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow (she visited Google's headquarters with husband Chris Martin, Coldplay) and Robin Williams (he visited too), none a