Jamie T, The Cribs, Biffy Clyro and The National have been announced as the main headliners for the John Peel stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival.
Organisers have confirmed that the bands will appear at Worthy Farm from 27-29 June.
The Cribs and Jamie T will co-headline on Friday 27 June. Read more
The star, who is also playing at the festival, believes mainstream hip-hop acts like Kanye West or Eminem would have had a wider appeal.
He told 1Xtra: “I don’t know if Jay-Z has got that cross over element. Kanye West or Eminem, they’ve both got that. Jay-Z is a bit of a funny one.”
His comments come after Noel Gallagher said Jay-Z was “wrong” for Glastonbury.
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Despite his comments Dizzee, who teamed up with the Arctic Monkeys at last year’s event, did admit he is personally delighted to see a hip-hop act headlining the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. Read more
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has defended the decision to headline this year’s festival with rapper Jay-Z.
Writing in the Independent, Ms Eavis said they felt “honoured” to have the hip-hop star. “He is absolutely the right act for our festival,” she wrote.
“There is no reason why we should not have the greatest living hip-hop artist on at Glastonbury.”
Critics have linked the booking to poor ticket sales, with Oasis star Noel Gallagher calling it the wrong choice.
“I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong,” he told reporters on Sunday. Read more
| By Colin Paterson Entertainment reporter, BBC News |
Noel Gallagher has criticised the decision to have a hip-hop act headlining the Glastonbury Festival.
The Oasis guitarist said having rapper Jay-Z at the festival was the reason tickets had not sold out this year.
He said it was “wrong” to have a hip-hop headliner and added that organisers had changed things too much.
But Hattie Collins, editor of urban music magazine RWD, called Gallagher’s comments “ill-informed rubbish” and said Jay-Z was a “great crowd puller”.
There were 100,000 tickets sold for Glastonbury on the first day, but in past years all tickets had sold out in a matter of hours.
Gallagher said: “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Read more
This year’s Isle of Skye music festival has been cancelled after the organisers racked up £500,000 in debts, BBC Scotland has learned.
The festival was launched in the summer of 2005 and attracted some of Britain’s biggest bands to Ashaig airstrip near Broadford.
The festival was voted the UK’s most fan-friendly in 2006.
However, it has emerged some musicians and suppliers have yet to be paid for their work at last year’s event. Read more
Glastonbury organisers are re-opening registration for tickets today at 1600 after the event did not sell out in the first two days.
100,000 had sold by Sunday afternoon out of a total of 137,500. Read more
Thousands of Glastonbury Festival fans are jamming phone lines and its website after tickets went on sale earlier.
This year’s event, which is being headlined by US rapper Jay-Z, takes place on organiser Michael Eavis’s farm at Pilton, Somerset, from 27-29 June.
Fans had to register their interest in advance of tickets going on sale, with demand slightly down on last year. Read more
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