Glastonbury 2012 dumped due to toilet trouble

Glastonbury 2012 has officially been canned because of the lack of, well, cans. Yep. The iconic Somerset festival will not go ahead in 2012 because the London Olympics will be monopolising England’s Portaloo supplies.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis, who has always stated he wouldn’t pit the festival up against the Olympics, told The Mail On Sunday the following:

“We have decided to cancel in 2012 because there will be severe shortages of police and Portaloo buildings – both essential to the festival…We have our own stock of portable toilets but we always need more. We shop around with four companies to get the best price, but we are not bothering for 2012. There will be a huge demand for Portaloo toilets in London, so everyone will push up their prices and I can see it getting very expensive.”

Eavis also confirmed that Somerset & Avon Police told him to expect fewer officers to be available for the festival as more are dispatched to London in preparation for the Olympics, even though the games do not actually start until July 27.

Gorillaz replace U2 at Glastonbury

Gorillaz have been announced to replace U2 on the Pyramid stage at this year’s Glastonbury.

U2 were forced to pull out of their Friday night headline slot due to a back injury Bono sustained early last week.

On a statement on the Glastonbury site, festival promoter Micahel Eavis said:

“This is going to be Gorilllaz’ only UK festival appearance, and it’ll be a massive audio visual spectacle which will really ignite the Pyramid on the Friday night, with Muse, then Stevie Wonder to follow.

“I’m very excited about Gorillaz’ show coming here because they’re so open to guests and collaborations. The alchemy of Friday’s show is going to be astonishing: a perfect, contemporary way to kick off the 40th anniversary celebrations.

“I am so grateful for the enthusiasm of the media and the whole of the music industry for their willingness and eagerness to support us in what could have been a crisis.”

Murdoc from Gorillaz went on to say:

“We’re like some great big horrible warship pulling in to the Bay of Glastonbury to save the day. It was us or The Beatles and they split up years ago. The previous soldiers got pulled from duty last minute so it’s up to my Plastic Beach naval cavalry to sail in and sort the battlefield out. I can assure you though, I’m bringing extra troops. Loads of them. Glastonbury will be ours…cutlasses drawn, trumpets ready. We’re coming in…”

Way to play the pirate pun Albarn.

U2 Cancel Glastonbury appearance

U2 have been forced to cancel their Glastonbury headline slot this week due to advice from Bono’s doctor following his sever back injury incurred last week.

After being told he needed a full eight weeks to recover, Bono phoned festival organiser Michael Eavis last night to break the bad news.

Bono said:

“I’m heartbroken. We really wanted to be there to do something really special – we even wrote a song especially for the Festival.”

Michael Eavis said:

“It was obvious from our telephone conversation that U2 are hugely disappointed. Clearly, they were looking forward to playing the Pyramid Stage as much as we were looking forward to watching them. At this point, we have no comment to make about possible replacements for U2’s Friday night slot. Instead, we would simply like to send Bono our very best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.”

Due to the injury, U2 have also been forced to postpone the North American leg of their world tour. No changes have been made to the European leg of the tour as yet.

So the big question, who will replace U2 on Glastonbury’s Friday night?

Glastonbury Line up revealed: Minds around the world explode

It’s the week for line up announcements with Splendour In The Grass and Glastonbury both coming out within hours of each other.

For Glastonbury’s 40^th year, Michael Eavis has pulled an entire warren of rabbits out of his hat, releasing a line up which destroys feeble music loving minds.

Headlining the three day festival will be U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder. The rest of the bill, though, is where it really starts to heat up! Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Flaming Lips, Vampire Weeknnd, Gaslight Anthem, Groove Armada, Mariachi El Bronx, The XX, Scissor Sisters, The Hold Steady, Laura Marling, Faithless, Slash, Orbital & MGMT all make the cut.

Australia has some pretty sweet representation in there as well with Temper Trap, Empire Of The Sun & The Middle East helping to ring in the 40^th birthday of the festival.

The line up, in fact, is so intense that I fear it will break my poor little blog, so here, instead is where you can go to find everything you need to know about the line up which has been obviously touched by the gods.

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

Oh… giant Yorkshire puddings, how I desire you…

Glastonbury Ticket Re-Sale

Want a ticket to the sold out Glastonbury? Pre-Registered? Well, it’s your lucky day!

Glastonbury 2010 canceled tickets are being resold on the 11th April, at 6pm Australian time (9am English).

Tickets will be sold online at www.seetickets.com/g2010 and via the Seetickets booking line 0844 412 4635. But if you want in to the greatest four days of your life, you better get in quick, tickets will sell out fast.

Festival Tickets are £185 ($A307.50), and there will also be a limited number of festival+coach tickets up for grabs.

While the full line-up to this years festival hasn’t been announced just yet, confirmed bands include:

Muse                                                         The Stranglers
U2                                                              Empire Of The Sun
Jackson Browne (Eagles)                     Jack Johnson
Pheonix                                                    Stevie Wonder
Vanilla Ice                                               Faithless
Laura Marling                                        Willie Nelson
Mumford & Sons                                   Reverend + The Makers
Florence + The Machine                      Newton Falkner
Orbital

Not half bad! Plus, if you’re really lucky, you might just see The Beard Of The Decade walking around, aka, Michael Evis.