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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
U2 to headline Glastonbury 2010
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 24 November 2009
U2 have been confirmed as Friday headliners for next year’s 40th anniversary Glastonbury Festival. It’ll be the first time the band have ever played the event, despite rumours that they would do so every year since the release of their first album. However, it’s unlikely to stop the rumour that they’ve split, which spreads through the festival site each year.
Announcing the booking, Michael Eavis told reporters: “The 26 year old rumour has finally come true. At last, the biggest band in the world are going to play the best festival in the world! Nothing could be better for our 40th anniversary party. And there are even more surprises in the pipeline…”
The band will fly over to the UK during their US tour especially to play the event, which isn’t going to quiet those people who have been suggesting that U2 don’t care as much for the environment as perhaps they would like us to think.
Another band rumoured to be playing the festival next year are the Pet Shop Boys, although they told BBC 6music last week that they’re yet to be asked. The one and only time they have played the event was in 2000, of which Neil Tenant said: “We played the main stage at nine thirty on Saturday night, and it was an amazing experience. We wondered whether Glastonbury wanted to see the Pet Shop Boys. Whether we were too dance, or pop, or something for them. But it really went down fantastically well”.
