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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
Blur probably headlining Glastonbury
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 27 February 2009
Michael Eavis revealed at the NME Awards on Wednesday evening that he is close to confirming Blur as one of this year’s Glastonbury headliners. He told BBC 6music: “Yeah, you can look forward to that, but it’s not officially announced yet. Bit more work to do on that yet but you will not be disappointed, I can assure you”.
Whether it was Blur he was referring to when he spoke to Teletext’s Planet Sound isn’t clear, but another headliner would seem to be in the bag. Eavis said: “I’ve booked the Friday headliner after talking to someone’s agent an hour ago”.
One thing’s for sure, though, that Friday headliner isn’t Lily Allen. Speaking to 6music again, the Glastonbury organiser said: “We’ve got Lily Allen of course and she was practically born at the festival anyway, because her parents used to come. It’s gonna be lovely to get her back again with the new single. I think her new single is the best song she’s ever made actually so she’ll be very high up on the bill on the Friday night, not headlining though”.
As previously reported, Bruce Springsteen has been confirmed as Saturday’s headline act. As well as Blur, Neil Young is also rumoured to be a headliner.
