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The announcement of Blur, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young as headliners at Glastonbury Festival
confirmed founder Michael Eavis’s desire for guitar-based rock and pop acts following last year’s furore
over headliner Jay-Z.
Glastonbury spokesman Crispin Aubury said “the festival policy of being adventurous was vindicated” but
Eavis wanted “more traditional” headline acts after last year’s uproar.
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Glastonbury 2009 sold out four-and-a-half months ahead of this year’s event, unlike last year when Jay-Z’s headline slot was blamed for tickets
being available up until the opening day. Aubury added that in 2008 tickets for other festivals went on sale much earlier than Glastonbury,
and many festival-goers, disappointed by the difficulty of getting Glastonbury tickets in previous years and atrocious weather in 2007,
decided to go elsewhere instead of waiting for tickets to go on sale.
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A fourth new festival will make its debut this year despite organisers’ fears of the credit crunch. Soundwave
Festival will take place just five days after the Garden Festival on exactly the same site in Petrcane, Croatia.
Soundwave is produced by the people behind the Soundcrash and New Bohemia club nights and will feature
artists such as The Bays, Hexstatic, Red Snapper, DJ Vadim and DJ Yoda.
Other festivals making their debut this summer include Red List Live in Kent; the Rewind 80s revival festival in Henley; and Scotland’s
Homecoming festival.
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The Secret Garden Party’s Snowside festival in the Alps is the third to be cancelled this year with another
major festival rumoured to be postponed any moment.
Snowside organisers said that ticket sales had been slow and the pound-euro exchange rate had led to rising
costs. Its cancellation follows those of Scotland’s Hydro Connect and Magic Loungeabout.
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Rob Da Bank, the organiser of Bestival and founder of the Association of Independent Festivals, told TFF: “Things are going to be tough this
year for festivals. Glastonbury sold out and that’s amazing news on a number of levels but everyone’s nervous”.
TFF has been all a-twitter on the web ahead of its launch. The TFF Facebook page has been buzzing with everyone’s festival feelings from
their dream headliners to their experiences in the toilets. The success of the Facebook page convinced us to get twittering with our own
Twitter page. Hey, Lily Allen’s doing it - so we want a piece of that action.
To keep tabs with us as we complete the long tortuous process of getting our website sorted, check twitter.com/thisfestfeeling and search
for This Festival Feeling on facebook.com.
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