Jay Z to headline Glasto

[606Stokie]

The speculation is over and Jay-Z will headline this year's Glastonbury Festival. Organiser Michael Eavis told the BBC (here) that it will be the '99 Problems' rapper.

Eavis said he wanted to "break with tradition this time and put on something totally different". Saying he hoped Jay-Z would attract a younger audience to the event, he went on "He will appeal to the young people and under-25s for sure, so that's a big pull for them. It's not like the traditional one we do, like Radiohead, Coldplay and Muse and Oasis."

eFestivals thinks the Friday headliner will be The Verve and our best guess for the Sunday headliner is currently Leonard Cohen.

Make sure you keep an eye on our Glastonbury 2008 rumours page.

Don't forget that those wanting to buy a ticket to this year's festival will need to register their details at www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk between 9am on Friday 1st February and midnight on Friday 14th March. Tickets will go on sale to those who have registered at 9am on Sunday 6th April.

Glastonbury Festival 2008 will take place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, near Glastonbury, Somerset from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June, with the gates opening for early arrivals on Wednesday 25th June.

[myleftboot]

Jay ZZZZZZZZ..........just another reason to stop at home then

[dadofsam]

I got 99 problems but getting a ticket to see this dick aint one

[Pretty Little Boother]

Dadofsam, have some karma for that. ;D

[bettyswallocks]

This will be my first fest and only because the HOVA is fronting it

[vientianescfc]

Ahhh 99 Problems ain't even his song - and it's a shit version. Check out the real Ice-T version . . . WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better (pity the rest of the album is cack!).

Rap ain't something I listen to but some tunes that Ice-T has produced have been very good.

[Pedropotter]

that settles it, Glastonbury is dead.

[simpson]

jay-z is cool as fuk

[panini2001]

Thought I was into music but who is Jay Z he/she/grroup?
I must be gettin' old

[Cupid Stunt]

I'm under 25 and I think Jay-Z is fucking toss.

He is a poor man's 50 cent, and 50 cent is wank!

[skip]

Jay Z's 99 Problems improves on Ice-T's original. IMHO obv.

[MilanStokie]

Jay-Z is a poor mans 50 cent?

He has been around way longer and is a LOT more successful than 50 cent... ???

Anyway, I think JayZ himself would admit he is a better producer than a rapper these days.

Still, doesn't aptly fit the festival and is just a kick in the teeth to regular Glastonbury tenters. Rap has no place in festivals imo, certainly not a respectable rock festival.

[garyhackett]

Eavis is really beginning to piss me off.

After last years festival he bleated that the festival had no atmosphere because there wasnt enough young people there. Well Eavis there isnt many young people going because you have taken all the spontaneity out of Glastonbury by this ludicrous registering nonsense.
How many 16 year olds can be bothered to send in pictures of themselves months before the festival starts and then still have to sit for hours in front of computers to try and get a ticket. Many young people wont adhere to all this registering nonsense they will just go to an alternative festival as proved last year.
So what does Eavis do to try and resolve the problem he gets in Jay Z who is not your stereotypical Glasto act which only serves to futher alienate the fan base already sick to death of the dogma of having to register months ahead.

Glasto is about impulse, lack of rules, being laid back not having to conform so the whole registering process completely makes a mockery of the whole glast ethos. Instead all he will have coming through the gate are organised 30-40 somethings with access to fast internet connections.

I am a total music fan and have been going to glastonbury for many years but i have to say the way Eavis is going the whole magical experience will soon dwindle away.

[Pedropotter]

Gary, you have posted some bollocks on here in the past but you are bob on with this one. I'll even give you karma!! ;D

[mumf14]

Gary...I don't have a clue about Eavis or what your're on about..but it's a fantastic post...

I'm going to award you 10 good karma's. I'm too old to be sleeping rough with cheese in my ears and mud everywhere.

[garyhackett]

thanks pedro, see i dont talk bollocks all the time

i am not even gonna bother registering for glasto this year its too much hassle and i hope that nobody else does, its isle of wight for me this year.

[ben88]

just go and see radiohead the same weekend in manchester, save £130 odd , still see the band who will headline glastonbury. then go leeds in the summer.

[garyhackett]

been leeds for the past 7 years i am bored of it now

thinking about doing rock werchter again in belgium cos i went there last year and it was really good and radiohead are headlining it this year

[ben88]

same gary, ive been to the last 5, its getting abit crap now though, bands wise anyway, have been looking at foreign festivals

kings of leon and the verve for the other nights headlining glasto

no radiohead????

Eavis is off his fuckin rocker

[LL Cool Dave]

God awful headliners, bar the Verve. Jay Z will be about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit


can't be bothered with UK Festivals this year, so am going to Summercase in Barcelona and possibly a few more foreign ones.


wherever Daft Punk are headlining, basically.

[Pedropotter]

I've done the last 5 Glastos but its lost its magic now. I'm off to the cambridge folk festival instead. All real ale and beards ..... and thats just the women! ;D

[ben88]

i might still go leeds, depending on who is headlining, but i can bet now it will be some crap like franz ferdinand, the fratellies,

i still cant believe oasis are not rumoured to be doing any festivals this year,
they still havent done a best of tour yet FFS!
maybe leeds? proberly not, if radiohead arent doing glasto then i doubt the will do V again soon, and they dont want to do reading or leeds them im glad im going manchester

also, did anyone else try to get tickets for the music yesterday, my god, i hate seetickets.com with a passion. so so so much would i like to blow up their offices

[garyhackett]

not a big fan of the music at all find them very dull

been getting into Glasvegas, MGMT, Lightspeed champion and One Night Only recently

[ben88]

believe me, im holding back the abuse for calling the music dull , easily one of the most origanal and brilliant bands of our generation [glow=red,2,300]IMHO[/glow]

[LL Cool Dave]

First two albums were fantastic, but aside from a few alright songs in the last few years, the band are well past it. Liam's singing has taken a massive nosedive.

Brilliant maybe, Original?, hardly

[myleftboot]

Reminds me of a classic post on the Rivals board years ago when stoke were doing the pitch up "99 problems but a pitch aint one". Whoever posted that give yoursen a pat on the back.

[ben88]

i was on about the music discodave, not oasis, they are the most un origanal bands ever, but their still ace, apart from last 2 albums