Everybody and Their Mom Added to Glastonbury Lineup

Spiritualized, Raconteurs, Massive Attack, My Morning Jacket, CSS, the National, Vampire Weekend, Battles, Annie, Stars, Hercules and Love Affair, etc. etc.
Everybody and Their Mom Added to Glastonbury Lineup

Add, oh, a billion or so more names to the list of those slogging through the (inevitable) rain for this year's Glastonbury Festival when it rumbles through the hills around the English town for which it's named June 27-29. The nice folks at Glastonbury recently announced their lineup, and everybody and their mom is playing it. Yes, even your mom is playing it.

Joining this year's big to-do are the likes of Spiritualized, Massive Attack, the Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, CSS, Black Lips, the National, Caribou, Battles, Annie, Vampire Weekend, Stars, Goldfrapp, Band of Horses, Neon Neon, Dizzee Rascal, John Cale, Black Mountain, Yeasayer, Hercules and Love Affair, Kid Sister, a Simian Mobile Disco DJ set, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Booka Shade, Los Campesinos!, the Futureheads, Billy Bragg, Pete Doherty, Manu Chao, Holy Fuck, the Gossip, Vetiver, Kool Keith & Kutmaster Kurt, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Roisin Murphy, Santogold, the Cave Singers, a DJ set from A-Trak, Jimmy Cliff, the Black Kids, Mystery Jets, Cadence Weapon, Lightspeed Champion, Tunng, Solomon Burke, Edwyn Collins, the Teenagers, Elbow, Mark Ronson, the Handsome Family, Sons & Daughters, Robyn Hitchcock, Dengue Fever, Foals, Editors, We Are Scientists, Estelle, the Cribs, UNKLE, the Wombats, the Kills, the Duke Spirit, Martina Topley-Bird, Sinead O'Connor, Appleblim, Glasvegas, the Swell Season, Candi Staton, Ethiopiques, the Zutons, Squarepusher, Jason Forrest (as DJ Donna Summer), the Subways, Dirty Pretty Things, the Ting Tings, the Orb, the Whip, Kate Nash, MGMT, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, and probably a bunch of folks I forgot.

This Glastonbury, it's big, innit?

Of course, those folks join the previously mentioned Leonard Cohen, Hot Chip, British Sea Power, the Verve, Kings of Leon, Neil Diamond, and controversial-to-idiots headliner Jay-Z. (Is it that you're worried you're not gonna get enough flash-in-the-pan guitar bands over the weekend? Or is there some other, better rapper you're aware of that we're not? Enjoy your Joe Lean and your Jing Jang Jong, naysayers.)

Posted by Paul Thompson on Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:32pm