Glastonbury Festival 2010

The 2010 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts took place in Pilton, Somerset, England in June 2010.

Glastonbury Festival 2010
Audience in front of the West Holts stage
Date(s)	23 June 2010 (2010-06-23) – 28 June 2010 (2010-06-28)
Location(s)	Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England
Previous event	Glastonbury Festival 2009
Next event	Glastonbury Festival 2011
Participants	Gorillaz, Muse, Stevie Wonder

The festival was headlined by Gorillaz, Muse, and Stevie Wonder. U2 were initially announced as headliners, but withdrew on 25 May 2010 citing Bono's recent back surgery. Gorillaz were announced as the replacement.

The festival was totally rain-free for the first time since 2002, and experienced the hottest average temperatures since the early 1990s. The total attendance of the event was 177,500. This would also prove to be the last rain free Glastonbury Festival until 2019. ^[1]

Tickets

Similar to previous years, ticket buyers were required to pre-register to buy tickets with photographic identification, a measure employed to avoid reselling and touting. Tickets went on sale on 4 October and sold out within 12 hours of going on sale; quicker than the past two festivals. The general resale commenced on 11 April at 9:00 am, with all tickets selling out within 2 hours.^[2]

Line up

On 23 November 2009, it was announced that U2 would be headlining the Friday evening of the festival.^[3] Other acts confirmed by organisers include Jack Johnson,^[4] the early winners of the Emerging Talent Competition, My Luminaries^[5] and eventual final winners Ellen and the Escapades.^[6]

At the 2010 Event Production Show, Michael Eavis confirmed the booking of Muse and said that a headline appearance by Stevie Wonder was "probable",^[7][8] with the BBC confirming his appearance the following week.^[9]

On 14 April 2010, the full lineup of the event was announced.^[10]

On 25 May 2010, it was announced that U2 had cancelled their appearance at the festival to allow Bono's recovery from recent back surgery.^[11] Bono issued a special message of his heartbreak to the fans - "I'm heartbroken" - and said "we even wrote a song especially for the festival".^[12][13] The following day it was announced that Gorillaz would fill in for U2.^[14]

Special guest appearances

A number of artists made special or unannounced appearances at the festival, including many on smaller stages such as the Park Stage or the Avalon Stage.

In early June, Keane announced a surprise slot at the Avalon stage.^[15]

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood, billed simply as "Special Guests", performed on the Park Stage on the Friday, introduced by Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis, who called them "two superstars" and "the biggest surprise of the weekend". They played Radiohead hits such as "Karma Police", "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and "Pyramid Song" as well as some of Yorke's solo material.^[16]

The other secret gig on the Park Stage was by Scottish trio Biffy Clyro who announced on Twitter^[17] that they would perform at the Park Stage on Saturday. The trio had left a series of visual clues about their performance.^[18]

Kylie Minogue performed with the Scissor Sisters on the Pyramid Stage,^[19] and Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, Mark E. Smith and Shaun Ryder joined the Gorillaz for various songs during their headlining set.^[20] Florence Welch, from Florence and the Machine, sang "You Got the Love" with The XX and "You Got the Dirtee Love" with Dizzee Rascal during his Pyramid Stage set. On the Pyramid Stage on Friday, during Snoop Dogg's set, Tinie Tempah came on stage and performed "Pass Out".

To make up for U2 cancelling their appearance, The Edge joined Muse during their Saturday headlining slot for a cover of "Where the Streets Have No Name".^[21]

Shakira invited to René from Calle 13 and them performed together their song "Gordita" at the Pyramid Stage on Saturday.

On the Sunday, Matt Smith, who plays the Eleventh Doctor, performed with Orbital and Michael Eavis appeared on the main stage with Stevie Wonder, to sing the chorus of the latter's "Happy Birthday", marking the festival's 40th year.

Stages 1 to 11

Source: Line up poster^[22]

Pyramid Stage
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Gorillaz Dizzee Rascal Vampire Weekend Snoop Dogg Willie Nelson Corinne Bailey Rae Femi Kuti Rolf Harris	Muse Scissor Sisters Shakira The Dead Weather Seasick Steve Jackson Browne The Lightning Seeds Tinchy Stryder	Stevie Wonder Faithless Jack Johnson Ray Davies Slash Norah Jones Paloma Faith Yeovil Town Band

Other Stage
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
The Flaming Lips Hot Chip Florence and the Machine La Roux Phoenix The Courteeners The Stranglers Joshua Radin The Magic Numbers	Pet Shop Boys Editors The Cribs The National Kate Nash Imogen Heap Coheed and Cambria Reef Two Door Cinema Club	Orbital LCD Soundsystem MGMT We Are Scientists Grizzly Bear The Temper Trap The Hold Steady Frightened Rabbit The Joy Formidable

John Peel Stage
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Groove Armada The Black Keys Mumford & Sons Ellie Goulding Kele Okereke Bombay Bicycle Club Tegan and Sara Miike Snow De Staat Detroit Social Club	Jamie T Foals The xx Marina & The Diamonds Delphic Wild Beasts Field Music Cymbals Eat Guitars Sophie Hunger Let's Buy Happiness	Ash Julian Casablancas Broken Social Scene Gang of Four The Drums Holy Fuck These New Puritans Everything Everything Black Cherry Dan Mangan

West Holts
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Mos Def Femi Kuti Nouvelle Vague & Guests Breakestra with Chali 2na Bonobo Mariachi El Bronx Tune-Yards Matthew Herbert Big Band	George Clinton with Parliament-Funkadelic The Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra Os Mutantes Devendra Banhart Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Phenomenal Handclap Band Brother Ali Troy Ellis & The Longshots	Rodrigo y Gabriela Toots & the Maytals Quantic & Bárbaro Staff Benda Bilili Dr John Tunng The Bees Dizraeli and the Small Gods

Acoustic Stage
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
The Bootleg Beatles The Alan Price Set McIntosh Ross Turin Brakes Brian Kennedy Danny & The Champs Megan Henwood Cory Chisel Julie Feeney	Christy Moore Nick Lowe Imelda May Al Stewart Michael Eavis In Conversation Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus The Leisure Society Ellen & The Escapades John Allen & Band	Jackson Browne with David Lindley Richard Thompson Loudon Wainwright III The Blues Band London Community Gospel Choir Joel Rafael Robinson Fisherman's Friends Mayhew

Park Stage
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
The XX Broken Bells Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood The Big Pink Local Natives Steve Mason Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Beth Jeans Houghton Lissie Peggy Sue Steel Harmony	Midlake Laura Marling Candi Staton Biffy Clyro Stornoway Beach House Strange Boys Frankie & The Heartstrings The Ballad of Britain Here We Go Magic I Blame Coco	Empire of the Sun Dirty Projectors Tony Allen Archie Bronson Outfit Beak Portico Quartet Fionn Regan Avi Buffalo Villagers Travelling Band

East Dance
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
DJ Fatboy Slim Live Chase and Status DJ Zane Lowe Live Plan B DJ Rob da Bank Live Example DJ Roger Sanchez DJ O Children Bunny Come Live Inko Dancers	Live N-Dubz Live Chipmunk Live Kelis DJ MistaJam Live Tinie Tempah Live Giggs DJ Yasmin Live Chiddy Bang Live McClean Live Bashy Live Donaeo Live Roll Deep DJ TBA	DJ Above & Beyond Live Crystal Castles DJ Filthy Dukes Live Professor Green DJ Reverend Soundsystem Live Crystal Fighters Live We Have Band DJ Yasmin Live Naive New Beaters Live Primary 1 Live Inko Dancers

West Dance
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
DJ Boys Noize DJ Simian Mobile Disco Live Delphic DJ Fake Blood DJ Rusko Live Chromeo DJ Aeroplane DJ Boy 8-Bit DJ Hannah Holland	DJ Dubfire DJ Nick Warren Live Mix Hell DJ Sander Kleinenberg Live Banco de Gaia DJ Riva Starr Live Neville Staple Live Dub Pistols DJ Parker Live Foreign Beggars	Live Magnetic Man DJ Jackbeats Live Stanton Warriors DJ Adam F Live Blasted Mechanism DJ Toddla T Live Alex Metric Live DJ South Central DJ Jaguar Skills DJ A1 Bassline Live Killaflaw Live Virus Syndicate

Avalon
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
New Model Army Transglobal Underground Newton Faulkner The Woodentops Lou Rhodes Goldheart Assembly Gabby Young & The Other Animals Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs	The Lightning Seeds Alabama 3 Charlie Winston Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel The Unthanks The Avett Brothers The Wurzels Nick Harper Tom Williams & The Boat	Gomez The Saw Doctors Imelda May Judy Collins Keane Teddy Thompson Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds Kirsty Almeida Ellen & The Escapades

Croissant Neuf
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Movits! 6ixtoys Steve Knightley Julien Tulk Band Undercover Hippy Band Seth Lakeman Biggles Wartime Band	The Beat Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer Hot Feat The Kevin Brown Trio The Vagaband TBA Dizraeli & The Small Gods	The Baghdaddies Zen Elephants Prof Nohair & the Wig Lifters Corinne Bailey-Rae Corinne Bailey Rae The People's String Foundation

The Queen's Head
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Sean Rowley Good Shoes The Bees The Magic Numbers The Mystery Jets Fanfarlo Detroit Social Club Tubelord Tiffany Page Frank Turner Fiction Plane The Beat	Sean Rowley Earl Brutus Cherry Ghost Phenomenal Handclap Band Band of Skulls Holy Fuck Blood Red Shoes Here We Go Magic Cate Le Bon Lissie Shouting at Planes	Sean Rowley Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Avi Buffalo The Middle East Chief I Am Kloot Field Music Goldhawks The Middle East Mountain Man

Stages 12 to 20

WOW
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Futureboogie Matt Tolfrey & Geddes Jamie Jones Live Crazy P Horsemeat Disco Live Nneka Back to Basics Adam Shelton & Subb-an PBR Streetgang El Diablos Social Club Christophe	Craig Charles Presents the Fantasy Funk Band Craze High Contrast Redlight & MC Dread L-VIS 1990 Breakage Live Central Spillz Live Hot D'Jour Emalkay Jakwob Shortstuff The Heatwave Dub Boy ft Redskin	The Ratpack Live Snap! Tayo Live Four Tet Hyperdub with Kode9, Ikonika, Terror Danjah & Dark Star Live Hudson Mohawke Live DaM FunK Roska Untold Wedge Funkineven Falling Up

Cubehenge
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Live The Orb DJ Zero 7 Will Saul Spooky Iain Taylor (rEJEKTS) Pete Gooding Ruth Flowers aka Mamy Rock The Magnet	Kissy Sell Out A Skillz Bimbo Jones Pathaan Paul Lyman Baobinga Adam Regan	Norman Jay Good Times ‘Carnival King’ Ashley Beedle DJ Craig Charles Funk & Soul Kormac The Bee Keepers SledgeHeadBristol RSD DJ Flora feat DJ Skylion 2 Kings

Pussy Parlure
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
DJ Zorro Jose Luis & Dancers Fletcha & Miguel Salsa Magic Live Robin Del Castillo & his Latin Band La bomba - Latin Explosion Eclectic Ballroom Live Andreya Triana Bourbon Warfare DJs Live Incredibly Strange Film Band Take It 2 The Bridge Live Secret Cinema Band Feeling Gloomy Live Sound Of Rum Lovely Morning with Randy & Earls Old Record Club	Live Swaparama Jalapeño Sound System Rock Idol (Live Karaoke) Live Smoove & Turrell Dr Rubberfunk Live Taylor McFerrin Western Soul Live Reverend Soundsystem DJ Burns Randy & Earls Old Record Club	Movits Live Kormac Big Band Live Twilight Players Live The Correspondents TBA Live Movits DJ Nick Hollywood Live Fat 45 Danny Danger DJ Joe Worricker Broken Hearts Live Top Shelf Jazz Live Trio Manouche Randy & Earls Old Record Club

Magic Bubble
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Kareem Raihani Kangaroo Moon Dansette Junior Pressplay Magic Bubble Residents	Stroke '69 Reverend Soundsystem Sam Taylor & The Tight Trousers The Scribes Magic Bubble Residents	Ramses DubKasm Sound of Rum Dougal United VIbrations Magic Bubble Residents

Glade Stage
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Sasha Quivver Hybrid Way Out West Afrobeta Husky Rescue Nneka Charles Hazelwood Allstars	Sub Focus Live Freq Nasty Dreadzone Don Letts The Orb African Headcharge The Moody Boys ON u Sound/Sherwood Nero Suns of Arqa Statement Code City Calls	Levellers Alabama 3 Arthur Brown Quintessence System 7 (band) FORM (Ans & Allaby) Cassette Boy feat DJ Rubbish Inverse Gravity Vehicle The Widowmaker Somewhere Between Here and The Stereo

Glade Lounge
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Tom Real (Disco Of Doom) Ben & Lex Far Too Loud DJ Die Maxxi P, MC Script Fred V v Grafix Jinx In Dub Lewah UBJ with Mr Woodnote Pharma	Dave Seaman Pretty Lights Charlie May Live Jody WOW Zodiac Cartel Cosmonauts 808 State DJS Casanueva	Tristan - Live Lucas FORM Major Clanger Mirror System Ali Ji Merv HFB DJ Alex Paterson Naked Nick

The Rabbit Hole
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Bunny Come Transpersonals The Mad Cows 360 Cromwells League The Soap Dodgers Bryony Marie Fry The Tailors Poppy and Friends The Ballaghs Aishling Rory H Freddie Page Bert Miller and other animals	The Egg dj Doorly Dreadzone dj Far Too Loud Space Ritual Quintessence Dj Mad Mick Special guests. Hazel Sainsbury Dan Mangan Gabby Young and Other Animals Pete Lawrie Skinny Lister Jamie Burke	Dubble Head Special secret guests Bad Hatters Cabaret The Kleptones Elvis (The Real one) The Travelling Band Perhaps Contraption Rabbit Foot Spasm Band Babeshadow Troy Ellis and the Long Shots Sound of Rum Lion Child Josh Thorner Hot tin Cat Georgie Pope

BBC Introducing
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Kid Adrift Meursault Ms Darks (Da Mighty Elementz) DME The Federals Out Like A Lion P Money Napoleon In Rags Jesca Hoop Yr Ods	Roll Deep plus Guests Pulled Apart by Horses May 68 Celt Islam New Islands Lanterns on the Lake Lady Leshurr SPECIAL GUESTS Dog Is Dead Fellow Stranger Two in a Boat Louis Elliot & The Embers	Chew Lips Dark Horses Man Without Country Seven Summits Lettie Dry The River SPECIAL GUESTS Broadcast 2000 Patch William End of Level Baddie John E Vistic Experience The Theory of 6 Degrees

The Bimble Inn
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Andy Barlow (Lamb) Rum Shebeen Domino State Guest DJ Yearner Babies Special Guests Blackberry Wood The Little Unsaid Andrew Morris Woolley Mammoth Kate Rose	Papa Dez (DJ) Brass Roots Meme Narciss & Lily La Rouge Django Django Mike Bird (Birds, Orphans & Fools) Hobo Jones Open Mic 10 Ton Tongue Martin Harley Undercover Hippy Mayhew Daddy Ho! Bettie Bolan	Special Guest The Amigos Roots Union Wilfredo Guest DJ Open Mic John Smith Very Special Guest Wille and the Bandits Dan Mangan Slightly Offensive Steve Beans On Toast

Poetry&Words 2010
Friday 25 June	Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Dizraeli and The Small Gods - Unplugged Penny Ashton Baba Brinkman Sabrina Mahfouz Tony Walsh Aisle 16 Kat Francois Ventriloquist Paula Varjack Andreattah Chuma Jonny Fluffypunk Kae Tempest Pete the Temp Poeticat Helen Gregory and Pete Hunter	John Hegley Paula Varjack Andreattah Chuma Attila the Stockbroker Hollie McNish Luke Wright Kae Tempest Murray Lachlan Young Sabrina Mahfouz Bohdan Piasecki Open mic. (hosted by Julian Ramsey-Wade) Ventriloquist Jonny Fluffypunk	Glastonbury Festival Poetry Slam (hosted by Kat Francois) Helen Gregory and Benita Johnson Pete Hunter Pete the Temp Jean Binta Breeze Poeticat Luke Wright Jo Bell (Website Poet in Residence) Bohdan Piasecki Julian Ramsey-Wade Penny Ashton Baba Brinkman Comperes – Dreadlcokalien and Abbey Oliveira

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External links

• Official website