JAY Z + AMY WINEHOUSE IN GLASTONBURY
Posted on June 30, 2008 by Lola
The Glastonbury is the largest music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts.The first Festival was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died, over a two day period and before long “word had got around”. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000.
Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival. Organiser Michael Eavis stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the nearby Bath and West Showground in 1970.
Here is the 2008 line up of artists
Pyramid Stage (headliners)
FRIDAY
Kings of Leon
The Fratellis
Editors
The Gossip
The Feeling
KT Tunstall
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
The Subways
Kate Nash
SATURDAY
Jay Z
Linkin Park
Amy Winehouse
Manu Chao
The Raconteurs
James Blunt
Crowded House
Seasick Steve
Martha Wainwright
Shakin’ Stevens
SUNDAY
The Verve
Leonard Cohen
Goldfrapp
Neil Diamond
John Mayer
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Martina Topley Bird
Other Stage
FRIDAY
Panic At The Disco
The Enemy
We Are Scientists
Foals
The Hoosiers
Ben Folds
Vampire Weekend
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
The Rascals
Ida Maria
SATURDAY
Massive Attack
Hot Chip
Elbow
Duffy
The Wombats
Neon Neon
Black Kids
One Night Only
Los Campesinos!
The Golden Silvers
The Travelling Band
SUNDAY
Groove Armada
The Zutons
Pigeon Detectives
Scouting for Girls
Mark Ronson
Jack Penate
Newton Faulkner
Black Mountain
Hoodoo Gurus
Black Cherry
Park Stage
FRIDAY
Pete Doherty
Dizzee Rascal
John Cale
(Special Guest Franz Ferdinand)
Edwyn Collins
The Duke Spirit
Operator Please
Sons & Daughters
Santogold
Beggars
Magic Wands
Island Line
The Langley Sisters
SATURDAY
Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS)
Battles
MGMT
(Special Guest The Last Shadow Puppets with Jack White and Matt Helders)
Shlomo
Kool Keith
Guilty Pleasures
Alphabeat
St Vincent
Jape
Eugene Mcguinness
SUNDAY
My Morning Jacket
Tunng
Vetiver
Laura Marling
Mystery Jets
Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl
The Cave Singers
Alberta Cross
Mumford & Sons
Alan Tyler & The Lost Sons
Redbridge Brass Band
John Peel stage
FRIDAY
The Cribs
Reverend And The Makers
The Kills
MGMT
The Ting Tings
The Young Knives
Lightspeed Champion
Make Model
Glasvegas
Hadouken!
Patrick Watson
Royworld
SATURDAY
Biffy Clyro
The Futureheads
Band of Horses
The Black Lips
Vampire Weekend
The Courteeners
British Sea Power
Holy Fuck
The Teenagers
Hilltop Hoods
Emmy the Great
Dogtanion
SUNDAY
The National
Spiritualized
Crystal Castles
The Long Blondes
Stars (band)
Rocket Summer
Friendly Fires
The Whip
Yeasayer
Folking Idiots
Acoustic stage
FRIDAY
Seasick Steve
Sinéad O’Connor
The Blockheads
Arno Carstens
Eddi Reader
Camille O’Sullivan
Eleanor McEvoy
Devon Sproule
Acoustic Stage Blues Club With Grainne Duffy
SATURDAY
Gilbert O’Sullivan
The Swell Season Featuring Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers
Seth Lakeman
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
Thea Gilmore
Sid Griffin & The Coal Porters
Emily Maguire
Acoustic Stage Blues Club With Grainne Duffy
The Travelling Band
SUNDAY
Joan Baez
Suzanne Vega
The London Community Gospel Choir
Stackridge
Tom Baxter
Tift Merritt
Foy Vance
Acoustic Stage Blues Club With Grainne Duffy
Amsterdam
Lazenby
Jazzworld Stage
FRIDAY
Jimmy Cliff
Estelle
Fun Lovin Criminals
Lupe Fiasco
Candi Staton
Alabama 3
Soha
Phantom Limb
Mankala
SATURDAY
Ethiopiques
Buddy Guy
Imagined Village
Joan Armatrading
Eric Bibb
Massukos
The Blessing
The Neil Cowley Trio
Bedouin Jerry Can Band
SUNDAY
Manu Chao
King Solomon Burke
Eddy Grant
Dub Colossus
Asere & Billy Cobham
Balkan Beat Box
Almasala
Portico Quartet
Sense of Sound
And here are 3 videos from the show!
JAY Z
(Why is he bringing out a guitar (look familiar? think Lil Wayne) and singing along to Oasis – Wonderwall?? NOT feeling the look)
Jay did his thing though…
oh I must also note that Jay Z was a headliner and this was the first concert in 15 years that did not sell out. They not only had to do another ticket launch date, but were left over with 3000 unsold tickets prior to the event. A lot of people thought the headlining hip-hop acts (Jay Z) were the cause for the poor ticket sales, but founder Michael Eavis claimed the reason to be poor weather condition in the previous years.
Based on Jay’s performance and the crowd’s response, it seemed they loved him, even after his corny guitar stunt and oasis mutering opener….
LUPE FIASCO – He’s an awesome performer…I think Lupe’s energy is built on just watching his fans and giving back to them for appreciating and supporting his music. Go Lupe!!
AMY WINEHOUSE ELBOWING A FAN!!
(This girl is REALLY messed up. I saw a video on youtube of her 2005 prior photos and she was beautiful. Drugs can REALLY fuck you up…she looks like a completely different person now than she was then. My prayers definitely go out to her and her family…)
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