Op 11 januari worden in het Nederlandse Groningen voor de 3de keer de European Festival Awards uitgereikt. Rock Werchter heeft twee nominaties op zak! Het festival genomineerd in de categorieën ‘Best Major Festival’ en “Line-Up of the Year”
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STEM ROCK WERCHTER NAAR EEN EUROPEAN FESTIVAL AWARD. OF TWEE.
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on October 28th, 2011
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No Comments »The 2011 Green Traders Awards winners are…
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 26th, 2011
This year was the sixth year of the Festival’s Green Traders Awards , given by Glastonbury , Greenpeace , The Soil Association , The Fairtrade Foundation and Nationwide Caterers Association (NCASS) to the traders who did the most to help make the Festival greener, fairer and more sustainable.
Posted in Festivals Tags: carbon, efforts, festival, food, global-lanterns, gold, really-inspired, silver, year No Comments »Glastonbury Daze short film
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 26th, 2011
Check out this terrific short film, made by David Pardoe, a Southampton Solent University student who was part of Solent’s team working at Glastonbury 2011.
Posted in Festivals Tags: david, david-pardoe, glastonbury, solent, solent-university, southampton, team-working, terrific, terrific-short, university, working-at-glastonbury No Comments »Another record! Thank you for supporting Oxfam at the Festival
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 22nd, 2011
Great news from our third major charity partner, Oxfam, who declared 2011 their best Glastonbury Festival ever. Says Sarah Farquhar, Oxfam’s Head of Retail: “The three Oxfam shops on the Worthy Farm site took nearly
Posted in Festivals Tags: africa, bootleg-beatles, bootlegs, Festivals, keep-the-oxfam, michael-eavis, oxfam, sarah-farquhar, worthy, worthy-farm No Comments »Oxfam’s East Africa appeal
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 20th, 2011
Oxfam are appealing for aid after a severe drought has left more than 10 million people across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya desperate for food. “This is the worst food crisis of the 21st Century and we are seriously concerned that large numbers of lives could soon be lost. People have already lost virtually everything and the crisis is only going to get worse over the coming months – we need funds to help us reach people with life-saving food and water,” said Jane Cocking, Oxfam’s Humanitarian Director
Posted in Festivals Tags: crisis, ethiopia, humanitarian, kenya, large-numbers, million-people, over-the-coming, oxfam, reach-people, severe-drought, somalia No Comments »Greenpeace: 40 Years of Making Waves
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 18th, 2011
Well that was the year that was. Like most of you who came this year we’re cleaning up and the T-shirts have been printed for our heroic crew bearing the slogan ‘Mud, Sweat and Tears.’ We hope you visted the Greenpeace Field this year, we think it rocked.
Posted in Festivals Tags: glastonbury, happy-birthday, london, michael, new-supporters, noisettes, Pop, rainbow, rainbow-warrior, record-number, Rock, think-it-rocked, year No Comments »Countdown to the 2011 Glastonbury Extravaganza begins
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 15th, 2011
We’re now only a few weeks away from this year’s Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza . The weekend kicks off on Saturday August 6th with a show featuring Status Quo and the Bootleg Beatles
Posted in Festivals Tags: abbey-shop, children, during-office, festival-office, glastonbury, magdalene, office, show-featuring, weekend-kicks, working No Comments »WaterAidâ€s thanks to Glastonbury goers
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 12th, 2011
Almost 20,000 of you signed our LooQueue petition to encourage the UK Government to reach even more of the world’s poorest people to safe water and sanitation. All these signatures have now been handed directly to the International Development Secretary. Power to the people! “Glastonbury is one of the best places for campaigning,” said Rhian Lewis, WaterAid UK campaigns manager, “People are engaged, interested and they know that by adding support to campaigns like ours, they are helping to change things for the better.” The Lauren Laverne, Eliza Doolittle and Emmy the Great-designed temporary tattoos went down an absolute storm at the Festival.
Posted in Festivals Tags: festival, Festivals, government, great-designed, international, looqueue, people, raghu-dixit, rhian-lewis No Comments »Amazing aerial photos of Glastonbury 2011
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 7th, 2011
Between 5pm and 5.30pm on the Sunday at this year’s Festival (June 26th), Blom UK took some incredible, ultra-high resolution aerial images of the Festival. Check out some examples below – and head to Bluesky International’s website to see more and to download the full-size image (BlomUK and Bluesky International Ltd
Posted in Festivals Tags: aerial-images, bluesky, bluesky-international, download, examples-below, festival-check, Festivals, from-the-sale, other-stage, shot-2011-07-07, stage, sunday, water, will-support No Comments »Arcadia Spectacular video
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 6th, 2011
If you made it along to this year’s Arcadia Spectacular, then see if you can spot yourself in the video above (we’re particularly impressed by the policeman). And if you didn’t, then check out what you missed.
Posted in Festivals Tags: arcadia, arcadia-spectacular, particularly-impressed, policeman, spot-yourself, the-policeman, the-video, then-check, then-see, video, year No Comments »Arcadia Spectacular video
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 6th, 2011
If you made it along to this year’s Arcadia Spectacular, then see if you can spot yourself in the video above (we’re particularly impressed by the policeman). And if you didn’t, then check out what you missed.
Posted in Festivals Tags: arcadia-spectacular, particularly-impressed, policeman, spot-yourself, the-policeman, the-video, then-check, then-see, video, year No Comments »We’d love to see your pictures
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 5th, 2011
We’d love to see your best pictures from Glastonbury 2011. You can upload them by clicking here – and please make sure you tag them with all the relevant tags. We’d particularly love to see your “Secret Glastonbury” pics – of things that most other Festival-goers won’t have seen.
Posted in Festivals Tags: best-pictures, festival, festival-goers, Festivals, glastonbury, make-sure, relevant, secret-glastonbury No Comments »T-shirts on sale in our online shop
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 4th, 2011
If you missed out on buying a Glastonbury 2011 T-shirt, then you may be pleased to hear that you can still buy them from our online shop . The designs include Stanley Donwood’s latest design, which is shown above left
Posted in Festivals Tags: blue, crown-design, designs-include, eleanor-allen, Festivals, glastonbury, latest-design, limited-edition, online, online-shop, stanley, stanley-donwood, will-start, winner, year No Comments »Record audience for BBC coverage – watch it again online now
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 2nd, 2011
We’re pleased to report that the BBC’s excellent Glastonbury coverage enjoyed a record audience reach in 2011, with 18.6 million viewers. BBC Two alone reached 15.7m viewers, a rise of 3.6m viewers compared to last year
Posted in Festivals Tags: 15-7m-viewers, alone-reached, biggest, Festivals, headliners, later-tonight, radio, record-audience, shows-on-radio, the-headliners No Comments »Buy the Q Review or official programme
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on July 1st, 2011
If you didn’t manage to get a copy of the Q Glastonbury Review at this year’s Festival, you can buy one directy from Q or from the Glastonbury Festival Office. The office is also selling the official programme . From the Glastonbury Office Programmes are for sale at
Posted in Festivals Tags: cheque-made, festival, glastonbury, northload, office, programmes, rest, somerset, the office, year No Comments »Thousands get Heart Mum tattoos
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on June 30th, 2011
The White Ribbon Alliance’s Tattoo Parlour in The Park was a big hit again this year, with thousands lining up to get their ‘heart mum’ stick-on tattoo – and to send a postcard to their own mum from the Festival.
Posted in Festivals Tags: find-out-more, from-the-park, glasto-jpg, mike-at-glasto, park, radiohead, rafters, stick-on-tattoo, tattoo-parlour, white, white-ribbon, work-raising No Comments »Thank you Green Travellers
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on June 29th, 2011
A big thanks to the thousands of you who came by public transport or bike to this year’s Festival. You really have helped to reduce the environment impact of Glastonbury.
Posted in Festivals Tags: environment, public-transport, reduce-the-environment, the-thousands, thousands, transport-or-bike, year No Comments »Thank you Green Travellers
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on June 29th, 2011
A big thanks to the thousands of you who came by public transport or bike to this year’s Festival.
Posted in Festivals Tags: environment, public-transport, reduce-the-environment, the-thousands, thousands, transport-or-bike, year No Comments »Thanks for coming
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on June 27th, 2011
Hope you enjoyed Glastonbury 2011 as much as we did. We’ll see you in 2013 (registration is already open ). Don’t forget, the BBC has extensive performance highlights available on its website .
Posted in Festivals Tags: 2011-as-much, 2011-website, ace-poem, allcock, bbc, Festivals, glastonbury, its-website, might-make, News, picture-at-top No Comments »Download U2, Beyonce and Coldplay performances on iTunes, raising funds for Glastonbury’s charities
Posted by Latest Music Headlines on June 27th, 2011
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Posted in Festivals Tags: download-beyonc, Festivals, from-the-sale, glastonbury, greenpeace, her-performance, irish, irreplaceable, performance, pyramid-stage, three-charities, tunes-store, water No Comments »
