blog.MuchMusic.com www.MuchMusic.com

Crowds gather at Glastonbury Festival 2007

Tickets for this year’s Glastonbury Festival (June 27-29) went on sale a week ago and unlike every single other year, they didn’t sell out (to be more precise, 40,000 tickets out of 177,000 remained unsold, whereas in previous years ALL tickets sold out in a matter of hours). In 2007, all 177,000 tickets sold out in less than two hours.

So what’s different this year? Well, the announcement of Jay-Z as a headliner, for one. Personally I’ve never pictured the hip hop crowd as festival-goers so this is a real head-scratcher for me. And apparently for Noel Gallagher, a veteran performer of huge festivals like Glastonbury, agrees. Maybe have a hip hop act as a performer…but as the main attraction over an explosive rock act, like maybe Muse or Radiohead?? Nyet.

Noel says it’s “wrong” to have a hip hop headliner and toy with the successful formula that’s been going strong since the 1990s. And he should know…both times that Oasis headlined Glastonbury (1995 and 2004) it completely sold out.

Would you be excited to see Jay-Z in a festival setting? Would you pay ~$293 to see him? If not, who (in addition to The Verve and Kings Of Leon) should be headlining Glastonbury instead? The full lineup will be announced on May 1.

Photograph courtesy Getty

Posted on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm by Kat and is filed under Concerts & Events.

Related Articles:

• Jay-Z open to Noel Gallagher collaboration
• Glastonbury: There’s Video!
• Foo Fighters Take On The Brits!
• Festival of Fear? Concerns About Summer Concerts
• New Yeezy! Brit’s Not Sleazy.