U2 Booked For Glastonbury 2010
Iconic Irish rockers U2 have been booked and confirmed to appear as the headline act at next year’s Glastonbury Festival, a move which will contribute to the event’s 40th anniversary celebrations, said event founder Michael Eavis.
This will also mark the band’s initial performance at the Somerset festival, launched in 1970 by Mr Eavis, a former dairy farmer.
In order to play at the event staged at Pilton’s Worthy Farm, the band will need to take a short pause from their tour of North America during the weekend of June 26 to June 28.
Finally, claimed Mr Eavis, the greatest musical on the planet is going to entertain a huge crowd at the world’s best rock festival.
He said that this represented the biggest and best thing for the 40 year anniversary of the Glastonbury happening, hinting that there would be great news in the new future in terms of lineup.
Running and organising the yearly event with his daughter Emily, the 74-year-old music enthusiast has reportedly been longing for an appearance from the boys from Dublin for quite a while. U2 agreeing to the show ends Mr Eavis 26-year-old quest to lure the band.
Mr Eavis said the 2010 edition will feature a series of acts fit for the occasion. All the tickets were sold within 24 hours last month and about 177,500 festival-goers are certain to have a great time.
Famous for its music as well as for its rainy weather, the farm has occasionally ended up looking like an enormous mudbath during some editions in the past.
The Somerset farm suffered some several showers and even flash floods in 2005, creating pandemonium at the site and forcing several concert-goers to creatively use their tents as makeshift boats in order to navigate around waterlogged areas.
During the 2007 version of the festival, the site experienced further rain thus threatening with a similar scenario, although a 2005 type disaster was avoided thanks mostly to a new draining system.
In related news, U2 was forced to pay the Dublin city council a fine stemming from noise regulation infractions which occurred during their series of shows in the Irish capital last summer. Several residents of the area where the band was performing had made formal complaints to the city. The fine totaled £33,000.