The full lineup for the 30th annual Glastonbury Festival in the U.K., to be held June 23-25, has been announced on the festival's official Web site: http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

Among the acts set to headline the event's main Pyramid stage are Travis, Chemical Brothers, and David Bowie, who headlined the inaugural festival in 1970.

Other artists appearing on the Pyramid stage include Counting Crows, Cypress Hill, Live, the Wailers, Pet Shop Boys, Ocean Colour Scene, Semisonic, Joseph Arthur, Embrace, Willie Nelson, the reunited Happy Mondays, Burt Bacharach, and the Ladysmith Black Mambazo singers.

Over on the Other stage, Nine Inch Nails, Moby, the The, Leftfield, the Beta Band, Basement Jaxx, A Perfect Circle, Elastica, Death In Vegas, Muse, the Dandy Warhols, and Saint Etienne, among others, will perform. The Dance stage will sport performances from Fatboy Slim, Josh Wink, Eat Static, Luke Vibert with B.J. Cole, and Junkie XL, among others.

Groove Armada, Reprazent, Morcheeba, Femi Kuti & Positive Force, G. Love & Special Sauce, Horace Andy, and Face Action will perform on the Jazzworld stage. Elliott Smith, Flaming Lips, Wheat, Yo La Tengo, Doves, Day One, and Black Box Recorder have been tapped for the New Bands stage, which will also feature performances from two bands selected in a contest sponsored by the Web site MusicUnsigned.com.

On the Acoustic stage, Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant's new band Priory Of Brion will perform, as will Suzanne Vega, Paul Carrack, Hank Williams III, Hothouse Flowers, the Waterboys, and Alvin Youngblood Hart.

The lineup for the new Glade area, a 4,000-capacity open-air dance arena, has yet to be announced. The Glastonbury Web site describes it as a "magical area set amongst the swaying trees and babbling streams of the vale of Avalon ... a place in which to lose yourself surrounded by sound and visuals experimentation."

From: http://www.billboard.com/

Musicunsigned.com Announce Festival Firsts At Glastonbury 2000
Music Events [05-30-2000]
Url: http://www.musicunsigned.com
MUSICUNSIGNED ANNOUNCE FESTIVAL FIRSTS AT GLASTONBURY 2000… musicunsigned, Europe's premier independent online music company will be taking its fight for the unsigned artist to a new level with activities centred around this year's world famous Glastonbury Festival.

For the first time in the history of the Glastonbury Festival, the public has had the opportunity to play at being A&R moguls and vote online for who they wanted to see play on the New Bands Stage at the festival on 24th June. The New Bands Stage, co-promoted by musicunsigned, will feature two acts chosen by the public. musicunsigned's stars of the future will play alongside the world's finest breaking talent, such as The Flaming Lips, Rae & Christian and Ooberman.

In another festival first, musicunsigned has recruited world famous sound installation artists, Greyworld, to convert the old Greenfields railway tunnel into an ultra-sonic sound spectacular. Using the latest technologies, Greyworld has transformed the tunnel into a living music experiment where festival goers en route to the stage area can band together to create their own sounds.

Over the three days of the festival, musicunsigned is hosting an exclusive backstage hospitality area behind the New Bands Stage for the music industry, press and artists to be introduced to the musicunsigned vibe, as well as distributing over 2,000 Glastonbury Survival Packs, Festival Site Maps and rain ponchos.

About musicunsigned:
Launched in September 1999, musicunsigned is Europe's premier online music company that connects unsigned artists and musicians across all disciplines with the music industry. Musicunsigned nurtures developing talent and provides a stepping stone for the unsigned artist. Artists showcased on the site have their own dedicated web space that features up to three tracks that are streamed direct to the users desktop in Real Audio. None of the music on the site is for sale or downloadable. If accepted on to site, the artists are represented by the musicunsigned A&R team and touted to the industry. In May this year musicunsigned confirmed the first signings to major labels (EMI, East/West & Polydor) as a result of Internet exposure.

http://www.musicunsigned.com

For further information please contact:
Ruben Lawrence / Claire Kuperberg at Bite Communications
T: 020 8600 6737/6724 or Email: musicunsigned@bitecomm.co.uk