The Glastonbury Festival is a whole world of its own. One of the biggest (they claim to be THE biggest) in the world, the Glastonbury Festival is 900 acres of music and art and community in the Vale of Avalon, with mythology and religious traditions that are hundreds of years old. 900 ACRES. That's more than a lot. That's an empire. King Arthur might even be buried there.

The Glastonbury Festival has been around for 35 years, and shortly after it's beginning, it became a haven for hippies that were coming from celebrating the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. Later they built a giant pyramid that served as a cowshed and animal food store when the festival was not going on.

The Glastonbury Festival has consistently grown over time, and has thus had to sometimes change locations to accomodate the growing crowd. There has also been a history of struggle with licensing restrictions, and Glastonbury Festival organizers always seem to prevail in making sure the show goes on.

In addition to the music, there's also theatre, circus, cabaret, community.

The Gastonbury Festival has launched its annual unsigned band competition, also known as the Emerging Talent competition. 13 winning acts will get a spot on either the Pyramid, Other or Queen's Head Stage.

Anyone interested in buying a Glastonbury Festival ticket has to register with the festival via their web site or through the mail and provide a photo of themselves, in an attempt to cut down on ticket reselling.

Glastonbury has announced a new area for this year's Festival, William's Green, named after Michael Eavis' grandfather, who planted crops at Worthy Farm.

This year's festival will be broadcast worldwide in partnership with BBC Worldwide Music.

Glastonbury has just announced the stage schedules! Check out times and locations.

Glastonbury Festival Tickets

Tickets are sold out, but the re-sale of tickets left over from refunded tickets starts on Sunday, May 16th at Noon.

Glastonbury Festival Lineup 2010
FRIDAY 25TH
Pyramid Stage:
U2
Dizzee Rascal
Vampire Weekend
Snoop Dogg
Willie Nelson
Corinne Bailey-Rae
Femi Kuti
TBA

Other Stage:
The Flaming Lips
Hot Chip
Florence and the Machine
La Roux
Phoenix
The Courteeners
TBA
The Stranglers
The Magic Numbers
TBA

John Peel Stage:
Groove Armada
The Black Keys
Mumford & Sons
Ellie Goulding
Kele
Bombay Bicycle Club
Tegan and Sara
TBA
De Staat
Detroit Social Club

West Holts:
Mos Def (with full live band)
Femi Kuti
Nouvelle Vague & Guests
Breakestra with Chali 2na
Bonobo
Mariachi El Bronx
Tune-Yards
Matthew Herbert Big Band

Leftfield
Carl Barat
Reverend & The Makers
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly
Comedy hour
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Global Solidarity
Debate: Climate Change and the Fight for Green Jobs

Acoustic Stage:
Bootleg Beatles
Alan Price Set
McIntosh Ross
Turin Brakes
Brian Kennedy
Danny & The Champs
Megan Henwood
Cory Chisel
Julie Feeney

The Park Stage:
The xx
Broken Bells
Special Guests
The Big Pink
Local Natives
Steve Mason
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Beth Jeans Houghton
Lissie
TBA

East Dance:
Fatboy Slim
Chase and Status (Live)
Zane Lowe
Plan B  (Live)
Rob da Bank
Example (Live)
Roger Sanchez
O. Children
Bunny Come (Live)

Wow! Stage:
Futureboogie 
Matt Tolfrey & Geddes
Jamie Jones 
Crazy P (Live) 
Horsemeat Disco 
Nneka (Live) 
Back to Basics 
Adam Shelton & Subb-An
PBR Streetgang
El Diablos Social Club 
Christophe  

West Dance:
Boys Noize  
Simian Mobile Disco
Delphic (Live) 
Fake Blood 
Rusko 
Chromeo (Live)
Aeroplane 
Boy 8-Bit 
Hannah Holland 

Avalon Stage:
New Model Army
Transglobal Underground
Newton Faulkner
The Woodentops
Lou Rhodes
Goldheart Assembly
Gabby Young & The Other Animals
Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs

Croissant Neuf:
TBA
6ixtoys
Steve Knightley
Julien Tulk Band
Undercover Hippy Band
Seth Lakeman
Biggles Wartime Band

The Queen's Head:
Good Shoes
TBA
Magic Numbers
The Mystery Jets
Fanfarlo
Detroit Social Club
Tubelord
Tiffany Page
Frank Turner
Fiction Plane he Beat

Poetry & Words:
Penny Ashton
Baba Brinkman
Sabrina Mahfouz
Tony Walsh
Aisle 16
Kat Francois
Ventriloquist
Paula Varjack
Andreattah Chuma
Jonny Fluffypunk
Kate Tempest
Pete the Temp
Poeticat
Helen Gregory and Pete Hunter

Cubehenge
The Orb (Live) 
Zero 7 DJ Set  
Will Saul 
Spooky 
Iain Taylor (rEJEKTS)
Pete Gooding 
Mamy Rock 
The Magnet 

Pussy Parlure
DJ Zorro
Jose Luis & Dancers
Julian, Mr M & Miguel Salsa Magic (Dance animation & audience participation)
Robin Del Castillo & his Latin Band (Live)
La bomba - Latin Explosion:
Eclectic Ballroom 
Andreya Triana (Live)
Bourbon Warfare 
Incredibly Strange Film Band (Live)
Take It 2 The Bridge 
Secret Cinema Band (Live)
Feeling Gloomy 
Sound Of Rum (Live)
Lovely Morning with Randy & Earls Old Record Club

Rabbit Hole
4.30 Bunny Come
2.30am Transpersonals
12.30 The Mad Cows
11pm TBA
9pm. 360
8pm The Soap Dodgers.
7pm Tin Roots
6pm The Tailors
5pm Poppy and Friends
4pm Bryony Fry
3pm Aishling
2pm Rory H
1pm Freddie Page
12.noon. Bert Miller and other animals
Resident Dj (best Dj in the world) Poshratz.  

Stonebridge Bar

2.30am-5am – Greco-Roman ft Joe Hot Chip, Drums of Death + Ross Allen
1-2.30am - Jamie xx and Micachu DJ set
12-1am – Jamie (Klaxons) DJ set
8pm-12am – break
6-8pm – Bridgwater Reggae Soundsystem vs Broader Than Broadway
3-6pm – Stuart Patterson and Dave Hill (Deviant vs Rootical set)
1-3pm – Coyote (Is It Balearic?)

SATURDAY 26TH
Pyramid Stage:
Muse
Scissor Sisters
TBA
TBA
Seasick Steve
Jackson Browne
The Lightning Seeds
TBA

Other Stage:
Pet Shop Boys
Editors
The Cribs
The National
Kate Nash
Imogen Heap
Coheed and Cambria
Reef
Two Door Cinema Club

John Peel Stage:
Jamie T
Foals
The xx
Marina & The Diamonds
Delphic
Field Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Sophie Hunger
TBA

West Holts:
George Clinton with Parliament / Funkadelic
Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra
Os Mutantes
Devendra Banhart
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Phenomenal Handclap Band
Brother Ali
Troy Ellis & The Longshots

Leftfield
Billy Bragg
Frank Turner
Thea Gilmore
Comedy hour
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: This is a Banker’s Crisis
Debate: Beating the BNP

Acoustic Stage:
Christy Moore
Nick Lowe
Imelda May
Al Stewart
Michael Eavis In Conversation
Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus
The Leisure Society
Ellen & The Escapades
John Allen & Band

The Park Stage:
Midlake
Laura Marling
TBA
Special Guests
Stornoway
Beach House
Strange Boys
Frankie & The Heart Strings
The Ballad of Britain
Peggy Sue
TBA

East Dance:
N-Dubz (Live)
Chipmunk (Live)
Kelis (Live)
MistaJam
Tinie Tempah (Live)
Giggs (Live)
Chiddybang (Live)
McLean (Live)
Bashy (Live)
Donaeo (Live) 
Roll Deep (Live)
TBA 

Wow! Stage
Craig Charles Presents the Fantasy Funk Band        
Craze 
High Contrast  
Redlight & MC Dread
L-VIS 1990 
Breakage 
Central Spillz (Live)
Hot D'Jour (Live)
Emalkay 
Jakwob  
Shortstuff  
The Heatwave 
Dub Boy ft Redskin 

West Dance:
Dubfire
Nick Warren
Mix Hell (Live)  
Sander Kleinenberg 
Banco de Gaia  (Live) 
Riva Starr  
Neville Staple (Live) 
Dub Pistols (Live) 
Parker 
Foreign Beggars (Live)

Avalon Stage:
The Lightning Seeds
Alabama 3 acoustic
Charlie Winston
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
The Unthanks
The Avett Brothers
The Wurzels
Nick Harper
Tom Williams & The Boat

Croissant Neuf:
The Beat
MrB. The Gentleman Rhymer
Hot Feat
The Kevin Brown Trio
The Vagaband
TBA
Dizraeli & The Small Gods
TBA

The Queen's Head:
Earl Brutus
TBA
Phenomenal Handclap Band
Band Of Skulls
Holy F***
Blood Red Shoes
Here We Go Magic
Cate Le Bon
Lissie

Poetry & Words:
John Hegley
Paula Varjack
Andreattah Chuma
Attila the Stockbroker
Hollie McNish
Luke Wright
Kate Tempest
Murray Lachlan Young
Sabrina Mahfouz
Bohdan Piasecki
Open mic. (hosted by Julian Ramsey-Wade)
Ventriloquist
Jonny Fluffypunk

Cubehenge
Kissy Sell Out 
A Skillz  
Bimbo Jones
Pathaan  
Paul Lyman   
Baobinga 
Adam Regan 

Pussy Parlure
Swaparama (Live)
Jalapeno Sound System
Rock Idol (Live Karaoke)
Smoove & Turrell (Live)
Dr Rubberfunk 
Taylor McFerrin (Live) 
Western Soul 
Reverend Sound System (Live)
TBA
Randy & Earls Old Record Club

Rabbit Hole
4.am The Egg
3.am dj Doorly
2.am Dreadzone
12.30 Freebass
11pm. dj Far Too Loud
10pm Space Ritual
8.00 Quintessence
7pm Dj Mad Mick
6pm Marsupilami
5pm Dan Mangan
4pm Gabby Young And Other Animals.
3pm Pete Lawrie
2pm Skinny Lister
1pm Jamie Burke
Guest Djs

Stonebridge Bar

3-5am – The Heatwave
2.30-3am - Silver Columns (live)
12-2.30am – Four Tet DJ set
8pm-12am – break
6-8pm - Riddim and Soul
4-6pm – 5 A-sides
2-4pm – Hip Hop Karaoke
1-2pm – The Endeacott Family

SUNDAY 27TH
Pyramid Stage:
Stevie Wonder
Faithless
Jack Johnson
Ray Davies
Slash
Norah Jones
Paloma Faith
TBA

Other Stage:
Orbital
lcd soundsystem
MGMT
We Are Scientists
Grizzly Bear
Temper Trap
The Hold Steady
Frightened Rabbit
TBA

John Peel Stage:
Ash
Julian Casablancas
Broken Social Scene
Gang of Four
The Drums
Holy F***
These New Puritans
Everything Everything
Black Cherry
Dan Mangan

West Holts:
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Toots & the Maytals
Quantic & his Combo Barbaro
Staff Benda Bilili
Dr John
Tunng
The Bees
Dizraeli and the Small Gods

Leftfield
Paul Heaton
The King Blues
Lucky Soul
Comedy hour
Bill's Big Round-up
Debate: Another World Is Possible
Debate: Stop the Cuts - 6 Music/Asian network

Acoustic Stage:
Jackson Browne with David Lindley
Richard Thompson
Loudon Wainwright III
Blues Band
London Community Gospel Choir
Joel Rafael
Robinson
Fisherman's Friend
Mayhew

The Park Stage:
Empire Of The Sun
Dirty Projectors
TBA
Archie Bronson Outfit
TBA
Portico Quartet
Fionn Regan
TBA
Here We Go Magic
Travelling Band

East Dance:
Above & Beyond
Crystal Castles (Live)
Filthy Dukes (DJ Set)
Professor Green (Live)
Yasmin   
Naive New Beaters (Live)
Crystal Fighters (Live)
We Have Band (Live)
Primary 1 

West Dance:
Magnetic Man  (Live)
Jackbeats 
Stanton Warriors (Live)
Adam F 
Blasted Mechanism (Live)
Toddla T  
Alex Metric (Live) 
South Central 
Jaguar Skills 
A1 Bassline 
Killaflaw (Live)
Virus Syndicate (Live)

Wow! Stage
The Ratpack  
Snap! (Live)
Tayo   
Four Tet (Live) 
Hyperdub with Kode9, Ikonika, Terror Danjah & Dark Star
Hudson Mohawke (Live)
DaM FunK (Live)
Roska   
Untold  
Wedge   
Funkineven  
Falling Up 

Avalon Stage:
Gomez
The Saw Doctors
Imelda May
Judy Collins
SPECIAL GUESTS
Teddy Thompson
Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
Kirsty Almeida
Ellen & The Escapades

Criossant Neuf:
The Baghdaddies
Zen Elephants
Prof Nohair & the Wig Lifters
Corinne Bailey-Rae
TBA
The People's String Foundation

The Queen's Head:
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
TBA
TBA
Chief
I Am Kloot
Field Music
Goldhawks
The Middle East
Mountain Man

Poetry & Words:
Glastonbury Festival Poetry Slam (hosted by Kat Francois)
Helen Gregory and Benita Johnson
Pete Hunter
Pete the Temp
Jean Binta Breeze
Poeticat
Luke Wright
Jo Bell (Website Poet in Residence)
Bohdan Piasecki
Julian Ramsey-Wade
Penny Ashton
Baba Brinkman
Comperes – Dreadlcokalien and Abbey Oliveira

Theatre and Circus fields (all weekend):
Marcus Brigstocke
Phill Jupitus
BlackSkyWhite Theatre from Russia
Arthur Smith
Three Bonzos and a Piano
The Beat
Space Cowboy from Australia
Jeremy Hardy
Four Poofs and a Piano
Rufus Hound
Atempo Circus Theatre from Spain
John Hegley
Funny Frank Olivier from America
Andre Vincent
The Stephen Frost Impro All-Stars
Robin Ince
Circo Para Todos from Columbia
Haggis and Charlie

Cubehenge
Norman Jay Good Times ‘Carnival King’
Ashley Beedle  
Craig Charles Funk & Soul DJ Set
Kormac  
The Bee Keepers   
Ray Mighty 
RSD (Live)  
Flora  
2 Kings 

Pussy Parlure
Movits and dancers 
Kormac with Full Swing Band (Live)
Twilight Players (Live) 
The Correspondents (Live)
Dynamo Rhythm Aces (Live) 
Movits and Dancers (Live)
Nick Love  
Fat 45's (Live)  
Lord Fine Ear and Performers
TBA
Broken Hearts
Top Shelf Jazz (Live) 
Trio Manouche (Live) 
TBA
Randy & Earls Old Record Club

Rabbit Hole

3am Dubble Head
12.30 6ix Toys
11pm Secret Special Guest
10pm Elvis(The Real one)
9pm The Travelling Band
8pm Perhaps Contraption.
6pm Rabbit Foot Spasm Band
5pm Babeshadow
4pm Troy Ellis And The Long Shots
3pm Sound of Rum.
2pm Lion Child
1pm Josh Thorner
12.30pm Hot tin Cat
12noon Georgie Pope (acoustic Harp)
Resident Dj (best Dj in the world) Poshratz.

Stonebridge Bar
2-4am – Heavenly Jukebox presents HVN JBX
12-2am – Very Special Guests
8pm-12am – break
7-8pm - RackNRuin
5-7pm – Man Like Me (DJ set)
3-5pm – Mr Shiver (Size Doesn’t Matter)
1-3pm – Jeff Barrett (Heavenly Jukebox)

With more to be announced ...