MUSIC NEWS - Confirmed, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has been announced today as the main headline act at this summer's UK Glastonbury Festival for Saturday night as part of his 2009 World Tour for his new Working on a Dream album. "The Boss", had been widely rumored to take the top spot on the festival's pyramid stage in what has been considered a "return to roots" for Britain's best-known music festival. Last year, rapper Jay-Z was the headliner. This caused complaints and resentment among traditional festival fans who believed the event was moving away from its guitar-based heritage, and was blamed for slow ticket sales. Michael Eavis, the local Somerset farmer who's hosted the festival since 1970, was somewhat vindicated when last year's event was praised by critics, many of whom judged the festival one of the best of recent years. Even so, Eavis hoped Glastonbury 2009 would "revisit its musical roots".
Other acts have been rumored for some time (but not confirmed) to headline have been the Canadian folk/rocker, Neil Young, and the reformed Blur, the band who helped popularize the Britpop music genre of the '90s. Several groups have announced they've agreed to perform at Glastonbury 2009 are; Florence and The Machine, The Ting Tings, Doves and Franz Ferdinand. Tickets for the festival have sold out but a limited number of cancelled tickets will go on sale at 9am on April 5, 2009.
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