| Location: | Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England |
| Participants: | Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Blur |
| Prev: | Glastonbury Festival 2008 |
| Next: | Glastonbury Festival 2010 |
The 2009 Glastonbury Festival/Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held from 24 to 29 June 2009.
In a similar way to previous festivals, tickets for the 2009 event required pre-registration (of a photograph and personal details) through the festival website.[1] Registration opened on 1 September 2008.
Tickets were able to be purchased via the See Tickets website or by telephone. A limited number of tickets were available by promotion through the Western Daily Press[2] and competitions run by Greenpeace,[3] eFestivals[4] and The Guardian.[5]
Ticket lines opened on the morning of 5 October 2008, and customers were able to place deposits for tickets (£50) or buy them in full (£175). Tickets required full payment by 1 February 2009.
On 22 January 2009, at Midem 2009, Michael Eavis announced that 90% of the event's 137,500 tickets had been sold. He also stated that although headliners had not been confirmed, he was awaiting confirmation from the acts he had approached.[6]
Reserved tickets which did not have their remaining balance paid by the deadline were put back on sale on 2 February 2009 and it was announced the next day that the event had sold out, with the majority of reservations being balanced by 1 February deadline.[7] A re-sale of cancelled tickets was held on 5 April 2009 at 9:00 am. These tickets sold out by 10:15 am.[8]
In a December 2008 interview, co-organiser Emily Eavis stated that the Trash City arena would be expanded for the 2009 festival.[9] On 5 December 2008, Battersea and Wandsworth TUC announced that the Left Field tent of the site would not be a part of the 2009 event.[10] A new area, named William's Green, occupied the same area.[11] The 2009 event saw expansion of the Dance Village – including a 3D disco – as well as the return of the G-Stage and the Pussy Parlure.[12] Greenpeace used their area in the Green Fields to create an airport terminal building and miniature replica of the village of Sipson, which is threatened by the expansion of London Heathrow Airport.[13] [14]
As with previous events, the festival had a tipi field where six people can accommodate one tipi for the shared price of £800.[15] A new hospitality area, surrounded by a 12feet wall, was created on the old cinema field between Lower Mead and Wicker Ground fields. This area included PodPad camping.[16] The positioning of this area restricted pedestrian access to both camping and parking sites; pathways at previous festivals have led through this area.
The three main headline acts (Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and Blur) were announced in March 2009,[17] with the full line up being released on 25 May 2009.[18]
| Jazz World | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| The Black Eyed Peas Manu Dibango Roots Manuva Khaled Orquesta Aragón Linda Lewis | |||
| Park Stage | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Animal Collective The Horrors Noah and the Whale The Dead Weather Emilíana Torrini The Hotrats James Hunter Golden Silvers Bishi Lay Low Super Furry Animals(Secret Set) | |||
| East Dance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Calvin Harris Mr. Scruff V V Brown Rob da Bank Frankmusik Wonky Pop DJs Kissy Sell Out Wonky Pop DJs Ou Est Chris Coco | |||
| West Dance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Peaches Jodie Harsh Beat Torrent Freq Nasty Dirty Vegas Quiver Filthy Dukes Don Diablo Goldfish Stuart Wilkinson Transformer | |||
| Avalon | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| The Peatbog Faeries Seth Lakeman Dodgy Will Young Glenn Tilbrook The Mummers The Destroyers 6 Day Riot Stornoway | |||
| The Glade | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Gong Steve Hillage Band Eat Static Richard 'Kid' Strange and the Party Second Class Citizen Back to the Planet 3 Daft Monkeys Hybrid Cinematic Set Breakfast with Howard Marks | |||
| Croissant Neuf | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| The Communicators The Destroyers The Travelling Band Steve Knightley Paolo Nutini The Boat Band King G Mall & The Dhol Blasters | Bliss Club Night feat Chew Lips Bowjangles The Mandibles & Mandiblettes Mankala The Hit Ups | Gong Steve Hillage Band Eatstatic Richard 'Kid' Strange and the Party Second Class Citizen Back to the Planet 3 Daft Monkeys Hybrid Cinematic Set Breakfast with Howard Marks | |
| Club Dada | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| DJ Head Gardener Warlords Of Pez Blackberry Wood The Dynamics Lady Gaga The Delegators DJ Head Gardener Dj Tall Will Lazy Habits Bobby Mcghees Ruth Theodore The Long Notes Katy Carr Rún | DJ Jason Mayall Fat 45 DJ Jason Mayall Africa Express Soundsystem Aerial Act and Nathan FluteBox Lee Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Chicago) No 1 Station Killa Dilla Peyoti For President Yes Sir Boss!!! Heavy Load Jamie Renton (Chilli Fried) Al Cool and The Stranger Wines Spaceships Are Cool DJ Chinaman & Deaf Rave | DJ Tofowski Polka Madre Les Fanfare Petard Orkestra Del Sol Trans-Siberian March Band Le Vagabond Boogaloo Club Jah Free and friends Monty Casino Tarantism Kim Lone Dj Lee | |
| The Rabbit Hole | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Secret Open Mic...til 6am Dogshow Dubblehead The Mike Strutter Band Open Mic Jamie Burke Open Mic The Rusticles Evi Vine Bryony Fry Aimee Ballinger James Watson Open Mic Hamish Guerrini and Brothers | Secret Open Mic...til 6am C.C.Q. The Clever Bar-Stewards Jump Mama The Lancashire Hotpots Madelaine Hart Kev Christmas Open Mic Wandering Word Extravaganza & Friends Open Mic The Hocky-Smiths | Egstremely Special Supergroup (gleaned from all over site) til 6am The Mad Cows dubious Open Mic Cromwell's League The Bad Hatters and Scantily Clad Jesca Hoop Tom Hickox Perhaps Contraption Eat More Cake Hana White Rabbit's Records | |
| Guardian Lounge | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| The Maccabees DJ - Crazy P DJ or Bonar 2020 Crazy P DJ – Bonar Little Boots DJ - Horsemeat Disco Ebony Bones DJ - The Unabombers Slow Club DJ – Thecocknbull Kid Bombay Bicycle Club DJ – Michael Cook The Memory Band DJ – Michael Cook | Peter, Bjorn & John DJ – Richard Norris (Time & Space Machine) Golden Silvers DJ – Erol Alkin / Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Micachu & The Shapes DJ – Johnno Burgess The Invisible Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs DJ – Greco Roman Sound System featuring… Emmy The Great DJ – Greco Roman Sound System (feat. Joe Hot Chip) Speech Debelle The Big Pink Blue Roses DJ – Michael Cook | Tony Christie DJ – Coco Disco Heartbreak DJ – Red Rack'em Boy Crisis DJ – Frank Tope & Dan We Have Band Special Guest DJ – Cosmic Disco Amadou & Mariam DJ – Heavenly JukeBox White Lies DJ Heavenly JukeBox Music From The Penguin Cafe DJ – Cosmic Disco | |
| The Bandstand | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Rhythmites Tragic Roundabout The Cedar Malarchy Vladimir Steamboat Lunaloop Biggles Wartime Band The Kays The Gents Little Musgraves Master Duncan's Poetry Hour (Not) Will Scott & Jan Bell Ash Mandrake Mike Harper | Kava Kava Gringo Ska Morph Carmina Urusen Sweet Billy Pilgrim Who's Afear'd Bowjangles Mik Artistik Poppy & Friends Master Duncan's Poetry Hour (Not) Ruby Brown Swamp Donkey The Cloghoppers | Babel The Duckworths RSVP Loop Force ShakShak Polly and the Billets Doux Tom Kitching & Gren Bartley Bethia Beadman Inflatable Buddha The Gala Band Master Duncan's Poetry Hour (Not) Adam & Lydia Spring Ian Perry Bashema | |
| Stonebridge Bar | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Four Tet Little Boots (DJ set) Tas Elias Dadrock Bullion Hip Hop Karaoke Justin Steele The Endeacott Family | Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Skream + Benga Firas Kwesachu mixtape (ft Micachu, Kwes, Dels, Ghostpoet and more) Caspa Hip Hop Karaoke Nash The Endeacott Family | Broader Than Broadway vs The Revenge Bridgewater Sound System Reggae Roast Set The Tone 67 Hip Hop Karaoke Lou and Mal Family Barrett | |
| Arcadia | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Disco of Doom Hybrid (DJ) Subsource Circus Show Lee Mortimer (DJ) Freefall Collective Circus Show Tristan (DJ) Blackout Dreadzone (DJ) Baby Head Dub FX | Evil Nine Far Too Loud (DJ) Adam Freeland Circus Show Alex Metric (DJ) Sicknote Circus Show Kid Blue (DJ) Smerins Anti Social Club Dub FC | Freq Nasty (DJ) Zion Train Circus Show Jazzsteppa Baobinga B2B Reso (DJ) Circus Show The Egg Powersteppers (DJ) Pronghorn Dub FX King Porter Stomp | |
| BBC Introducing | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Engine-Earz KOF Colorama Louise Golbey Two Door Cinema Club Sparrow and the Workshop Cashier No.9 The Heroes Man Like Me The Molotovs Friendly Fires(Secret Set) | Vienna Ditto Speech Debelle King Charles Goldheart Assembly The Alfonz Rogues Kidbass 10k Runner Travelling Band Bicycle Thieves | Life in Film States of Emotion Kobi Onyame Essay Like Nephew Fists Dimbleby & Capper Andreya Triana The 1,2,3,4s The Suitables The Fuels | |
| The Bimble Inn | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Swiss FX The Correspondents Mad Dog Mcray Special Guest Martin Harley Band Daddy Ho! Lonely Schizophrenik | DJ Cindy Pink Very Special Guests Big Hand John Fairhurst Lovebirds Douglas James Show The Lost Brothers The Carrivick Sisters | Special Guests Roots Union Rum Shabeen Passenger The Domino State Wilfredo Stephen Junior Bobbie Magees | |
| Poetry&Words 2009 | |||
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| Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June | Sunday 28 June | |
| Helen Gregory (poet) A Poem in Between People Hollie McNish Cat Kidd Derrick C. Brown Rosy Carrick Nathan Filer Anita Govan Andy Craven-Griffiths The Poetry Chicks Dreadlockalien Rosemary Harris Joolz Mike McGee Porky the Poet (AKA Phill Jupitus) | DJ Cindy Pink The Poetry Chicks Nathan Filer Open mic (hosted by Sophia Blackwell) Mike McGee Jude Simpson Cat Kidd Mark Mace Smith (2008 Slam Winner) Rosy Carrick A Poem in Between People Attila the Stockbroker Andreattah Chuma Murray Lachlan Young Aisle 16 | Jude Simpson Murray Lachlan Young Steve Tasane Andreattah Chuma Adam Horovitz (Website poet in residence) Anita Govan Pete Hunter John Hegley Hollie McNish Derrick Brown Helen Gregory Slam (hosted by Dreadlockalien Middleman Productions) | |
The news of Michael Jackson's death spread during the night of 25 June. Various tributes were made to him by performers throughout 26 June,[19] including Dizzee Rascal leading a crowd rendition of Jackson's hit "Thriller", and N.E.R.D frontman Pharrell Williams paying respects for Jackson in saying "It's the music, the music was so incredible", before adding that Jackson "changed music and the way people looked at music." Other performers to pay tribute to Jackson included The Streets, Hugh Cornwell, Lily Allen, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip and Gabriella Cilmi.[20] Within hours of his death, there were T-shirts for sale proclaiming "I was at Glasto 09 when Jacko died"[21] and shops announcing "Michael Jackson has died, 10% off everything."[22]
Several cases of swine flu were reported during the festival. Two of these were students and one a 10-year-old child. The three infected festival-goers were isolated when symptoms presented and no further cases have been reported. Festival organisers had reportedly anticipated some cases of the virus with a spokesperson saying "...the figure of three in 177,000 people is regarded as very low."[23]