Festival Guide – Glastonbury 09 – Part I

Rather than a full guide to Glastonbury in one single post I will be breaking different parts of the festival into separate articles.

This first article will focus on BBC Introducing.

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Before we take a look at who the BBC will be introducing this year here is an introduction to Glastonbury Festival.

Glastonbury has been running most years since its creation in the 1970′s following the success of similar festivals such as The Isle Of Wight Festival.

Glastonbury can be classed as one of the largest festivals in the world, in 2007 over 700 acts played across 80 stages to 177,000 people in only three days.

Glastonbury is notorious for it’s bad weather. It can be the hottest June in history but as soon as Glasto starts the heavens usually open and festival goers are subject to mud baths and soggy tents.

This year however, according to MetCheck.com (so don’t lynch me if this turns out to be wrong), the weather is meant to be fine. The only rain predicted will be on the Monday after the festival, when some people may be going home. Other than that a dry but cloudy festival is predicted.

This years Glastonbury takes place next weekend, Thursday June 25th – Sunday June 28th, at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Headliners for this years festival include Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Kasabian, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Blur, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and The Prodigy.

It will not be these world famous bands I will be focusing on today however. Instead I will be focusing on the very best in unsigned talent from across the UK.

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BBC Introducing takes place in the Park Area of Glastonbury festival. It offers unsigned bands the chance to play in front of large crowds and gives music fans looking for the best new talent the chance to see bands and artists who could be the next big thing.

BBC Introducing at Glastonbury was first launched in 2007, since then acts such as JME, The Ting Tings, Bryn Christopher, Bashy, thecocknbullkid, Fight Like Apes and The Chapman Family have all appeared on the stage.

If you are heading to Glastonbury this year the I would recommend checking this BBC Introducing Stage out. If at any point during the festival you find you have a spare hour or two, or there are bands on other stages you are not that keen on or have seen before then head over to the BBC Introducing Stage and support the best unsigned acts in the UK by giving their music an audience.

There are some great acts performing this year including Two Door Cinema Club (who I have posted about in the past), Vienna Ditto, Fists, Dimbleby & Capper and many more.

The chances are more than likely that some of these acts will be receiving much more attention in the future and you never know may be headlining Glastonbury in the years to come.

This years lineup for BBC Introducing is as follows,

Friday 26th

Engine-Earz
KOF
Colorama
Louise Golbey
Two Door Cinema Club
Sparrow And The Workshop
Cashier No.9
The Heroes

Saturday 27th

Vienna Ditto
Speech Debelle
King Charles
Goldheart Assembly
The Alfonz
Rogues
Kidbass
10K Runner

Sunday 28th

Life In Film
States Of Emotion
Kobi Onyame
Essay Like Nephew
Fists
Dimbleby & Capper
Andreya Triana
The 1, 2, 3, 4s

Check out BBC’s Glastonbury Line Up and BBC Introducing for more details on the acts.

If you are an artist or in a band and are unsigned then you can apply to appear on next years BBC Introducing Stage here.

The video below gives an idea of what BBC Introducing is all about.

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