Glastonbury Festival 2013

Glastonbury Festival 2013
Date(s)	28 June 2013 (2013-06-28) – 30 June 2013 (2013-06-30)
Location(s)	Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England
Previous event	Glastonbury Festival 2011
Next event	Glastonbury Festival 2014
Participants	135,000 tickets + performers and crew
Website	www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

The 2013 Glastonbury Festival (Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts) was held from 28 to 30 June 2013. It followed a fallow year, in which there was no festival.^[1][2]

Ticket sales

On 20 June 2012 it was announced that tickets for the 2013 festival would go on sale at 9 am on Sunday 7 October 2012.^[3] All 135,000 tickets were sold in a record 1 hour and 40 minutes.^[4][5]

2013 line-up

The Arctic Monkeys headlined on the Pyramid stage on the Friday night.^[6] The Rolling Stones made their Glastonbury debut, headlining on the Saturday.^[7][8] The band played twenty songs during their two-hour set,^[9] with the second hour broadcast by BBC Two.^[10] The Rolling Stones performance had a peak audience of 2.6 million on BBC 2.^[11] Mumford & Sons closed the festival with their first ever headline set on the Pyramid stage.^[12]

Artist/Band[13]	Day[13]	Stage[13]	Time[13]
Arctic Monkeys	Friday	Pyramid Stage	22:15-23:45
Dizzee Rascal			20:15-21:30
The Vaccines			18:30-19:30
Professor Green			17:00-18:00
Rita Ora			15:30-16:30
Jake Bugg			14:00-15:00
Haim			12:30-13:30
Jupiter & Okwess International			11:00-12:00
The Rolling Stones	Saturday		21:30-23:45
Primal Scream			19:00-20:00
Elvis Costello			17:15-18:30
Ben Howard			15:30-16:30
Laura Mvula			14:00-14:45
Billy Bragg			12:30-13:30
Rokia Traoré			11:00-12:00
Mumford & Sons	Sunday		21:45-23:15
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds			19:45-21:00
Vampire Weekend			18:00-19:00
Kenny Rogers			15:45-17:00
Rufus Wainwright			14:00-15:00
First Aid Kit			12:45-13:30
Bassekou Kouyate			11:30-12:15
Portishead	Friday	Other Stage	22:30-23:45
Foals			21:00-22:00
Alt-J			19:30-20:30
Tame Impala			18:05-19:00
The Lumineers			16:35-17:35
Enter Shikari			15:15-16:05
Amanda Palmer			13:50-14:45
The Hives			12:25-13:20
Beady Eye			11:00-11:55
Chase & Status	Saturday		22:30-23:45
Example			21:00-22:00
Two Door Cinema Club			19:30-20:30
Alabama Shakes			18:00-19:00
Noah and the Whale			16:30-17:30
Azealia Banks			15:00-16:00
Dry the River			13:40-14:30
The 1975			12:30-13:10
The Staves			11:30-12:10
The xx	Sunday		22:05-23:15
The Smashing Pumpkins			20:25-21:35
Editors			18:50-19:50
Of Monsters and Men			17:30-18:20
Public Image Ltd			16:10-17:00
I Am Kloot			14:50-15:40
Stornoway			13:30-14:10
The Heavy			12:10-13:00
Zulu Winter			11:00-11:40
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers	Friday	West Holts Stage	22:15-23:45
Seasick Steve			20:30-21:30
Tom Tom Club			19:00-20:00
Toro y Moi			17:30-18:30
Alice Russell			16:00-17:00
Goat			14:30-15:30
Zun Zun Egui			13:00-14:00
Classica Orchestra Afrobeat			11:30-12:30
Public Enemy	Saturday		22:15-23:35
Major Lazer			20:45-21:45
Maverick Sabre			19:15-20:15
The Orb feat. Kakat Sit Si			17:45-18:45
BadBadNotGood			16:15-17:15
The Bombay Royale			14:45-15:45
Fatoumata Diawara			13:15-14:15
Troker			12:00-12:45
Bobby Womack	Sunday		21:30-23:15
Lianne La Havas			19:45-20:45
Sérgio Mendes			18:15-19:15
Ondatropica			16:45-17:45
The Congos			15:25-16:15
Dub Colossus			14:05-14:55
Matthew E. White			12:35-13:35
Riot Jazz			11:30-12:15

On 17 January 2013 it was announced that on each day, in an act of solidarity, musicians from Mali would open the Pyramid Stage.^[14] Islamists have banned music in the North of the North African nation. The first musician announced to open the Pyramid Stage was Rokia Traoré.^[14]

Rodriguez, the Detroit pop star at the center of the Oscar-nominated documentary Searching for Sugar Man, will perform at Glastonbury Festival^[15]

The London-based indie group The Vaccines announced on their Facebook page that they would be playing the Pyramid Stage on the Friday. The lineup was announced on 27 March at 7pm on the Glastonbury website and on the Zane Lowe radio show on BBC Radio 1.^[16][17]

Beady Eye opened the festival with a surprise unadvertised performance on Friday at 11 am.^{[citation needed]}

Unconfirmed dates

The Park Stage

• Cat Power
• The Horrors
• Django Django
• Rodriguez
• Dinosaur Jr.
• Trop Belle. and more

The John Peel Stage

• Crystal Castles
• Hurts
• Phoenix
• Everything Everything
• The Courteeners
• Prāta vētra and more
• Miles Kane

BBC Introducing

• Turrentine Jones
• Rizzle Kicks
• Gabrielle Aplin

Avalon Stage

• Josh Doyle
• Newton Faulkner

References

1. Henley, Jon (18 October 2012). "Why Glastonbury 2012 is going down the pan". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
2. Halliday, Josh; Topping, Alexandra (28 June 2013). "Glastonbury 2013 declared 'best yet' following Rolling Stones triumph". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
3. "2013 tickets on sale October 7th". Glastonbury Festival. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
4. "Tickets for Glastonbury 2013 have now sold out, in 1h 40m (a record). Here's a note from Michael & Emily Eavis..." Glastonbury Festivals. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
5. Walker, Peter (7 October 2012). "Glastonbury tickets gone in record time". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
6. Vincent, Alice; Waters, Florence (29 June 2013). "Glastonbury 2013: day one as it happened". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
7. Lynskey, Dorian (30 June 2013). "Rolling Stones at Glastonbury 2013 – review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
8. Hawksley, Rupert; Waters, Florence (30 June 2013). "Glastonbury 2013: day two as it happened". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
9. "Glastonbury Festival: Rolling Stones make debut". BBC News. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
10. "Glastonbury Festival: Rolling Stones excitement builds". BBC News. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
11. Plunkett, John (28 June 2013). "Rolling Stones' Glastonbury show pulls in 2.6 million viewers on BBC2". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
12. Hawksley, Rupert; Vincent, Alice (1 July 2013). "Glastonbury 2013: day three as it happened". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
13. Glastonbury Festival 2013: Line-Up Linked 2013-06-29
14. "Glastonbury 2013 lineup: first act announced". The Guardian. London. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
15. "'Sugar Man' Star Rodriguez Booked for Coachella, Glastonbury". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
16. Roberts, Morgan. "Glastonbury Announces Headliners and Full Line Up". Retrieved 27 March 2013.
17. Brown, Mark (27 March 2013). "Rolling Stones will headline Glastonbury 2013, organisers confirm". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 March 2013.

External links

• BBC Glastonbury Festival coverage
• Official website