Charlie Watts has said that he doesn't want to play Glastonbury because he doesn't like festivals or playing outdoors.
The Rolling Stones will headline the Saturday night at Glastonbury, joining fellow headliners Arctic Monkeys and Mumford & Sons on the bill for the Worthy Farm festival.
The Rolling Stones have been confirmed as headlining the Saturday night of this year's Glastonbury festival.
A post on the official Glastonbury festivals website appeared at 7pm today confirming the line-up of this year's festival.
Arctic Monkeys will headline on Friday and Mumford & Sons will headline on Sunday. Other bands playing include Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Portishead, Alabama Shakes, Elvis Costello, Primal Scream, Vampire Weekend, Dinosaur Jr and Cat Power.
A couple of weeks ago, I read an interview with Scott Litt about working on “Tempest”, in which he mentioned how Dylan’s voice now reminded him, positively, of Louis Armstrong. Dylan, Litt suggested, should have a go at “Hello Dolly” sometime (The full piece is stuck behind the paywall at http://www.newyorker.com/, unfortunately).
Robert Plant has announced details of three live dates for this summer.
Plant will debut his new band, Sensational Shape Shifters, at:
** Gloucester, Guildhall - May 8
** HMV Forum, London - July 12
** WOMAD, Wiltshire - July 29
Apart from Plant, the line-up for the Sensational Space Shifters is:
Juldeh Camara (JuJu)
ritti (one-stringed African Violin), kologo (African Banjo), talking drum, vocals.
Justin Adams (JuJu, Jah Wobble)
guitar, bendir, vocals
John Baggott (Massive Attack, Portishead)
keyboards
Liam "Skin" Tyson (Cast)
Alexandra Palace, where All Tomorrow's Parties holds its now yearly I'll Be Your Mirror event - headlined in 2011 by Portishead - has received a £320,000 grant from English Heritage for "urgent repairs".
Paris, 1968. On the set of a nondescript film called Slogan, 22 year old English actress Jane Birkin finds herself playing the love interest of a washed-up advertising executive undergoing a midlife crisis. In real life, Birkin’s three year marriage to Bond-theme composer John Barry is falling apart. She embarks on an affair with her leading man, a French pop star called Serge Gainsbourg, ushering in a year he would later call “un année erotique”, during which the duo would record a hit single, “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus”, banned by the BBC for its suggestive sexuality.
