The 2013 Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held from 26 to 30 June 2013. It followed a fallow year, in which there was no festival.
Ticket sales
On 20 June 2012 it was announced that tickets for the 2013 festival would go on sale at 9am on Sunday 7 October 2012. All 135,000 tickets were sold in a record 1 hour and 40 minutes.
2013 line-up
The
Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002. The group consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jamie Cook (guitar, keyboards), Nick O'Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Matt Helders (drums, back ...
headlined on the Pyramid stage on the Friday night.
The Rolling Stones made their Glastonbury debut, headlining on the Saturday.
The band played twenty songs during their two-hour set, with the second hour broadcast by
BBC Two
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. The Rolling Stones performance had a peak audience of 2.6 million on
BBC 2
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.
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons is a British folk rock band formed in London in 2007. The band currently consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), Ted Dwane (vocals, bass guitar, double bass), and Ben Lovett (vocals, key ...
closed the festival with their first ever headline set on the Pyramid stage.
On 17 January 2013 it was announced that on each day, in an act of solidarity, musicians from
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would open the Pyramid Stage.
Islamists have banned music in the North of the North African nation. The first musician announced to open the Pyramid Stage was
Rokia TraorƩ
Rokia TraorƩ (born 24. January 1974) is a Malian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.
She made six albums between 1998 and 2016. ''BowmboĆÆ'' (2003) won the Critics Award category at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in 2004 and ''Tchama ...
.
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pop star at the center of the Oscar-nominated documentary ''Searching for Sugar Man
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'', will perform at Glastonbury Festival
The London-based indie group The Vaccines
The Vaccines are an English indie rock band, formed in West London in 2010. Band members Justin Hayward-Young (lead vocals, guitar), Freddie Cowan (lead guitar, vocals), Ćrni Ćrnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals) and ...
announced on their Facebook
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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
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After an early career in music creation, production and DJing, he moved to the UK in 1997. He came to prominence thro ...
radio show on BBC Radio 1
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.
Beady Eye
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opened the festival with a surprise unadvertised performance on Friday at 11am.
Unconfirmed dates
The Park Stage
* Cat Power
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* The Horrors
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* Django Django
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* Rodriguez
* Dinosaur Jr.
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The band was founded by J Mascis (guitar, vocals, primary songwriter), Lou Barlow ( ...
* Trop Belle. and more
The John Peel Stage
* Crystal Castles
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* Hurts
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* Phoenix
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* Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore
* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
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Greek mythological figures
* Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...
* Everything Everything
Everything Everything are an English art rock band from Manchester that formed in late 2007. Noted for their eclectic sound and complex, sociopolitical lyrics, the band have released six albums to date ā 2010's '' Man Alive'', 2013's '' Arc'' ...
* The Courteeners
Courteeners are an English band formed in Middleton in 2006 by Liam Fray (lead guitar/vocals), Michael Campbell (drums/backing vocals), Daniel "Conan" Moores (rhythm guitar) and Mark Cuppello (bass); the latter was replaced by the band's produc ...
* PrÄta vÄtra
PrÄta VÄtra, known internationally as Brainstorm, is a Latvian pop/rock band. The band became popular internationally in 2000 when they finished third in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song "My Star (Brainstorm song), My Star".
...
and more
* Miles Kane
Miles Peter Kane (born 17 March 1986) is an English musician, best known as a solo artist and the co-frontman of the Last Shadow Puppets. He was also the former frontman of the Rascals, before the band announced their break-up in August 2009.
...
BBC Introducing
* Turrentine Jones
*Rizzle Kicks
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*Gabrielle Aplin
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Avalon Stage
*Josh Doyle
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In 2012 he signed with CTK management (Dolly Parton) and The Agency Group (Muse, My Che ...
*Newton Faulkner
Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner (born 11 January 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. He is known for his percussive style of guitar playing.
In 2007 Faulkner's debut studio album ''Hand Built by Robots'' was ce ...
References
External links
BBC Glastonbury Festival coverage
Official website
{{Glastonbury Festival
2013 in British music
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2010s in Somerset
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