Massive Attack to play Glastonbury 2008

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Feb 13, 2008
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Massive Attack will headline the second stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival, NME.COM has discovered.

The Bristol collective will return to the festival (June 27-29), along with Hot Chip, who are also believed to be appearing on the Other Stage.

Elbow, meanwhile, have confirmed themselves that they are playing this year’s event, announcing it from the stage during their gig at London’s Porchester Hall last night (February 12).

The bands join headliners Kings Of Leon, Jay-Z and The Verve, who were officially confirmed to top the Pyramid Stage last week.

Other confirmed acts include Neil Diamond, CSS, Leonard Cohen and British Sea Power.

Fans can currently register for tickets on the official Glastonbury website, after which they will be eligible to buy tickets on April 6. See our guide to getting hold of Glastonbury tickets for all you need to know about registering.

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rubbersoul7

Feb 13, 2008

Quality news regarding Massive Attack, they are easily one of the best bands on the planet and will go down a storm at Glastonbury. Lets hope Horace Andy will be making an appearance with them. The new album should be out by then too.

chinarecliner

Feb 13, 2008

Thank you Glastonbury! I've been waiting a long time to see Massive Attack on the bill. Just the small matter of getting a ticket now.

Wheelie123

Feb 13, 2008

KOL are ace and the verve are great but therye hardly Superstar acts are they?! surely thats what glasto is all about???

wheres David Bowie, Prince, Led Zepplin, U2 , Springsteen, something along those lines? KOL and the verve were both on tour about 2 months ago in the UK( and just for the Record, the verve reunion was totally underwhelming!!) and dont get me started on Jay-Z !! im all for a diverse line-up but how can he justify Jay-Z over Kanye West???? Jay-z is a producer, not a headline act IMO!

dougieplasticmanc

Feb 13, 2008

At last massive attack at glasto. amazing live band, perfect fior this festival. hopefully on the same time as jay-z. the countdown is on for ticket sale day. getting nervous already, i'd better get a life and think about summat else soon, erm erm, shit!!! ive still not registered for glastonbury

AdamShanklyUK

Feb 13, 2008

Massive Attack, now we're talkin'! Probably the first band I've heard are playin' Glasto that I've got slightly wet about. Although, I'm still boycottin' this year's event coz of the poor line-up though. Sad old me!

rick 13

Feb 13, 2008

Massive attack are an amazing band full stop!!! sure they will be class.

pablo diablo

Mar 6, 2008

not sure who most of you above are but massive attack have played glastonbury a few times, most importantly being the the massive attack day! they did a twelve hour set of live and dj sets with pretty much most of the guest singers from there albums, pure class of a day, hardly left the filed that day.

i was gonna miss this year after 20years of going, but now i know they on i shall make this my last time at the fest, then leave it to the rich posh kids who seem to have taken over, bring back the mentalists.