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Apparently they're doing the Saturday night, June 29th, not Sunday 30th.

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

It's the 29th, confirmed to headline Saturday night.

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

Never have I been so glad to have GLastonbury ticket, can't wait!!!!!!

I see bill wymans rhythm kings will be there too.

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

I think it's a good move for the Stones to reach out to a new audience. Now, their fans need an announcement of a show you can actually still buy tickets for.

I tried so hard to get tickets this year and never got. Gutted does not begin to describe how I feel now.

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

Can't wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt! - Mick

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i'll try to get tickets next month but not sure if i will get them though, everyone wants to go. but i also got tongue pit ticket, in the facebook presale with only 100 tickets, so maybe i have the same luck again. would love to go to glasto!! it's going to be a iconic performance for the Stones.

I'll take lots of photos

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Mr Jimmy
Apparently they're doing the Saturday night, June 29th, not Sunday 30th.

Planet Rock touts a BIG exclusive, and then Nicky Horne announces the wrong day.

That's a good looking line up. Plenty of acts to see! Wish I could be there.

Rolling Stones at Glastonbury 2013: 'The Stones need this festival and it needs them'

As the Rolling Stones confirm they will headline Glastonbury for the first time in 2013, Neil McCormick looks at why it took them so long.

By Neil McCormick
7:03PM GMT 27 Mar 2013

The world’s greatest rock’n’roll band at the world’s greatest rock festival? It is an irresistible alliance of forces.

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has long coveted having the Rolling Stones as headliners, making many efforts to tempt them over the years, only to be constantly rebuffed. With the band members all hitting 70, he must have thought time was running out. But somehow, as the festival has become almost as venerable as the band, their interests have coincided. Glastonbury will deliver an audience of 135,000 dedicated music lovers intent on having the time of their lives. And the Rolling Stones will deliver a headline set that no one who sees it will ever forget.

The Stones are not really a festival band. And who can blame them? When they played Altamont in 1969, it was policed by Hells Angels on acid, and one hapless concert goer was savagely murdered. That event, often depicted as the bitter end to the idealistic sixties, took place just a year before Eavis launched the first Glastonbury on his dairy farm, trying to keep the hippy spirit of the free festival movement alive. T Rex were the headliners, and they have been followed onto the Pyramid stage by most of the greatest rock stars of their day, including David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, U2, REM, Oasis, Blur and Radiohead.

Of course, these days, Glastonbury is no longer free, which no doubt helped in negotiations with the Stones. Whatever the outlaw myths the band like to maintain, it has become clear over the decades that for Mick Jagger and company, money is the grease that keeps the Stones rolling. Glastonbury is already sold out. People rush to buy tickets before any acts are announced, just to participate in the spirit of the event, and in anticipation that the organisers will pull out all the stops to deliver big name headliners. And they don’t get any bigger than the Rolling Stones.

The real reason you don’t usually see the Stones at rock festivals is that they have no need of them. Festivals like Altamont convinced The Stones organisation that they needed to improve the standards of big concert staging, and they went on to pioneer the stadium rock event. Every Stones concert is on a festival scale, a dedicated audience in their tens of thousands drawn just to see them. Revenues don’t have to be split with hundreds of other bands.

Yet despite improbable rumours of a million-pound fee, for once it is probably fair to say the Stones are not doing this for the money. Well, not just for the money, anyway. They are doing it for the prestige, and they are doing it for history. To maintain their status as the ultimate rock and roll band it makes sense to play the ultimate rock and roll concert.

Since the early days of Eavis’s hippy dream, Glastonbury has become a smooth-running, multi-million-pound brand. Beneath the fields of Worthy farm, where cows graze all year round, there is enough wiring to power a small city. Yet, like the Stones, Glastonbury has somehow retained its counter-culture reputation.

It is viewed as almost a last bastion of a kind of rock idealism, the spiritual home of a music-loving community. Pretty much every great surviving rock and roll band has played there, except, arguably, the greatest of them all. In a way, the Stones need Glastonbury as much as Glastonbury needs them.

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I'm gonna watch it on TV.
BBC usually have very good coverage.
I'm too old for festivals now,staying overnight in a tent,pissing down with rain.
Done it all before,but I do hope the weather is sunny and warm and everyone has a good time.

Yeah!! But all sold out!!
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Apparently it might not be televised.

Glad they're playing Glastonbury but gutted about the ticket situation. Still, I saw them at isle of Wight.

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Apparently it might not be televised.

NO...say it ain't so! I was figuring I'd settle in to watch it here in the States on Palladia. Why wouldn't they televise it?

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Yeah!! But all sold out!!
Stones at Glastonbury!!

Still a chance for returned and unpaid-for tickets.

From Glastonbury Festival:

Registration for those wishing to buy a Glastonbury ticket in the re-sale on April 21 is open now at [bit.ly]

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Only two songs ever surfaced on TV from their Isle of Wight festival performance - they may well let us see as little of Glastonbury on TV as they can get away with, I don't know what is the point of being so stingy about it - but that's the way they are, sadly, Anyway, I've had my Stones at a Festival fix - an experience I'd recommend but won't be repeating at Glastonbury. I'm glad a lot of younger people will get to see them instead of all us usual suspects

Registered for last minute tickets that get returned. Whats the chances.....?

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cooheid
Registered for last minute tickets that get returned. Whats the chances.....?

it will be hard to a ticket i heard, so i pray that i will get one but not so sure about it to be honest.

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Green Lady
Only two songs ever surfaced on TV from their Isle of Wight festival performance - they may well let us see as little of Glastonbury on TV as they can get away with, I don't know what is the point of being so stingy about it - but that's the way they are, sadly, Anyway, I've had my Stones at a Festival fix - an experience I'd recommend but won't be repeating at Glastonbury. I'm glad a lot of younger people will get to see them instead of all us usual suspects

I admire your good attitude Green Lady. It is disappointing that we won't be able to see them at home, but maybe they think it would dilute interest in buying tickets for the festival if everyone knew they could watch it on television. It does seem awfully stingy, though.

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crumbling_mice
Never have I been so glad to have GLastonbury ticket

Thanks for rubbing it in
Have a great time mate

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Green Lady
Only two songs ever surfaced on TV from their Isle of Wight festival performance - they may well let us see as little of Glastonbury on TV as they can get away with, I don't know what is the point of being so stingy about it - but that's the way they are, sadly, Anyway, I've had my Stones at a Festival fix - an experience I'd recommend but won't be repeating at Glastonbury. I'm glad a lot of younger people will get to see them instead of all us usual suspects

I admire your good attitude Green Lady. It is disappointing that we won't be able to see them at home, but maybe they think it would dilute interest in buying tickets for the festival if everyone knew they could watch it on television. It does seem awfully stingy, though.

Aren't you both being a little hard on Sting? He's always been up for a good broadcast...

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crawdaddy
I'm gonna watch it on TV.
BBC usually have very good coverage.
I'm too old for festivals now,staying overnight in a tent,pissing down with rain.
Done it all before,but I do hope the weather is sunny and warm and everyone has a good time.

My feelings exactly. The BBC will show as much of the Stones as the Stones allow them to, let's just hope they are generous. U2 allowed a good hour of their set to be shown live as I recall, Bowie only five songs.

a big line up at Glastonbury- it will be fun to see the mud-rockers pics on this forum from the ones who got in

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crumbling_mice
Never have I been so glad to have GLastonbury ticket

Thanks for rubbing it in
Have a great time mate

Cheers Hansie....it will be my 12th Glastonbury going all the way back to 79 and I always dreamed of seeing them play the Pyramid Stage - it will be a dream come true. Never thought it would happen and was almost dreading the ordeal of Glastonbury this year, but hell I'll sleep in the mud and rain for 5 days to see this!

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Green Lady
Only two songs ever surfaced on TV from their Isle of Wight festival performance - they may well let us see as little of Glastonbury on TV as they can get away with, I don't know what is the point of being so stingy about it - but that's the way they are, sadly, Anyway, I've had my Stones at a Festival fix - an experience I'd recommend but won't be repeating at Glastonbury. I'm glad a lot of younger people will get to see them instead of all us usual suspects

I admire your good attitude Green Lady. It is disappointing that we won't be able to see them at home, but maybe they think it would dilute interest in buying tickets for the festival if everyone knew they could watch it on television. It does seem awfully stingy, though.

There is always YouTube. Also, like the PPV back in December, someone will likely post a link on IORR that will enable us to watch it for free as it happens.

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cooheid
Registered for last minute tickets that get returned. Whats the chances.....?

Considerably better than if you didn't.

The Guardian is giving away a pair:

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