Jay-Z to play Glastonbury

By Alex Young on February 4th, 2008

Jay-Z will reportedly headline Saturday night of the 2008 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.

The U.K.’s famed Glastonbury Festival has lined up U.S. rap impresario Jay-Z as the headliner for this year’s event, founder Michael Eavis revealed to the BBC this weekend.

Eavis had been promising a hip hop “legend” from New York for the upcoming edition of the contemporary music celebration in June.

The choice of the iconic rapper, former record label chief and hip-hop entrepreneur was an attempt to “break with tradition this time and put on something totally different,” Eavis told BBC Somerset.

[CBC.ca]

Neil Diamond and Leonard Cohen will also be headlining the festival.

But, where’s Radiohead?

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has dropped the first hints that his band will be playing at Glastonbury
this summer.

Speaking to the BBC, Greenwood said that the quintet are “talking about probably going, whether we’ll play or do anything musical, I’ve no idea”.

[Drowned in Sound]

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