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The Glastonbury Festival 2008 tickets had its slowest sales volume in many years; the organizers blamed previous year’s mud.

Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury Festival founder, said yesterday that by the evening they’ve sold around 100,000 tickets, despite selling out within hours in previous years.

Many people are saying that this year’s line-up is also to blame for the slow volume of ticket sales. Jay-Z is headlining the Somerset event which hasn’t been widely welcome.

Mr Eavis said:

It’s a nice little sale for a Sunday morning. And that’s without them even knowing who’s playing - we haven’t announced our line-up yet. In previous years all tickets were sold out within a couple of hours, but I think three years of mud may have taken their toll, but even so, 100,000 isn’t bad.

Last year, 177,000 people attended the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and more than 700 acts played.

The festival has been criticised in recent years for becoming more commercialised and changing the target audience, brought on by new strict ticketing measures. Glastonbury is also facing growing competition from smaller festivals, such as the Connect Festival, at Inveraray Castle, launched last year.

Excellent Line Up at Global Gathering 2008

Global Gathering 2008 is set to offer a wide range of styles to fit all music tastes. Etienne De Crecy, Hot Chip, Mark Ronson, Moby, Roisin Murphy and Robyn are this year’s choosen live performers.

Global Gathering is rated the world’s biggest dance festival and unique camping weekender, with a line up that continuously features the best DJs on the planet. Therefore with unsurprisingly all tickets sold out well in advance.

World class DJs such as Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Erick Morillo and David Guetta will not disapoint the 55,000 people that are expected to turn up at Marston Field on the the 25^th and 26^th July for the Global Gathering 2008 to steep up the incredible atmosphere.

The Global Gathering organisers know their crowd, and once again they’ve invited the legendary regular dance floor spinners - Sasha, Ferry Corsten, Roger Sanchez and 2ManyDJs will surely fire up souls on this epic weekend.

Portishead’s Latest Video: Machine Gun

‘Machine Gun’ - the music video from Portishead’s latest album: ‘Third’.

Portishead In Portishead: TV Show to Debut New Album

Current TV will host a show featuring Portishead on April 11. The band will perform eight tracks from their forthcoming album on the show - three weeks before the album is released on April 28.

The new album is called ‘Third’ and will be recorded live in Portishead - the town from which the band took their name – as such the programme will be titled ‘Portishead In Portishead’.

The broadcast will be available to stream on the Current TV website for two months after originally being shown.

‘Portishead In Portishead’ will be broadcast on April 11 at 10pm (BST).

Glastonbury Festival 2008 Ticket Details Revealed

Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2008 go sale this Sunday morning (April 6) at 9am!

Here’s some advice for buying tickets released by XFM:

To buy the tickets, you’ll need to have your registration number (and the registration numbers and surnames of each of those coming with you). Only registered applications will be catered for.

OK, with your registration number in hand, you can buy your ticket(s) either online or on the telephone. Historically, the majority of tickets have always been sold online but organiser Michael Eavis has promised more tickets to be available via the phone.

Seetickets.com is the only website authorised to sell tickets so DON’T buy them from anywhere else.

This year’s telephone number 0800 079 2008.

Weekend tickets cost £155 each plus an additonal £5 booking fee and £4 p&p.

Debit cards, cheques or postal orders are the only acceptable methods of payment and the only debit cards accepted are Visa Debit, Visa Electron, Switch/Maestro and Solo. So that’s NO CREDIT CARDS.

Cheques and postal orders must be sent within five working days to:

PO BOX 9091, Nottingham, NG1 9DA. All cheques must be payable to Glastonbury Festival 2008 Ltd.

Glastonbury 2008 will be held between June 27-29 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset.

This year’s Pyramid Stage headliners are Kings Of Leon, Jay-Z and The Verve.

Guest Mix: Little Mike - Horrible Programming & Shameful Mixes Part 1

Music.Pofire.org proudly presents the techno house legend, Little Mike, of Phrunky fame. Great dance music mix, hope you enjoy. Cheers Mike!

1. October - Homosapiens [Caravan]
2. Unknown
3. Minilogue - Hispaniola [Cocoon]
4. Anja Schneider - Unknown [Mobilee]
5. Matthias Tanzmann - Hotel Sapporo [Moon Harbour]
6. Dan Ghenacia - Cycles [Freak N Chic]
7. Umek - Unknown (Tigerskin Remix) [Unknown]
8. Holger Zilske - Spooky Kissing [Playhouse]
9. Unknown
10. Joris Voorn - Decay [Green]
11. Danton Eeprom - Comfessions Of An Opium Eater [Tsuba]
12. Szenario - Peaseasy (Raudive Remix) [Leftroom]
13. Thomas Schumacher - (I Forget) [Superstition]
14. Unknown
15. Supermayer - The Art Of Letting Go (Ewan Pearson Remix) [Kompakt]
16. Anthony Collins - Unknown [Tuning Spork]
17. Unknown
18. Matthias Tanzmann - (I forget) [Moon Harbour]
19. Unknown
20. I:Cube - (I forget) [Versatile]

Morrisey Receives Racism Apology

The singer Morrisey has accepted an official apology over claims that he was a racist and a hypocrite.

The former frontman of the Smiths couldn’t appear at London’s High Court for the settlement because he is currently recording in Los Angeles.

Morrisey had initiated court action over an article by David Quantick published in World Magazine. Morrisey’s solicitor, John Reid, stated in court that the closing paragraph could have been construed to imply that he was a racist or that he was a hypocrite seeing that his parents are migrant themselves.

The publishers Development Hell and editor Mark Ellen did not intend to describe Mr Morrisey as racist, according to Mr Reid. The publishers’ solicitors, Caroline Kean, offered their sincere apologies to Morrisey; The publishers have also dissociated themselves from such allegations.

A statement was read outside court on behalf of Morrisey:

I am obviously delighted with this victory and the clearing of my name in public where it is loud and clear for all to hear.

Nevertheless Morrisey have expressed that will continue the legal battle against the NME, which released similar allegations in their December 2007 edition. He added:

I will now continue to pursue my legal action against the NME and its editor until they do the same.

Performers for Classical Brits Revealed

The classical artists which will perform at the 2008 Classical Brits are Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman and Nigel Kennedy.

Hosted by Myleene Klass, the event will take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on May 8 and will be broadcast on Thursday May 15 on ITV1.

Nominations for the awards will be revealed on Tuesday April 8 at the Mayfair hotel in London.

Jonathan Ansell, vocal quartet Blake and violist Lawrence Power will perform at the launch.

Co-chairmen of the Classical Brit Awards Committee, UCJ’s managing director, Dickon Stainer and head of EMI Classics UK, Thomas Kaurich stated:

The show will be the biggest and boldest in the history of the event, and the launch event on April 8th will showcase some of the sensational young talent which has topped the classical chart over the last year.

Multi-Artist Collaboration for Next Primal Scream Album

Primal Scream have revealed will collaborate with a number of artists and producers on their as yet untitled ninth studio album.

The album is due to be launched later this year and will feature different collaborators and producers, including Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons producer, James Ford.

Bobby Gillespie has told the BBC:

We did some tracks with Youth, Paul Epworth - we did some stuff with him. James Ford is going to do a mix for us as well, and we’ve been producing stuff ourselves.

There are also unconfirmed rumours that Primal Scream wish to pair up with producer Mark Ronson.

Zane Lowe’s Masterpieces

The BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe is featuring the greatest music albums of our time in is latest show. Zane Lowe Masterpieces will be presenting works of genius from 5-8 November, presenting four of the greatest albums of all time; albums that due to their nature and quality are eternal. As well as interviews and documentary material, Zane will play each album in full, with no interruptions, so you can hear the masterpiece as it’s meant to be heard.

As it stands the list includes:

• Radiohead - ‘OK Computer‘ - 31 March
• Public Enemy - ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back‘ - 1 April
• The Libertines - ‘Up The Bracket‘ - 2 April
• Guns N’ Roses - ‘Appetite For Destruction‘ - 3 April

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