My Tiger My Timing single release and play Glastonbury

MY TIGER MY TIMING

ENDLESS SUMMER: WATCH THE VIDEO

SINGLE RELEASED AUGUST 1ST 2011 ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

GLASTONBURY - JOHN PEEL STAGE

My Tiger My Timing release new single "Endless Summer" on August 1st.

Inspired by rainy grey holidays spent in the city, wishing back to the never-ending summers of the past, the band’s third single combines irresistible schoolyard singsong with hypnotic drums, shimmering electronics and angular guitars, to create a perfect slice of modern leftfield pop.

WATCH 'ENDLESS SUMMER' VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttfIcU6OnTo

The band are currently finishing their debut album, with Endless Summer released on August 1st.

Listen to Endless Summer here: http://soundcloud.com/mytigermytiming/endless-summer

Live highlights have included tours of Europe in 2010, slots on the BBC Introducing stage at Radio 1′s Big Weekend, at the Isle of Wight and V Festival, and supporting Phoenix and The Ting Tings in Germany.  The band play the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury this summer. They have also confirmed a few more dates:

26 June - Glastonbury Festival, John Peel Stage

7 August - The Finsbury, London

12 August - Beacons Festival, Yorkshire

27 August - Festinho Festival, Bedfordshire

My Tiger My Timing formed in London in 2008.  They were described by The Guardian as “deliciously upbeat and groove-laden post-punk” and by Clash as “alternative pop with a dark heart that’s bursting with desire”, and were recently named Beck’s European Newcomer 2010, CMJ’s Spotlight Artist and NME’s Breakthrough Artist of the Week.

The band have released two singles - This Is Not The Fire and I Am The Sound - and an EP, with material produced by New Young Pony Club and Hot Chip, released through Kitsuné, Pure Groove and Modular Records.

“Deliciously upbeat and groove-laden post-punk" The Guardian

“Alternative pop with a dark heart that’s bursting with desire” Clash

“Tribal electro like a south London Gang Gang Dance” NME

“On the verge of blowing up in both the UK and abroad” CMJ

“Tinkering with the trappings of 21st century post-punk” Drowned In Sound

“Classic. Perfect. Pop” Artrocker

My Tiger My Timing are Anna Vincent (vocals), James Vincent (guitar, bass), Jamie Harrison (guitar, bass), Seb Underhill (keys) and Gary Drain (drums).

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Glastonbury Announce Ticket sale date

Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2011 will go on sale at 9am on Sunday, October 3rd, costing £195 (+ £5 booking fee and P&P). You will be able to book your tickets by paying a £50 deposit per person, either online at www.seetickets.com/g2011 or on the booking line: 0844 412 4635.

There will then be no further UK payments taken until the booking site re-opens on April 1st 2011, when you will have a week to pay your balance of £145 per ticket, and to book everything else you might need (tipis, campervan tickets, parking, insurance). To clarify - it will not be possible to pay for a ticket in full in October, when only deposits will be taken.

This extension to our deposit scheme will allow people more time to save for their tickets, knowing that they have a secured booking. It will also help the Festival to reduce costs, allowing us to give more to our joint charities.

Please note, the balance payment window for international buyers will be for one week from February 25th to March 3rd 2011.

Anyone who decides not to pay their balance in 2011 will be refunded their deposit, minus a £10 administration fee. Those tickets will then be put forward to a re-sale, which is likely to be in April or May 2011.

For full 2011 ticket information, please click here.

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U2 cancel Glastonbury Gig

Irish rock group U2 cancelled their headline slot at the Glastonbury festival today to allow lead singer Bono to recover from surgery to an injured spine.

Bono said in a statement today that he was “heartbroken” to be pulling out of the festival next month, which U2 were due to headline on the Friday night.

He said: “I’m heartbroken. We really wanted to be there to do something really special - we even wrote a song especially for the Festival.”

Bono injured his back during rehearsals for U2’s planned world tour, and was taken to a neurosurgery unit in Munich last week to undergo surgery on his spine. The singer, who suffered from temporary partial paralysis as a result of his injury, has been told he will need to take two months to recuperate.
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The band have also had to postpone their 16-date tour of the US and Canada, booked for June and July, as well as cancel their appearance at the 40th anniversary festival at Glastonbury on June 25.

Michael Eavis, the festival’s organiser and owner of the Worthy Farm site, said this morning: “It was obvious from our telephone conversation that U2 are hugely disappointed. Clearly, they were looking forward to playing the Pyramid Stage as much as we were looking forward to watching them.

“At this point, we have no comment to make about possible replacements for U2’s Friday night slot. Instead, we would simply like to send Bono our very best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.”

Michael Eavis will be especially disappointed after admitting in November that he had been trying to secure an appearance by U2 at Glastonbury “for years”, adding: “I’m sure they will pull out all the stops to make next year’s Glastonbury the most memorable ever.”

The debate has already begun across social networking sites and the broader music world as to who should replace U2 as the headline act for the first main night of the festival.

London-born rapper and rising star Dizzee Rascal was due to play before U2 in the penultimate slot on the main Pyramid Stage on the Friday night and is many pundits’ favourite to be bumped up to the headline slot, following a hugely popular set at Glastonbury last year.

The controversial but highly acclaimed appearance of Jay-Z at the festival in 2008 also allayed fears that Glastonbury fans would not welcome a rap star to headline a rock festival.

There have also been rumours circulating that Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily might approach Coldplay to step in to fill the vacant headline slot, although there was no confirmation from either camp that talks had been initiated.

Before the line-up was confirmed in the last few months, a number of high-profile rock bands were touted as possible headline acts, including the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. However, it remains unclear whether a new act will be added to the line-up, or whether an act already on the bill will be asked to fill the vacant Friday night headline slot.

Among other popular suggestions among fans on Twitter have been to ask Damon Albarn’s band Gorillaz or electronic dance duo The Chemical Brothers to play the slot.

Some Glastonbury fans, who are notoriously picky about the acts selected at the festival, seemed to celebrate U2’s cancellation, with one fan on Twitter, Chris Bell, saying: “Ahh, U2 cancel Glasto appearance. And in some small way the world is a better place.”

However, with hundreds of other acts across five days and dozens of stages, as well as Muse and Stevie Wonder due to headline the Saturday and Sunday slots

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KENDAL CALLING SET TO FUND & HOST INDEPENDENT ARTISTS

Kendal Calling, deemed as ‘The Glastonbury of the North’, are offering the fantastic opportunity for independent artists to show off their creative and inventive talents by displaying their work and ideas in one of the most beautiful natural spots in the country - canvases don’t get better than this! The applications are open to anyone and the generous folks at Kendal Calling are also offering out grants for the chosen projects.


Kendal Calling are looking for a range of ideas from sculptures, interactive installations, inventive performance art to hidden gems. From the bold to the beautiful, the raucous to the refined - there are minimal restraints and no theme to adhere to, so applicants are free to run wild!



Over previous years, Kendal Calling’s site art has seen the likes of Uncle Monty’s living room from ‘Withnail and I’ recreated for festival goers to sit back and recline in; 'Polacks Corner', a set of white furniture painted by the festival goers throughout the festival in a Jackson Polack style; a giant UV canopy, a multi coloured UV arch, water monster, scrap metal robots and many more fantastic and flamboyant creations by independent artists that have helped to make Kendal Calling such a special and unique experience.



Applications are now open and will close on 10th May 2010, to apply please contact art@kendalcalling.com or go to the website to download an application form http://www.wearecalling.com/artform.doc.

Please bear in mind when submitting applications that although Kendal Calling are very happy to discuss all proposals, they are an independent festival with limited funds available

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Glastonbury 2010 Line Up Revealed

The most famous festival in the world proved that it can still pack a punch at 40, as Glastonbury organisers tonight revealed that controversial rapper Snoop Dogg, would be joining Dizzee Rascal, The Flaming Lips and the Pet Shop Boys at this year's celebratory event.

The rapper will play alongside confirmed headliners U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder and will be joined by Vampire Weekend, one of the hottest bands of 2010, the festival confirmed to the Guardian tonight.

Festival founder Michael Eavis, 75, was audibly excited about the line up when he spoke exclusively to the Guardian. "This is it! It is the most staggering line-up to match the 40-year reputation of the festival," he said. "I have been trying to get U2 to play at the festival since 1982, and Muse have never headlined here although they have played before."

Friday night on the Pyramid stage promises Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and Vampire weekend before Dizzee Rascal gets the crowd jumping for headliners U2. Saturday will see Jackson Brown, Seasick Steve and the Scissor sisters before Muse take to the stage while Sunday will feature hard rocker Slash, Ray Davies and Jack Johnson before Faithless whip the crowd into a frenzy for soul legend Stevie Wonder.

The rock-solid confirmation of the headliners will come as little surprise, since all the top names were revealed earlier this year, but the inclusion of Snoop – the biggest rapper to play the festival after Jay-Z's triumphant performance in 2008 – will provide a talking point for festival-goers as they prepare for the ultimate Glastonbury party.

Eavis said that after Jay-Z's controversial but ultimately lauded performance the festival had been keen to have another urban artist of equal standing. "Jay-Z worked so well, that when we heard it was a possibility that Snoop Dogg could do it we went to work."

Snoop was infamously banned from playing in the UK until earlier this year following a mass brawl at Heathrow airport in 2006. The rapper and five members of his entourage were arrested, leading immigration officials to claim his presence in the UK risked provoking violent crime and refuse him a visa for a tour.

The ban was lifted in 2008, but the UK Border agency challenged the decision, causing Snoop to criticise the British legal system in his own inimitable way. "It's not the fans, it's just a few people in white wigs and members of parliament," he reportedly said. "They got a problem because the law is from the 1800s."

Eavis dismissed any concerns about the rapper's chequered history. "We never pass judgment on the people who play here; we hire them for their musical ability. We are only interested in their music and what they will bring to the festival. We never compromise on that," he said.

He was particularly excited about seeing respected electronica giants Faithless, who will be warm up the Pyramid stage before Stevie Wonder closes the festival on Sunday evening. Eavis said: "Faithless are a fantastic festival band, they have an amazing ability to get people jumping up and down, raising their hands in the air and smiling. It will be fantastic."

Highlights from the Other Stage include Florence and the Machine, Hot Chip and The Flaming Lips on Friday, Editors and Pet Shop Boys on Saturday and LCD Soundsystem, MGMT and Orbital on Sunday. Groove Armada and Mumford and Sons, the XX and Julian Casablancas will play the John Peel stage.

Gathering artists for the 40th Glastonbury had been easier than usual, he said, admitting that the act he was most "wobbly-kneed" about was Willie Nelson. "Everybody just wanted to get involved this year."

And the music is just one of many treats that the festival has in store for Glastonbury goers, he promised. The after-dark madness that congregates around the fantasy areas of Shangri-la, Trash City and Arcadia will be given more room than ever this year, with the festival ploughing in an extra £200,000 into the area, increasing its size by 10 acres. "The extra space is about the size of Trafalgar Square," said Eavis. "People love the diversity and avant-garde nature of it and this year it will be better than ever."

Paul Stokes, associate editor of NME, said the line-up proved "the unique place Glastonbury occupies in not only the hearts of the British festival going public, but also the world's most influential music artists".

Only Glastonbury could put "credible acts" like Casablancas, Vampire Weekend and The National alongside pops acts like Scissor Sisters, he said. "Elsewhere it would seem 'try-hard' but all we've been taking about it since we heard the rumours like the showdown between U2 and Flaming Lips on Friday night like it's the most natural thing in the world."

The scope of the festival also revealed its international pulling power, he said. "Someone like Snoop would rarely share a bill at an event he isn't headlining – or better still, running – yet the moment his UK visa issues were worked out he's booked a slot at Glastonbury. He's seen what it's done for Jay-Z's international career – taking him from being the biggest rapper in the US to the biggest in the world – and wants in."

Paul Rees, editor of Q magazine called the lineup "rock-solid Glastonbury". "It's got classic artists, emerging talent and much more breadth besides. I rather fancy there will be some special surprises too, it being the 40th anniversary. All that is required now is some sun."

• See the lineup in full here

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Jazz World stage renamed at Glastonbury Festival

The Jazz World stage is to be renamed West Holts at this year's Glastonbury Festival, organisers have announced.

The performance area, which will feature acts including Mos Def and Rodrigo y Gabriela, will return to the event's "real roots".

Festival founder Michael Eavis said that West Holts was a gate used to drive cattle through for milking on the Somerset farm.

The three-day music and arts event runs from 23-27 June.

The location of the renamed West Holts stage will remain the same and, according to Mr Eavis, will be the place to hear "global future roots music".

Other performers on the line-up include George Clinton and Nigerian musician Femi Kuti and his band The Positive Force.

Muse, U2 and Stevie Wonder have been announced as the main headliners for the festival.

Here is the full line:

FRIDAY JUNE 25TH
- Mos Def (with full live band)
- Femi Kuti
- TBC
- Breakestra with Chali 2na
- Mariachi El Bronx
- Tune-Yards
- Matthew Herbert Big Band

SATURDAY JUNE 26TH
- George Clinton with Parliament / Funkadelic
- Jerry Dammers Spacial AKA Orchestra
- Os Mutantes
- Devendra Banhart
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
- Phenomenal Handclap Band
- Brother Ali
- Troy Ellis & the Longshots

SUNDAY JUNE 27TH
- Rodrigo y Gabriela
- Toots & the Maytals
- Quantic & His Combo Barbaro
- Staff Benda Bilili
- Dr John
- Tunng
- The Bees
- Dizraeli (chosen from the Emerging Talent Competition finalists)

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Vanilla Ice to play 2010 Glastonbury Festival

Just when you thought the 80's had gone forever,Vanilla Ice has confirmed his appearance at this year's Glastonbury festival.

The 'rapper', who recently featured on Jedward's cover of his former Number One hit 'Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)', is set to perform in one of the bars at the event in the evening on June 24, according to Myspace.com/officialvanillaice. Let's just hope he isn't joined on stage by the numbskulls Jedward!

He joins headliners U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder.

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Michael Eavis: 'We want Snoop Dogg for Glastonbury 2010'

Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has said he wants Snoop Dogg to play this year's festival.

Eavis said his daughter – and Glastonbury co-organiser – Emily came up the with idea of booking the rapper, although he hasn't been confirmed to play yet, reports The Sun.

"She's a bright girl and she is very keen on Snoop Dogg doing the show, so we want him," Michael Eavis said.

He added that it was also his daughter's decision to book Jay-Z for Glastonbury in 2008, a move that was criticised at the time by Noel Gallagher.

"Her real claim to fame is booking Jay-Z," he said. "She came up with the idea, so I phoned his manager. At the end of a 40-minute chat he said Jay-Z would do the show, and the rest is history."

In other Glastonbury news, Orbital have confirmed themselves for the June 25-27 bash, saying they will headline The Other Stage on the Sunday night (27) of the festival. Empire Of The Sun, Vampire Weekend and Hot Chip are also set to play.

U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder headline this year's Glastonbury.

Earlier this month (March 5) it was ruled that immigration officials were wrong to deny Snoop Dogg a visa to enter the UK in 2008. The path is now potentially open for him to gain a visa to allow him to play gigs in the country.

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Mumford & Sons confirmed for Glastonbury Festival

Mumford and Sons are set to play this year's Glastonbury festival, organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed.

The festival chief told Glastonbury FM radio that the band would be playing on the Park Stage at the event, which takes place in Somerset on June 25-27.

When asked what music he was listening to these days he said, "A band called Mumford and Sons, you might get fed up with it eventually but I'm still enjoying it. They will be playing up in the Park this year, so that'll be good."

The final batch of Glastonbury tickets are set to go on sale on April 11, it was recently revealed. Meanwhile, Eavis has also said that he and his co-organiser and daughter Emily Eavis want Snoop Dogg to play at the event.

U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder headline this year's Glastonbury.

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