MUMBAI: Legendary rock band Rolling Stones will be playing at Britain’s Glastonbury music festival for the first time.
Apart from Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys and folk band Mumford & Sons will headline the three-day festival.
Frontman Mick Jagger tweeted, “Can’t wait to play Glastonbury. I have my wellies and my yurt!”
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According to a line-up on the Glastonbury website, the Rolling Stones will play the main Pyramid Stage for the 28-30 June festival.
The line-up also includes British rapper Dizzee Rascal, Professor Green, rock band Primal Scream, Australian rocker Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, singer Elvis Costello, veteran American country singer Kenny Rogers and British folk-rocker Billy Bragg among others.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts has been run by Somerset farmer Michael Eavis at Worthy Farm, Pilton – near Glastonbury in Somerset – since 1970, and he continues to run it with massive enthusiasm. Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the early 1970s.
The festival normally takes place on the last full weekend of June. It was not held last year to allow the farmland to recover from the previous festival.
