Bands I may well see at Glasto 2011

U2, Mumford & Sons, Fleet Foxes (missed their much talked-about set last time they played), The Naked and Famous, I Am Kloot, Newton Faulkner, Coldplay, Elbow, The Gaslight Anthem, Noah and the Whale, Laura Marling, Queens of the Stone Age, Eels, TV on the Radio, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cold War Kids, Everything Everything.

And then because my taste is just that mainstream I'll get my much cooler mates to introduce me to all the more unusual stuff they love.

Glastonbury: Hopes and Predictions

Franz Ferdinand are already confirmed - should be good. All of the following are unashamedly tinged by bias and very little research or listening to rumours. It's pretty much a wishlist.

It's been announced that there'll be two US acts and two from the ol' U of K headlining Glastonbury this year. My bet for US is Green Day and Bruce Springsteen - both easily have the muscle for the headline slot; Bruce's album is sitting at #1 in the charts, and Green Day's is scheduled for release in the month before the festival; so they have stuff to promote. UK? Blur perhaps, and since that would make it three old established acts we'd need a surprise, so someone young and punky. Non-headliners I'm hoping for = The Subways, White Lies, Elbow (I think Elbow are as good as confirmed anyway). I'll add more as and when I feel like it.