An electric start to Glastonbury

Glastonbury festival-goers should brace themselves for "torrential thunderstorms" over the weekend, forecasters have warned.

Last week, buzz around Glastonbury 2009 gathered steam with the news that Bruce Springsteen will top the bill on Saturday night - quite a coup, though will The Boss be able to match up to these legendary Glasto performances?

The Boss will be headlining at Glastonbury. But, says Elisa Bray, young festival-goers may not be thrilled

Bruce Springsteen was announced today as the Saturday night headliner for this year's Glastonbury Festival.

Music bigwigs have been in Cannes trying to chart the future of their troubled industry. By Pierre Perrone

'We won't churn out the same Anglo-Saxon bands every year'

Fears of another mudfest, a headlining hip-hop act, and slow ticket sales fail to dampen the Somerset festival. Andrew Johnson reports

The 'festival within a festival' that many believed was its heart won't be appearing this year. Cole Moreton reports on the latest battle for the musical event's soul

A Thatcherite coming-of-age tale off the back of a lorry

As the invasion of middle-class bohemians, weekend drop-outs and the occasional old-fashioned crustie got under way at the Glastonbury Festival yesterday, the storm clouds that had marred Wednesday and created muddy puddles underfoot at last cleared.

GANGS OF teenage boys slashing tents and stealing money and mobile phones were the only cloud at the end of the most successful Glastonbury festival for years.

Sunday

THIS YEAR'S Glastonbury festival might have been the last if it had descended into the mudbath of the past two years, the organiser of Europe's biggest rock festival disclosed yesterday. But the event, now in its 29th year, seemed yesterday to have been saved by the sun which made the going dry for the 60,000 who had already reached the Somerset site.