Ray Davies and Jackson Browne Added to Glastonbury Line-Up

Posted on Mar 30th 2010 5:55AM by Julian Marszalek
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After the blogosphere went into a combination of meltdown and hilarity following the news that rapper Vanilla Ice is set to make an appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival, a pair of veteran names have been named to play sets at the three-day event thus restoring some balance and equilibrium.

Speaking with efestivals.co.uk, organiser Michael Eavis confirmed that Kinks frontman Ray Davies and singer-songwriter Jackson Browne were confirmed to perform at the festival, with the former landing the prestigious Sunday teatime legends slot.

Eavis said, "We've got Ray Davies, and Jackson Browne on Sunday. Jackson Browne is a real hero of mine from all those Eagles songs he wrote. Jackson wrote all the best ones of their songs I reckon.

"Ray Davies with his friends and with a choir and all those Kinks songs are going to be absolutely unbelievable. Ray has got the 5 O'Clock slot, the legend's slot. His songs are so original and unique, it's going to be great."

Previous performers of the legend's slot have included Johnny Cash, Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Willie Nelson and Al Green.

The Glastonbury festival takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset at runs from June 25 - 27 and will be headlined by U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder.