NEWS DIGEST: Monday, October 6

10:04 AM GMT 06/10/2008

It seems only a matter of weeks since this year's Glastonbury Festival came to a close, but Michael Eavis and his Worthy Farm contingent have already begun the build up to next year's event by selling half of the tickets some eight months before the gates open.

Fans were given the opportunity to reserve their place by paying a £50 deposit or simply buying their tickets straight away for the princely sum of £175 . Since going on sale on Sunday morning (Oct 5), more than half the 137,500 passes have been sold.

Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis has told the BBC that the headliners for next year's festival should be announced "pretty soon", adding:"It's not Coldplay, it's not U2 and it's not The Rolling Stones".

Glastonbury Festival 2009 will take place between June 24 and 28 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset.

If you don't feel up to taking on Philip Norman's new 800-page biography of John Lennon, then don't fret. There are extracts online HERE.

Following the news that guitarist Tab Kubler has been diagnosed with pancreatitis, The Hold Steady have re-scheduled their Autumn UK tour. The new dates look like this:

Sheffield Leadmill (December 7)
Oxford Academy (8)
Nottingham Rock City (9)
Manchester Academy (10)
Bristol Anson Rooms (12)
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (14)
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall (15)
London Roundhouse (17)
Glasgow SECC (18)

And finally...Nick Reynolds, founder member of seminal folk outfit The Kingston Trio, has died at the age of 75. Reynolds, along with Californian chums, Bob Shane and Dave Guard, formed the band in 1957. Within a year they had scored their first hit, Tom Dooley. Their close-harmony, guitar/banjo amalgam proved enduringly popular throughout the next two decades, influencing the likes of The Beach Boys, Peter, Paul and Mary and countless other US folk combos.

Here they are the band their rowdy prime...

Ross Bennett

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:04 AM GMT 06/10/2008

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