Opening Glastonbury, Maximo Park took to the Queen’s Head Stage at 4.30pm Thursday after crowds had been gathering for hours in advance blocking all thoroughfares to other fields. It was a great start to a great festival!

Thursday saw rain overnight providing us all with the mud we wanted so that our new wellies were not a wasted purchase. But like all good festivals, the weather doesn’t put a dampner on the festival goers. With the dance village being one of only a handful of area’s open it was the place to be for the ultimate re-forming of East 17 followed by a night of dancing.

As the weather got better over the weekend the revellers were definitely getting worse through the debilitating lack of sleep as each night became a longer dance fest.

Saturday night was Guilty Pleasures night in the Queen’s Head stage and Ian King, the winner of the Road To Glastonbury SingStar performance, really got the crowd going as he sang All Night Long, by Lionel Richie and finished with Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen. It’s not often you can say you’ve sang on stage at Glastonbury in front of about 2000 people so we must give Ian a massive congratulations (Vodcast link to follow soon so you can see his performance).

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Hello again

As a quick follow-up to my post yesterday about the great acts that we have lined up for all festival-goers at Glastonbury this weekend, I wanted to let you know about one very special singer who will be performing on Saturday…

A few months ago, SingStar and Guilty Pleasures embarked on a giant pop quest to find the UK Guilty Pleasures SingStar Champion of 2009. The live heats found some spectacular performances, but in the end it was Ian “Beetlejuice” King and his amazing rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody that won the grand prize: a PS3 with a copy of SingStar, a VIP trip to Glastonbury for 4 people AND an invitation to perform live on stage at the festival!

Congratulations once again, Ian. You can check out his winning performance in the video below:

Ian will be taking to the stage at the Queen’s Head Tent on Saturday, 27 June as part of the Guilty Pleasures set between midnight and 3am, which also includes DJ’s Sean Rowley and Johnno Burgess, plus camp cabaret from the DreamBears (who recently reached the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent).

The latest episodes in our series of Guilty Pleasures Podcasts, hosted by Sean Rowley, and SingStar Guilty Pleasures TV Vodcasts are also now available from iTunes:

If you’re heading to the festival this weekend, you’ll find the Queen’s Head tent and our SingStar Snug in “William’s Green”., where the Leftfield stage used to be just to the left of the Pyramid Stage (if you’re looking at it) and next to the kids field.

Have a great time,

Corrie

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Hi there. My name’s Corrie and I work in the SCE-UK office as a Product Manager. I’m here today to give you all a glimpse at what we’re up to at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival this weekend.

For three years, PlayStation has sponsored the Queen’s Head stage in conjunction with Q magazine, and we’re back at the festival again this year but now the Q tent has moved to it’s very own new field for 2009, called “William’s Green”.

The guys at Q magazine have hand-picked some great new talent to play live on stage in the Queen’s Head, with Maximo Park the opening act at 4pm on Thursday, and we’ll also have an immense PlayStation AV backdrop. Here’s the full line-up for the weekend:

Located next to the Q Tent, and new for 2009, is The Snug. Set within a fantastic PapaKåta tent, you can chill-out throughout the day listening to live acoustic sets and dance the night away as the DJs keep you moving into the early hours of the morning.
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