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Gorillaz promise "party atmosphere" at Glastonbury
 
 
  
 
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By Mike Collett-White
 
PILTON - British band Gorillaz promised a "carnival atmosphere" when they performed on the main Pyramid stage at Glastonbury on Friday.
 
The group were brought in at the last moment for one of the music world's biggest events after Irish rockers U2 were forced to pull out when lead singer Bono had emergency surgery on his back.
 
Around 150,000 people had gathered on a dairy farm in southwest England to see Gorillaz and the likes of Shakira, Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder, Muse and Kylie Minogue, who were all expected to take the stage by the close on Sunday night.
 
Sweltering temperatures meant that 2010 has not featured the rain and mudbaths for which Glastonbury is famous. Instead it is bare chests and bikinis as revelers soak up the sun, atmosphere and plenty of beer.
 
Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, who has headlined at Glastonbury twice before with Blur, said the stress and excitement were still there.
 
He told the Sun newspaper this week that he had nightmares of playing to an empty field at the outdoor event instead of the 100,000 or so fans expected at the outdoor gig.
 
In an interview with Reuters behind the Pyramid stage hours ahead of his performance, he added: "It's something I've always had and I think it's something that comes part and parcel with being a performer.
 
"Last night I had a dream that I was kind of living both in last summer's Glastonbury and this one. But in this one there wasn't the full crowd, there was just a few people on each side and then a huge great skateboard park in the middle."
 
He said he would try to recreate the kind of set Gorillaz played to critical acclaim at a recent London gig.
 
"It's a really nice carnival atmosphere offstage and onstage," he said. He will be joined on stage on Friday by Lou Reed and possibly Snoop Dogg and Mos Def.
 
MAN AND DIDGERIDOO
 
A man and a didgeridoo were the unlikely opening act on the Pyramid stage earlier on Friday as Australian singer Rolf Harris warmed up the crowds with some old favorites.
 
The 80-year-old entertainer and artist, who is a well known personality in Britain, started his set with hit song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," which he wrote more than 50 years ago.
 
Tens of thousands of music lovers sang along and cheered.
 
During his performance, which also included "The Court of King Caractacus," Harris was accompanied by a didgeridoo.
 
Smaller venues opened on Thursday, and Vanilla Ice and Boy George were among the better-known acts to perform.
 
Other bands appearing on Friday include The Stranglers, The Magic Numbers, Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal and Florence and the Machine.
 
The festival, which caters for every musical taste across dozens of stages, celebrates its 40th year in 2010, and heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles visited the sprawling site covered in a colorful sea of tents on Thursday.
 
In 1970, founder and dairy farmer Michael Eavis decided to hold a music event and booked the Kinks for 500 pounds but, when they failed to show, got Marc Bolan instead.
 
That year 1,500 people showed up when the event was known as the "Pilton Pop Festival." They each paid one pound and were given free milk from Eavis' Worthy Farm.
 
This year festival goers pay 185 pounds to get in to an area surrounded by a high fence to stop gate crashers.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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