The following story appeared in today's online edition of the NME. .

PRINCE LOSES GLAST CHANCE

This year's GLASTONBURY festival won't feature PRINCE - but looks likely to feature a speech from anti-war Oscar winner MICHAEL MOORE as well as a "fantastic" headliner on the Sunday night.

Moore recently received a Best Documentary Oscar for 'Bowling for Columbine', and also directed the controversial music video for System Of A Down's 'Boom!'.

Glastonbury organiser, Emily Eavis told Q4music that Moore is scheduled to appear at some time over the festival weekend of June 27 - 29.

Eavis said she has now found a headliner for Sunday night, after rumours persisted that elfin funkster Prince was set to perform.

She said: "Prince isn't playing on Sunday, we were in talks with him and it nearly happened but in the end it didn't. We have got a fantastic headliner on Sunday night but we can't announce who it is yet. But they're great. "

Tickets for the Glastonbury festival go on sale on Monday (31 March).

Yawn!

I don't believe a word of it, and never have.

It was *always* a way of selling tickets and nothing more.

False advertising.

Mia - normally you seem to talk sense, yet you are incessantly banging on about this apparent false advertising!

Look, Glastonbury has never had to rely on these tactics, and this year proves it beyond doubt. Only 2 acts confirmed and yet all tickets sell-out in just 24 hours. It has nothing to do with the line-up, people put the festival itself first.

Also, the Eavis family are well-respected and never over-hype. And, if other reports are to be believed, then Prince was very interested in doing it, has possibly only not done it because of the pending birth, and may have agreed to do it next year. We'll have to wait and see, but this was NOT a PR exercise. Do you think Prince would have been first choice for that soprt of PR anyway??? He's not in the public mind at the moment!! Most of the public don't even realise that he still releases albums - with that being the case, using Prince to sell out your festival is an idiot's move!