Well, the lineup for Glastonbury 2008 has been announced and, unlike a lot of comments I’ve seen posted in places, I’m actually rather looking forward to it.

It’s a weird one though because, with one or two exceptions, there’s no particular artists that have been announced that I could say I’m huge-mega-omgwtf fan of, but there’s just a whole bunch of artists that I’ve heard a good deal by and / or would just be really interested in seeing what they’re like live. To mention a few in such a position are:

• Kings of Leon
• Leonard Cohen
• Spiritualized
• Groove Armada
• Kate Nash
• The Zutons
• Newton Faulkner
• Fatboy Slim
• Sinead O’Connor
• Fun Lovin’ Criminals
• Candi Staton
• Manu Chao
• Hot Chip
• Duffy
• Pendulum
• The Verve

There are obviously others beyond that as well (if there’s nothing else on I’d be quite interested in seeig The Subways and Joan Baez for example), but that gives a rough impression from my first looking through it.

It looks like it’s going to be quite a cool mix all-in-all, with Manu Chao, Groove Armada and Kings of Leon topping my list of ‘really want to see’.

Bring on the rain.