The Wombats hit Glastonbury

THE WOMBATS have announced that they will be playing The Other Stage at Glastonbury this year, at 6pm on Saturday 28th June.

Glastonbury will be shoehorned into an already packed festival season that already sees the band co-headlining the NME/Radio 1 stage at the Carling Weekender, and playing T In The Park, Isle of Wight and Oxegen. Meanwhile in Europe they will play at no fewer than 17 festivals, including Ibiza Rocks and Pukkelpop (at which they are the only British act to perform) - not forgetting a quick trip to Japan to play Summer Sonic and Australia for Splendour.

Dates are:

1 Jun PINKPOP Landgraaf
9 Jun BEACHBREAK Polzeath, Cornwall
13 Jun ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL Isle of Wight
21 Jun HURRICANE Scheesel
22 Jun SOUTHSIDE Neuhausen ob Eck
24 Jun HOVE FESTIVAL Lilesand
26 Jun PEACE AND LOVE Borlange
27 Jun OPENAIR St. Gallen
28 Jun GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL Glastonbury
1 Jul IBIZA ROCKS San Rafael, Ibiza
5 Jul LES EUROCKEENNES De Belfort
6 Jul MAIN SQUARE FESTIVAL Arras
11 Jul T IN THE PARK Balado
12 Jul OXEGEN Co. Kildare
13 Jul FESTIVAL MUSILAC Aix Les Bains
18 Jul POHODA FESTIVAL Trencin
19 Jul MELT! FESTIVAL Ferropolis
20 Jul FESTIVAL LES VIEILLES Carhaix
22 Jul PALEO FESTIVAL Nyon
3 Aug SPLENDOUR Byron Bay, Australia
9 Aug SUMMER SONIC Tokyo/Osaka
10 Aug SUMMER SONIC Tokyo/Osaka
15 Aug LOWLANDS Holland
16 Aug PUKKELPOP Belgium
22 Aug READING FESTIVAL Reading
23 Aug LEEDS FESTIVAL Leeds

The band's festival dates will come hot on the heels of a sold-out UK tour (including dates at Brixton Academy and the Royal Albert Hall), as well as a tour of Europe and dates in the USA, Australia and Japan crammed into the first half of the year.

The WOMBATS will also release the single 'Backfire at the Disco' on 21st April through 14th Floor Records. It follows on from the band's two previous Top 20 singles 'Let's Dance To Joy Division' and 'Moving To New York', both taken from the Gold-selling debut album 'The WOMBATS Proudly Present...A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation'.

The WOMBATS are Matthew Murphy (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Tord Øverland Knudsen (bass, vocals) and Dan Haggis (drums, vocals).