U2 TO PLAY GLASTONBURY, SO THEY ARE.

Four foot two Irish Minstrel Bono (left) has said of U2  "we are delighted and humbled, so we are" to be headlining at next year's Glastonbury Festival over its 40th anniversary weekend.

The band will lead the line-up at the Somerset show on Friday 25 June. Providing Pope Bono has managed to save the World by then.

"To be sure, everyone in the band is very excited about it." Bono told the BBC at the launch of an anti-Aids/HIV campaign.

It will be U2's first festival gig for more than 25 years and will see them make a flying visit to the UK in the middle of a North American tour. Much like Phil Collins did for Band Aid.

Asked if he would use the festival to promote the campaign, Bono told yer man, "I tink it will just be about the music on that day, and that spirit that seems to take over everybody in that sacred ground."

Beany hat wearing lead guitarist The Edge (right) is also in the mood for Glastonbury, saying; " yer know, it's just great so it is. It's been far too long between festivals for us and I want plenty of it from now".