Arcade Fire first headliners named for Glastonbury 2014

Arcade Fire have been named as the first headline act for Glastonbury Festival 2014.

The Canadian band will close the Friday night of the event, which will take place between 25 and 29 June, with a set on the Pyramid stage.

This year's festival was headlined by the Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys and Mumford and Sons.

Tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival sold out in record time in October.

Organisers Michael and Emily Eavis issued a joint statement confirming all 120,000 remaining tickets had been sold in one hour and 27 minutes.

Speaking to Radio 1's Zane Lowe the band's singer Win Butler said: "It's such a communal kind of right passage in the UK and there's this very kind of communal spirit to the whole thing.

"It'll be a point too of touring where we're going to be scary good I think.

"Just on a musical level, we're just so excited to strap on our wellies and let it rip."

The band will play at three other festivals in the same week as Glastonbury

Arcade Fire revealed the news in a tweet to their fans.

They are also playing three other festivals in the same week as Glastonbury in Italy and Ireland.

The band's fourth studio album Reflektor entered the Official Album Chart at number one when it was released in November.

Frontman Win Butler had already hinted that the band may play the event with a comment during a radio interview last month.

Talking about plans to play summer festivals next year, he told BBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley: "Get your wellies ready."

In a tweet, Emily Eavis added: "We're very happy to let you know that Arcade Fire are headlining next years Glastonbury. Happy Christmas from us all x."

Talking earlier this year Michael Eavis said the 2013 edition of the festival, which started in 1970, couldn't be topped.

He said: "[It's] downhill all the way now. I've had 44 years of an incredible career and we're still milking the old cows as well."

There are two headline acts yet to be announced for the festival.

In November, Lily Allen told the Radio 1 Breakfast Show that she would be playing at the event at Worth Farm in Somerset.

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