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Emily Eavis has quashed claims that Glastonbury Festival will leave the glorious fields of Pilton, Somerset behind and host a second event in 2019 called Glastonbury Presents... The Variety Bazar.
There was stomach turning speculation in the Independent and other news sources that suggested that Glastonbury would be leaving the mesmerising views of its current location behing and moving in 2019 with a new name. But thanks to Emily Eavis' Tweet, it seems that we won't be departing with Pilton for 2019 and we can breathe deep. Panic over.
Emily Eavis has stepped up and declared the following:
— Emily Eavis (@emilyeavis) January 17, 2017
If Emily's views are anything to go by then all Michael Eavis was saying in the interview about The Glastonbury Festival team presents The Variety Bazaar is not a replacement and actually a sister festival.
Of the festival’s second site, Eavis said: “It’s half way to the Midlands from here… and there’s only one landowner. I’ve got 22 landowners where I am now. I just wonder whether the next generation will want to negotiate with so many people. It’s a very difficult job to hold it together.”
The above comments do show Michael Eavis being hyper aware of his age and show his worry of what will happen to the site once he's not around to manage. It does pose an uncertain future. But, if Emily Eavis is right, then for the next few years everything should go ahead as it always has done.
Let's hope Glastonbury can stay in Glastonbury forever, there's magic in those fields that nowhere else in the country will be able to replicate.
Continuing the previous trend of the festival, Glastonbury is due to take a year off in 2018 to give the Worth Farm site a chance to recover.
So far, Radiohead are the only confirmed headliners for 2017's festival. The band will take to the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night. It's also heavily rumoured that Ed Sheeran and Foo Fighters will top the bill. Foo Fighters were forced to cancel their appearance in 2015 after Dave Grohl broke his leg by falling off stage.
Tickets for next summer's festival sold out in just 50 minutes when they went on sale in October.
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