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Just in case you’ve not had enough of Glastonbury, festival organiser Emily Eavis has speaking of how plans are progressing for the sister event, Variety Bazaar – and fans of the all-night madness that is the Shangri-La field will be getting themselves into a state of excitement.

As previously reported on Gigwise, the Eavises have been planning a brand new festival for 2021, an event that father Michael has described as “the last big gamble of his life.” Speaking with NME, Emily has told of the search for the location for the new event and what her vision for it is.

“We’re looking at three different sites at the moment, I’m really excited about that,” she said. “Doing something at a different space is really quite appealing and exciting. There’s something amazing about the familiarity of here [Worthy Farm]. This is our home, this is where we live, we walk around these fields pretty much every day of the year. We know each hedgerow and each tree and the limits to what you can put in each field. Whereas looking at new sites with different landscapes is quite exciting. What we can put in those spaces and having some rolling installations and stuff.

“We’re onto that, but that’s another thing for next year when we’ve got a bit more time?”

Musing over the Variety Bazaar’s format, Emily continued: “It’ll be a bit more like Shangri-La, Block9 and the GreenFields. It will be the same team of people, so everybody will have a space. It just depends on where we do it really, as to how big it is – but that’s all stuff for next year.”

The Glastonbury Festival is taking a year off and will return in 2019.

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