Glastonbury is under threat after organiser Michael Eavis admitted that he is struggling to find a venue for next year’s festival.
Eavis has previously stated that he will soon be forced to move Glastonbury away from its current location at Worthy Farm, with the organiser concerned that a gas pipe running beneath the farm’s field presents a major health and safety hazard. Eavis has expressed that he wanted to move the festival to Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire, but he has now stated that discussions regarding this move have broken down.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Eavis explained that the move would not happen after the site’s owner, Lord Bath, said that it would ultimately cost them money to stage the relocation at their park. He said: “‘Longleat probably won’t happen anymore. Lord Bath is really keen. I went to him because I knew him when he was a boy.
“But he and his son aren’t agreeing, and they don’t speak very much, so it’s hard to make decisions. I haven’t been able to sit down with all of them at the same time”.
Explaining the reasoning behind their decision, Eavis continued: “They let me down gently about their decision. I went round to their house and we had a very long discussion.
“They said to clean up all that mud, they’d have to restrict the whole of the operations at Longleat for about three months and it’s too expensive.”
Although Glastonbury’s future is under threat, tickets for next year’s festival are still set to go on sale in the next month or so. Michael Eavis has already confirmed that all of the headliners for the festival have been booked, and that it will be the first time that two of those acts will have a headline slot at the event.
With Foo Fighters having previously pulled out of their headline performance at the festival back in 2015, it’s rumoured that they will finally take to the Pyramid Stage next year for the first time in their careers. Fleetwood Mac are also rumoured to perform.
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