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Plans to move Glastonbury Festival “on the back burner”, says Michael Eavis
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 24 June 2016
Glastonbury Festival has voted to remain within Worthy Farm, says Michael Eavis. Although he said that previously reported plans for organisers to launch a new event in the next few years, possibly at Longleat Safari Park, would be to test out a possible alternative site.
According to the NME, Eavis was speaking to the event’s own on site newspaper – the Glastonbury Free Press – as the festival got underway, and said: “It’s really on the backburner now. But it’s something we’re looking at for the next fallow year, which is likely to be in 2019. It’s important that we try another site. We could have all kinds of problems here with livestock, which could close us down. Longleat is only eighteen miles down the road, and it looks like a good place if we ever did [need] an alternative site”.
Commenting on reports that her father had said that 2018 could be Glastonbury’s final year at Worthy Farm, Emily Eavis told the BBC in May that, although her team was looking into setting up a new event, “the main thing to set straight is that Glastonbury Festival itself will always be at Worthy Farm”.