2019’s Glastonbury Festival will relocate approximately 100 miles away from its Worthy Farm home in 2019 to give time for the existing farmland “to recover”.
Speaking to the BBC, Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis revealed a potential new site would be used every five years, affirming that a permanent move is not currently on the cards – “I’m arranging to move the show [but] it would be a huge loss to Somerset if it went there forever,” he said, though adding “I love my own farm… I might have to move it eventually”.
Glastonbury was initially to relocate in the short-term to Longleat, however owners turned the proposition down earlier this year. The 2019 move to the new site (in the Midlands) will mean that Worthy Farm will have a two-year break – 2018 is the next fallow year.
Meanwhile, in other Glastonbury news, headline rumours are now in full-flow, with The Sun recently ‘revealing’ Ed Sheeran will be hitting the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night, with Foo Fighters closing 2017’s event on the Sunday.
