When is the next fallow year?

[fuzzylogic]

Has it been officially confirmed yet?

[puppetmode]

its 2012. not sure if its official yet but for the olympics

[LarryB]

i read somewhere that it was to be 2011, on account of next year being the 40th anniversary of the festival. with the last being 2006 a 5 year gap would seem appropriate

[pezzypops]

its usually years ending in 1 or 6 are fallow but they're thinking of having it in 2011 and a year off in 2012 due to the olympics.

i won't give you the reasons, they've been covered in some detail before.

nothing's been announced as definite though but keep an eye on efestivals and glastoearth as either neil or paulo will be first with glasto news 9 times out of 10

Edited July 4, 2009 by pezzypops

[King Kong]

Michael Eavis confirmed the fallow year will be 2012 - quote from Budvar who was at the Q&A session..

I went along to hear Michael speak in the Speakers' Forum on Sunday. Great to see him but he was as nervous as ever (not helped by a stinker of a first question from someone who seemed to think it was an episode of question time)

Anyway here are the key points I took:

* Over 100,000 people were there by Wednesday evening, as such they're thinking about opening the site on Tuesday in future. We'll see.

* The next fallow year will be 2012, not 2011. Michael mentioned the Olympics and that he plans to go on a massive holiday around the country.

* He has no plans to retire and says the Guardian made that story up. "I'm going on until 2021" was his exact words

* Headliners for next year. He said he was working on The Smiths (JM seems up for it, Mozza the Misery less so) and Led Zep (he hopes the anniversary will persuade them) but don't hold your breath as he tries these every year. More importantly he mentioned having already lined up two acts who haven't played before. Let the U2, RHCP and Stones rumours start now.

I've probably forgotten something but those were the bits that most caught my attention. Well worth an hour of anyone's festival.

[Alcatraz]

Michael Eavis confirmed the fallow year will be 2012 - quote from Budvar who was at the Q&A session..

[pezzypops]

i was going to come along to that but i ended up watching john otway in the cabaret tent and he was fantastic

[glwm1992]

well they have the dates up for 2011 on the glasto website so it must be 2012:

Glastonbury Festival 2010: Wed June 23rd to Sun June 27th

Glastonbury Festival 2011: Wed June 22nd to Sun June 26th

[sifi]

Yeah, it's defo 2012. It would normally have been 2011, but they've done it - as already stated - so they don't clash with the London Olympics.