Glastonbury Festival organiser says headliners will be traditional

Michael Eavis, organiser of the Glastonbury Festival has revealed that next year's headliners will be "traditional headliners." The Worthy farmer has also confirmed the Festival is looking at alleviating traffic congestion at the start of next year's event.

In an article on the BBC Somerset website (here) Mr Eavis would not reveal who the headline acts will be, but he did disclose that they will be "traditional headliners."

He also reveals that he sees other festivals such as Reading and V as competitors for top billing acts because "they can pay them more and we can't afford it." He adds, "We can't afford to spend £2m on a headliner because it wouldn't work. There's no way that we could run this show paying those sorts of fees, Bands have never charged me the full whack - even with Bruce Springsteen, I told him what I can afford so he agreed to it and didn't try to beat me up on the price."

The farmer who will be celebrating 40 years of holding the festival on his farm continues, "They understand what's going on as we don't have houses in the Bahamas, we don't have holidays even so we don't go swanning around the world in E-type Jags. We're down-to-earth farming people and we get on with the work. We're not ripping anyone off, basically."

Mr Eavis also confirmed that the organisers are looking at ways to avoid the traffic jams of this year, where motorists where queueing for hours to get to the Festival, and traffic was brought to a complete stand still.

Whilst any idea has yet to be approved by the Council, the organisers are hoping that if they get the go ahead, the solution will be to allow Festival goers to arrive a night earlier.

The plan is to let campervans and cars arrive on the Tuesday night before the gates open on Wednesday morning. Those who arrive early will not be allowed onto the Festival site because of the restrictions on the licence. Organisers will provide portable toilets and stalls for those waiting in the car parks, and campervan fields. The Festival organiser said that although people would have to sit in their cars and wait, it would be better than "being lined up by the side of the road for six hours."

Festival organisers are also hoping that more people will consider travelling to the Festival by public transport as it saves "a hell of a lot of traffic and saves a lot of space." Presently one fifth of the festival's 1,000 hectares is taken up by the car parks.

Tickets sold out in just over 12 hours for next year's Festival which runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 in the beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset.

In order to buy a ticket all festival goers must be registered, with online registration only taking a few minutes. Registration will reopen at 9am on Monday 12th October 2009. There will be no further ticket sales until early in 2010 (when cancelled orders will be re-sold).

For more details about registering and ticket information click here.

Expect something like 2,000 performances at 50 or so venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information and loads, loads more... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

Only one act is confirmed so far, but as usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2010 rumours, updated as we receive information.

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