Jean Michel Jarre for Glastonbury 2016?

Glastonbury Festival 2016

Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June 2016
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£228 - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 203,000

Jean Michel Jarre has been interviewed by Matt Everitt for a forthcoming BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast, a clip of it broadcast earlier today suggests he's might be appearing at Glastonbury Festival next summer.

You can listen again (here) - from around 2hrs 24minutes in. The French electro-pop pioneer says, "I heard about it. When I'm in the studio, my management around here are plotting behind my back, and apparently I heard about it, yes, for next year.

"I'm very interested by the grammar of the festival, it's interesting, because people are not going there especially for you. Also you have the precise size of the stage, and it's quite challenging to try to hijack this. How do you cope with the rules that are the same for everybody, how can you deal with this? It's something that excites me a lot, we shall see."

The full episode of the 'First Time with' will be broadcast on 6Music this Sunday at 1pm.

However, this is not the first time he's said he's playing at the Pilton Festival. He has said similar in an interview with the BBC over a decade ago, see the eFestivals news story (here). Despite saying in the interview he was appearing he never performed at the event in 2005. So don't be surprised if the musician fails to be announced for 2016.

Jarre, who has sold around 80 million records, was one of the pioneers of electronic music, sparking the synthesiser music boom in the 1970s with his breakthrough 1976 album 'Oxygene', and has been in the studio working on a new album rumoured to be released in 2016. In 1997 he performed in Moscow playing to 2.5 million people - an outdoor concert record.

This weekend tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival 2016 will go on sale at 9am on Sunday, 4th October 2015, priced at £228 (£5 booking fee per ticket + postage and packing per booking). Anyone aged 13 or over (when the Festival starts) who wishes to buy a ticket must be registered. All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets will need the registration number and postcode for each person for whom a ticket is being booked.

Registration is temporarily suspended before and during the main ticket selling period, and will remain closed until after this Sunday's main ticket sale.

There will then be no further UK or International payments taken until the booking site re-opens on the first week of April 2016 when deposit purchasers will have one week to pay the balance of £178 per ticket.

Tickets for Worthy View, the pre-erected camp site offering a range of British-made traditional scout tents, bell tents, tipi tents and small yurts are likely to go on sale a couple of weeks after the ticket sales. For the first time this year you will also be able to book campervan tickets and tipis in this sale.

Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets.

Glastonbury Festival will take place on 2,000 acres around a farm in Pilton, Somerset over five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2016. As ever, entry includes a free programme. Once again, the Festival will be raising more than £2 million in funds for Oxfam, Wateraid, Greenpeace and a host of local charities and causes.

There are no acts confirmed yet for 2016. Expect something like 2,000 performances at over 100 venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information, site art, decor, and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

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 2016 rumours, updated as we receive information.

Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

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