new area hinted at for next year's Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival 2017

Wednesday 21st to Sunday 25th June 2017
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£238 plus booking fee - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 203,000

Emily Eavis has revealed there will be a new area at next year's Glastonbury Festival and we believe from the hints she gave NME that it may be a 'drive in' cinema made out of scrap American cars.

NME report (here) in an interview with Emily Eavis she told them, "We can’t give you too many details of, but it’s going to be an area which involves lots and lots of… it’s somewhere between an installation and somewhere where you’ll go to experience watching films and listening to music in a different way. It’s a massive addition to the festival. I don’t wanna give it away at the moment, but there's artists working on it flat out and every day these cars are arriving, which are going to be part of this installation. They're like ancient cars. It's very exciting, but we'll give you more information when we have it. It's a little bit too early to say."

Emily Eavis also reveals that the Festival organisers are still considering moving sites in the future, telling NME that they’d like to keep Glastonbury where it is for now – but are still investigating alternatives for the future.

NME quotes her saying, "We're very keen to keep Glastonbury Festival as we know it at Worthy Farm because that’s where it belongs. If we did anything anywhere else, it wouldn’t be called Glastonbury, it would be by the team behind Glastonbury that put on another event. That might happen in '19, it might happen in '20, but at the moment we're still looking at all the different options. "

"We're really keen to continue doing Glastonbury here for as long as we can. I think my dad is very keen to try something somewhere else. I think at his age it’s just something he really wants to do so we’re all going for that, but I don’t know exactly what it’ll be yet.

"At the moment we’re looking at a couple of sites. We’re close to finding somewhere that could be good, but also what it’s going to be is still up in the air. Probably it will be something more based on the fringe areas of the festival with more installations and all those experiences people have, rather than lots and lots of music stages."

Emily Eavis also reveals that that "90% of the line-up has been booked" and that they’d be "cramming in two years" worth of music‘ into 2017 – and also declared that neither Daft Punk and Stone Roses would be the other two headliners.

Friday headliners Radiohead are the first act to be confirmed for Glastonbury Festival 2017 which will take place at a farm in Pilton, Somerset over five full days on the last weekend in June, that's from Wednesday 21st to Sunday 25th June 2017.

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 2017 rumours, updated as we receive information.

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Tickets have already sold out. Accommodation bookings for next year's Glastonbury Festival for Tipis, Worthy View accommodation or campervans, will be available from 12 noon, Thursday 27th October 2016.

Expect something like 3,000 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.

Tickets for Glastonbury Festival have sold out. There will be a re-sale, which is likely to be in April or May 2017. In order to buy a ticket Festival goers over the age of 12 must be registered, with online registration only taking a few minutes, this needs to be completed before trying to buy a ticket. Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets and do not need to register.

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