Glastonbury Festival founder suggests he's arranging to move the show for fallow years

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

The BBC are reporting (here) that Glastonbury Festival 2019 could be held at a site 100 miles away from Worthy Farm, "towards the Midlands" to help protect the main site, and use the alternative site in future fallow years.

They report that the Festival founder Michael Eavis said the new site would be used every five years to help the land at his farm recover. They quote the Worthy farmer as saying, "I'm arranging to move the show [but] it would be a huge loss to Somerset if it went there forever. We've got a wonderful product what we do and we can do it almost anywhere."

Mr Eavis added, "I love my own farm... I might have to move it eventually. Most people are on side now and it's a wonderful, wonderful boost for the whole of Somerset and beyond as well. I don't want to lose it for ever, no way."

2019 must surely be the wrong year the BBC is quoting, unless the fallow year has moved back from 2018 to 2019.

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. It looks likely that Foo Fighters will fill the final headlining slot.

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.

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