Quantcast

Glastonbury Festival hopes to move year out to 2012 to avoid Olympic clash

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Glastonbury Festival hopes to move year out to 2012 to avoid Olympic clash

Glastonbury Festival is hoping to take the Olympic year off, rather than the intended year of 2011, to avoid a clash with the sporting event. The Festival’s organiser Michael Eavis, has told the Western Daily Press, (here), that he hopes the ‘fallow year’ which gives the land at Worthy Farm, Somerset a chance to recover [...]

No Comments Read full story »

Glastonbury Festival licence ‘is assured’

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Glastonbury Festival licence 'is assured'

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says the music festival will never lose its licence because it has become too important to the local economy. “The local economy gets £100m a year,” he told Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs. “So there’s no discussion about not allowing the festival a licence any more. They won’t stop it now.”

No Comments Read full story »