No Glastonbury Festival in 2006

[Ms T]

I've just heard that Michael Eavis has decided not to hold the Glastonbury Festival the year after next (2006). To give himself and the rest of the village a break, he says.

Just thought this would be of interest to a lot of posters.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Surely the year after next is 2007?

 

[Ms T]

Well spotted!! Next year then.

< drags herself into 2005>

 

[Pickman's model]

or the one after this one.

 

[poet]

Can't say I'm *that* distraught. It's just become so horribly commercialised and impersonal for my tastes. It doesn't really have a personality. I prefer the smaller folk/roots/world music/other festivals. Much more chilled and much friendlier. Glasto just all got a bit mainstream, a bit bland. I hope that it's recent popularity will trickle out to other smaller festies and bring them up to big-but-not-soulless sizes of some of the free festies of yore.

 

[Pickman's model]

it scuppers my plan to print up hundreds of "glasto '06" t-shirts to sell for a score each.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

it scuppers my plan to print up hundreds of "glasto '06" t-shirts to sell for a score each.

Think rarity value

 

[MarkMark]

When I read the thread title I thought..."Oh well.... No Glasto 2006 thread come this July then"

But on second thoughts.... I suppose we already have one

 

[William of Walworth]

I need a source with the EXACT wording confirmed (corporate whore has already posted something equally vague on the main Glastonbury 2005 thread over on Music, btw)

Main Glasto thread here

<goes off to check BBC site>

 

[wiskey]

no suprise

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm not surprised either, it was always at least halfway on the cards, probably more -- the Fest was due a break.

(off to search BBC)

 

[tobyjug]

I've just heard that Michael Eavis has decided not to hold the Glastonbury Festival the year after next (2006). To give himself and the rest of the village a break, he says.

Just thought this would be of interest to a lot of posters.

Well at least that is two years notice to watch out for some cowboy organisation trying to get a festival somewhere else in 2007 as an alternative.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Well at least that is two years notice to watch out for some cowboy organisation trying to get a festival somewhere else in 2007 as an alternative.

Its not like Glasto is the only festival toby

 

[William of Walworth]

Confirmation

From the BBC

: Monday, 17 January, 2005, 21:01 GMT

Glastonbury to take break in 2006

Glastonbury Festival will take a break in 2006
Michael Eavis is to rest the Glastonbury Festival in 2006.
Mr Eavis told the BBC, during a meeting to apply for a licence for this year's festival, that the event would be taking a break.

The festival was last rested in 2001 over safety fears. Overcrowding led to the festival being fined and the new 'super-fence' being built.

At a meeting of Mendip District Council Mr Eavis said they wanted to give the village a break from the disruption.


He added that he wanted to "stand back and get new ideas" for 2007.

"Every fifth year since 1987 we've taken it off - It's like a fallow year in farming terms."

"It's a good chance for the cows, the farm, the farm workers and villagers [to recover].

"So they come back the year after the fallow year with renewed energy, strength and imagination."

 

[William of Walworth]

Well at least that is two years notice to watch out for some cowboy organisation trying to get a festival somewhere else in 2007 as an alternative.

To you, all festivals, everywhere, are run by cowboys. You judge all of them by the worst.

 

[Ms T]

I need a source with the EXACT wording confirmed (corporate whore has already posted something equally vague on the main Glastonbury 2005 thread over on Music, btw)

Main Glasto thread here

<goes off to check BBC site>

From PA:

There will be no Glastonbury festival next year, organiser Michael Eavis
revealed today.
Eavis said he had decided to give himself and residents of the Somerset
village a break.
The 69-year-old told Time Out magazine: "The village has gradually got used
to the festival, which has been a long, gradual process. But to give ourselves
and the village a bit of a breather, we're taking next year off."
His decision means tickets will be in even more demand than usual when they go
on sale on Sunday April 3.
Telephone booking lines will open on a Sunday for the first time to avoid last
year's chaotic scenes when hundreds of thousands of fans were unable to get
through.
"Last year we had trouble with the exchange and BT told us that on Sundays
the exchange is doing absolutely nothing all day long," Eavis explained.
Tickets will cost #125 - up from last year's #112 - and will be limited to two
per person.
In a bid to foil touts and avoid tickets being sold for extortionate sums on
eBay, photo ID will be required.
Eavis said he planned to give the music festival a break every four years.
"It keeps up the excitement. You take a year off and then you're so excited
to get back into it again. We avoid any chance of it becoming mundane," he
said.
This year's line-up is a closely guarded secret.
Eavis dropped a hint by describing the mystery headline act as "the best
songwriters in the world today".

 

[William of Walworth]

Hey!! Ticket sale date appears to be confirmed in that version of the story. Sunday April 3 folks ... it's going to be that much more of a tense nailbiter than last year

Cheers for that, Ms T.

 

[poet]

Well at least that is two years notice to watch out for some cowboy organisation trying to get a festival somewhere else in 2007 as an alternative.

What, like Reading, Leeds, Cambridge, WOMAD, Morcambe, ATP, Wychwood, Isle of Wight, Guilfest, V, Big Chill, Cropredy, or any number of other perfectly well organised festivals?

 

[Wolfie]

Morcambe?!?

there's a festival at Morcambe?

bloody hell

 

[belboid]

he missed out the one in whitby as well!

and cropredy isn't meant to be happening again is it?

 

[tobyjug]

To you, all festivals, everywhere, are run by cowboys. You judge all of them by the worst.

As a matter of fact your perspective is flawed, a number like Cropredy have been going for donkeys years with little or no problem. It is the Megadog type of festival that is guaranteed to get residents opposition.

 

[William of Walworth]

and cropredy isn't meant to be happening again is it?

It's definitely happening this year, Cropredy, and apparantly according to efests rumour (unconfirmed) Fairport Convention are indicating that it will continue to happen in future years for the foreseeable

 

[William of Walworth]

As a matter of fact your perspective is flawed, a number like Cropredy have been going for donkeys years with little or no problem. It is the Megadog type of festival that is guaranteed to get residents opposition.

Fair enough, but Meagadog was 4 years ago, and it's pretty damned hard for a festie to get a Public Entertainments Licence nowadays without offering some pretty firm guarentees to the authorities that it will be well organised. Local authorities, and most Police forces, are very demanding. The risk of a chaotic one ever slipping through the wire again is pretty limited.

 

[tobyjug]

Fair enough, but Meagadog was 4 years ago, and it's pretty damned hard for a festie to get a Public Entertainments Licence nowadays without offering some pretty firm guarentees to the authorities that it will be well organised. Local authorities, and most Police forces, are very demanding. The risk of a chaotic one ever slipping through the wire again is pretty limited.

For which I and many local residents are very grateful given the last fiasco.

 

[William of Walworth]

There you go then! Everybody happy now ...

 

[The Boy]

he missed out the one in whitby as well!

and cropredy isn't meant to be happening again is it?

And the one in Bratford - Infest

 

[belboid]

It's definitely happening this year, Cropredy, and apparantly according to efests rumour (unconfirmed) Fairport Convention are indicating that it will continue to happen in future years for the foreseeable

is it? nice one? What happened with Swarbs' (it was Swarbs wasn't it?) illness then?