Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2019 (Richard Bowes for Live4ever)
Whilst countless tours are being rescheduled across Europe for the spring of next year, Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has admitted June 2021 might yet be too early for one of the biggest festivals to return.
The cancellation of Glastonbury earlier this year – putting an end to its 50th birthday celebrations and headline appearances from Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar – was one of the biggest symbols of the shutdown of live music in the UK, and Eavis has said it may be 2022 before he can safely think about putting the wheels of Worthy Farm back in motion.
“500 people is OK isn’t it?,” he’s widely reported as telling the UK’s regional news programme ITV News West Country. “But my job, 250,000 altogether is too many people I suppose isn’t it really. I’m still hoping I’m going to be running next year and I’m going to be moving heaven and earth to make sure that we do. But that doesn’t mean it will necessarily happen. That is just wishful thinking really.”
“The only certainty I think is the year after, 2022. To be perfectly candid, so we might have to wait for two years maybe. But I am still hoping and we are fighting and working at it all the time to make sure it happens next year.”