Glastonbury Festival Will Have A New Home For 2019, Michael Eavis Confirms

We're not sure how to feel about this.

Glastonbury Festival will have a new home in 2019, organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed.

Michael and his family have been searching for an alternative site for quite some time, and earlier this year, he revealed talks to hold the annual event at Longleat had broken down.

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The exact location of the new site - which will be used once every five years - has not been revealed, but he has said that it’s 100 miles away from Worthy Farm.

Michael explained (via the BBC): “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.

“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 forever, no way.”

At present, the Eavis family take regular breaks from holding the event, in order to let the land recover, and the next fallow year is due in 2018.

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Glastonbury Festival 1971 - Worthy FarmA woman taking a child for a walk at the Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton.
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GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 26: Ellis Cameron, 21 (L) and Iona Bruce, 21 from Scotland pose for a photograph as they arrive at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. Gates opened today at the Somerset diary farm that will be playing host to one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Artic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones. Tickets to the event which is now in its 43rd year sold out in minutes and that was before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Rain clouds gather over the still being constructed Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton on June 13, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. In a couple of weeks the diary farm in Somerset will be playing host to one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Artic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones. Tickets to the event which is now in its 43rd year sold out in minutes and that was before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days.
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People sit in front of the newly erected tents at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. Gates opened today at the Somerset diary farm that will be playing host to one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Artic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones. Tickets to the event which is now in its 43rd year sold out in minutes and that was before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days.
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Festivalgoer's dance beside the Pyramid stage on the second day of the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts near Glastonbury, southwest England on June 27, 2013.