Michael Eavis warns Glastonbury could “go bankrupt” if it can’t return in 2021

Chris Martin and Michael Eavis have recalled how filling in for The Strokes led to Coldplay headlining Glastonbury in 2002.Coldplay had already performed at the festival on the “new bands stage” and the Other Stage before topping the bill at Worthy Farm.Speaking to Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, festival organiser and founder Michael Eavis recalled needing a headliner for the annual Pilton Party event, which is put on to thank the local villagers for their co-operation with the festival.

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has suggested that using a track-and-trace app may be the future for festival-goers after coronavirus.The festival, which was set to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary this weekend, was forced to cancel the event as the pandemic began spreading across the globe earlier this year.Eavis has since warned that postponing the event for a second year could have huge financial implications for the event, but believes that new technology could provide a way forward.He

Glastonbury‘s 50th birthday with headliners Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney, mixing that in with the customary discovery of our new favourite band as we stumbled across their life-affirming set while half-cut at 3AM, having indulged in all the joys that only Glasto can offer.But the global coronavirus pandemic means that this year we’re resigned instead to recreating the Pyramid Stage out of cardboard boxes and loo rolls and watching coverage of past performances on the BBC as we

folk hero Billy Bragg and pop legend Taylor Swift became mates at the NME Awards 2020 while crowning Glastonbury boss Emily Eavis as Godlike Genius? That was pretty cool, eh? It did leave us hoping and expecting some kind of collab at Worthy Farm at would would have been Glasto this weekend. Sadly, the pandemic had other plans.

The Glastonbury festival is in danger of going bankrupt if the coronavirus pandemic forces another cancellation next year, organisers have warned.

Glastonbury Festival.This year was set to be all about celebrating the iconic event's 50th anniversary but due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Glasto party has been put on hold until 2021.

Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has said she’s planning to combine two festival line-ups for the 2021 event, as well as hoping that Paul McCartney will return to headline once more.The festival’s edition 2020 edition was set to kick off yesterday (June 24), but was cancelled as a direct result of coronavirus.Speaking to BBC 6 Music, Eavis explained that expansive plans for the 2021 event were already underway.“I think because we’re rolling two festivals together for 2021, we’ve got a hell of a

cancelled in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to an “enforced” fallow year.In a statement released at the time, Michael and Emily Eavis wrote: “We very much hope that the situation in the UK will have improved enormously by the end of June.“But even if it has, we are no longer able to spend the next three months with thousands of crew here on the farm, helping us with the enormous job of building the infrastructure and attractions needed to welcome more than 200,000 people