Glastonbury cancelled for a second year
Glastonbury has been cancelled for a second year, it has been confirmed. Emily and Michael Eavis announced the news on Twitter, explaining that current ticket-holders can roll over their deposit until 2022.
With Covid rates hitting peaks in the UK, it is impossible for the festival to take place safely. “With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us,” organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said in a statement. “In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.”
The Eavis' added that they were confident that they can "deliver something really special in 2022". The news comes after organisers denied rumours in early January that the festival had been cancelled.
Paul Reed, chair of the Association of Independent Festivals, told the Guardian that Glastonbury's cancellation needn't mean that no festivals will go ahead this summer. The size of the event (it has a capacity of 210,000) makes it an anomaly on the UK circuit, and that it's still possible that smaller festivals might go ahead if the Covid situation improves.
“There are 975 festivals in the UK," said Reed. "Though some of the larger events will be making decisions this month as to whether they go ahead, for many of the smaller ones the cut-off will be later.”
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