Glastonbury canceled for 2026: why is the famous British music festival taking a sabbatical?

“We are already in talks with some groups for this. It’s exciting.”

The fallow years at Glastonbury typically occur every fifth summer, the last in 2018, before returning the following year.

Sunday was the final day of this year’s event – ​​with Shania Twain, 58, performing in her coveted Legends Slot before a closing act from SZA, 34 – born Solana Imani Rowe – on the Pyramid Stage.

Eavis said of this year’s event: “I would really like to thank everyone who made this year so special.

“This has to be the best one yet. Every single member of our vast and incredible team is essential to the success of this event.

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“And of course, it simply wouldn’t exist without the participation of kind, brilliant and respectful festival-goers.

“I think the people here are showing a better way of living and taking some of that back with them to the outside world.

“It honestly restores your faith in humanity.”

Coldplay’s Saturday night set found them bringing in wheelchair-bound Michael J. Fox, 63, battling Parkinson’s disease, to tell him while holding a guitar that he was the reason they became a band – in an apparent reference to his guitar playing in Back to the future.

Dua Lipa performed on the Pyramid Stage the night before and revealed to a crowd of 100,000: “I wrote this moment, I wished for it, I dreamed for it and I worked so hard for it.”