Glastonbury ‘cancelled’ for 2026

Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for 2026.
Officials behind the event at Worthy Farm, Somerset, confirmed on Sunday (30.06.24) that it will not take place next summer as it will be one of its traditional ‘fallow’ years to allow to the land to recover from the thousands of fans who descend there for the musical extravaganza.
Organiser Emily Eavis, 44, whose farmer father Michael, 88, started the festival in 1970, told The Sun: “(It will) give the land a rest. The festival before a fallow year is always fun to plan because you’re almost trying to fit two years into one.
“We are already in talks with some groups for this. It’s exciting!”
Glastonbury’s fallow years typically occur every fifth summer, with the last in 2018 before returning the following year.
Sunday (30.06.24) saw 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 Solána Imani Rowe – on the Pyramid Stage.
Emily added of this year’s event: “I would really like to thank everyone who made this year so special.
“This will undoubtedly be the best event in history. Each and every member of our vast and incredible team is essential to the success of this event.
“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 set on Saturday (29.06.24) saw them call on wheelchair-bound Michael J Fox, 63, who is 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 of it and I worked so hard.”