Glastonbury Festival set to relocate "towards the Midlands"

The festival won't be moving a few hundred yards down the road either - Eavis is pursuing a new site 100 miles "towards the Midlands".

It won't be a permanent shift northwards, but "one year off, say every fifth year or so". Glastonbury currently undertakes a fallow year every few years to let the site regenerate, with the next scheduled for 2018.

"I'm arranging to move the show [but] it would be a huge loss to Somerset if it went there forever," Eavis told the BBC.

Eavis had hoped at one point to shift the Somerset bash a county over to Wiltshire's Longleat - but the plans sadly fell through.

"We’ve got a wonderful product, what we do, and we can do it almost anywhere," Eavis added. "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 for ever, no way.”

Radiohead are confirmed as the first headliners for next year's Glastonbury Festival. Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, Guns N' Roses, Foo Fighters, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk and The Stone Roses have been linked with next year's event in the past few months, while Little Mix and Lady Gaga have also expressed interest in performing.

In related news, Bestival recently confirmed that they too would be making a shift - albeit a permanent one - across the water from the Isle Of Wight to Dorset.