Glastonbury Festival to get new name when it moves in 2019
It's been at Worthy Farm for 47 years
Last updated 18th Jan 2017
Michael Eavis, founder of Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that the festival will be changing its name when it moves to a temporary location "100 miles away, towards the Midlands" in 2019.
The decision to move the festival was made to let the land on the usual site in Somerset recover after nearly five decades of festivals.
Talking to Glastonbury FM Michael said the new name would be "Variety Bazaar" explaining that he was taking "a huge risk" in changing the location and name, but at the moment he has to deal with 22 landowners, whereas in the new location there is only one landowner.
Michael's daughter Emily also explained to fans on Twitter that while they are organising another event, Glastonbury Festival will "remain at Worthy Farm".
This year's festival will take place in its usual location before having a break next year. 2019 will then see the first festival in the new location "towards the Midlands".
Glastonbury has grown immensely over the last 47 years since the first festival, known as Pilton Festival took place on the 19th September 1970. Tickets cost just £1 and it was attended by 1,500. A far cry from it's humble beginnings last year's festival attracted 135,000 people and tickets cost around £228 and included headliners Muse, Adele and Coldplay.