More Glasto, and Emily Eavis has denied that her father wasn't convinced The Verve were headliner material. She was responding to Verve frontman Ricahrd Ashcroft, who thanked Emily for booking his band, and implied Glasto supremo Michael Eavis hadn't been convinced by his daughter's Sunday night booking, suggesting he would have preferred someone like Keane to fill the finale slot.
But Emily told the BBC: "That's not true at all. We've liked The Verve for ages and we were really pleased to have them on. I'm not sure where the Keane thing came from because Keane were never an option this year". But she added that Ashcroft's comments were "not a big deal", and that the band had "really pulled it off" as headliners.
Asked about this year's festival, which ultimately sold out despite the much reported slow ticket sales this year, Eavis said things had gone "amazingly well" adding: "I think it was the best Glastonbury crowd we've ever had. They were so determined to make it great".