Well, I guess we all knew it would get the go ahead eventually. After a seven hour sitting Mendip District Council finally gave the go ahead for this year’s Glastonbury Festival last night. The council had previously denied the event a licence last December, of course, after increased security on site last year pushed ticketless festival goers, who had been turned away from the site, into local villages. But Eavis promised to police the area around the site this year to ensure anyone turned away didn’t cause trouble elsewhere in the local area.
Michael Eavis said he was delighted: "After losing it last time we were worried, but we did a spanking good presentation. I've never worked so hard as this in my life with getting people to come along and speak at the meeting. It was a really good meeting and we will now concentrate on the problems of the villages for this year's festival. No-one cares more about Pilton than I do."
Tickets will now go on sale for the weekend of 27 – 29 June. Although REM and Radiohead have both been tipped as headliners Glastonbury does not tend to announce its line up until after all the tickets have been sold.