Glastonbury honcho Michael Eavis has been speaking to Xfm London (not to be confused with Xfm Manchester, which has just gone on air) about plans for the 2007 Festival, and has implied that Dire Straits might be appearing.
He told the station: "We're raring to go for next year and we're booking bands and doing stuff. There's a whole lot of stuff going on, I can't tell you about it at the moment, but there's some real surprises for next year. For the headlining slot you know we're sort of moving away from the traditional 'Top Of The Pops' thing and doing something different. The headliners next year are going to be a big surprise for everyone."
When a possible Dire Straits performance was jokingly mooted, Eavis responded: "Funnily enough, I'm talking to them at the moment you know. Yeah, not for the Main Stage but for something else."
He went on to rule out a performance from The Rolling Stones any time soon: "No, the Stones have never done it because they go for the money basically, and we can't afford to pay more than a couple of hundred thousand for the top stars. They don't work for less than half a million. Well, they've got used to it you see haven't they? So give them a couple of hundred and that's not good enough. They keep going and good luck to them, I don't mind. If they want to do it then they'll do it."