Exclusive: festival organiser says this year’s cancellation won’t bankrupt the event and that 2022 will be an ‘enormous high’
For the past 10 months, the organisers of Glastonbury have been pursuing “every avenue” to make this year’s festival viable after it was cancelled in 2020. This week, they concluded that uncertainty regarding the pandemic was too great to press ahead with the event in June, and it was pulled too.
They had considered on-site testing, the removal of indoor venues, increased medical provision and other measures, said co-organiser Emily Eavis, yet they still could not be “reasonably confident that there would be no or much reduced social distancing measures in place” when gates opened in late June.
