Glastonbury will not take place in 2026 after festival organisers confirmed it will be a no-show year.
The 2024 edition of the iconic music festival is on its final day, with Shania Twain taking the Legends slot, followed by headliner SZA.
But the 2025 festival will be a big one, with organiser Emily Eavis confirming that 2026 will be a fallow year “to let the land rest”.
This means festival-goers who miss out on tickets to next year’s show will have to wait 24 months for another chance to attend.
“The festival that precedes a fallow year is always fun to plan, because you almost have to fit two years into one,” Emily said. Sun on Sunday.
Glastonbury will not take place in 2026, after festival organizers confirmed on Sunday that it will be a fallow year.
The 2024 edition of the iconic music festival is in its final day, with Shania Twain taking the Legends spot followed by headliner SZA.
Emily has confirmed that they are already in talks with artists for next year’s mega festival.
He added: “This has to be the best event yet. Every single member of our amazing and vast team is crucial to making this event work.”
Dua Lipa was the first star of the weekend, when she took the stage on Friday.
Her moment was overshadowed by calls from viewers who said she was lip-syncing her performance, but she insisted to the Mail: “I don’t mime.”
Informed sources also said the mime’s claim is false.
Dua said she had dreamed of headlining Glastonbury Festival “my whole life” when she opened the Pyramid stage.
The pop superstar opened her first headline performance at the British festival with a stunning choreography of her hit track Training Season, from her third studio album, Radical Optimism, which was released earlier this year.
She told the crowd: “I can’t believe this, I’ve dreamed about this my whole life.”
But the 2025 festival will be important, with organizer Emily Eavis (pictured in 2023) confirming that 2026 will be a fallow year “to let the land rest”.
Dua Lipa has responded to fans’ claims that she lip-synced during her headline performance at Glastonbury.
During her performance, the audience could be heard loudly singing along to the words of her 2018 song One Kiss featuring Calvin Harris.
Glastonbury organizer Emily said the pop star was “born” to headline the festival.
Other celebrities who were present at the festival included Alexa Chung, actress Anya Taylor-Joy and model Cara Delevingne. TV presenter Maya Jama was also seen with her rapper boyfriend Stormzy.
Some festival-goers opted for extravagant costumes to watch the performances, with one even hopping around like a kangaroo.
On Saturday, Coldplay headlined the Pyramid Stage in what was their fifth appearance at the festival, with actor Michael J. Fox making a surprise appearance.
Two veterans of show business performed earlier. Pop icon Cyndi Lauper sang hits like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun on the main stage.
Actor Russell Crowe arrived by plane Friday for his festival debut. He played on the acoustic stage with his band, Indoor Garden Party.
Rockers Kasabian were the secret act yesterday, causing chaos after so many people turned out to see them that access to the stage had to be closed for fear of overcrowding.
Glastonbury bosses are understood to have told partners to limit invitations to celebrities this year amid concerns it could “lose its down-to-earth roots”.
But no one seemed to have told that to the posh pop-up club Soho House, which served sea bream for £34.