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BBC Music Announces Glastonbury Replacement Festival

BBC Music Announces Glastonbury Replacement Festival

BBC Music Announces Glastonbury Replacement Festival
  • Genre : More Music
  • Type: News
  • Author : Super Admin
  • Date : Mon, 24 Jul 2017
Next year, the almost annual Glastonbury Festival will take its traditional year off. In its place, BBC Music has announced a massive festival that will offer "coverage similar to that around Glastonbury."

Glastonbury, which takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, will be taking what they call "a fallow year." The land where the festival takes places is a working dairy farm, so each year the site gets a drastic renovation in preparation for the festival. Earlier this year, the organizers confirmed there would be no festival in 2018 "in order to give the farm, the village and the festival team the traditional year off" to prevent serious damage to the site. The last fallow year took place in 2012, and the next Glastonbury festival will occur in 2019.

In the meantime, BBC has announced The Biggest Weekend, which will replace BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in 2018. The new festival that will take place in four sites across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland and run from May 25th through the 28th.

Bob Shennan, Director BBC Radio and Music, said of the event, "BBC Music has a strong history of bringing the nation together for some special moments, and this is the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC. We will be celebrating the diversity of music from four different corners of the country, bringing the best UK music to the world and the best global music to the UK."

Exactly who will be playing at this year's BBC infiltrated version of Glastonbury is still unknown, but hopefully they'll get a number of big names. We doubt, however, that it will feel quite the same as the Worthy Farm festival.

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
07.24.17

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