Glastonbury almost becomes an also-ran…

SHOCKER: Modern-day Jesus Michael Eavis has told a popular tabloid newspaper that he nearly scrapped Glastonbury! Why? Because it was becoming “too big, too muddy and too horrible”.

Wow.

This stemmed from criticisms that the veteran festival had become too commercial.

“Last year I thought that maybe we’d got to the end and we’d have to bite the bullet and fold it all up. A lot of the bands were saying Glastonbury had become too big, too muddy and too horrible. At one time the bands used to come on board.”

Strange timing considering the success of last year’s Jay-Z-led billing, surely? “I was prepared to walk away. But to come back from the dead of last year to sell out this year is amazing.”

He continues, rapidly about-turning and feverishly propagating about this year’s bill: “Getting Springsteen as a headliner is so exciting. I saw him play two-and-a-half hours in Cardiff and that’s what turned me on to the idea of having him. I’d never seen him before although I’d heard the occasional record. I was so blown out by him I had to make it happen.”

“I don’t think we’ll ever go down the pop route for getting a headliner for Glastonbury. Madonna hasn’t been asked by us.”

Get your tickets no- oh no, you can’t, they’re sold out! Nice one, Eavis.