Glastonbury 2016 is “about 80%” booked says Emily Eavis

Emily Eavis has confirmed that next year’s Glastonbury is “about 80%” booked.

She opened up about the process in an interview with the BBC, declaring, “We are so lucky at the moment to have so many huge bands touring and wanting to play. That’s one of the reasons we are doing a festival in 2017 - we already have the headliners pencilled in for that too, which is unusual.”

“I feel quite passionately that there are enough headliners for at least another 15 years,” she says, “and that doesn’t take into account the new bands coming through, of which there are more all the time. There’s so much great music out there… In the past few years we’ve had so many great first-time headliners - Florence, Metallica, Mumfords, Kanye, Arcade Fire, Beyonce…”

Two of the festival’s headliners are confirmed in writing, Eavis adds, with the other “verbally confirmed”. “It couldn’t be any bigger,” she says, the big tease.

In addition to all this excitement, Bring Me The Horizon are teasing that they may just play the festival. In a chat with NME, keyboardist Jordan Fish revealed that the band are “hoping to do a big festival that isn’t the kind of thing that we would normally do.” When pushed on whther it’s Glastonbury, his response was simply, “We can’t say, obviously,” with a smile. So that’s presumably that, then.