Glastonbury Festival announces 2017 ticket information and confirms 2018 fallow year

Glastonbury Festival bosses have announced ticket information and dates for 2017.

The Worthy Farm event – which welcomed Coldplay, Adele and Muse to headline earlier this year – will take kick off on June 21 before wrapping up on the 25th next year.

Festival goers will be able to purchase coach and ticket packages on Thursday, October 6 at 6pm while general admission tickets will go on sale at 9am on Sunday, October 9.

Bosses also confirmed the event will take a fallow year in 2018, and denied reports that the iconic festival will be held in a different location during that time.

A statement on the official website read: "We can also confirm that we will be taking our next fallow year in 2018, in order to give the farm, the village and the festival team the traditional year off.

“There are no plans to hold an event at another location in 2018."

The news comes days after festival founder Michael Eavis confirmed that plans to hold the event at Longleat had fallen through.

He said Viscount Weymouth and his wife Emma, who live at Longleat, were concerned about the mud.

“They let me down gently about their decision,” Eavis told The Daily Telegraph. “I went round to their house and we had a very long discussion.

“They said to clean up all that mud, they'd have to restrict the whole of the operations at Longleat for about three months and it's too expensive."

Rumoured headliners for 2017 include Guns N' Roses, Radiohead and The Stone Roses.

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