Glastonbury Festival CANCELLED in 2018 as Longleat move is marred by family feud claims Michael Eavis
Lord Bath and his son Ceawlin cannot come to an agreement over the plans
THE iconic Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled in 2018 because of a family feud between the potential new hosts.
Founder Michael Eavis had been in talks with Lord Bath to move the festival to his 4,000 acre Longleat estate.
However ,a long running feud between Lord Bath and his son Viscount Weymouth means that nothing can be agreed and the festival will not go ahead in 2018.
Michael Eavis said: “Longleat probably won’t happen anymore. Lord Bath is really keen. I went to him because I knew him when he was a boy.
“But he and his son aren’t agreeing, and they don’t speak very much, so it’s hard to make decisions.
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“I haven’t been able to sit down with all of them at the same time.”
The music festival is held on the Eavis family's Worthy Farm in Somerset, south-west England, and traditionally takes a break every six years so as not to cause damage to the working fields.
The last fallow year was 2012.
Despite this news, festivals fans will be relieved that next year's musical extravaganza will still be going ahead, with tickets on sale in October.
Last year's initial release of 120,000 tickets sold out in just over half an hour.
The highlight of the music calendar, this summer Glastonbury featured performances from headliners Adele, Coldplay and Muse.
In June, Eavis had he was "talking to Longleat" as it was his "favourite site" for a new festival.
He had added that hosting it at Worthy Farm meant dealing with 22 different landowners, which "wasn't easy".
Eavis had planned to move the jamboree in 2019 from his Somerset farm, Worthy Farm, to the gigantic estate 20 miles down the road.
However Lord Bath's son, Ceawlin Thynn, took over the running of the estate in 2010 and he isn't so keen on the idea.
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The pair's relationship became strained after a series of disagreements.
The biggest was when Caewlin and wife Emma, daughter of a Nigerian oil tycoon, decided to paint over the garish murals Lord Bath had painted for him and his sister when they were kids.
Lord Bath, who earned the nickname the ‘Loins of Longleat’ because of the 75 former lovers he calls ‘wifelets’, and his wife Anna failed to attend the couple's wedding in 2013.
Caewlin is said to have stopped his mother seeing son John to avoid being 'contaminated' by her racism. Claims the marchioness, 72, strenuously denied.
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