- by Jason Gregory
- Monday, June 30, 2008
Michael Eavis says he won't be drawn on the possibility of a hip-hop act headlining the 2009 edition of the Glastonbury Festival.
Despite acknowledging that the 2008 event had proved doubters wrong by asking US rapper Jay-Z to headline, he refused to speculate whether it could happen again next year.
“I'm not saying that,” Mr Eavis told reporters at a press conference over the weekend.
“We've done it now and we pulled it off. Especially with all the doom and gloom about what it was going to be like and us not selling tickets,” he added.
The event's organiser also admitted that the festival has now found its “safety zone” following years of bad weather.
Mr Eavis said that there had been a “danger of losing” the festival in Somerset after the 2007 edition was plagued by torrential rain and storms.
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