Doubts raised over Glastonbury future

Glastonbury Festival organisers have raised doubts over the future of the three-day bash.

Michael Eavis's daughter, Emily, who has helped her father run the event for the last eight years said the pair had discussed over Christmas the shelf life of the world-famous live music event.

She said they were treating this year's 38th festival, which will be headlined by rapper Jay-Z, as though it were the last.

Emily added: "We had a kind of retrospective time during Christmas, talking about it and whether it's a long term thing.

"I kinda feel that we should ply everything into this as if it be the last.

"It's a risky, risky business and it would be nice to think, to know that it could go on forever, (but) I don't know if that's possible."

Her father, who founded the festival, which is renowned for eschewing commercialism, recently said he wanted to attract younger people because Glastonbury had become "too middle-aged" and "respectable".

Last year, fans snapped up 137,500 tickets in a record time of one hour and 45 minutes when they went on sale.

The first Glastonbury was held in 1970, a day after Jimi Hendrix died, for the ticket price of a £1, which also bought free milk from the farm.

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