SomersetLive: Glastonbury Festival will have a new name when it moves, Michael Eavis has revealed
Glastonbury Festival will be renamed when it moves to a new venue after 2018, Michael Eavis has revealed in a radio interview.
Mr Eavis, who launched the event in 1970, declared he was taking "a huge risk" by switching location and name.
The world famous music event is currently called Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.
But when it moves away from Somerset it will be renamed The Variety Bazaar, according to Mr Eavis.
He said: "I've been a risk taker all my life. In 47 years of taking risks, so far touch wood, I haven't come unstuck. This might be one risk too far, I don't know."
Mr Eavis revealed the festival's new name in a radio interview with Paul Cannon of Glastonbury FM.
He said the event will be billed as The Glastonbury Festival team presents The Variety Bazaar.
"That's a good name don't you think?" he asks Mr Cannon.
The candid interview was recorded at a jazz session in the bar-restaurant run by his nephew, Paul Eavis, in Glastonbury's Red Brick Building.
Of the festival's possible new location Mr Eavis would say only: "It's half way to the Midlands from here...and there's only one landowner.
"I've got 22 landowners where I am now. I just wonder whether the next generation will want to negotiate with so many people. It's a very difficult job to hold it together."
There will be no move until at least 2019. This year's event will remain centred on Worthy Farm, Pilton and the festival will not be staged at all next year and there is no suggestion that it will not return to Pilton from 2020.