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Robin Murray

Glastonbury 2019: Another exciting new stage has been revealed

With just a few months to go until the return of Glastonbury Festival, the exciting announcements are coming thick and fast.

Not only is there a diverse lineup to enjoy, but this year the site is going to take on a fresh look with a number of changes and new features.

Perhaps most significantly, there will be no Arcadia spider at this year's festival with the Bristol production team instead working on something entirely new for Worthy Farm.

There's also going to be a brand new Victorian pier named 'Glastonbury-on-sea' near to The Park which will include Punch and Judy, sticks of Glastonbury rock, an arcade and everything else you'd expect to find on a seaside attraction.

Over in the South East corner, the Block 9 team are also busy working on something brand new to unveil at this year's spectacular and given their track record, we're expecting something mightily impressive.

And it would seem that the Eavis family have used the fallow year as an opportunity to bring in as many new features as possible, as yet another new one has just been revealed.

Free music festival is coming to Bristol's Colston Hall

In an interview with BBC Points West's Clinton Rogers, festival founder Michael Eavis dropped a few hints about music and happenings around the site.

After revealing he asked Queen to headline but Brian May's anti badger cull stance prevented that from happening, and that Fleetwood Mac are too expensive to book, he goes for a tour around the site with the reporter.

The new Romeo and Juliet stage will be in the woodland area (BBC Points West)

They discuss the Glastonbury-on-sea project before heading to one of the site's woodland areas, where Rogers asks viewers "and if that's not unusual enough, how about the new Romeo and Juliet stage, where Shakespeare will be performed nightly?"

The segment ends with a very big hint that Paul McCartney could be one of the three headliners next year, for the festival's 50th anniversary.

The full interview between the pair can be seen on BBC iPlayer.

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