What would constitute a Glastonbury.....

[Swine_Glasto2014]

to be cancelled?

Queen dying?

Illness to one of the Eavis's?

I'm on about weeks before not a planned fallow year.

[stuartbert two hats]

Neither of those, the festival went on when Jean died and she was a damn sight more important than any Windsor ever will be.

Perhaps if timed right, say October, then Michael getting seriously ill could stop it, but I reckon if he dropped dead in June, the festival would go on.

Foot and mouth outbreak, maybe. Or *very* serious weather conditions, but it'll have to be hailing frogs given all the infrastructure investments they keep making.

Can't think of much TBH.

[michael eavis' beard]

Meteor strike?!

[LondonTom]

Not selling enough tickets to cover costs?

A severe national emergency?

Not meeting final license conditions?

[A Guy Called Matt]

Not enough hats.

[pie_and_a_pint]

A severe Foot and Mouth outbreak could well cause a cancellation (to many festivals - not just Glastonbury) just because of the legal restrictions to the movement on people on agricultural land. That said there are ways around that, including the use of disinfectant bootwash etc. as is employed at agricultural shows. It would have to be a huge 'national crisis' sort of outbreak to cancel the festival.

And as for weather - well, if the festival's infrastructure can survive the storms overnight on the Thursday night in 2005, it can cope with anything. Let's hope we never get snow though, eh? The festival would be fine, but the surrounding roads would be fucked. No-one would be able to get there!

Edited September 2, 2014 by pie_and_a_pint

[Swine_Glasto2014]

Did foot and mouth not affect it before or did it fall on a fallow year?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Some sort of pandemic spread such as the Ebola virus disease would do it.

[hedgepeg]

a shortage of high visibility waistcoats.

apocalypse cow.

topman goes bust.

boris and the johnsons headlining.

these are just some speculations off the top of my head.

Edited September 2, 2014 by hedgepeg

[stuartbert two hats]

Did foot and mouth not affect it before or did it fall on a fallow year?

Correct, fallow year: 2001.

[Gnomicide]

Queen dying?

[Swine_Glasto2014]

2001!!

Edited September 2, 2014 by Swine_Glasto2014

[Swine_Glasto2014]

They died in 93'

[stuartbert two hats]

I had to look this up, but I was shocked to find out Jean died so close to the '99 festival - the 15th May

Even if Mike got run over by a tractor in June the show would still go on!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jean-eavis-1094484.html

[UEF]

Plague in Liverpool?

[frostypaw]

Disease only I'd think - though it came close to stopping due to the flooding in 2005.

But F&M would be a total no-go, ditto any proper human disease outbreak god forbid ebola made it here or a mega-flu actually turned out as bad as threatened but then any mass gatherings would be disallowed

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Heavily armed space aliens who have a dislike of crowds, and Tuborg larger.

[Swine_Glasto2014]

I can remember being quite relieved Glastonbury wasn't on in 2012

[mrtourette]

The One Show wanting to film from the festival.

Oh wait...

[phillyfaddle]

A blight affecting apple trees resulting in NO CIDER supplies for the festival. Can you imagine a Glastonbury without cider? *shudder*

[pie_and_a_pint]

I can remember being quite relieved Glastonbury wasn't on in 2012

Ditto. I wore wellies to walk to work for most of that 'summer' and not because I was missing Glasto! Grim year, that was.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I sported lederhosen in 2012. Ever the optimist.

[matt2007]

I remember seeing a major incident plan for the festival sometime ago and only an outbreak of a major disease would cause it to abandonded due to shear numbers, location etc.

I think a couple of weeks beforehand it would have to be soemthing like that to cause it to be cancelled, Michael would hate to think that his kicking the bucket would stop it happening, especially after all he has done to keep it going.....he beat Thatcher of course

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Michael would hate to think that his kicking the bucket would stop it happening, especially after all he has done to keep it going.....he beat Thatcher of course

[bamber]

Nothing, Nada, Nish.