"We're in advanced talks with booking our headliners," Eavis tells Music Week. "Hopefully they'll all turn up, but I'm pretty confident that they will."

The Somerset farmer held the first music event on his family's farm in 1970 and he seems determined to mark the landmark festival next year in spectacular style, although he is keeping tight lipped on the acts he is lining up.

He wouldn't comment on rumours linking the likes of U2, The Rolling Stones and David ...