Michael Eavis has decided to give Glastonbury Festival a miss in 2012 to avoid competing for services with the organisers of the Olympic Games.

The event’s boss told The Western Daily Press: “We’ve got the Olympics happening in 2012 so they’ll need all the loos and all the security and all the trains. It’s a job to get enough trains now and we need more trains because we’re trying to increase the public transport to Glastonbury. So we have decided to take 2012 off.”

Traditionally, the music festival does not take place every fifth year in order to give the land at Worthy Farm in Somerset a chance to recover from the damage created by the huge number of revellers over the previous four years.

The next ‘fallow year’ was scheduled for 2011, but farmer Eavis feels that 2012 would be more ideal so as to avoid a clash with the Olympics.

However, it’s up to Mendip District Council to approve the current licence for the event beyond 2010 as well as the proposed change of date.