They were forced to pull out of Glastonbury last year when frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg – but Michael Eavis has now said that Foo Fighters WON’T be headlining the festival this year either.

Instead, the festival is set to be headlined by THREE British bands, with Coldplay already announced for the Sunday night of the Worthy Farm bash.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk at the NME Awards, Eavis confirmed that Foo Fighters won’t be playing this year – but said that he had assembled the ‘best line-up yet’.

Eavis said: ‘We’re going to announce the full line-up in April and it’s the best line-up we’ve ever had. We’ve got Coldplay on the Sunday night, and even Jeff Lynne’s ELO.




‘But Foo Fighters won’t be headlining this year, we’ve got three fantastic headliners but they aren’t one of them.

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‘I’d like to see them play Glastonbury in the near future.’

His daughter Emily remained similarly coy about the festival’s headliners – but exclusively revealed that it will be the best of British taking top billing on the farm.

She said: ‘We’ve got three brilliant British bands headlining the festival, although I haven’t actually told anyone that yet.’

Eavis refused to reveal who those bands are – but the likes of Radiohead and Muse are among the bookies’ favourites to headline this year’s festival.

Elsewhere, The Maccabees refused to rule out the prospect of a headline performance at one of the UK’s top festivals this summer.

Singer Orlando Weekes told us: ‘Hugo [White, the band’s guitarist] has a reputation for revealing our plans when he’s not supposed to but we’ve told him to remain tight lipped tonight.

‘I’m not ruling anything out – you’d have to ask him if you want to know.’

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