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A brand new attraction coming to Glastonbury Festival 2019 will be a new world, according to its creators.

Arcadia Spectacular has announced that an "evolving show in the sky" will be debuting at the festival, replacing its well-loved mechanical spider, which will not return.

It has been revealed that staff at Arcadia are currently getting to grips with "giant bits of machinery" as they gear up to unleash the creation on Worthy Farm.

The new project will be located in the same field that previously housed Arcadia's fire-breathing spider, next to the Park Stage, and Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis previously described the new plans as "radical", and added they are set to "raise the bar".

A spokesman for Arcadia said: "Same field - new world! We are currently wrestling giant bits of machinery.

"A vast new project is taking shape at Glastonbury that will lay the foundations for a new site-specific landscape and an evolving show in the sky over the next five years."

Although still keeping tight-lipped about the secret plans, the creators have said they are pulling out all the stops and focusing all their efforts on the attraction.

An upcoming show at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - Arcadia London - has even been cancelled as staff fully concentrate on the new Glastonbury adventure.

The spokesman added: "The way London was going, it didn't look like we'd be able to deliver a show to the standard people would expect from us.

"We were faced with either pushing ahead and risking everything on something that wasn't going to be up to scratch in its own right, and damaging what we'd be able to do at Glastonbury after all their years of support. It was a really tough decision.

"Arcadia’s priority must be to honour the support that Glastonbury have shown over this past decade."

It was revealed last year that the well-loved Arcadia spider will not be appearing at this year's festival, but founders Pip Rush and Bert Cole promised something even more spectacular.

They said: “We’re beginning a totally different adventure at Glastonbury that will evolve over the coming years.

"We’re currently neck deep in scrapyards and as excited as everyone else about what we might find next.

"Watch this space!”

in February 2018, Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis said there would be significant site changes at the festival in 2019.

Speaking to NME, she said that part of these changes involved "exciting new ideas" for the Arcadia field.

She said: "We’ve been chatting to Arcadia about doing something quite radical in that field – they’ve come up with some inspired plans. It’s best kept under wraps, but it’s certainly raising the bar!”

It has also been revealed that a variation to the Glastonbury Festival license increasing the number of attendees by 7,000 has been granted.

Mendip District Council (MDC) has given the go-ahead for the largest greenfield festival in the world to increase its capacity to a total of 210,000.

Although the festival now has the scope to increase its capacity, it has been confirmed that this will not happen in 2019.

Glastonbury Festival has told Somerset Live the numbers attending the 2019 event have not changed and will be the same as those that attended the 2017 event.

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Speaking to George Ezra on his podcast, she appeared to confirm the festival now has an official "metal slot" on the Pyramid Stage on the Friday (June 28) of the festival.

She said: "We have a metal slot on a Friday. Which is on the Friday at about 5pm, and that's a new thing that has just started.

"That is now a really big slot. I quite like this, I'm quite into the expansion of the line-up beyond those three headline slots."

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Both Gallagher brothers set to appear

Liam Gallagher is set to be a sub-headliner on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2019, according to reports.

The Brit-pop icon will be the "second to last on the main stage just before headliner Stormzy" on the Friday of the event, The Daily Star is claiming.

The national newspaper also claims that both Liam and Noel Gallagher are set to perform at the festival separately, as they did in 2017.

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Stormzy fires back at critics

Stormzy has fired back at critics of his elevation to Glastonbury Festival headliner, and has vowed to wow the Pyramid Stage crowd.

With only one album to his name, the South London grime artist has said he has "mad underdog syndrome" ahead of his headline performance on the Friday of the festival.

However, he feels he is meant to headline Glastonbury and has the confidence to deliver a fitting performance, after a highly successful Other Stage show in 2017 described by festival organiser Emily Eavis as "phenomenal'.

"I can't wait. I've got mad underdog syndrome, but I got confidence, too," he said, speaking to Elle Magazine.

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Three new areas for 2019

Emily Eavis also revealed that three new areas will be appearing at Glastonbury Festival 2019.

She confirmed that a "whole new area" will be making an appearance at the festival near to The Park field.

This is in addition to new attractions at the Arcadia field and the Block9 field, which Emily described as "incredible" and "mind-blowing".

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