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Who better to wrap up the musical celebration at the world’s largest greenfield festival than the newly reformed Blur, who performed on the final night in the headlining slot. 

During the performance frontman Damon Albarn informed the crowd: “It seems like there’s been a really, really positive atmosphere here.”
The final acts of the festival also featured The Prodigy on the Other Stage and the Black Eyed Peas on the Jazz World Stage. The star-studded list of performers at Glastonbury included Tom Jones, Tony Christie, Madness, Status Quo, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Glasvegas and Calvin Harris. 

Before the festival was even over, organizer Michal Eavis reported that he’d already lined up “three of four” big name acts for next year’s 40th anniversary festival, the BBC reports.  However, Eavis thinks that this year’s billing will be hard to top. He told the media: “I seriously don’t think that we can ever do it better than we have this year.”

For next year, Eavis has a couple of acts in mind “that haven’t played for a few years.” The organizer is also reportedly in talks with major bands that have yet to play a festival at Glastonbury, but he is loath to name names. 
“They’re all on the phone at the moment so there is the chance of something different again,” said Eavis. “The bands that have never played before will be thinking they should come.”

The festival was lucrative enough this year that Eavis says he will be donating extra to the charities of Water Aid, Greenpeace and Oxfam. The seventy-year-old organizer wants to improve upon last year, when the festival was only able to donate half the planned amount.