The Glastonbury festival quiz

[grumpyhack]

I think it's been answered just waiting for confirmation from Kinky.

[blutarsky]

Paging @Kinkyinuit

[grumpyhack]

An easy one just to keep things rolling along.  Who was described as 'hotly tipped folky hip-hop' when he first appeared on the Croissant Neuf stage before returning three years later on The Pyramid?

[dondo]

21 minutes ago, grumpyhack said:

An easy one just to keep things rolling along.  Who was described as 'hotly tipped folky hip-hop' when he first appeared on the Croissant Neuf stage before returning three years later on The Pyramid?

Ed Sheeran

[blutarsky]

[grumpyhack]

5 minutes ago, dondo said:

Ed Sheeran

Correct @dondo  Over to you for the next one.

[dondo]

2 minutes ago, grumpyhack said:

Correct @dondo  Over to you for the next one.

Thanks. It's only I remember him headlining the Croissant Neuf festival the year before we went for the 1st time. 

Probably another easy one- what year did the Pyramid stage burn down just before the festival and what year did the new pyramid appear after that?

Edited July 1, 2020 by dondo

[grumpyhack]

The Pyramid burned down in 1994 eleven days before the festival.  I assume that by the new Pyramid you mean the replacement that was erected in time for that year's festival.

[dondo]

5 minutes ago, grumpyhack said:

The Pyramid burned down in 1994 eleven days before the festival.  I assume that by the new Pyramid you mean the replacement that was erected in time for that year's festival.

No as the stage that replaced it for that year and subsequent years wasn't pyramid shaped. I meant when was a new pyramid shaped stage constructed/used again?

[parsonjack]

I think 2000 was the first year the current Pymild was used.

Do you think it had a lush 'new car' smell to it?

Edited July 1, 2020 by parsonjack

[dondo]

30 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

I think 2000 was the first year the current Pymild was used.

Do you think it had a lush 'new car' smell to it?

Correct. I thought it was much earlier. It was only watching the teatime legends programme at the weekend that made me realise it was a good few years that there wasn't a proper pyramid stage. 

So Grumpyhack got 1st part, you got 2nd so either of you can have a question

[grumpyhack]

I'll happily defer to @parsonjack

[parsonjack]

1 hour ago, grumpyhack said:

I'll happily defer to @parsonjack

Thankyou.

"And when I was running down to the stage.....people were already standing quietly in the campsites.  I think people were very touched....it was a great feeling of togetherness".

Who's words, when and why?

[Bisque]

Dizzee Rascal, getting out of the helicopter, 2010.

Edited July 1, 2020 by Bisque

[parsonjack]

8 hours ago, Bisque said:

Dizzee Rascal, getting out of the helicopter, 2010.

😂 Not quite 

[grumpyhack]

12 hours ago, parsonjack said:

Thankyou.

"And when I was running down to the stage.....people were already standing quietly in the campsites.  I think people were very touched....it was a great feeling of togetherness".

Who's words, when and why?

Emily Eavis, 1999 on the minute's silence for the death of her mother Jean Eavis.

[parsonjack]

3 hours ago, grumpyhack said:

Emily Eavis, 1999 on the minute's silence for the death of her mother Jean Eavis.

Perfect.  Gets me every time I read the quote 😢

All yours. 

[Crazyfool01]

13 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Perfect.  Gets me every time I read the quote 😢

All yours. 

where did I read / hear that of late ? 

[grumpyhack]

He went to the same school as Michael Heseltine and Michael Palin, fronted a BBC programme called Top Gear and was awarded the OBE in 1998.  His gravestone carries the words: "Teenage dreams so hard to beat."  Who was he?

Edited July 2, 2020 by grumpyhack

[Barney McGrew]

John Peel

[grumpyhack]

30 minutes ago, Barney McGrew said:

John Peel

Correct.  Over to you @Barney McGrew

[Barney McGrew]

How did The Killers reference their 2007 Glastonbury headline set during their Tea in The Park headline set a few months later?  

[stuartbert two hats]

28 minutes ago, Barney McGrew said:

How did The Killers reference their 2007 Glastonbury headline set during their Tea in The Park headline set a few months later?  

They went really quiet and soaked everyone?

 

[parsonjack]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

where did I read / hear that of late ? 

Not sure....it's in the 'Glastonbury Festival Tales' book....but it may also be in the Glasto 50 book too. 

[parsonjack]

29 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

They went really quiet and soaked everyone?

 

😂😂