The Glastonbury festival quiz

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Did anyone actually see her pop out of Jean? If things were gender swapped (imagine men give birth like in that episode of Red Dwarf), then we'd be convinced Arabella was her parent. Just looked up some other pictures where she still looks like Emily. It's bonkers.

To be clear, I'm not seriously questioning the parentage of Emily!

[Sawdusty surfer]

1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

Can ringpulls ? 

Yep,spot on.

Not a good diet for ME's cows.

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Sawdusty Surfer said:

Yep,spot on.

Not a good diet for ME's cows.

Probably better than some other grazing items around after the festival  

[Crazyfool01]

Inside the copper dollar venue when it existed , how did you gain entry to the garden shed ? 

[parsonjack]

26 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Inside the copper dollar venue when it existed , how did you gain entry to the garden shed ? 

Ah too easy....through a secret door in the fence in the garden and a dark passageway.  I so miss that place 😔

[Crazyfool01]

11 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Ah too easy....through a secret door in the fence in the garden and a dark passageway.  I so miss that place 😔

Deliberately easy so I can hit the sack  ... your turn pj  

[parsonjack]

Just now, crazyfool1 said:

Deliberately easy so I can hit the sack  ... your turn pj  

Nice plan but I'll bet you a Brother's you stay up to read my question! 

What was unusual about the opening to Bruce Springsteen's 2009 headline set?

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, parsonjack said:

Nice plan but I'll bet you a Brother's you stay up to read my question! 

What was unusual about the opening to Bruce Springsteen's 2009 headline set?

It was seven hours before the end of the set.

[Crazyfool01]

8 hours ago, parsonjack said:

Nice plan but I'll bet you a Brother's you stay up to read my question! 

What was unusual about the opening to Bruce Springsteen's 2009 headline set?

Once in that shed people were asked to run out into the garden whilst being as dramatic as possible ... I got about 1 step out the shed as my rucksack caught on the door   .... erm well I didn’t stay up for the question but do admit to reading it in the early hours ... like many I’m not sleeping brilliantly at the moment  ..  

[Tranquility of Solitude]

Think I might know this one! Didn’t he play Joe Strummers Coma Girl, a song about Glastonbury itself?

[parsonjack]

4 hours ago, Tranquility of Solitude said:

Think I might know this one! Didn’t he play Joe Strummers Coma Girl, a song about Glastonbury itself?

Sorry for delay....you are correct.  He played it after Emily Eavis had used a number of quotes by Joe Strummer about the festival in a letter to Springsteen persuadung him to play. 

All yours! 😊 

[Tranquility of Solitude]

Ok, I need the artist and the song for this.....

which Glastonbury headliner played a song co-written by an American Vice President?

No Googling now..... !

[dizzymoo]

Absolute guess: Stevie Wonder, Happy Birthday? 

[Tranquility of Solitude]

4 minutes ago, dizzymoo said:

Absolute guess: Stevie Wonder, Happy Birthday? 

Sorry, nope.

[parsonjack]

Billy Bragg? 

[Slugworth]

Neil Young? No idea what the song would be though 

[MrHew]

I'm pretty confident it's Van Morrison but I've no idea what the song is called. 

[Tranquility of Solitude]

1 minute ago, MrHew said:

I'm pretty confident it's Van Morrison but I've no idea what the song is called. 

Correct artist.....

[anditmakesmesmile]

I know half the answer.  But I think my artist is wrong. It was All in game. The writer is a Charles Dawes.

My mother had two cassettes in her car. Only two and one was a Cliff Richard tape. And all our holidays involved long car journeys in the UK, so I knew those songs back to front. All in the wonderful game, that we know, as love... There is a rose in Spanish Harlem... All my love...

Ah, memory lane

But I can’t remember Cliff Richard playing Glastonbury. He wasn’t the original artist.

So, a complete guess - Shirley Bassey. 
 

[Tranquility of Solitude]

26 minutes ago, anditmakesmesmile said:

I know half the answer.  But I think my artist is wrong. It was All in game. The writer is a Charles Dawes.

My mother had two cassettes in her car. Only two and one was a Cliff Richard tape. And all our holidays involved long car journeys in the UK, so I knew those songs back to front. All in the wonderful game, that we know, as love... There is a rose in Spanish Harlem... All my love...

Ah, memory lane

But I can’t remember Cliff Richard playing Glastonbury. He wasn’t the original artist.

So, a complete guess - Shirley Bassey. 
 

Artist was Van Morrison @MrHew got that part. You’re correct about the song and the writer though, so over to you for the next question!

Van performed it as part of his sets in both 82 and 87.

[anditmakesmesmile]

I think this next one is really easy. But it’s a neat segway from my last half-wrong answer. I want three answers. Shirley Bassey took the legends slot in which year? Which headliner performed one of her greatest hits as a tribute? And what was the song? 

[Barney McGrew]

2007, Arctic Monkeys, Diamonds Are Forever

[anditmakesmesmile]

50 minutes ago, Barney McGrew said:

2007, Arctic Monkeys, Diamonds Are Forever

Yup. I said it was an easy one.
Over to you, Barney McGrew

[Barney McGrew]

This question malarkey's not easy, don't want to be a thread killer so...

Why and to whom did Lilly Allen dedicate a song to during her appearance with Mark Ronson on the Other Stage 2008?

 

[parsonjack]

6 hours ago, Barney McGrew said:

This question malarkey's not easy, don't want to be a thread killer so...

Why and to whom did Lilly Allen dedicate a song to during her appearance with Mark Ronson on the Other Stage 2008?

 

Her Mum?  No idea why though....

Edited April 19, 2020 by parsonjack