The Glastonbury festival quiz

[blutarsky]

😂 😂 😂 

No worries, I won’t take it personally! 

My question: Killers guitarist Dave Keuning nearly missed the band’s set at the festival once. Why, and in what year? 

[blutarsky]

14 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

So do you know which year?

JPT was 2004, West Holts 2010, not sure about the Other but earlier than the other two. Late 90s? 

[grumpyhack]

13 hours ago, blutarsky said:

😂 😂 😂 

No worries, I won’t take it personally! 

My question: Killers guitarist Dave Keuning nearly missed the band’s set at the festival once. Why, and in what year? 

In 2005 they left him behind at a petrol station after visiting Stonehenge.  But they went back and picked him up.

[blutarsky]

On 5/7/2020 at 10:19 PM, grumpyhack said:

In 2005 they left him behind at a petrol station after visiting Stonehenge.  But they went back and picked him up.

Correct 

[grumpyhack]

16 hours ago, blutarsky said:

Correct 

What construction did M. Bighead mastermind in 2013 only for it to be pulled down?

[HalfAnIdiot]

Just now, grumpyhack said:

What construction did M. Bighead mastermind in 2013 only for it to be pulled down?

Cardboard box version of the tower on the Tor?

[grumpyhack]

3 minutes ago, HalfAnIdiot said:

Cardboard box version of the tower on the Tor?

Well that was a bit too easy.  Well done HalfAnIdiot - over to you.

[HalfAnIdiot]

1 minute ago, grumpyhack said:

Well that was a bit too easy.  Well done HalfAnIdiot - over to you.

It was a guess as I didn't know who was responsible but it was great fun helping to build it. Give me a moment to come up with a question.

[HalfAnIdiot]

What year was the 'Love the Farm, Leave No Trace' initiative launched?

[stuartbert two hats]

9 minutes ago, HalfAnIdiot said:

Cardboard box version of the tower on the Tor?

That was 2016.

[HalfAnIdiot]

1 minute ago, stuartbert two hats said:

That was 2016.

Was it? Seems longer ago in my head.

Edited May 9, 2020 by HalfAnIdiot

[HalfAnIdiot]

6 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

That was 2016.

Just checked, it was 2013

[grumpyhack]

1 minute ago, HalfAnIdiot said:

Just checked, it was 2013

Yep 2013 http://www.machinesystems.co.uk/smurfit-kappa-towers-over-the-legends-of-rock-at-glastonbury/

 

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, HalfAnIdiot said:

Just checked, it was 2013

They must have done it more than once - I went in it and didn't go in 2013.

I knew immediately it was to scale because Barbster360, the vlogger did a VR style video of him going up the Tor and walking around inside the tower. 

And the device I used to simulate going inside the real tower? Google Cardboard, of course

[grumpyhack]

13 minutes ago, HalfAnIdiot said:

What year was the 'Love the Farm, Leave No Trace' initiative launched?

2013?

[stuartbert two hats]

14 minutes ago, HalfAnIdiot said:

What year was the 'Love the Farm, Leave No Trace' initiative launched?

2008?

[stuartbert two hats]

19 minutes ago, grumpyhack said:

Well that was a bit too easy.  Well done HalfAnIdiot - over to you.

That video is actually from 2016, I'm glad I'm not going mad!

Not disputing that it happened in 2013 mind.

 

[Homer]

The Housemartins?

[HalfAnIdiot]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

2008?

No

[HalfAnIdiot]

1 hour ago, grumpyhack said:

2013?

No

[ian the worm]

2007?

[grumpyhack]

You've said no to 2008 but I do remember that was the year of the 'biodegradable' tent pegs they gave out that shattered into lethal shards as you attempted to hammer them in.

[stuartbert two hats]

It's been a few hours, so I'm going to guess again with 2005, the year of Make Poverty History.

[HalfAnIdiot]

3 hours ago, ian the worm said:

2007?

Yes, well done. Your turn

[HalfAnIdiot]

2 hours ago, grumpyhack said:

You've said no to 2008 but I do remember that was the year of the 'biodegradable' tent pegs they gave out that shattered into lethal shards as you attempted to hammer them in.

Yeah, good intentions but a real fail that year. I don't think they ever returned?