Glastonbury Festival 1986
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| Location(s) | Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England |
| Previous event | Glastonbury Festival 1985 |
| Next event | Glastonbury Festival 1987 |
Glastonbury CND Festival 1986 saw performances by The Cure, Madness, Simply Red, The Housemartins, The Waterboys, Pogues and Level 42. Tickets cost £17 and 60,000 attended.[1]
A Classical Music tent was introduced curated by John Williams.[1] This year saw Ruby Turner Live at Glastonbury as part of the BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert series. Tracks 17 ("We're Not Deep" – 2:24) and 18 ("Me and the Farmer" – 2:58) of the Housemartins' Live at the BBC were recorded during their performance. Latin Quarter played at Glastonbury Festival 21 June 1986.[2][3]
The GLC provided had formed the Workers Beer Company, which was given further contracts by Tony Hollingsworth for Glastonbury in 1986 and 1987. It has continued to run festival or concert bars ever since including 2008 at Glastonbury. Half Man Half Biscuit's first single, "The Trumpton Riots", had topped the UK Indies Singles Chart in 1986, and they went on to perform at Glastonbury this year.[4]
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Stage Two
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References
- ^ a b "Glastonbury Festival – 1986". glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
- ^ "Latin Quarter - Hultsfredsfestivalen 1987, Hultsfred, 07 Aug 1987". Loudmemories.com.
- ^ "Glastonbury CND festival 1986". Ukrockfestivals.com.
- ^ Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980–1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4