The guy who made the crowd go “PINEAPPLE”
Glastonbury 98 “it rained every day, all day, for three days and three nights. I’ve not been back since” picture by Mark Walker Brighton
A person in my network is going to the Glastonbury festival in a couple of weeks – I’ve always had a liking for british music festivals because the lineup is often the most sublime. I was there in 98, 18 years old in the most horrible weather of all times and having the time of my life. This year I will be at Roskilde festival, dreaming of glastonbury and the leeds/reading festivals in the fall. Now about the festival there’s one thing I remember more clearly than other things, normally at roskilde festival you make a joint toast all over the camping site once every 10 mins or so. At glastonbury that year people weren’t shouting “SKÃ…L” which means cheers – they shouted “BOLLOCKS” (which I am quite sure they still do)… In one of those toasts where everybody was going “BOOOOLLLOOOCKS” a guy suddenly shouted “PINEAPPLE”. A guy from another camp then shouted back “why the f*** are you shouting PINEAPPLE”?. He didn’t get any reply. A couple of hours later the joint toast went on again and suddenly there where 100 people shouting “PINEAPPLE” after the “BOLLOCKS” shout.
Next day it was all of the area that we where camped in. Just because some guy started to shout “pineapple”.
All I am saying is that I am madly in love with people who shouts pineapple. They do it for about a day or so and then they shout something else that people can relate to. I can’t relate to a pineapple, but I love the story of being in the middle of a whole section of a festival that shouts pineapple.
I guess that’s just how we roll as people. That’s what I personally want: do things with a creative/unusual edge that people think is cool. To make the crowd go “PINEAPPLE”.
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