The 1988 Reading festival saw the bill divided between MOR rock bands and more indie-friendly acts, resulting in tensions that led to two acts’ sets interrupted by a hail of bottles from the crowd. But which two acts were they?
Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler
Fields of the Nephilim and Gene Loves Jezebel
Starship and Uriah Heap
The Wonderstuff and the Lucy Show
2 In 1983, one rock act took to the stage with a model of Stonehenge. Unfortunately, while the band had requested a size in feet, the model was made in metres, meaning they were dwarfed by stone slabs three times taller than expected. Which band was it?
Spïnal Tap
Black Sabbath
Marillion
Magnum
3 Which headliner had their sets at Reading and Leeds in 2010 cut short when promoters pulled the plug?
Arcade Fire
Blink-182
The Libertines
Guns N’ Roses
4 The festival – originally the National Jazz Festival – ran at several locations before settling in Reading in 1971. Which of the following racecourses has never hosted it?
Windsor
Epsom
Plumpton
Kempton Park
5 Among the acts appearing at the 1972 festival were Genesis. But how much were they paid?
£30
£175
£1,500
£3,000
6 What did Donita Sparks of L7 throw at disgruntled audience members in 1992?
Her bottle of water
Her guitar
Her pet labradoodle, Patti
Her tampon
7 Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners provoked the crowd into their traditional pastime of throwing bottles in 1999. What clothing was he wearing to so anger his audience?
A T-shirt bearing the legend “Slough. Miles better than Reading.”
A full-length coat made of wild mink fur
A white dress, stockings and suspenders
Nothing, apart from a leather codpiece with a flashing red light on its most protuberant point
8 Which was the first hip-hop act to appear at Reading, in 1991?
De La Soul
Public Enemy
NWA
Third Bass
9 Dave Grohl has played Reading and Leeds approximately 254 times. But which band has he never appeared at the festival as a member of?
Them Crooked Vultures
Nirvana
Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
10 After the Leeds leg of the festival moved from Temple Newsam to Bramham Park, the owner of the Bramham estate said the extra revenue would enable him to undertake renovations and improvements. Which of the following was he able to do?
Add a white tiger to his private menagerie
Install a two-thirds size replica of the Trevi fountain
Fully restore the property’s 16th century watermill, and open it as an agricultural heritage museum
Replace the urns at the cascade ponds
