The Festival
"In 1995, The Lemonheads' Evan Dando missed his slot at the festival due to rock star excesses. Arriving late at the site, he attempted to force an impromptu acoustic set on a crowd waiting for Portishead. They were vastly unamused: Dando had to be removed from the stage for his own safety. It remains a solitary recorded example of coffee-table trip-hop fans erupting in a livid wave of anger - the musical equivalent of assistant librarians rioting."
Ami found this fine piece of festival writing in The Guardian today. I was one of the aforementioned coffee-table trip-hop fans and remember this event well. "Evan-fucking-who?" were I believe my exact words at the time as I tried to cope with having fought my way through an unexpected sea of Portishead aficionados only to hear a solo unknown (to me) guitarist's drivel.
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