Two of the biggest rock concerts in the British festival calendar have banned...pineapples.
Yes, this year Reading and Leeds have announced that the jolly fruit is on its banned list, along with weapons, fireworks, drones and glass.
Anyone who's been to either festival will probably be a bit flummoxed by banning pineapples over, say, bringing your own bath to crowdsurf in (Reading 2000, the same year some asshat crowdsurfed into the back of my head giving me concussion but HEY! I'M NOT BITTER) but it's actually to do with one band in particular.
Fans of Glass Animals, from Oxford, bring loads of pineapples to the band's gigs in tribute to a lyric from their song 'Pork Soda' – "pineapples are in my head".
Fans not only bring their own fruit, but wear pineapple accessories, and in some cases dress up. The band's Glastonbury set featured a stage decorated with the fruit.
Drummer Joe Seaward told the BBC that it would be a "challenge" to get in with pineapples.
"Anyone who wasn't bringing a pineapple definitely is now," he said. "It's fruitist. Watermelons are fine, but not pineapples?"
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People were wondering what pineapples had done to be banned alongside weaponry.
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Fans loyal to other festivals made pass-agg digs about the pineapple ban.
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While Glass Animals were praised for furthering the cause of this noble fruit.
A spokesman for Reading and Leeds Festivals said: "Organisers were a little concerned about hundreds of pineapples turning up on site so decided to ask fans not to bring them along."
He added: "The tongue may be slightly in cheek on this one."
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