You know when you're in the crowd at a festival, enjoying your favourite band and you just think "ah, bollocks, I really wish I'd brought my pineapple"?
Well, if you don't, because you clearly remember your fruit, you best be prepared for it to happen if you're going to this year's Reading or Leeds festivals.
The BBC reports that organisers have listed the spiky fruit as one of the things banned at the festival sites, alongside fireworks and weapons. Annoying, really, if you wanted to eat a pineapple while sharpening your tomahawk as you let off fireworks.
Glass Animals fan as a pineapple at Glastonbury. Credit: BBC
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The band Glass Animals are reportedly responsible for the fruity ban as fans usually bring pineapples to their gigs as a nod to the song 'Pork Soda'.
The song has the lyrics "pineapples are in my head," which apparently comes from Dave Bayley, the frontman, overhearing a conversation a homeless man was having during which he said: "Pineapples are in my head," according to Paste music magazine.
"Anyone who wasn't bringing a pineapple definitely is now," drummer of the band Joe Seaward said about the news. "It's fruitist. Watermelons are fine, but not pineapples?"
"Organisers were a little concerned about hundreds of pineapples turning up on site so decided to ask fans not to bring them along," a spokesman for Reading and Leeds Festivals said. "The tongue may be slightly in cheek on this one."
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Credit: PA
Die hard Glass Animals fans can sometimes be seen dressed as pineapples at their gigs, as well as there being decorative exotic fruits on stage. There's no news yet on whether or not these will still be allowed, though LADbible have contacted the festival's representatives for comment.
If you're going and want to know what you can and can't take, here's the full list:
- aerosols over 250ml;
- airhorns;
- alcohol in the possession of under 18yr olds;
- all gas canisters of any size (including nitrous oxide);
- any goods for unauthorised trading;
- any goods with unauthorised Reading/Leeds logos;
- any items which may reasonably be consider for use as a weapon;
- audio recorders;
- Chinese lanterns;
- excessive amounts of alcohol;
- excessive amounts of cigarettes;
- excessive amounts of food;
- fireworks;
- flares;
- generators;
- glass bottles, jars, containers;
- illegal substances;
- psychoactive substances - including nitrous oxide (formally legal highs);
- megaphones;
- portable laser equipment and pens;
- sound systems;
- unauthorised professional film or video equipment;
- unofficial tabards and reflective jackets;
- unmanned aerial vehicles (drones).
Topics: Festival