Glastonbury CND Festival 1986 saw performances by The Cure, Madness, Simply Red, The Housemartins, The Waterboys, Pogues and Level 42. Tickets cost £17 and 60,000 attended.
A Classical Music tent was introduced curated by John Williams. This year saw Ruby Turner Live at Glastonbury as part of the BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert series. Tracks 17 ("We're Not Deep" – 2:24) and 18 ("Me and the Farmer" – 2:58) of the Housemartins' Live at the BBC were recorded during their performance. Latin Quarter played at Glastonbury Festival 21 June 1986.
The GLC provided had formed the Workers Beer Company, which was given further contracts by Tony Hollingsworth for Glastonbury in 1986 and 1987. It has continued to run festival or concert bars ever since including 2008 at Glastonbury. Half Man Half Biscuit's first single, "The Trumpton Riots", had topped the UK Indies Singles Chart in 1986, and they went on to perform at Glastonbury this year.Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980–1989, Cherry Red Books,
Pyramid stage FridaySaturdaySunday Psychedelic Furs Ruby Turner The Pogues The Waterboys That Petrol Emotion Amazulu Howard Hughes and the Western Approaches The Cure Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Black Uhuru and The Wailers John Martyn Loudon Wainwright III Latin Quarter Buddy Curtis and the Grasshoppers Gil Scott-Heron Level 42 Madness Simply Red Robert Cray Christy Moore The Housemartins
Stage Two FridaySaturdaySunday The Ariwa Posse The Go-Betweens 3 Mustaphas 3 The June Brides Flairck Phranc Pauline Black & the Supernaturals The Forest Hill-Billies Fission Brothers The Potato Five The Dream Syndicate Half Man Half Biscuit Ted Chippington We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It The Nightingales Frank Chickens Andy White The Brilliant Corners Zinica The Wonderful Kiosk The Bloodfire Posse Rent Party The Woodentops The Mighty Lemon Drops Billy Bragg Sambatucada Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Microdisney Loudon Wainwright III Terry and Gerry
References
External links BBC at Glastonbury 1986