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Pete Lawrie's Glastonbury Security Gate Tour

• 30th Jun 2010

As well as playing a host of gigs at last weekend's Glastonbury, Pete Lawrie and his band also performed an impromptu Security Gate Tour on Saturday night – driving round the Glasto site in a borrowed Land Rover and playing to all the volunteer security guards and stewards at a number of the festival's gates.

A member of Pete's band filmed a couple of these impromptu performances and the footage is available to see now. One of the stewards remarked that she'd worked at Glastonbury for 10 years and it was the first time an artist had done anything to say thank you. 🙂

Here's what Pete had to say:

“Glastonbury was a right royal hoot. Searing heat and amazing as always music. We played in a tent called the 'Rabbit Hole' on saturday afternoon (a sauna). It was a joy. Three grown men cried when we played 'Jimmy…' (might have had something to do with the heat coupled with two solid days hard drinking) but nevertheless. On the Saturday night we embarked on an impromptu tour of the festival perimeter. Playing a song or two at each stop to the volunteers, who parade the lonely gates all hot day and night with little or no thanks. We filmed it. I apologise for the grainy footage, but it was midnight after all…”

Pete Lawrie releases his new single 'All That We Keep' on the 16th August.