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Glastonbury Festival 1992,

This badge was given away to festival-goers at the 1992 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. 1992 was the first year of the NME stage; the badge reads: 'Glastonbury '92 // Behind NME Lines.' It is white with black lettering, and is a circular brooch-type badge. The museum acquired the badge from someone who attended the 1992 Festival, and remembered it being sunny and hot, so that the site was more like a dustbowl than the more recent 'muddy years'.

circular brooch type badge with pin; white with transfer printed black lettering

MERL OLIB database note – '1992 was the first year of the NME stage at the Glastonbury Festival, where badges like this were given away. Primal Scream were one of the acts that performed there. Seventy thousand people attended the Festival that year and the beneficiaries for the first tme were Greenpeace and Oxfam rather than CND.', MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) - 'Circular brooch type badge with pin; white with black transfer printed letter: 'Glastonbury '92 Behind NME lines.' // Given away to festival-goers at the Glastonbury Festival 1992. // ... Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. // The NME (New Musical Express) stage at the Festival made its first appearance in 1992. // Seller wrote: 'My memories of Glasto 92 is of it being really sunny and hot. As a consequence it was a bit of a dustbowl bacl then, quite a contrast to the recent muddy years! The Fall were awesome on the Pyramid Stage. I remember sitting on my mother's shoulders when Lou Reed played 'Sweet Jane'. Morrissey cancelled a couple of days before the festival and there were loads of disappointed Morrissey fans there.'

1992 - 1992