Yahoo News Coventry woman wins free Glastonbury ticket on Zoe Ball's Radio 2 show
A Coventry women won free tickets to this year’s Glastonbury Festival after participating in a quiz on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show with Zoe Ball. Katie, who said she last went to the iconic festival in 2002, will be off to see Coldplay headline again 22 years on.
Katie answered three questions correctly, including an obscure one in which she guessed correctly that the free item festival attendees got with their ticket for the 1970 edition was milk. After the winning question, she gasped with elation saying to listeners “Can anyone who knows me look after my kids so we can go to Glastonbury?”
At the time she went on air, she said she was laid up with a chest infection and praised her husband Gary for looking after her. She said she waited in a phone queue along with hundreds of others to win the tickets and said she’d been keeping her husband up to date with all of her progress
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She narrowly beat out other contenders including Sheila from Wales, who lost out after failing to tell Ball what Glastonbury’s Stonehenge replica was made of. Sheila had said she’d been trying to make it to Worthy Farm for years, but had been thwarted by poor internet connectivity.
The lineup is stacked this year with a mix of old and new, with Coldplay returning for their fifth headline appearance. Alongside them are US R&B singer SZA and UK pop sensation Dua Lipa.
Joining them on the Pyramid Stage will be LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, and Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti, alongside others. On the smaller stages, musicians to watch will include electronic artist Peggy Gou, whose hotly-anticipated debut album dropped on June 7 after a slew of EPs over the past five years.
Likewise, Jamie XX will grace the Woodsies stage armed with new singles in anticipation of his new album ‘In Waves’, his first studio album in nine years. The 35-year-old electronic producer, who came to fame with his band The XX, has been in hot demand after his solo show at Alexandra Palace in September sold out within days. Another night has been added since.
