Hole founder and also the former guitarist of the band, Courtney Love, took to her official Instagram page today and recalled the days she went to see her old-time friend and late British star of The Clash, Joe Strummer.
You might check out the Instagram post of Courtney below, she shared the rare cover-footage of New Musical Express’ ‘Glastonbury 99 Special Issue’ and also added some on-stage photos with the cover.
While Courtney exposes the story of how she took British military helicopter to visit Strummer and his bandmates, she also admitted that after that trip, she became addicted using helicopters to go festivals.
Here is what she wrote on the caption of the post:
“1999 Glastonbury- flew in with Stipe. We’d spent a few days in London which is why I wrote his home state of “Georgia “ on my stomach, My forever peach. I wanted to see my old friend Joe Strummer and his band play.
We were in a British military helicopter🚁, I loved it! I took helicopters to festivals after that. (We’d) played big U.K. festivals before but I was in better health that year.”
She continued:
“I felt a lot of spirit and happiness move within me and my band and can remember it vividly .. really being transported to giving myself over to that fantastic, smiling crowd. 💖 Feeling like I’m doing the one thing I truly love which is to deliver the message whatever form that takes within. You have to have a lot of confidence to hit that Glastonbury main stage.
I remember lots of girls rushing the stage and dragging them up, and tolerant, nice security guys there at the farm. It was so fun and pretty, and the sun went down over that massive crowd. You really feel you’ve met your destiny up there. #glastonbury.”
You can check out the latest Instagram sharing of Courtney below.
