The BBC reports that the festivals have banned the fruit because of planned performances by Glass Animals. Fans of the band are known to bring the fruit to gigs as a reference to a lyric in the song ‘Pork Soda’ that says, “Pineapples are in my head”.
Joe Seaward, the band’s drummer, responded to the ban by saying: "It's fruitist. Watermelons are fine, but not pineapples?"
Seaward thinks that fans are going to take this ban as a challenge and try to sneak the contraband fruit in anyway. It is not like anyone has snuck things into a festival before, right?
A spokesperson for the Reading and Leeds Festivals has commented: "Organisers were a little concerned about hundreds of pineapples turning up on site so decided to ask fans not to bring them along.
The spokesperson added: “The tongue may be slightly in cheek on this one."