Music : The man whose Coldplay Pyramid Stage hat was sung about by Chris Martin during Glastonbury set speaks out on “mind-blowing” experience

A man who had his Coldplay Pyramid Stage hat sung about by Chris Martin at Glastonbury has described it as a “mind-blowing” experience.

During the ‘The Jumbotron Song’ section in which Martin picked out people in the crowd on the giant video screens, he spotted fan Alex Maguire and started singing: “I wanna thank you my brother / You could have been at somebody else’s concert instead / But you showed up here this time of year with the Pyramid Stage on your head.”

During the section, he also put the cameras on Michael Eavis and Michael J. Fox who later joined the band onstage for a performance of ‘Humankind’ and ‘Fix You’.

Speaking about being picked by Martin, Maguire told BBC’s Inside Glastonbury series: “It was mindblowing, absolutely just wow. Although I think he might have seen it on social media from my tweets and stuff, I just wasn’t really expecting it. It was just, yeah, incredible really.”

Maguire has designed a headliner-themed hat for the past five years, and he said his current design took about a year to create.

He added: “It actually got knocked off my head during the performance so I’ve made some adjustments with the superglue I had in my tent.

“I work in a supermarket so I’m a pretty quiet person but Glastonbury is an opportunity to be expressive and that’s what it’s about.”

Following his performance with the band, Fox also described performing with the band as “fucking mind blowing”.

In NME’s four-star review of their Glastonbury set, Andrew Trendell noted Martin’s words about the festival: “I look around and I see so many amazing wonderful people from all over the place, and that’s what makes Glastonbury the best city in the world in my opinion,” he offered, honouring “the most peace-loving, love-making people” that make up the Glasto populace. He admitted that Coldplay had “stolen so much of the ethos of Glastonbury’s vision”, and as a result they become “a band of 100,004 people”.”

He continued: “Will Coldplay top Glasto again? Five more times? Who knows? Martin revealed a few years back that the band planned to stop making music in 2025, telling NME they had a plan to make 12 albums; now number 10 ‘Moon Music’ is coming in October. There’s a question mark over the future, but tonight was a good crack at making history with a set that felt like home.”

Elsewhere, Martin was mocked by fans for an apparent accent change during the performance with one fan saying he sounded like the “voice of a crap 1970’s TV detective”.