Radiohead's 1997 Glastonbury set voted the best festival gig

Radiohead's 1997 Glastonbury headline set has been voted the best festival gig in a survey for the Sony Ericsson Proud Galleries. Queen at Live Aid took best gig ever. The vote launches Living the Moment, an exhibition of photographs and sounds from famous live-music moments, which opens today at Proud's gallery in the Gin House at Camden's Stables Market and runs to 28 August, with the results on the walls beside the photographs.

In June, on the eve of this year's festival, Radio 1 listeners voted Radiohead the winners of a Glastonbury special on Colin Murray and Edith Bowman's show, which looked back over five decades of the festival. That month The Times also put the 1997 set on its shortlist when it asked readers for the gig that changed the world, alongside the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club and Bob Dylan going electric.

Radiohead headlined the Pyramid Stage on Saturday 28 June 1997, in the mud, 12 days after OK Computer came out. Yorke's monitors failed early in the set and “Talk Show Host” fell apart and ground to a halt; Chris Hufford, the band's co-manager, told Mojo he thought Yorke was close to leaving the stage. They played on, from “Lucky” at the start to “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” at the end.

From Thom's perspective it was one of the worst gigs of his life. But then at the end, seeing the crowd's reaction, they'd obviously had it away.

Chris Hufford³