Thanks for putting this video on. My girlfriend and I arrived on the Saturday night, (we have been married now 52 years) slept in my old Hillman Minx on those cold leather bench seats bought tickets for Sunday and Monday was woken up by two policeman Sunday morning knocking on the car door window when I wound it down, they asked have you mashed. Remember somebody giving up a straw bale for us to sit on I was a big Joe Cocker fan and still am, seemed to wait hours for Joe to come on although he was off his head still not a bad performance. I was so tired when driving home in the early hours had to pull over before I fell asleep. I will always remember this festival with great fondness great memories of the time when life seemed much more relaxed and tolerant.
My friend and I also survived the weather in those paper sacks. We were 17 and hitched from Bristol. Nice to see this video and be reminded. For me Joe Cocker was the highlight, with Leon Russel on piano and other amazing musicians. The Faces and Wishbone Ash also stick in my memory. Got wet thru, slept in a puddle but it was one of my earliest adventures so of course I loved it.
I was there £5 for the weekend, a guy from work said he would take 8 of us from Folkestone to Lincoln for £5 each total £40 crammed in a mini van. Only a 2 berth tent between us, when we got there we had no tent poles 😂 but what a fantastic weekend. 1st time I see rod Stewart live and I’m still going to his concerts to this day 😊😊👏👏👏
I also was there. We arrived on the Friday evening just as Rory Gallagher took the stage and left on the Monday without seeing Joe Cocker so that we could get back to Manchester in order to be in work the next day. We enjoyed most of the acts but the biggest surprise for me, and most of the audience, was Slade who were previously regarded as a bit of pop fluff. They were booed onto stage but by the time they finished they had won the crowd round and received one of the biggest ovations of any act at the festival. They certainly surprised me and I became a huge fan.
I was 14 from Leeds. Got a ticket to Doncaster and hitched form there with a school friend. Got picked up by 2 19 year olds in a mini van. Luckily they had a tent and let us kip in it if they didn’t pull. First night we were in the woods with the hippies playing bongos and singing. Didn’t have a ticket so tried to get in through the fence as holes appeared. Could hear the dogs on the other side of the fence. Luckily next morning got cheap tickets of people leaving because of the wet. Mostly stayed inside the fence after that as they had put loads of hay down so you could make a nest and keep warm. The music was great. Got left in Doncaster by the 2 lads and kipped in the bus station with other hippies. Police came and asked them how old we were but we stayed hunkered in the sleeping bag so couldn’t see us. Next morning got bus to Leeds but didn’t have full fare so feigned sleep at back of bus. Hell of a trip for 2 14 year olds but great fun. Felt safe too. Happy Days
I was their, 17 , female , thumbed it from saltburn- by -the-sea, yorkshire. Tree of us were the last ones in an empty field , a reporter rattled our tent to wake us . The field was full of loose hay bails and the reporter suggested we pack up quickly as the hay had caught fire near the stag . Was wonderful, remember all the food tents and the blowing soap Suds from a fan up on the scaffolding. People running and sliding through the suds. Then the fun all weekend of someone shouting ' has anyone seen Wally? ' people shout back and forth , 'not yet' or ' still looking ' inches the middle of the night . A scream I FOUND WALLY!. BY Sunday, tee shirts , pants pocket, etc Where's wally ?written everywhere. So much fun . The silent movies and the running lit message board . The music was great. What a time to be alive !❤
Absolutely incredible and impossible to reproduce such memories. Im a Yank and was living in London and chose not to go. Now hearing all of these stories makes me wish I did.
I hitch hiked there from South essex with three of my friends. On the way I slept overnight in a haystack. It poured down all weekend. Somehow the tent poles for our 2 man tent (there were 4 of us to share that tent) had got lost on the way so we found some tree branches to hold it up. No separate areas for tents and the audience then, we simply camped in the arena. All in all a fantastic time to be 17years old.
I was at this brilliant event as a 18 yr old. My 1st festival. I loved it. No tent or sleeping bag ( unless you count a 50p spud sack!)to sleep in! Can’t eecall taking food or drink! Saw some superb bands. Straw and tents in among ‘hippies under plastic sheeting’ 4 days of bliss.
Elsewhere Don Powell of Slade talks fondly of this festival, it is interesting to see both performer and punter look back on a one off event. Sha na na are a force of nature and show stealers. What a bill ! Slade, The Beach Boys, The Faces, Joe Cocker and Sha Na Na. Thanks for sharing.
I was there for the full 4 days (which all seemed to roll into one) with my friend Ivor, a week before my 17th birthday, both up from Leamington Spa. I also had a combat jacket and a threadbare army backpack full of tins of soup, beans, etc., etc. donated by mother. Because of the rain, I and the backpack got soaked, but as Ivor had bought a small bottle of whiskey for the train journey, I didn't really notice. As I was right up front gazing up at Vinegar Joe, the bottom ripped and all the tins fell in the mud. Being a bright spark, I just turned the backpack around and filled it back up through the tear hole. I still had several tins left on the last day and threw the contents into a huge cauldron of something more or less edible that a few other guys were cooking up over an open fire while everybody else was leaving. I lost my mate Ivor in the crush at the entrance right at the start and didn't see him for 2 days. By the time we met back up, I'd grabbed some of the plastic sheeting on offer and a whole pile of intact hay bales that got delivered and built a shack up against the currugated tin fence directly opposite the main stage. With straw on the floor, and the sheeting as a roof it was real dry and comfy. Although I can only remember a few of the bands, I can recall the moment that the straw bales got ripped up and thrown in the air by the audience, after which the mud got a bit more tolerable. Sitting in the bus station on the way home the woman behind the counter said I still had some in my hair. I got a free cup of tea. Ivor however, was forbidden to see me afterwards. No idea why, but some parents were still wierd back then. I for one have never forgotten this epic battle in the swamp. PS: I also remember the foam bath we all danced in! On a serious note, I cannot forget Don McLean saying that as many Americans had died in Vietnam as there were people sitting in the audience.
Stephen what an excellent story! I think the weather was more memorable than the bands. I think I remember the straw fight, but I may have just read about it. It's great how many people remember a few crazy days over 50 years ago. We didn't have Woodstock but we did have Bardney! Amazingly some of the artists are still performing, I saw Roxy Music last year and they were fantastic
At least the police prevented the overthrow of the British established order and the founding of a national anarcho syndicalist commune, when they arrested the hippy with his large block of cannabis. Thank God.
Mate it sounds both amazing and horrifying at the same time. Rain, what a surprise. Lots of fun though and so many memories. I’m a Yank that was living in London at the time. The idea of big festivals did not appeal to me. Not Woodstock or Monterey Pop or even Altamont. I preferred seeing these bands in smaller venues and my friends and I had worked out a ploy to see them all for free. The Rainbow, Marquis,Roundhouse. Hammersmith or even Royal Festival Hall. We saw almost all of those bands except the Beachboys. I never did see them live and I’m a Californian. I did however see Cream at the Whiskey or Fleetwood Mac the Peter Green version at the Shrine Auditorium or The Yardbirds at Santa Monica Civic. How many people can say they saw all that talent at one venue. You can. Thanks for sharing your experience and I hope I didn’t bore you with mine. I just got excited watching this video on RU-vid.
I drove up from London on the Saturday in the firms van with 4 other drivers I worked with.. This was the best festival ever with haybales as backrests and a relaxed atmosphere. Ross from New Zealand
Great that you've made this film Tim, thank you! I was 15 when I rode up there on my friend Roy Jones's motorcycle all the way from Rayleigh in Essex. We found a hollow tree in a field and spent the night in it after taking scaffolding onto the site to help with the stage construction. The following day some Hells Angels got our bikes in for us too. I was a bit of a rebel back then, it's fair to say, and they were interested in the bikes we had. Anyway, it may have been wet and cold there, but it was incredible fun. Anyone remember the giant foam pumps they brought in to clean us up with? I also recall that a local community hall had very kindly been made available for some of us to spend the night after the downpour made it almost impossible to camp out. I can't recall which night it was, but it was much appreciated. During that decade, I attended many other three day festivals after Lincoln, and as a consequence, I've seen some pretty amazing acts and incredible artists. It was good to see this!
Roy I'm glad you enjoyed my film. I hung onto newspapers and the programme for 50 years, and finally put them to good use. Its great to read your memories
Thanks for this video i was at the festival and still talk about it today the original poster i got with the tickets food vouchers etc is framed and hangs in the hallway. When i got to the festivial site the sign painter was still finishing the entrance sign. I have visted the site few times and the Bardney station cafe who have alot of photos of the event. Great memories and great video .
I got a call from Johnny walker on the 40th,had my 2 mins of fame on radio 2 ,he was not to impressed when I said I liked the Persuasions acapella group most from that weekend , just the way it was,I hadnever seen or heard anything like that before and it just stuck with me over the years.
I was there ! ( as Max Boyce once said ) with my mate Dylan and two others. We were taken to Bardney by coach that originally set out from Leicester, we were the last two to be picked up in Melton. I seem to remember it raining most of the time, we lived like pigs under plastic sheeting and some straw bales, I don’t know where they came from, they just appeared. I don’t remember being cold, I must have spent the whole four days / nights in my RAF greatcoat and loon pants. The “ food” was outrageously expensive, a hotdog was about £2 and we were eternally grateful to the Salvation Army for doling out free soup. I also remember the machine spewing out foam, Hell’s angels and the ever present smell of patchouli oil and dope, Monty Python …….. Oh and some music. Who the hell is Poxy Music I said . Somewhere in our house, there is a threadbare white T shirt with Bardney Lincoln England on it.
I was there with my mate. Got under the fence so didn't pay went on to Butlins Skeggy. Met a couple of birds from Bolton. Hitch hiked back to Brum. Great times.
I was there and I recall really sunny weather - unlike Bickershaw - and Slade stick in the memory as we were tossing hay all around like an old fashion pillow fight. My memory can't be that wrong surely?
@anitahewitt2626 it may be whilst the Beach Boys were playing, but it was definitely sunny. I am glad you confirmed I got that right! Odd though, I remember the sun but not the rain - hmmm!
Travelled from Bangor North Wales in a former bread van.6 of us ended up sleeping in said van after our tent blew away.There were regular,polite knocks on the van from people wanting to buy bread. Bands were great despite weather-Slade,Beach Boys,Lindisfarne probably stand out. Great film brought back happy memories though I have lost touch with my fellow bread-van travellers.
I enjoyed listening to this nostalgic romp through time your summing up of the groups pretty spot on with the Slade coming out on top they really did know how to entertain bit of a lost art now. Thanks its good to reminisce.
Yep, I was there too when I was a student at Edge Hill. Drove my lovely girlfriend all the way home to Hampshire, then back up to Lincoln in a day ( in Black Beauty, my ancient 1955 Austin!!) . It was well worth the effort - great days!
Hi Tim, so weird! My first big gig I went to was also at the Boston Gliderdrome to see Yes.29/1/72, a friend and I hitch hiked 90 miles back home to Thurnscoe through the night in 6 inches of snow! Yes I was 17, young and daft.Brilliant! Then I was at Bickershaw festival getting wet through,but what a line up awesome!! Then like yourself I went to Bardney, I totally agree with you,a great weekend loved it rain and all straw war,foam quake Slade STC with Steve Howe,does not come much better Thanks for the video,good memories,PS GOD BLESS STANLEY BAKER.
Thanks Steve, clearly we both have good taste. I met Rick Wakeman once when I was working at the BBC. I bought him a cup of coffee and talked about the Gliderdrome, he had very fond memories of it.
Thanks for posting. Memories of festivals back then tend to blend together but the constant rain at Bardney still stands out for me. I have seen heavier storms and damage and much more mud at other festivals, but never such continuous rain. It's hard to remember how totally unequipped we used to be back then. Traveling 100's of miles across country with a few quid and a cotton sleeping bag on a bit of string. Plastic sleeping bags covers and capes were available on site though and we spent almost the whole weekend under plastic. On the Saturday afternoon a load of straw bales turned up and we were able to build some quite sophisticated shelters with them and all the plastic. I think there were one or two scary fires though. Agree about the Sha Na Na set being so good. I also enjoyed Wishbone Ash with their multi guitar sounds literally "Blowing Free". Gallagher excellent as ever, Faces pissed as ever. Oh...and the Persuasions.
…”hard to remember how totally I equipped we used to be back then”….but character forming and fun.. a pleasant relief from the corporate and (Un) inclusive events that dominate the INDUSTRY these days?!! 😂
Great video, I was 15 at the time and went to the festival, great music, but the weather was appalling, highlights were Rory Gallagher, RoxyM, Slade and Shannana, I also remember Dom McLean doing American Pie.
Great Memories Tim. For me and my mate Colin as well. We were 16 and we got there on the Friday afternoon, by train and bus from Wolverhampton. Didn't have a tent, just army and navy Trench Coats and a piece of plastic, straw bales for seats and bedding. Some acts we remember , so many:- Rory, twice! Humble Pie, Stone The Crows with Steve Howe, Wishbone Ash, Atomic Rooster, Vinegar Joe with Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks, Lindisfarne, Slade and Status Quo (Foam and Hay 'fights'), Sha Na Na, Don Maclean, Steve Goodman, Strawbs, Nazareth, Monty Python were superb, The Beach Boys singalong :0), Genesis, Roxy Music(early gigs for them), The Persuasions, Focus, the Faces were not very good, Alexis Korner with CCS, Buddy Miles, the wonderful Dr Isiah Ross, and from the folk tent early Sunday? Hamish Imlach was fantastic, Boys of the Lough, not sure if Anne Briggs played or not? John Peel kept us all sane❤✌ All the very best to all who were there, Steve
Wow you have a great memory for all the different musicians that performed! I have had some great responses to my little film, it has really resonated with many people. Thanks for your comments
Thoroughly enjoyed this Tim. I was out and about walking the Bardney Limewoods and visited the sites of Tupholme and Bardney Abbey. Great to learn more about the history of the area. Did you know King Aethelred of Mercia is buried at King’s Hill on the approach to Bardney Abbey? All the best.
I was there all 4 days - took the Friday off from school (Queen Elizabeth’s in Horncastle) got banned from the cross country team for doing it - I was in my last year so I didn’t care. Had a fantastic time - got soaked and frozen - I’d forgotten what a great lineup of bands there was til I watched your video 👍
Richard I was at QEGS as well, I had just finished my O Levels. Geoff Leach clearly wasn't a roll n roll fan. Pearl Wheatley is still going strong, but she probably didn't appreciate Joe Cocker either!
Hi Tim - I was finishing A levels and then in September I left for Art College in Sheffield so I was basically done - saw some fabulous bands at Sheffield City Hall - it was Mr Rush the woodwork teacher (and cross country coach) who banned me - good to hear Pearl is still going strong 👍
I hitched up from Weston super Mare a few days before the start and got a casual job cash-in hand building the stage - most of the money went to the pub...or the 'dealer'! We slept in a disused farmhouse on the floor. Of the actual festival I remember little....even my favourite bands are a blur now. But Genesis made a vivid impression - it was the first time I had seen them, and Peter Gabriel in his bejewelled collar, and batwings in the opening 'Watcher of the Skies', I saw them several times subsequently, but this stays in the mind. Oh, The Beach Boys....which I hadn't expected to enjoy, were magical......John Cleese in an anachronistic dinner suit insulting the audience was hilarious. I was lucky as I had a pass for the press area....and a straw bale to myself....luxury! I often wonder what happened to my mate Bill Martin with whom I went....get in touch if you read this!
Arrived Friday night - the weather was dreadfull, our tent got blown away in the night everything got soaked . Had enough by Saturday afternoon so went home for some comforts
Always interested in this festival always Amazed that anything like this EVER happened in Lincolnshire A couple of side notes there was the spalding Springfield’s event where Jimi Hendrix and pink Floyd played And the mentioned Gliderdrome is still going it’s a great venue with a HUGE amount of history behind it
I was there. Borrowed a tent from the school's Duke of Edinburgh scheme. Tried to waterproof it, but all we had was lard. It did the trick, but ruined the tent. Rory Gallager was my highlight. He replaced Helen Reddy on the Friday night, then did his own set on the Saturday. I remember Dave Hill from Slade cracking a joke about all the hay bales, brought in to try to soak up the mud. He said 'If you get arrested for throwing hay, we won't bail you out' This resulted in hay being thrown all over the place. By the time The Faces came on we were wet, tired and hungry, and at the back of the field. When they started buggering about with a football, we had enough, and headed for the gates, along with several 100 others. However, the gates were locked and we couldn't get out. Security guards were on the walkway above the gate, and the occasional beer can being thrown their way turned into a torrent before we were let out. Lucky it didn't turn really nasty. A really good weekend that I still talk about.
Robin thanks for your memories. Rain and hay bales are a common thread in all the stories! The Faces were renowned for their less than professional attitude i.e a bunch of piss heads! Rod Stewart has just got a new album, so it didn't do him any harm.
@eltimbola19 i refused to go an see him since then, until a few year ago at Manchester where we had a great time in a party atmosphere. We went again a few years kater at the Lytham Festival, and guess what? He was pissed again. He said they had been celebrating the end of the tour. He could have waited.
I remember a singer from Sha Na Na coming to the mike and glaring at us, then snarling "I've got one thing to say to you FUCKING hippies............." (wild cheers from the audience) before the band went into Rock and Roll is Here to Stay. Priceless!
brilliant video, i was a mere 7 years old then, i wish i'd been old enough to go to festivals, many of the bands i would subsequently gravitate towards played at them, pop music was great back then, slade and the faces pleased everyone, top of the pops types and rock festival fans, a golden era, people forget how good music was in those days as the narrative now tells us that it was mostly rubbish until punk rock(which i enjoyed and spawned some great bands) came along, not true!
I can't believe that line up ,all my favourite bands . Also ,I'm from London and a mate bought a house in Horncastle in the late 70's or early 80's for 2 grand ,a house !
I had to buy one of those dreadful potato sacks to sleep in as I'd neglected to bring even the most basic items for a four day banky weekend in a Lincolnshire field. Luckily for him, my mate Plumbob had the common sense to bring a tent groundsheet and sleeping bag for his comfort, as well as a toothbrush and toothpaste. After two days hanging off the high-security chicken wire in front of the Main Stage, (diggin' the sounds man), I almost passed out from hunger and got dragged away to the food zone to recuperate. A "Mr. Submarine" Sub, better than any 21st Century Subway crap-in-a-bun, and a bag of green apples, sustained me for the rest of the event. Rory Gallagher on Friday night risking life and limb in a thunderstorm, John Peel as MC, a practically unknown Whispering Bob Harris on health and safety tannoy, Saturday's massive Hay Fight in front of the main stage, Monty Python, Faces, Beach Boys, Don Maclean, Plumbob nearly drowning in the Foamquake, Slade slaying it, Cocker inebriated but note-perfect. The Jesus People in their painted Double-decker... Good-Friday night, until the wee small hours of Tuesday morning. Late-nite movies on the main-stage screen. They don't make festivals like they used to! No hint of World Food, Caffe-Lattes, posh bogs, wellies or disposable festival gear. Them were the days. Roughing it in a wet field for four days to hear amazing music. Glad I did it, and boy did Plumbob's Mum do us proud, with a huge roast dinner after we got back! I did need a bath though to be honest...
@eltimbola19 Good for nothing but spuds they were... you had a lucky escape! I've still got my Sounds floppy freebie record, too. My only tangible souvenir. And the memories of course.
I would have brought my umbrella and been quite happy . This was when Rod Stewart was important . Crazy lineup of stars both famous and obscure . Even one of the Bonzo Dog Band showed up .
Nice one Tim, it would be another five years before I started finding music events like Stonehenge and random happenings and my first gig was seeing the lesser known, but hard slogging Budgie a few years later.This is a great piece of our music and cultural history and good to hear that the rock n roll spirt of Sha Na Na and Slade ensured the entertainment quality was high ! Thanks for sharing.
Myself and two mates went to the fedtival in 72, i was 19,went in my1965 mini van,i had only passed my test in the March. We left on the Friday late afternoon, got lost many times and ended up staying the night in Newark on Trent.we left early on the Saturday morning and eventually got to the festival site.It was awesome I'd never seen so many people.we had a programme and picked the groups we wanted to see.I was a big Rory Gallagher fan and was gutted that i had missed him, but never the less we saw many groups.we went to see Stone The Crows,it was very sad for us being all from Swanses, we went to see them in the Top Rank when poor Les Harvey was electrocuted a few weeks before.it was terrible.i was with my new girlfriend then(later my wife) and we were all upset,he was the younger brother of the great Alex Harvey.
Alan thanks for your story. I didn't know Stone the Crows at the time, but later I became a big Alex Harvey fan. It's the 50th at in May, I hope there will be some coverage in the media
Thanks for posting…. I was almost 18 at the time and living with my parents In Norfolk so I could have got there fairly easily. I was, and still am, a massive Rory Gallagher fan so I would have definitely made the effort. Very interesting.👍🏻🎸
Thank you for doing this video and reminding me of all the bands I’d forgotten about. I remember Stone The Crows and Jon Anderson was on stage with them as well as Steve Howe.
I was 16, living at RAF Cranwell at the time, told my parents I was going on a school camping trip....; which was technically true as I went with 3 other school mates! We all went around the bedding shops in Sleaford and Grantham blagging plastic mattress covers to act as tarpaulins, and when you look at the pictures and video from the time the sheer amount of plastic sheeting is incredible. We had a crappy 2 man tent that we all tried to doss down in, but spent most of our sleeping hours in our great coats, shrouded in plastic and using the many hay bales on site as a mattress. ( Anyone remember the Hay fight?) No bottled water, so you kept your Corona pop bottle filled up from the stand pipes. The food was basic and expensive and I came home starving after 4 days away. But the music was great, Slade stole the show along with Sha Na Na and the Faces, who spent most of their set kicking footballs into the crowd. Roxy music were bizarre and produced sounds we'd never heard before, but the consensus was they'd never get anywhere......... Happy days! If you trawl around on RU-vid there's is a funny documentary from the BFI about the festival. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ql8rbw7htu4.html
I was there I was 18 every one called for Stanley Baker , stanly Stanly I remember Slades Nody holder saying turn the lights on the audience then came the beach boys, well after being blown away by Slade it was a hard act to follow
I hitchhiked up the A1 from Hatfield Polytechnic. For a Bristol Basedveteran of Glastonbury it was all very amateur. Thank goodness for the big rolls of plastic vendors. I had almost no money but resold fabric Badges in the crowd until i made enough to buy some good grass- which i was also able to re-sell in the crowd, under cover of selling the Badges. I was in the first wave through a hole in the front of stage security fence so was able to see Joe Cocker - i think Drunk as a Skunk, as you say being helped out of a large backstage armchair. I was unimpressed with him but the 4 women backing Vocals were Fantastic ! I still have a coloured-in Poster from this memorable Event.
Me and my mates were talking about this the other night, I recalled that at the time I was asked by some people I knew at the time through a pub I'd just started drinking in, did I fancy going as they had space in the van they'd hired. Inexplicably I answered NO!. I did see Wishbone Ash a few months later at Buxton, and others such as the Groundhogs, Budgie, Stone the Crows and Humble Pie a year or two later. But I still wish I'd gone, if only to see Rory Gallagher, one of the few artists I regret never seeing.
Thanks Tim for reviving the memories. I was there. Ever wondered where the song "Down Under" came from. Barrie's mum (who cooked for all the stars) she provided me with breakfast Afterwards she introduced me to Colin Hay in the back of his Kombi. I wrote the lyrics to this song , Colin composed an alternative version of the music Why I remember it so well I was conceived on my Mother's birthday May 26th 1948.. The universe does work in mysterious ways.
@@eltimbola19 Just for the record Tim I was doing some night work at the Aston Arms as Bar Manager at that time. Seven nights every two weeks. Bernie's watering hole when he was at home away from that other life.
My friends and I traveled up to the festival. We never made it into the arena, the weather was shocking. We drove back to London and saw the Roy Young Band. We were 17-18 years old, no plans, didn’t know what we were doing.
Thanks Steve, great minds think alike! I once met Rick Wakeman at the BBC where I worked and bought him a coffee. He had very fond memories of the Gliderdrome
Pretty neat stuff! I was surprised no British Invasion bands played the festival but I guess most of them had broken up by now except for the biggies who I guess would skip an event like this. No one has mentioned what the loo situation was; hey, as an old geezer I plan my road trips with rest stops in mind.
@@eltimbola19 Neither, they were Hungarian! They were "asked" by the Hungarian communist government to accept the invitation to play at the festival to give a good impression. They certainly gave a good impression! Gabor Presser (main man of Locomotiv GT) said "It would have been more than our lives were worth to turn the festival down - literally!"
My flatmate was there, he was soaked through, but tells stories of sha na na, humble pie and elke brookes. a good friend who plays bass with us, was also there, but he left on the saturday, coz of the non stop rain.
Nice work Tim, I remember going with Malc Stanley in his yellow beetle bug. I think it was more out of interest as not sure we actually gained entry. Your dad Rupert was a great teacher by the way got on very well with him.
A brilliant video recollection/presentation Tim. I remember the advert for this festival in the NME. I thought it looked like a really great line-up and particularly noted the involvement of Stanley Baker. As a teen, I used to fantasise about going to such an event, though the nearest I ever got, was a few hours standing about at the rather soggy, one day 1973 Clitheroe pop festival (headliners Stackridge).
I was there me and my mate Whizz Hitch Hiked from WARRINGTON all the way there and back,,Boy was it WET weather,, No Tent,Nothing,We stayed (slept in a large MARQUEE(at the back) giving out SECOND hand clothes )for two days,,l got a great fur coat,, Still got the ticket and programme,,And yes Saw Some Great bands,still going TODAY.,,,,ROCK ON,,,🥁🎸🎤🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵,,,,,p.s.I WANT TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE ME AND MY MATE(looking like two drowned rats.🤤🤤 A LIFT BACK THEN,,,,,no phones ,,sat nav,s,,no map just a sense of Direction Warrington to Manchester, then head for Yorkshire,,then to Lincoln then the Festival site,,,HAPPY DAYS......
