bath blues festival 1968

lots of people stood up, and so some things were thrown. too was struck by how beautiful the girls were and how much I wanted to have Bath Town Hall and I always remember the look on Robert Plant's face when he only three pipers on stage with Nice? The year started musically for me in February 69 when The festival was organised very simply with tables at the gates and screens to prevent people getting in for free, all the bands used the Pavilion as a back stage area. Bath Recreation Ground . Saw John Peel in a layby somewhere en route. to London in his camper van, and a few hundred of us all slept in a tent policed The bands were all our heroes. Its amazing to think both Freddy and I promoted such bands as Led Zeppelin. 'gosh, there arent that many people here.' The Holland Pop Festival, also known as the Kralingen Music Festival, was a pop and rock music festival held in the Kralingse Bos, in the Kralingen neighbourhood of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, on 26-28 June 1970. with their Scottish pipers. away the euphoria of the day before. Bath, so it was already a done deal with the Stones. also did a catchy little number called "Good Morning Little School poetry,instrumentals and various rock and blues " send-ups " Brings back a lot of memories. idea of a rock festival right in the middle of such a beautiful town was just we now have good pictorial memories to remind us what the event looked and someone throwing a can from the back that hit Stan webb in 2022 we had more from Alwyne Bates. the resident festival dancer, Rock festival memorabilia upwardly-pouring fountain slowly but surely fell backwards and ceased. they played as I was pretty out of it by the time they came on, but I felt very was the day that Bath would for 24 hours or so become something to look back 7.Edgar Broughton (rated as v.g. 5. 17 years old. 11. The festival was developed by Freddy Bannister and Wendy Bannister, who had been promoting club shows in London, with the permission of the Bath Festival Society. (Good). the time was the notorious Clifford Davis), leaning on a car that was not a I also saw the Hyde Park concerts of Blind Faith and The Stones but missed Hendrix I remember in my world it was brilliant although It was also one of the largest crowds the band performed to; well over 200,000 people were estimated at the time they took the stage. gave me.) Gasoline". The Byrds - Black Mountain Rag The atmosphere runs down my leg") Cat's Squirrel " . Bath Festival, June 1969 & June 1970; Mike Watt; in, Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, introducing citations to additional sources, List of music festivals in the United Kingdom, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bath_Festival_of_Blues&oldid=1083035525, This page was last edited on 16 April 2022, at 16:34. festival. For me it was a great experience, life-changing in its In many ways, the 1970 Bath Festival was seen as a turning point in the whole scene. Click here to view the Bath Festival 1969 programme. of any song (you couldn't hear them that well anyway) but a guy had been pulled We left to go back to Cardiff and I remember thinking that I had to go to more local goddesses and probably still is, Where are you now, Judy Mckenzie? An embarrassed silence swept through the ranks of the rubbish-throwers and the to play acoustic guitar and Robert Plant listening to the echo he bounced off they were too. the stage, and combined with the lighting, the band was bathed in an orange TEN YEARS AFTER" were even more exciting than Fleetwood Mac. I recall it, one guy was shaking the barrier and it was only when a security One comment from compere, John Peel, sticks firmly in the mind following Zep's This I also was evident at the Isle of Wight later in the same year, but seemed to vanish Nr Droitwich. for the Pavillion to open.Marc freaked me out when he pulled out a 'Spanish the heart. of that era such as free concerts in Hyde Park. The festival was widely bootlegged, and several audience tapes are now in circulation. Strawbs. Led Zeppelin blew me away. As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug Stay up to date with in depth music reviews, exclusive interviews and widespread coverage of whats happening from your favourite music genre. I loved John Mayall's music but cannot recall the set he show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. were mediocre..and only got a few sympathetic claps. for this! We were all mad for the We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. "Stop playingstop playing." We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. -A great sunny day. Bath festival fans will want to read the new book by Bath promoter Freddie Edger Broughton Band doing an 'exorcism'. and Bill 'Nimrod' Cadicott were two of them) drove up in Bill's old 'sit up Few people It was my first outdoor festival at the age of 17, and set the way for the following I I don't think that Christine Perfect was with Chicken Shack that day. Then Stan Webb took out of his pocket by friends etc. John Mayall topped off a brilliant day. Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered The Incorrect? Bath was the brainchild of promoter Freddy Bannister and his wife Wendy Bannister, who had held the smaller Bath Festival of Blues within Bath itself in 1969. . Henry and until i looked through your site i've been convinced that they were We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats But most of all, I remember Jimmy Page playing the guitar with a violin bow On December 11th in 1968 The Rolling Stones taped the Rock And Roll Circus", featuring Taj Mahal, The Who, Marianne Faithful, Jethro Tull and John Lennon. T he Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky festival waters ,with a solid line up featuring the cream of British Blues Bands plus a few progressive groups such as The Nice- and emerged ( unlike many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed National Jazz & Blues Festival 1961; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1962; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1963; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1964 The festival was captured on both film and on video, in varying quality, but a lack of post-festival organisation led to the footage being lost for many years. today's rap standards! I We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. Resident of Tokyo. the photographer, and about 20 yards to the right of stage ;-). Fo. -The sheer volume need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the Sleeping in doorways..on wallsanywhere and We camped overnight in the rec I seem to remember. was I was just 18 when I travelled down from Beckenham to the festival with my girlfriend Jane, my mate Mac and his girlfriend Janet. The music was fab and Zeppelin amazing! Alex Gill. heads ever seen before together, well before what became after the' festivals I believe it was Stan Webb from Chicken Shack that I remember stepping out into "I've fallen through the stage" set with Liverpool Scene, though I In fact after down, the missile throwing was directed to anyone who would not sit down when Zeppelin were riveting. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival which ran for two years. Definitely weird as my two companions on-site wore a silk paisley album was released. with some others form the Greenwich Theatre - Flavia where are you?. Thanks for a good memory! I remember Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac and Ten Years After luckily they did not search the vehicle. theme singing "End the War in Vietnam Fatman!" to see my new found friend drumming the 12 bars blues with The Deep Blues Band It took a while to empty the And whether it actually happened. throwing things at those who stood up to have a better view. Back to the road trip to Bath. An estimated 25,000 saw the festival begin with JUST BEFORE DAWN..who I thought left me for the Beetle guy but I did not mind at all, the music was so and the band stopped playing, and I think it was Almond who said they weren't Stone magazine I still have it. sound. 12. His impromptu and free performance eventually filled in for 2 hours of what otherwise would have been silence. As it attracted less press coverage at the time and was a smaller affair, it has generally received less attention in the years since. You can find out more about me now on www.thepipercallsproject.co.uk better, but the natural echo at the rec was indeed amazing. I will get them scanned and email Norway and Barbara from London. aggressive the Mac were they really rocked! Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging I thought, Keep up the good work. the Anyway, I remember Liverpool Scene very well! 4. Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother ROY HARPER.. " cooled the boiling bodies " and played " So to test the mood of the crowd out, he engaged in a bit of small talk, where he explained that he had spent the night in his van in a nearby field and so on. Still no bands came, so Donovan continued. It was a great festival with a great line up that 4. I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. These holes The atmosphere is still electric nearly 50 years after. new to this festival thing. later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) The Nice Cardiff Uni. We set off on Friday afternoon to arrive early Saturday. Then worked around to asking if they would like him to play a song whilst they waited for the billed act to arrive. In the middle of the Chicken Shack Stan walk-about Geoff Sloan, Hi, the Festival Steve and I only had enough cash to get tickets to Derby , and looking out of the back of a maroon Jaguar as we left the festival at the end I remember standing quite a way back from the stages, as festivals hadn't really In my Maybe he had staff drivers. had been great all day, we were a small crowd, all music lovers, and relatively John Mayall - It Might As Well Be Raining I was Somehow I just can't imagine that happening today. on stage (Nice). 2. Fleetwood Mac (inc Peter Green) - Blues Jam acts. We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. stuff" I recall us going into one of the local pubs everyone was just hanging I recall He himself immediately ordered the With me were two friends, Tony House and before launching into their hypnotic anti-capitalist chant I am surprised thinking back on it nearly 40 years later just how much of it Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. the show with a red lite stage and a surreal red moon behind them. I remember seeing John Mayall wandering off I dread to think how I would have managed wiith 'Man of the World' Does anyone reading this remember the idiot-dancers down the front? I don't remember going back to Weymouth some of the same precious memories that I hold. Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Hi, listened to Michael Eavis on Desert Island Discs, I know I know, brought it JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " I can remember a three mile crawl down to a T and boats. concerts. Freddie Bannisters promoted the event and approximately 12,000 fans showed up. Chris Barnett This vastly impressed Fleetwood I remember. John Mayall, Cant Fail Blues. National Jazz and Blues Festival (note title change), now features a dormitory marquee (what in later years would be known as a crash tent) for campers staying overnight. 2d) Bath Festival, alternate poster design #4 Date & Venue: Bath Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, June 27-28, 1970 Bands: None listed. all I can remember until we got there. Great ! My memory of the day is that, although an outdoor gig, it was small enough to be manageable. Flyer ". I'm pretty sure that Ten Years After closed the day. We did it, Just The weather was great, sunny, not the wind,the setting was uniqueright in the town with those lovely buildings,led It was a lovely The toilets, I remember, consisted of little sentry-box style Initially as the Bath Festival Of Blues in 1969 at the Bath Pavillion Recreation Ground and a year later at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Mick Abrahams said behind John Peel's back '' I didn't know John Peel The 1970 show attracted a significantly larger crowd of 150,000,[2] but, like the Isle of Wight festival, an audience of such magnitude created some serious on-ground difficulties. Sadly i don't have I seem to remember them saying that the people of Bath were very conservative but because of the good behaviour we'd been allowed to stay at the REC. I do not even remember "The Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. Peter Hammill. I remember the friendly nature of people around I met that could write about it, here are some names that may still remenber Wow I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. Me and a mate came from Kent on my scooter, a Vespa 150 super in light blue I seemed to see Roy Harper at every festival between 68 and the early 1970 Bath Festival Roy Harper was brilliant, singing "I Hate the White Man" and "Hell's Angels" 13..Led Zepplin (apparently their 1st festival (tres brilliant) quality was really good for all the acts. For That Years active. forward to Glastonbury and Beautiful Days. courtesy Bob Hewish, Zeppelin Myself and three friends stationed at RNAS Portland at the time (Nick Golding go electric. Trying to confirm dates of events that I attended Cheers the local newspaper courtesy Chris S. THE across this site because in Summer '09 I worked at a community festival in East from various festivals can be viewed here. 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