Your First Festival?

[ska invita]

Spoiler

Take That!!!

 

[DaveCinzano]

My first festival was in 1974 at the third Windsor People’s Free Festival. Notable for being closed down violently by the police half way through. The only band I can remember was Gong. Interesting, slightly scary at times and then very scary at the end (the festival that is, not Gong).

You might have caught an early Richard Madeley moment

I used to be in a pop duo called Alchemy and played the illegal 1974 Windsor festival. We channelled Simon & Garfunkel – unsuccessfully.

Richard Madeley: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Alan Partridge comparisons’

The TV presenter, 66, talks about teenage car crashes, packing in smoking, how he became a journalist and why taking yourself seriously is daft

www.theguardian.com

 

[isvicthere?]

Not sure if I´ve already posted on this thread, but this was mine.....

 

[isvicthere?]

Not sure if I´ve already posted on this thread, but this was mine.....

In the spirit of the (then still recent) festivals of the late 1960s, they sold 125 000 tickets, but 250 000 turned up. It´s still, and is likely to remain, the largest crowd I´ve ever been in.

 

[Chilli.s]

Stonehenge 79

 

[Elpenor]

I went with some people I vaguely knew to the Sunday of V97 when I was 15. A lift from someone’s mum (mine perhaps?)

Remember seeing a very early Stereophonics, the end of Placebo and Foo Fighters. Had to leave before the Prodigy as I was getting picked up. Also definitely saw The Driven as I remember them playing a song called Jesus Loves You More If You Can Drive. I’ve never heard of them before or since though!

Looking at the lineup not sure I saw the best of what was there but I suppose that’s true of most festivals.

 

[Sasaferrato]

In the spirit of the (then still recent) festivals of the late 1960s, they sold 125 000 tickets, but 250 000 turned up. It´s still, and is likely to remain, the largest crowd I´ve ever been in.

My biggest was Barclay James Harvest at the Reichstag in Berlin. Saturday 30th August 1980. 250,000+.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

You might have caught an early Richard Madeley moment

Richard Madeley: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Alan Partridge comparisons’

The TV presenter, 66, talks about teenage car crashes, packing in smoking, how he became a journalist and why taking yourself seriously is daft

www.theguardian.com

Luckily for me, any encounter I may have had with Richard Madeley's Alchemy has been permanently erased from my mind.

 

[weltweit]

The only festival I think I have been to was Stonehenge back when it was a free festival which you could just turn up at.

 

[isvicthere?]

My biggest was Barclay James Harvest at the Reichstag in Berlin. Saturday 30th August 1980. 250,000+.

Wow! We´re talking about our first festivals, but BJH was my first ever concert on (and I can remember it without googling) 5th October 1975 at Southampton Guildhall. It´s interesting that, despite the UK music press declaring "prog rock" an irrelevance circa 1976-7, a band like BJH could play to such a large crowd several years later.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Wow! We´re talking about our first festivals, but BJH was my first ever concert on (and I can remember it without googling) 5th October 1975 at Southampton Guildhall. It´s interesting that, despite the UK music press declaring "prog rock" an irrelevance circa 1976-7, a band like BJH could play to such a large crowd several years later.

BJH never got the audiences in the UK that they deserved, but were huge in Europe.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Reading 1980. All I remember about it is that Slade replaced one of the advertised bands and they were bloody brilliant!