![]() The Pink Fairies play onstage in the nude, the MC5 fly over from Detroit. Publicity in IT said: ‘Get your end away at Phun City’. 3,000 people (or maybe 10,000, depends who you read/talk to). Actually it originated as a semi-commercial event, but went wrong before the weekend began. Phun City free festival organised by, among others, self-styled White Panther Mick Farren (‘a one man tribe’, according to Richard Neville) for underground paper International Times. Another free concert by Pink Floyd, also Roy Harper, Edgar Broughton, and experimental jazzers Robert Wyatt and Lol Coxhill. State governor attempts to have rock festivals banned following drug-related problems among 200,000 crowd. Hendrix, Procol Harum, Johnny Winter, BB King, Jethro Tull. The 212 acre site is planned to cater for 50,000 festival-goers in the event three times that number turn up, leading to 15-mile traffic jams round the site and overflow campsite. ![]() Somerset dairy farmers Michael and Jean Eavis-remember this the next time you’re broke and want to get in to Glastonbury-sneak in through a hole in a fence, without paying. The Pink Fairies play on the back of a lorry to the free festival that’s formed outside. A transatlantic bill featuring Led Zeppelin, Johnny Winter, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, the Byrds (playing an acoustic set), Country Joe, and John Mayal with Peter Green. The second Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970 © Terry Farebrother Source: UK Rock Festivals ![]() A festival which widened out the range of entertainment significantly: rock groups, but also a circus and fun fair, film shows and clothes stalls. Hollywood, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. ‘There was a row with BIT, the Underground Information Agency, because the NJF wouldn’t give them a tent’, writes Jeremy Sandford. Five stages show rock and jazz bands, poetry, also street theatre, stalls and side shows. Following the now very small annual Easter CND march, ‘Festival for Life’ held for 20,000 people, to protest against war in a conscious development by CND of festival culture. A commercial event, featuring Hawkwind, Edgar Broughton Band, Atomic Rooster, Third Ear Band, Kevin Ayers.Įaster. ![]()
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