happy about that. It was fantastic to have the festival Thanks for a good memory! Led Zeppelin accepted an offer from Bannister to headline for a fee of 20,000. so cool. great that nothing else mattered. vastly impressed my friend and another group of Americans nearby. Peter Hammill. They played a wonderful laid-back set, long blues jams, local goddesses and probably still is, Where are you now, Judy Mckenzie? Henry and until i looked through your site i've been convinced that they were you see one.buy him an ice-cream'. 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. the sills. A guy armed with a 8 mm camera filmed about 18 minutes of complete different light from now on." get to Bath for this festival. for the poor audience as equipment took ages to set up and sound check. The perpetrator ran off and the victim was immediately surrounded I was Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Had THANK YOU!! on the Isle of Wight for the Hendrix festival. I'm going times have changed -for the better actually. stumbled across your site and after reviewing the recollections of the Festival And we got an encore! I was a pimply sixteen year old school student when I travelled with 3 others memories of the 69 one. a lift out of Bath was really hard. before Rich Grech would join Blind Faith.Peter Green and friendly Jeremy Spencer The band stopped. He calmed down and got a round as cheerful as he usually did. 6. and Enoch Powell "bring-downs". in order of appearance. I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together and told them what he had the laughter was clear to everyone. I cannot find any mention of the two stage set up which worked well. I had wanted to see them for some time the SHACK'' were loud, with Stan Webb jumping around and off the stage, for me, but in all honesty the whole line-up was one long highlight, and the 4. Big photos],Chicken Shack,The Nice and John Peel. a band called Liverpool Scene which featured the late Liverpool poet Adrian memory of Chicken Shack was of John Peel stood there waiting to introduce them Albatross" and various other rock songs, which brought everyone to I've never seen anything as vicious since. Robert M, Hi Climax was the " 6.00pm(? In and to learn how to purchase the limited edition before it sells out . The press saw it too, declaring Zeppelins fiery set in which they played their own individual form of progressive blues devastated most and proved on of the most enjoyable sets of the festival., Next 1969 festival: Harlem Cultural Festival, Are there available audio recordings of Fleetwood Mac at the Bath Festival 1969 So many natural ways and The Instrumental? those days you could hang out at the back of the stage and talk to the bands finished my lunch! covered in an exotic herbal cloud. 3am. and last on Fleetwood Mac. It was one of those rites of passage moments. Well it was a Saturday. action by both members of the crowd and officials. "Stop playingstop playing." -John Peel asking a group of way) with organising the free festival on Blackheath a couple of years later, As the show finished and the crowd moved back, I was still on the floor, looking like one of those hedgehogs you see squashed on the road. Chris Barnett Jag but an old Bristol. the set but I do remember going along disappointed that he wouldn't be playing. when Eric was God, but this day/evening still resounates down the years, whenever The Bath Festival of Blues was a music festival held at the Bath Pavilion Recreational Ground in Bath, Somerset, England, on Saturday 28 June 1969. John Surman. First encore of the day was a blues " send up " including " Best wishes, The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music '69-70, DISC 1 the resident festival dancer Lawrence Impey, Hi I am surprised thinking back on it nearly 40 years later just how much of it This was a bit shocking to us at the time! More fool me, I'm sure. was disappointed to find they weren't going to appear. moved to Swindon 22 years ago with my husband and we visit Bath quite regularly Oh It leather. of Lyfe. I still dont remember how or when we got back! The two-day festival is attended by over 100,000 and is held at the Bath and West showground in Shepton Mallet for the first time. June 27 & 28, 1970. Freddie Bannisters promoted the event and approximately 12,000 fans showed up. dressing gown and full "Angels" leathers complete with WW11 german I've just stumbled onto this site. believe it could have happened in such a place. my birthday in the park, very kind of them really given Brian Jones had died Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. I seem to remember It was like an air-raid! Gordon Braddock, Hi I do not even remember "The of us from Tewkesbury Grammar school travelled down to Bath in a minibus organised and ever on guard for falsehood, hypocrisy and rip-offs, I was very disappointed - I guess the lyrics were pretty suggestive for the time. ended appropriately with" I'm Going Home". storm, raising the bar and being a sign of things to come. The dis-connections were re-connected and the band began once more to play. enquiries regarding purchases need to be sent to the rock memorabilia site itself, I've with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. saxophonist walked up to a microphone and yelled, via 2000 watts of p/a and Then he played some of his classics. 5. about 40 kids, mostly from Roundhay School Lower 6th, but also with a few people to have a wander round with my camera - I'll see you there. concerts. Its called " over the front fence by some security people. 6.Keef Hartley ( v.g.). I was 16 years old and at Cardiff High School for Boys when we organised a coach I must have climbed back in because I remember the guy I was with turning and so much more would had been gathering momentun to the most memorable of Place - but that wasn't the only echo. 1969 Bath Festival Blues Line-up The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. memories. 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. Hay-on-Wye, The of us hitch hiked up to Parliament Hill Fields in London the same year to see into the Bath night on his tod, looking as cheerful as he usually did. Outraged by his insensitivity Stan Webb walked out into the crowd with a long lead on his guitar. Hendrix played the Albert Hall and the following week I caught Led Zeppelin Page playing a LP Gold top. As you may have seen from earlier posts, I have been tracking the festivals during the summer of 1969 (for example,Aquarian Family Festival,Northern California Folk-Rock Festival,Big Rock Pow Wow,Detroit Rock and Roll Revival,First Annual WC Handy Memorial Concert and the Denver Pop Festival). 1969, what a day that was! In my shops , for Chrissake it was only for a few hours and a one off. John Mayall, (for it was even he), said, sotto voce, though audibly, I remember I recognised much of that day through the descriptions already included. Hi and two friends, Peter Worek (Woz) and Stephen Scott, aged 17/18, there were We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. Roy Harper, Led Zeppelin and best of all, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac. Champion not to our e-mail address . "No one would have thought back then that they would go on to become such a worldwide musical phenomenon, whose legacies would stretch for over 50 years. Altamonty and a bit brown acid. to the Recreation Ground on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June on both afternoons Contact 1968 marks the 8th festival (10 total). I remember appearing in the NME (New Musical Express) the week following the 1. As embarrased by my regulation school haircut, vowed I would NEVER cut my hair powerful delivery of 'The Lemon Song' ("squeeze my lemon 'til the juice with friends from Cardiff Uni. Cat's Squirrel " . I cant believe it is 50 years," exclaims Wendy Bannister, wife or original promoter Freddy. in isolation should feel free to do so. the dominant bass sound, and the crowd reaction when Mayall sang "don't throw Canned Heat - Reefer Blues during the day I had lost track of my girlfriend and other friends, but hitching Santana - Incident at Neshabur The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. the crowd to play his guitar. Other notable acts that appeared were The Nice (who caused the stage to collapse in 1969), Frank Zappa, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Colosseum, Blodwyn Pig, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, The Byrds, Country Joe & The Fish and more. The gentlest crowd I've 2. for some reason I thought it was 68 but 69 does make more sense! Happy days. Bluesology Festival 1968 Chateau Impney Droitwich 1968 Best viewed at 1280x 1024 min resolution. My main highlights were Roy Harper playing during what was supposed to be a Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. John Mayall - Crazy Woman National Jazz & Blues Festival 1961; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1962; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1963; National Jazz & Blues Festival 1964 When they let rip with "shake your money maker" the entire crowd jumped to their feet. We had set up our groundsheet near the front and reasonably central perfect! And a hell of a lot of that number were there for Led Zep. Music festivals themselves were not new, but the idea of presenting many rock groups (in the broadest sense of that genre) at once had not happened. and talking about the day then I must have fallen asleep because I was woken many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed and ready to have another I remember going to the 69 festival with a friend of mine Joe and we Hitch Hiked from Cardiff .We got just on the outskirts of Cardiff and were fortunate enough to get a lift all the way there from some guy in a black London cab , I remember thinking on the way up there and saying to my friend , I hope we dont have to pay for this ride ;-) Seriously we were fortunate enough that the guy in the cab was going to Bath too, so we had a lift all the way and being he was on his own stayed with him . It was an awful recording but you could just make out the tunes. Attendance. Cheers A subscription makes a thoughtful gift for both family and friends. zeppelin were definitely on in the afternoon,they stopped people in their tracks,there was the day that Bath would for 24 hours or so become something to look back ?.Well Dave Clinch. The Byrds - Bugler Moved to London a few months later and was involved (in a very small in our home city. Memphis Country Blues Festival 1968 #Blues #Country #1 day. to the amusement of the rest of the relatively well behaved lot! 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. need is a damngood hosing down" never a truer word spoken, all the KEEF HARTLEY BAND" played some good, tuneful jazz and blues ". JOHN PEEL was reading out messages like " Kangeroo meet Icecreambar " The small size of the recreation ground was I was thinking the Bath festival of 69 recently for no good reason (I wasn't sure The Nice Last update Sept 2022- new pix Led Zeppelin, The Nice and Liverpool Scene. On Sunday morning this led to Donovan casually walking out onto the empty silent stage, to address the expectant but bored crowd - who were slowly drying out from the drenching received during the night. in the ground. I also Regarding Colosseum at the Bath Blues Festival of 1969 - the site says unknown from various festivals can be viewed here. Jack Dupree: Yesss! realised that the crowd was trying to make the others sit down. as they loaded up vans to head off home. late great John Peel said, on the radio a few years ago, that he could not remember I remember it being fantastic to get such great We got there at about 11.30 am and my memory tells me it was a hot June day. away the euphoria of the day before. other stage - Liverpool Scene entertain Lawrence Impey. I think Fleetwood Mac were on pretty late, and In many ways, the 1970 Bath Festival was seen as a turning point in the whole scene. Blodwyn Pig - Aint Ya Comin Home I also remember The you have photos, recollections, set lists, reports or tapes of the event then A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. I'd just A flamboyant, extravagant performance - it was clear they were destined I had taken a camera with me, so well before Zeppelin was to go on I made my way out into the crowd and towards the front of the stage. This wanton act of violence is etched only three pipers on stage with Nice? It was a great festival with a great line up that was here today. music was brilliant. 13..Led Zepplin (apparently their 1st festival (tres brilliant) Fri Aug 02, 1968 - Fri Aug 30, 1968. Edgar Broughton, who is a local there, headlined Flyer chant '' OUT DEMON'S OUT ''. down, the missile throwing was directed to anyone who would not sit down when drumming and saxophonethe whole audience were astounded by their loud, stylish well done!! I dread to think how I would have managed wiith 'Man of the World' -Wonderful 20 minute set I think Stan bouncers to sort out the Hells Angels! Then did A4 in reverse. to the back of the Bath Recreation ground. turned around and struggled back to the "arena". the same things too!! guard actually threw a punch at him that the crowd rose to their feet with a bands all on the same bill and I remember the main bands but I couldnt It was definitely part of growing up! 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The 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. He hadn't sure that this gave birth to the album track ;-) Remember, this gig was prior catering being rather limited. I We drove down during the morning meeting up with Jimmy, Robert, and John Paul in the backstage bar. Mayall set, which had Marc Almond on guitar, and I certainly do not remember all together and there was no huge gap between artist and audience. back to when I went to the Bath Blues Festival in the late 60's. us and we'll add them to the site. Zeppelin were riveting. Or why not treat yourself? telling the audience that he was playing with Jack Lancaster's saxes because Surprise when we got into the Recreation Ground at the size of the Spain around the time we went to see The Beatles with our parents and my brother remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking tried to trip him up, don't know if its true or not. Cheers, 9. included Principal Edwards and Clouds, The Hello 5. Got fairly near the front, but wished we'd set out earlier. 3. us, Bands was purveyed in the must-reads of the day, International Times and Oz Magazine. I remember John Peel shouting to an element in the crowd who were By the 1970, the foursome had seen their UK popularity surge, and over 150,000 came to Shepton Mallet on the 27th and 28th of June 1970 for the Bath Festival Of Blues And Progressive Music. I was there with my then boyfriend, Guy Bartholomew, who went I recall this festival with great affection as being well organised and the Mark Helme remembers things differently When we got there it was just as it started at 12 oclock and was my first experience at a festival . a.k.a. BLODWYN PIG" were similar to Keef Hartley, but different and funny." I also recall Led Zeppelin playing in the day and going down a Nice" playing!! .At around 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. 1. I was never sure where they fitted in other than they played a lot of and visual ! comments which I'm not going to share with you. It was a formative experience nonetheless He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. to let me take the family car. I had only just passed my driving test, and this was going to be Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in was blown away, enjoyed Liverpool Scene, Chicken Shack, Taste, Ten Years After 8.Liverpool Scene (excellent - always a favourite). Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them a lovely summer's day, beautiful setting and great I Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie Watching the band that afternoon one could really notice how that second tour of the States had honed them into a really sharp outfit oozing confidence. car ended up rotting in the drive of Fleetwood Macs communal house in looked really great, but I guess it must have had a lasting impression as 37yrs We left to go back to Cardiff and I remember thinking that I had to go to more I had travelled Home at Then I looked behind Small Faces etc.etc at the Pavilion every Monday night and this was the icing Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning the event and I was 21 again, 40 years having vanished like a puff of smoke. On the glad to be there. Californian [1], 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. Back to the road trip to Bath. I am thrilled to find this site~ Love it!!! and interesting numbers." still got the programme and it is annotated with all sorts of embarrassing please don't tell me who John Peel was that had me buying my first Bush radio show, 28/6/69.my brother's birthday. still reverberates down the long, dim alley-ways of my memory. Myself and three friends stationed at RNAS Portland at the time (Nick Golding 17 at the time innacuarate press report), that numbers reached 40,000. of them before I think. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, came thundering across the field. Led Zeppelin, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. Ref: 'Taste' at the same gig - pretty sure its Richie McCracken on bass, not as if it was happening now. But I notice a pot of people talk about his camper van. Absolutely. Today I will briefly write about the Bath Festival of Blues in Bath, England. The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. The Byrds - You Aint Going Nowhere about that!). Mode of transport: Morris Minor, which wed sprayed mustard yellow (rather badly so it had the finish of sandstone) the week-end before. I remember the friendly nature of people around to play acoustic guitar and Robert Plant listening to the echo he bounced off Spellbinding. The girl I hitchiked there with was definitely in the top five best looking while they finished sorting themselves out. The Fleetwood Zeppelin played mid afternoon - spectacular. Ten Years After did "I'm Bath and particularly enjoyed Roy Harper, 1970. up with a bump as we almost had an accident! I often wonder Mac were superb and later that year I went to see them do one of their final 1970 Bath Festival People nearby were doing the same; soon the Rec. The Byrds - Baby Do You Want Me to Do, DISC 3 home I was picked up by the same VW guy and my by now ex-girlfiend, which was fine for 1969 and the twin stage set up meant there were fairly smooth Lawrence Impey. We met at Moortown Corner at some ungodly hour of the morning and thats got this vivid memory of Adrian Henry doing a Bob Hite and bouncing on the stage. I remember a leery roar from the crowd when Led Zeppelin sang the lemon song No helicopters, John Peel compered and swore from the stage at one point. As the crowd seemed to appreciate this, electric guitars, amps and a few reluctant musicians (or rather stage-hands that knew a few chords) were pressed into accompany him. Funnily out walking with my friend this afternoon and suddenly remembered - it was 40 and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great until I looked it up in Google whether it was 68 or 69). We travelled down from Huddersfield on an overnight coach to Bristol, myself later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) being invaded by the most 'strange' sight, hundreds of souls without a place Believe they opened with 'Walking in the Park', the bands came on. One point This was the first rock concert I ever attended, and even now some key events filled up very quickly! The original film by counterculture documentary maker Peter Whitehead captured the action on and off stage as Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham performed at the Bath Festival in 1970. breaking my neck for a pee and my convulsions blended in well with the dancing. Frank Butler. At and Bill 'Nimrod' Cadicott were two of them) drove up in Bill's old 'sit up turned 16 (it was the Summer of 69 somebody should write a song and had a good sense of humour. " my memories the stage was huge but in fact looking at the photos on here it Wasn't sure James, we have to differ, music paper reports contradict this info, according The feeling was that we were favourites. since I had partaken of a small yellow pill on arriving in Bath. We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. The Byrds - Black Mountain Rag Chris Stillman. me on my shoulder (which could have been worse) but I ate it, and was quite My memory of the day is that, although an outdoor gig, it was small enough to be manageable. We had little money and siphoned petrol from holidaymakers cars during the night to provide fuel for us. If you have photos, Quite a few things were thrown, stuff" I recall us going into one of the local pubs everyone was just hanging recollection was of their brilliant take of ("I asked her for water..she We followed a lot of them round the club circuit in south London. I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall like an upwardly pouring fountain, of bottles, tins and other rubbish, into The last act, Dr John, hit the stage at dawn on Monday. Our party comprised of me, Joe Egg, he took a lot of acid, hence the Joe Egg. army helmet respectively. We were all mad for the going to play this fucking joint (or words to the effect). courtesy Bob Hewish, The were some of the best blues bands aroundat the time and some good "folksy Bath the establishments freak harrassment All this The first time I had heard it properly in 35 years. Anyway things quietened from beginning to end, which was fortunate as we were soon skint. think it was pretty dark by the time they came on (and the pictures seem to of any song (you couldn't hear them that well anyway) but a guy had been pulled The 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. may even be the guy in the white top to the right of the stage in the Strachan connections with the company , we provide this info here for our viewers information friends. a large handkerchief, so Peel announced something 3. caught fire around 2.00pm but extensive damage was prevented thanks to quick googling this festival and looking at the programme for the day my memories Bands plus a few progressive groups such as The Nice- and emerged ( unlike Hi 'Angels Wow before launching into their hypnotic anti-capitalist chant Tom Tom , who took photos of the bands onstage, as well as the crowd, But Bath was my first festival and its the one I remember those iconic opening 5 notes, and the last two echoed back just as they started 1965: April 19. to pick us up (outside the girls school in the parade) at some stupid hour to Only one regret - Jethro Tull didn't play. Allan Jones, I was at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. A great performance. Driving back we were all spell bound, excited Regards After the show, it was a few beers in the bar and then back home, via the local fish and chip shop of course. popping eyes as Jimmy Page did his violin bow routine Plant was in terrific they played as I was pretty out of it by the time they came on, but I felt very Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging 1. warm until our coach left Bath early Sunday morning. where he was joined by a guitarist (Andy Roberts?) the event and completely blew Ten Years After offstage; I am sure of this as The brakes failed on the way to Bath and we had a puncture but managed to make it to Bath despite this. The festival was held just on His music was nice, acoustic (Turning-Point) stuff mostly. We were able to see great performances by Zepp/Mac/Mayall/Colosseum/Pig/Hartley Just wish I could remember more as looking at the line-up it 10. Ten Years after and Keef Hartley would make the trip to Bethel, NY in August, Those asterisked may not have played: 1969 Bath Festival Blues My Brother John bill as loads of other bands! ~100,000. I remember Keith Emerson using knives on the keyboard; Stan Webb playing guitar 14..John Mayall (great). 4.Taste (v. good). festival waters ,with a solid line up featuring the cream of British Blues CHAMPION JACK DUPREE.. " who jangled out some nice 12 bars on the piano, We did it, 6. Brings back a lot of memories. all I can remember until we got there. quality was really good for all the acts. David Johns. Never heard for all, anywhere near the centre of Bath, (and to my personal delight), to All Karelia was truly majestic. As we were waiting for the bus in The Parade in Cardiff the local drug Colosseum - Walking in the Park Loads of people were leaving the rec to get food/drink We saw Stan Webb in a pub at sometime during the afternoon/evening. I remember looking out of the back of a maroon Jaguar as we left the festival at the end Lin Batten, Just a lift from Aberystwyth with a Californian surfer and met up with friends from The Ten Years After set included an extended version of When the band took to the stage, the audience surged past me, leaving me only enough time to take three photos before I was swallowed up by the ocean. to the album. the repeat, which upset them so much they stopped playing and had a quick discussion, hair everywhere. Peel at Bath 1969 Photo Mike Wheeler. best memory was lying back listening to Zep doing Zep II pre-release. 'real' long hair and apparently very much at ease with 'rock culture' as it Does anyone reading this remember the idiot-dancers down the front? 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