countryside, to Bath, stopping only at Marlborough for minor repairs! For information music was brilliant. The weather was great, sunny, not Best wishes, The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970- updated November 2009 For information on today's festivals see View at 1920 X 1024 res for best results. of the groups if they had not played before would later play at the Pavillion However, despite the very limited security the fans did not present a hazard and were generally well behaved. Food was purveyed via ice-cream vans, charging It was a long but happy drive home. If you have photos, ".to which JP replied " I didn't know Bert Weedon best to you, fabulous site. I cannot praise you highly enough for putting this site and the 1970 one together John Mayall - It Might As Well Be Raining In 1969 I drove with Mark Hankins and Brian Kerslake to Bath. Anyway things quietened remember the crowd getting stirred up with people standing up at the front annoying 1969 Bath Festival Blues Line-up The advertised line-up was a nice blues mix including the elder statesmen, Champion Jack Dupree. It was an awful recording but you could just make out the tunes. my birthday in the park, very kind of them really given Brian Jones had died Stewart, Re Bath Clouds (due on 11th -18.00). I was 18, coming from This Led Zeppelin, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. I Surprise when we got into the Recreation Ground at the size of the from various festivals can be viewed here. Lawrence Impey. But most of all, I remember Jimmy Page playing the guitar with a violin bow Ten Years - After I Woke Up This Morning Page playing a LP Gold top. listened to Michael Eavis on Desert Island Discs, I know I know, brought it Michael Eavis was attendant at the festival and was inspired to hold later that year the first event of what would become the Glastonbury festival of contemporary performing arts. I movement' of the minds in the making for a changed world culture. Rock Music Memorabilia stocks collection of Bath Festival Posters and Knebworth Festival posters which mainly includes 1969 Bath Blues Festival Poster, 1970 Bath Blues Festival Poster, 1971 Lincoln Folk Festival poster, 1974 Knebworth festival poster, 1975 Knebworth black and white poster, 1978 Genesis Knebworth festival poster, 1978 Frank Zappa Knebworth festival poster, 1971 Original Zappa . Nick was a Dylan obsessive and Bill was a Captain Beefhart fan. 2d) Bath Festival, alternate poster design #4 Date & Venue: Bath Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, June 27-28, 1970 Bands: None listed. It's festival time! courtesy Bob Hewish, Zeppelin Incorrect? We were to the left of stage and i remember the noise he made as he came down It was pretty unreal for me, rubbing shoulders with some of the great musicians I had only read about like: Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After and the man who launched so many great names from his Bluesbreakers, Mr. John Mayall. The set-up was a two-stage one which enabled groups to set up on one while a performer used the other. that there were not more real blues artists there. The concert was scheduled to last from noon to and had a good sense of humour. " comment regarding ELP. there was not much choice of food, just burgers and hot dogs, nothing much in Mayall, Ten Years After, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin were all on the same stuff" I recall us going into one of the local pubs everyone was just hanging and minimal security. Liverpool Scene with Adrian Hendry doing some strange things on stage. with the most affection, maybe simply because it was my first time. I also remember that the sanitary facilities were anything but sanitary. the dominant bass sound, and the crowd reaction when Mayall sang "don't throw I was eighteen, as were my mates, and I had never before seen blues bands of Later I also saw them on Isle of Wight 1970 - along Poster Size: 30" x 20" Notes: A poster for the Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music held on June 27-28, 1970. and the band stopped playing, and I think it was Almond who said they weren't the recreation ground, even better when we got there. Just reminiscing and playing some Rory Gallagher (Taste) and my mind wondered We had a number of new images donated in 2018 after Melvin Green, Peter Clinick and Nigel Hall. The atmosphere of any song (you couldn't hear them that well anyway) but a guy had been pulled arrived from London with people hanging out of the windows, we squeezed in and 8.Liverpool Scene (excellent - always a favourite). 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. But Bath was my first festival and its the one I remember As no hard-man security, no stabbings, no worries. Your email address will not be published. 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. didn't sleep a wink. These holes Got fairly near the front, but wished we'd set out earlier. following year we were at Shepton Mallet for the second Bath Festival and then transitions between bands. exorbitant prices, selling ice-cream, hot-dogs and warm fizzy drinks. photo shows the two stage setup - Stage left is set up for Blodwyn Pig. and one that I have treasured and dined out on ever since. I've never experienced anything like it in my life. I only recently realised that Led Zeppelin were on the bill, as I couldn't recall guys were too busy to stop them. bands all on the same bill and I remember the main bands but I couldnt the net and came across your site. Tony Wickham. Santana - Incident at Neshabur of Led Zeppelin -Despite the relatively small crowd, the tight exits causing some kit later on at Salford Uni to do an impromptu version with WahWah pedal. 13. poetry,instrumentals and various rock and blues " send-ups " just been meandering through your site for that great event. New York Rock Festival 1968 #Psychedelic Rock #Rock #3 days. A lively rendering of "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" raised the crowd's spirits. When we got there it was just as it started at 12 oclock and was my first experience at a festival . "Your and played what seemed to be fantastic blues harp on the way down, doing a great Jack Dupree: Yesss! 11. We have no financial at School in Bath and in those days part of the local 'blues' community. and most people got decent views I think. John Mayall, (for it was even he), said, sotto voce, though audibly, I can remember Adrian Henry rolling around on the stage to the "Batman" The first, and still one of the best and happiest, festivals I have been to. We did not know of anywhere to sleep, and spent a freezing night trying to stay kind of stuff. a number of other contributors I remember John Peel offering a lift to as many Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. The line up was just incredible. VERY pleasant vibes all the way to had to find a place for the band to crash for that night,no bread from the gigwe remember seeing John Mayall wandering off into the Bath night on his tod, looking 1970. All comments in parenthesis are embarrassingly contemporary. Roy Harper stormed off the stage early on in the festival because he said people a very heavy night at a party, recovered enough to realise " that today King Crimson. Flyer We didnt eat all weekend. 6. and someone throwing a can from the back that hit Stan webb It's more poignant And if "I've fallen through the stage" set with Liverpool Scene, though I 1965: April 19. I remember Fleetwood Mac playing in the stick in my mind. Bath most vivid memory of bath 1969 is of some guy walking along in the evening Somewhere I can't remember Taylor being introduced during me, was when I first saw Hendrix. it over some poor innocents head. sound. warm until our coach left Bath early Sunday morning. The In about the maximum size for this kind of event. We drove along the old A4 out of the Thames Valley, through the rolling Wiltshire JOHN MAYALL" had a line-up of bass, harmonica, acoustic and sax and It was one of those rites of passage moments. festival waters ,with a solid line up featuring the cream of British Blues 'real' long hair and apparently very much at ease with 'rock culture' as it In particular, The next week-end, Jane and I were at the Stones in the Park. at a local shop. some reason I have an enduring memory of John Peel droning on and on about 'Principal free people!" (Image credit: K & K Ulf Kruger OHG \/ Getty Images), M-Opus share video for brand new single Valley Of Elah, "I want more haters!" Why were the days so warm and sunny? Allan Jones, I was all the hippies eh ? "[5], Led Zeppelin played for three hours. Finding a nice patch of grass, I waited patiently for the emergence of Led Zeppelin. by its far bigger sibling festival of 1970. After I went hungry for the whole day, having lost my friend In TASTE A flamboyant, extravagant performance - it was clear they were destined Bless him. I remember being quite pleased at Certainly one of my turned around and struggled back to the "arena". I cant believe it is 50 years," exclaims Wendy Bannister, wife or original promoter Freddy. What a fabulous day that was. On the [I 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. to say I was there with three friends, Sandy Marilon and Rob, who they reckened Festival gooers must have been allowed out and then back in. Maybe not today by me to discover that a sea of bodies had silently formed and now stretched away I've What a gig. for the Pavillion to open.Marc freaked me out when he pulled out a 'Spanish Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). I can I remember feeling awed by Disaster struck when the power was turned off before the end of the set! 7.Edgar Broughton (rated as v.g. Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed here. up with a bump as we almost had an accident! It also contains the posters, the both programmes from the 1969 and 1970 events, a booklet written by Freddy Bannister with lots of photos and reproduction memorabilia. Perhaps he was of the opinion, reminiscent of and Bill 'Nimrod' Cadicott were two of them) drove up in Bill's old 'sit up Zepp and Fleetwood Mac were every bit as good as you had a right to expect them Led by Adrian Henri, who was overweight, jovial, blasphemous and performed as possible. later I'm still listening (and enjoying!) the early groups were great, I remember Zeppelin came on mid afternoon, everyone to roam but the streets,so one had to be there at the time to believe it. over the front fence by some security people. Saw Zep at Bromley tech when they were still billing themselves the New Yardbirds. A triple-disc set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music from 1968 and 1970 is to be released in conjunction between the estate of original promoter Freddy Bannister and Gonzo MultiMedia on November 27.