[peel] Re: Help needed dating a Peel Show

[Phil Edwards]

Thanks John.
I'd forgotten all about that site.
I didn't go to the 1969 Bath Festival but I was at the 1970 one (plus the
IOW 1970 festival).
Apart from the amazing lineup of predominantly West Coast American bands
plus Pink Floyd's debut of Atom Heart Mother, which included a complete
Welsh male voice choir and a finale which involved "Vary Lights" (distress
rockets floating down on parachutes), illuminating the entire field, a
significant moment (in hindsight) was the fact that I went to the festival
with Malolm Owen (of The Ruts), who I'd only met the previous night and
whose father drove us down to Shepton Mallet for the festival.
Incidentally, a local councillor I know, currently lives in a row of
Victorian cottages in Hayes (about 300 yards from the old EMI record
factory), where most of The Ruts used to live and on the end wall of this
terrace, in 3 foot high lettering is painted "RUT ROW" (well she's a bit of
a "hippy chick" and appreciates the significance).
Phil


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Sent: 30 January 2009 17:21
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Subject: [peel] Re: Help needed dating a Peel Show


  A bit of a frisson hearing this show 1968 clip. It's only 9 years
  before punk, but seems worlds away. Always had a soft spot for Nice's
  version of America, and it's great to hear it introduced on its first
  release by Peel. I recall seeing them play it live at the Bath Festival
  in 1969 (for photos see
  http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Nice-69-bath.html) complete with
  Emerson's knife attack on his Hammond organ. Now that really is worlds
  away - "Any problem if I bring a bunch of knives on stage and engage in
  a frenzy of stabbing?"