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Durham Dome Festival, County Durham.UK June 22nd 1975.

Photos from 1975 festival © Garry Marsh

Sunday June 22 1975

This was the first Domefest that I was involved in, more as a helper than anything. It was a fabulous day for a festival with a good turn-out.  There were 4 Domes – in size order Stage, Pacific, Bindu and Small – the first and last were plastic covered.  The larger domes were a real pain to assemble, and this was the last year that the Stage Dome was used as there really was inadequate space under it to turn bands around rapidly.  A small budget was available to help with the band’s costs, I am not sure where that came from. Many other contributions were donations of time or loan of equipment.  I think the external funds dried up after this year, hence local only bands after this year.  You will see that we had a visit from the Durham drug squad – I remember that we announced this from the stage once they had been spotted – as far as I remember no-one was arrested, so obviously their presence had had the desired effect of ensuring that no-one was stoned (not).

(Got there about 4 o'clock so I missed some bands and don't know who they were)
In order of appearance -
Arbre
Global Village Trucking Company
Hedgehog Pie
Isotope
Steve Brown Band
To be honest, this is the only one that might interest anyone outside the North East cause the next 2 were local bands only. I don't know why they stopped booking non local bands.

all images in this section © Mike Tasker

Hedgehog Pie

ze drug squad ( those in leather jackets, very Sweeney !).

puppets in small dome

Isotope

Globs bus

dismantling the stage....