.Ecclesden Common.
Worthing
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Ecclesden Common. Worthing |
"Fairground"- The Phun City Inflatable.
The blow up tent Spike mentioned
in the View from the mud section , was an inflatable dome myself and friends
took to festivals (free and otherwise) between 1969 and 1972. It was 50 ft high
and 100 ft across and with a fair wind could get 1000 good folk inside.
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organisers liked having us on site because most of them had a music curfew
on stage of 11 ish but we could play, being "inside", all night.
The dome , called FairGround, had a team of 25 unpaid but happy labourers
who all played some instrument or other and who lived all summer on the
road with the dome: they spent most winters mending it ! I am glad you have memories of the light show and particularly flattered that you describe it as a "different universe" inside. Apart from a lot of hard work that went into producing interesting all night gigs, the lightshow was designed by Phil Vaughn and Roger Dainton: their main claim to fame is their design and construction of the neon sculpture over the Hayward Galley, built at that time and still going strong today. |
The Fairground dome inflated © John Bloomfield
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The machinery was built to amazingly
tough standards by Peter Wynne Willson, founder of WWG, the leading lighting
innovation company of today: it seems old hippies don't even fade away......by
the way, instead of payment, the crew played a two hour set every night . Their
band name was Cosmic Wreckage: no record deal was ever forthcoming.
John Bloomfield
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Memories sweet memories
- Recollections by attendees
- Recollections by attendees pt 2 new March 2012
- Fairground Dome- new Dec 2004
Band Photographs
Publicity and underground press articles.
Recordings of Phun City and band details
