For
information on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk
The Archive.
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Created December 2008.
Updated Jan 2011
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NMA fan DW Green Reading festival 1989 © Pippi
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The Reading Festival. Richfield
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Reading 1989 photogallery .
Voice of The Beehive
Backstage © Martin Brett |
Getting ready to face the potentially bottle throwing hordes © Martin Brett |
© Martin Brett |
Beehive crowd © Martin Brett |
© Martin Brett |
© Martin Brett |
© Martin Brett |
Butthole Surfers
Crap quality, but its taken from an audience video off youtube , so what do you expect ? Band performing ' Concubine" and having fun creating feedback !
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New Order
Crap quality, but its taken from a really poor , shaky audience video in the middle of a dancing crowd with the camera operator situated too near the stage ......
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The Campsite and audience
Goths chill out round the campfire © Gavin Wilby |
© Gavin Wilby |
© Gavin Wilby |
The morning after -the campsite on Monday © Gavin Wilby |
Can we get a witness ?
We need more info on this and Reading festivals 1986-1990, we are now in the curious situation of having better documentation on some of the earlier festivals, so c'mon goths and Indie fans , get yer photos out and fire up whats left of the aging brain cells .Send your recollections and scans to us NOW ! !! Contact us
External Links
Reading in the 80s to date- Fat Regs excellent site covers Reading from 1982 onwards .
Photos of Reading in the 80s at the Reading Musuem.
The early festivals.
You can find out the complete line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below .
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Festivals 1965-1990
Most of these have fairly complete documentation .But new contributions of any sort are always welcome regarding any of the festivals.
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