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The Thirteenth National Jazz ,Blues and Rock Festival.
Richfield Avenue. 
Reading 
August 24-26th 1973.

Recordings ,Setlists and tickets .

 

Status Quo

25th August 1973

Junior's Wailing / Someone's Learning / In My Chair / Railroad / Don't Waste My Time / Caroline / Is It Really Me? Gotta Go Home / Roadhouse Blues. .

An interview  also exists of Tasavallian Presidentti which was broadcast on YLE TV2 11.09.1973 , Caught From The Air -  by Erkki Toivanen TP  25.08.1973
 

 

Genesis 8-26-73

  • Watcher Of The Skies
  • Supper's Ready
  • The Return Of The Giant Hogweed
  • The Musical Box

 

 

 Recordings of the 1973 festival.
An LP was released which featured highlights from the 1973 Festival on GM Records .

From this evidence I think we can presume that much of the festival was recorded professionally and the tapes are probably quietly moldering away in a vault .

Premiata Forneria Marconi


1 Introduction
02 River of Life
03 Mr. 9 Till 5
04 Instrumental Jam
05 Photos of Ghosts
06 La Carrozza di Hans (ends due to power cut off)
07 Outro


By the time PFM took the stage in the afternoon the band schedule was already running quite late and a further nine acts including Spencer Davis and headliners Genesis were still due to perform. Because of their Photos of Ghosts album success the band were proving very popular with the audience who were clearly wanting the band to play their full allotted set. The band started to play La Carrozza di Hans despite the organisers wanting them to come off stage (if you listen carefully you can hear someone angrily shouting at them from the side of the stage at one point). Without further warning the stage power was cut off in desperation to end the set however the drummer clearly was not finished and just played on.

 

ticket scans courtesy Right Brain Left Brain

ticket scans courtesy Right Brain Left Brain

Rod pix © Vin Miles

 

Sunday © Steve Austin

 

The early festivals.

You can find out the complete line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below .
  1961
1962
1963
1964

Festivals 1965-1990

Most of these have fairly complete documentation .But new contributions of any sort are always welcome regarding any of the festivals.
Richmond 1965
Windsor 1966
 Windsor 1967
Sunbury 1968
Plumpton 1969
Plumpton 1970
Reading 1971
Reading 1972
Reading 1973
Reading 1974

 
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