The Archive.
Updated July 2010 , new photos and recollections
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The Reading Rock Festival.
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Reading August 24-26th 1979. |
The 1979 Reading Rock Festival. Aug 24-26th 1979.
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Friday 24th August 1979
The crowd on Friday , Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
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Augustos story. I used to be a DJ in a medium-sized radio station in my home town Perugia, called "Radio Perugia 1", and we were particularly interested in the punk and new wave latest releases coming from the UK. In the summer of 1979 I came to London with some fellow DJ's from the radio, there were five of us, and we came in touch with as many record companies as we could find, asking for records and promotional material for our transmissions. Along
with hundreds of LP's and singles, we managed to receive backstage passes
for the Reading Festival, which seemed very interesting that year for
the presence of new acts like The Cure and The Police, and old punk
rockers like The Ramones.
Punishment Of Luxury Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce It was an incredible emotion to be in the backstage along with many artists, I can remember going to the toilet and meeting John Peel coming out of it, or running into Sting or Annie Lennox while walking. We were allowed to take pictures and interviews, though our bad english didn't help very much. With a mono tape recorder we also recorded some of the concerts along with the interviews but at the end of the first day we had already ran out of camera films and cassette tapes! |
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Motorhead backstage . Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce Motorhead entered the backstage on a military vehicle (see one of the pictures attached), but despite the appearance they were very nice guys (though Lemmy, with a bottle of whisky always in hand, promised us an interview three or four times, always disappearing soon after). |
The Jags Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
The Cure onstage . Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce The
Cure had a strong support from John Peel, and one of my photos depicts
Robert Smith with Peel after their concert. |
The Cure backstage .Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
The Cure backstage with the late John Peel .Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
Doll By Doll .Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
Doll By Doll again .Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
Bite The Pillow . Reading Rock 1979 © Augusto Croce |
Saturday 25th August 1979
Cheap Trick
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Can we get a witness ?
We need more info on this and the other late 70s Reading festivals, we are now in the curious situation of having better documentation on the earlier festivals, so c'mon headbangers, get yer photos out and fire up whats left of the aging braincells .Send your recollections and scans to us NOW ! !! Contact us
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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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