The Archive
Updated Dec 2011
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Richmond. Surrey. UK. August 7-9th 1964. |
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Part of the Saturday Jazz/Blues session was broadcast on the BBC , no doubt long erased ..... |
Bill Wyman onstage at Richmond 1964 |
The last appearance at the festival of the Stones, who more or less had the Friday evening given over to themselves and a few other lesser known names ( apart from the T Bones ) The Stones thereafter became too big an act for the festival to afford them . Part of their performance was filmed on 8mm and is featured in the video "The Continuing Adventures Of The Rolling Stones " Setlist ( partial )
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Friday, August 14th 1964 - THE RICHMOND, TWICKENHAM AND BARNES HERALD
29,000
AT RICHMOND JAZZ FESTIVAL
NO RIOTS, BUT ARRESTS IN THE TOWN
The reputation for orderliness gained in past years by the National Jazz Festival, held at Richmond Athletic Assiociaton ground, was maintained when the festival took place there at the weekend. The only casualties were two girls who fainted on Friday night when the Rolling Stones were appearing. Rigid
precautions were taken by the National Jazz Federation to ensure order
amongthe crowds of teenagers who poured into Richmond from places as far
afield as Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. For three days the ground was
patrolled by security officers of both sexes, dressed in civilian clothes
but with a "Security" badge on their lapels. LINGERED About
27,000 fans visited the festival during Friday, Saturday and Sunday, many
of them lingering in the neighbourhood of Richmond for the entire weekend.
Richmond police were ready to prevent any trouble. Twenty arrests were
made, mainly for obstruction. Young people were kept moving band prevented
as far as possible from sleeping in doorways and in open spaces, such
as the parks and towpath. |
Right : Mary Tapson and Vivien Waters screaming for the Stones at the behest of the press at the Nat Jazz festival 1964 |
NINE YOUTHS
Nine Hampshire
youths and girls appeared before Richmond Magistrates on Monday charged with
obstructing the highway in Richmond on Saturday night. The four girls were aged
14-16, and the five youths 17-19. One of the girls, aged 15, pleaded guilty
to the charge, but her eight companions pleaded not guilty.
All admitted that, when arrested, they had their bedrolls with them and were
planning to sleep out either in the Old Deer Park or by the towpath, but they
denied that, as they stood in a group talking in the Twickenham road, they were
causing an obstruction. The fathers of two of the girls attended, and queried
why they should have been arrested for obstruction. The magistrates found the
case proved and gave each of the accused an absolute discharge.
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youths and girls from Kent, aged 16-18 pleaded not guilty to a similar
charge of obstruction. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate dismissed
the case, the Presiding Magistrate (Mr H W Yoxall) telling them "We
think the case against you was properly brought by the police and you
have only yourselves to blame that you are here." ANXIOUS PARENTS During
the weekend, Richmond police received many enquiries from provincial forces
who had been approached by anxious parents trying to trace daughters who
had "disappeared", leaving notes to say they had gone to the
Festival. Some parents travelled from places in the Home Counties to bring
photographs of the "missing" girls to show the police. "We
did our best to be helpful" a police spokesman said, "but identification
was difficult because the girls all seem to look alike in their jeans
and straight hairstyles." Thanks to Mary Hooper for providing us with a copy of the article. Obviously the authorities were too lenient with these ruffians. We at the archive believe that they should have followed the admirable strategies adopted by that paragon of justice, Inspector Grim , of "The Thin Blue Line " Its a simple but effective mechanism . Grim explains his methods at 8m. 08 sec into the clip. So if the plod had used Grims tactics , they should have surrounded the premises in force, issued a warning through loud hailers that the festival was obstructing the pavement , and then, if it refused to move on immediately, they should have arrested the entire festival and banged it up for the weekend as well as not allowing to make a phonecall . The magistrates could then have lectured the festival, insisted the entire site get its hair cut , for it to wear respectable clothing and to wash its collective mouth out with soap and water- before giving it six months in Dartmoor with hard labour . Problem solved , using the Grim methods , its fannying about such as displayed by these hoity toity, latte sipping , wig wearing, velevt gowned, arty farty, niminy piminy , do gooding , opera watching public school nanny stating , hold yer bleeding hand , give them a big hug and a slap on the wristing magistrates that got us into the bleeding mess that we are in now ! Hangin' is too good for em- and their parents ! |
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Timeline
Friday, 7th Aug
Saturday, 8-Aug .Afternoon session.
Saturday, 8-Aug . Evening session.
Sunday 9th August .Afternoon session.
Sunday 9th August .Evening session.
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Messr's Jagger and Richard onstage at Richmond National Jazz and Blues Festival 1964
Photographer and muso Mike Peters took some excellent pics of the Stones onstage at the festival - see them here
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There was a jam session at the end of the Yardbirds set involving Georgie Fame , Jack Bruce ,Graham Bond, Ginger Baker and Mike Vernon . The BBC filmed hour long sessions on both Saturday and Sunday nights which were broadcast , are these still in existence ? The only recordings we know to exist are three tracks by Jimmy Witherspoon " Times Getting Tougher Than Tough","Have You Ever Loved A Woman?" and "Roll 'Em Pete" where he is backed by the Chris Barber band . These are available on the CD " Chris Barber Presents Lost & Found, Vol. 3" Phil Bird has this to say about the festival. A whole bunch of us went to the festival. We had been in Brighton i.e. mods and rockers, and we came up to Richmond for the concerts. I am from Kingston in Surrey so we used to go the Eel Pie, the Crawdaddy and everywhere else with live music.We supported the Yardbirds because we knew them (from school etc) and also went to see the Stones every week at the Station before the Crawdaddy moved to the Athletic ground. |
The festival was really good...everyone really came to see Mose Allison but my main memory was playing football with a golf ball with Rod Stewart who was with our crowd who had come up from Brighton. He was not famous then but had a terrific presence and was a brilliant banjo player (he used to busk for (old) pennies under the pier at Brighton). He had also come up to see Mose Allison and was wearing an edwardian suit. Everyone also wore
Beatle boots as they were called but these boots came from Annello and
Davide who had a shop in Dury Lane and also one in Charring Cross Road.The
crowd were wearing these way before the Beatles and everyone called them
"Annellos ". phil bird |
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profile of the 1964 stage |
The late Brian Jones |
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 65-83
Most of these have fairly complete documentation .
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