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An unknown band perform onstage at Windsor Monday August 26th 1973 © Vin Miles
The following lists of the bands that performed at the 73 and 74 festivals, was kindly provided by Paul Pinn of the band Night Angel. What a find , who would have thought that ANYONE would have kept that information ,many thanks Paul ! Also Jeremy Browning of Landslide kept a record of who played on the first two days of the 74 festival, so thanks to him as well we get to know at least part of the time line ! Recently Steve Austin has also contributed a list of bands from 1974 . Thanks chaps ! |
Photo © Peter Glanvill. |
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Click on the thumbnails to see the press releases which list bands who intended to play at the 73 festival. 1974 festival, click on the band photos to see larger versions, if you can help identifying these bands , or played in them , Contact us. |
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Close up of the unknown band performing onstage at Windsor Monday August 26th 1973 © Vin Miles
Anonymous band, Windsor 74 .Photo © Brian F. |
Hi there, Been checking your site out - originally searched Weeley - (what a line-up, and interestingly, half the bands are still going, albeit in reformed versions - The Groundhogs especially are better than ever, and Tony McPhee, at least last year, was playing like a demon half his 63 years or whatever he is now. Do wish Strife would reform, though) - but was delightfully surprised to come across the Windsor stuff, and spotting my band, me at an old address, and so on. |
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Voyage onstage Windsor 1974 Photo © Brian Farnan. |
Blaze onstage Windsor 1974 |
Hi Folks,
I just
found your site and was interested because I was there at windsor in 1974 with
some friends in a band called White as white and twice as dirty, who played
the first night plugged into an ice cream van because the generator broke on
stage D. I remember there being about a thousand cheering people. Their guitarist
Ian Mckean later played with Balaam and the Angel. I also saw at that festival
Graham Parker (later of rumour fame and Chuff (who later became Kenny Chart
success 'do the bump' i think.) happy memories apart
from the last hours being arrested....another story
John
Bently:
An unknown band perform onstage at Windsor Monday August 26th 1973 © Vin Miles |
hi,
I'm a Belgian musician, and I played with my band (at the time) at the 72 windsor
festival edition. I'm currently finishing a Ph.D. on psychedelic music, that's
why I found your site.
I was on holidays in london at easter time in 72 and I met the organiser (can't
remember his name...Rob ???) at hyde park's speakers corner, he was handing
a petition about legalizing grass. I signed it and told him if he wanted a belgian
band for his festival, we were the ones...at that time, i was making some kind
of soft machine like stuff...
We came to the headquarters of the festival in london and were carried there
in a van full of free food...
I remember that we played the same day as the Pink Fairies, and also Hawkwind,
they were very good...
We did not have enough money to carry our equipment with us from belgium, so
we had to wait for a band who had quite the same kind of setup as ours to play
right after ;-)
Somebody recorded a cassette tape from our performance, but the keyboard player
kept it and I never heard it again...
The next day, I remember the police harrassing people and we left the festival
at that time
I had some leaflets with the festival headline...if I could get a hand on them,
I'd send one to you, but it's such a long time ago... where are they in my house...
alain
Everyone Involved- Windsor 1973 © Vin Miles |
Further recollections, The band I was involved with at the time "Profusion" turned up on Saturday afternoon and contributed a large PA system which was used for the rest of that day. The band played early evening directly after another band called Two Lane Road Block. There was a very young band playing earlier called Cum who may just possibly have been an early XTC. There was a magazine front cover from the festival (possibly Frendz) which I would love to get a copy of as It shows me holding up the stage canopy with my head while we tried to make it rain proof any help would be appreciated
Martin Knight
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Wandering Spirit get ready to play in the early morning Windsor 1973 Photo© Graham Cole |
Hi, Both years we drove in with our gear in a transit, long haired geezers getting absolutely no hassle or searches from the police at all-unlike many others! We finally managed to get a slot at the awful time of around 8pm in the morning when, just like most people it seemed, wanted to get a bit more shut-eye after the festivities the night before!! After
a visit to the Hare Krishna food tent and sampling wholesome veggie food
for the first time-this started me on a journey leading to green activism,animal
rights,non-violent direct action and veganism up to the present day. |
Jeremy Brownings timeline (and grades of bands) 25
08 73 |
Wandering Spirit loon in the park Windsor 1973 Photo Graham Cole |
Wandering Spirit veg out at Windsor 1974 Photo Graham Cole |
Steve Austins List 1974 Festival Witches Brew Jerry Spencers Mountain Child Gong, Panic, The Cat Went Mad, Stroll On, Blaze, Global Village Trucking Company, Night Angel, Contraband, Uncle Sam's Laughing Dice, Fantasy Circus, Zorch, Bliss, Dave Eliss, Trax, Juniors Eyes, Liberty Bell. |
Cannot for the life of me remember which ones were good bad or indifferent.
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Wandering Spirit prepare to play stage F Windsor 1974 Photo Graham Cole |
Hatfield and the North , Kevin Coyne,Lol Coxhill and Isotope are also reported to have played , but not confrimed by any eye witrness accounts so far.
Mark Hudson has this
to contribute re bands that performed
I've
got quite a few memories, which I'll try and write down properly if it would
be of any interest. But one (very trainspotterish) detail that struck me as
I looked through the list of bands, is that I have no recollection of Gong playing.
I certainly remember The Global Village Trucking Co, and my memory is that they
were the most famous band that played!
The MC
on the main stage was a relatively straight guy, who referred to every single
act as 'a really tight little outfit'... It became a bit of a joke. And he kept
telling us about an amazing French band that would be playing called Zorch (!!!)
- who were, he kept telling us, the heaviest band he had ever seen! I think
I heard some Tangerine Dreamish noises coming from the main stage at about 3am
that night.
I performed myself - reading out my poetry - which brought me into contact
with Bill
Dwyer. I was 17.
Cheers,
Mark
For
years I had a vague recollection of seeing another good band there who put on
a sort of Hawkwind/Early Genesis show. I remember I dragged everyone back to
see them but could never remember who they were until a couple of weeks ago
when a band turned up at my local pub. They are now The Legendary Wooden Lion
but at Windsor they were just called The
Wooden Lion. They do not seem to figure on any of the lists you have. Does
anybody else remember them?
Peter Gill
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The letter on the left Is correspondence between Tony Farrell ,of the band Goodman Price- who played the 74 festival -and organiser Ubi Dwyer. Tony sent us this regarding their performance..... So, "Goodman Price" and friends arrived around 6pm on the third day of festivities, had a stroll around the site, listened to some bands, and met up with Heneage Mitchell to check what time we were due to take to the stage - only to find we had no stage! It didn't matter to us. We got set up on a patch of grass and started playing around 9pm, with only one other band playing on the site at the time ( I was later told that the band was Gong, but I have no way of knowing for sure ), in front of one man and his dog! After about 45 minutes a fair sized crowd had gathered to listen to us and a poet who we had never met before ( could well have been Mark Hudson, who has detailed his recollections elsewhere on this website ) and then...... the generator packed up! No problem. We played a couple of acoustic songs, by the lights of our Bedford van, and said goodnight. We
were promised a return stint, on one of the stages, for the following
Friday night but, for obvious reasons, that never came about. We left
that Thursday morning, with a few more people in the back of the van than
we had arrived with, and headed back to London ( work/ college/ signing
on that day) but, even though we only stayed a few hours, everyone agreed
that the atmosphere was great and it felt like a good place to be - we
felt sick when we saw the news the next day. |
Hi
Just found your site. Such memories. (1974) I was in the band Gemini and I also
played in a band called Stag (both on the same night. The list of bands on the
fliers was subject to change to say the least. Hawkwind played before us and
they aren't mentioned on the band list flier, although the Pink fairies are
mentioned on the second and they did turn up, but late - if I remember correctly.
I also remember playing knock-about football with some of Hawkwind and that
Michael Moorcock took to the stage with Hawkwind. We played "Master of
the Universe" in our set, which felt strange considering Hawkwind were
backstage.
regards
Ron Bowes
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze playing the 74 festival ( not as Squeeze) © Vin Miles |
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Tiny and the Hot Toddies in action at Windsor © Daniel Wherrett |
Slippery Sam Windsor 1974© John Tilsed
We played on Stage D Sunday Afternoon if I remember correctly with Jerry the Ferret and the Jeremy Spencer Band, line up John Tilsed (Drums) Mick O'Hara (Rhythm) Bob Longworth (Lead) Mark Southgate (Bass) I think this maybe the only surviving Photo !
Cheers John Tilsed
.Can anyone else add any more to this list ?
