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Last update Jan 2008 Death of Jeremy Beadle -review of the DVD documentary of the festival and plug for the excellent T shirt .
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Bickershaw
. Lancashire .U.K.
Friday May 5th to Sunday May 7th 1972.
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Definitely
one of the WETTEST
rock festivals of all time. The Bickershaw
Festival was
, nevertheless, a LOT of fun. I know the crowd here doesn't LOOK happy,
but I can assure you they had a ball when the bands were on-stage .
This site
is a homage to the festival and those who attended. If you were there
and want to share your experiences or have photos, tapes then Contact
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Bickershaw Documentary and existing film .
Well folks, its finally happened, and we have to thank Chris Hewitt of OZIT records for sweating it all out and assembling whatever footage he could find of Bickershaw. It will run for about 1 hour 20 mins and it contains the footage shot by the TV companies who covered the festival at the time, but there is new undiscovered footage of bands onstage, including the Grateful Dead. We don't know what the quality of this is like until we see it , but anything is better then nothing and its great that this artifact has finally seen the light of day . The Garcia interview is from ITV - click on the pic to see a larger version of the DVD cover On the right is a preview of the DVD cover , they have detailed dvd booklets too and should retail around £14 to £16 - probably £18 at HMV. September 2007 We have now seen the Dvd and think it is worth buying if you are a real devotee of this festival, but be aware that a lot of the audio tracks featured are audience sourced and quite a lot of the coverage is composed of stills of varying quality as well as video, some from TV others from 8mm footage. If you were expecting something like the Isle of Wight movie- you will be disappointed. Despite that, its great to see the festival pictured in moving images at long last and the Garcia interview is a little gem . After all these years , the site looks even more of a shit pit than we remember it : -) Have a butchers at the Bickershaw Festival T-Shirt A book about Bickershaw is in the writing, and another festival conjoined with Deeply Vale is scheduled to be held in 2008 on the original site . |
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Jan 2008 : Jeremy Beadle , Bickershaw organiser dies of pneumonia
As you may know Jeremy Beadle died of pneumonia last week and had been fighting cancer for a couple of years- he was due early in 2008 to give me a film interview looking back at Bickershaw his memories of the fesival and looking at it from todays perspective- sadly now his thoughts will never make it onto the proposed interview film....
He
loved the dvd- he loved the Archive website and he loved the pictorial book
on Bickershaw I am working on- he did endless work for charities and he always
believed in backing the mavericks and the outsiders because he was one himself
owing to his illness as a child
He told me he worked on the Wembley Rock N Roll festival as well as Bickershaw-
but Bickershaw was his real favourite and we spent a morning together in October
him trawling through our paper archives and recalling how I had done promotion
work for the festival for him in 1972
RIP Jeremy beadle you gave 40,000 muddy fans a life changing experience at
Bickershaw
Chris Hewitt - Ozit records
The Bickershaw Menu
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