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Posters and Tickets .

    There appear to have been various versions of the poster, which did of course change as the line-up of artists permutated and morphed into different versions. As the promoters seemed to have a rather fiery relationship with some of their artistes , the bill seemed to change from week to week. The Moody Blues were supposed to have withdrawn, and been replaced by the Everly Brothers, but the Moodies made it on stage , whereras the Everley's were nowhere to be seen. Likewise Spirit never showed- which seems to have been a regular thing for them, I also cannnot remember Cat Mother making it to the stage either, but then it was a long , long weekend, I might have just missed them when I went to the toilet.

Artwork © David Fairbrother-Roe

Stage pass

The Artist

Was David Fairbrother -Roe. A Liverpudlian illustrator, he studied at the Royal Academy in London in the mid 60s before tuning in and turning on and becoming a prolific popartnik. His acadmically-trained technique put him head and shoulders above many of his audodidact contemporaries producing psychedelic art. In 1968, 1969 and 1970, Dave was the artist who produced the posters, programmes and tickets for the Isle of Wight Festivals: Britain's most famous 60s rock festivals (the UK's Woodstock). The most famous of these
is the 'Psychedelic Drummer' poster... one of the original posters reportedly now hangs in Noel Gallagher's living room.

In the 1970s, Dave produced acclaimed album covers for Jon Anderson of Yes and Nazareth. He also produced 'science fantasy' cover art for the Pern novels of the Tolkienesque writer Anne McCaffrey. McCaffrey called him in a letter the 'king of dragon artists', and his talent for dragon-painting led him to work on a (lost... Dave has the demo) album on Dragonlore with Jon Andersen.

Pete Thomas

View David Roes artworks

Contents
1970 festival menu

• Site map. (new 1-10-02)
• Press Program items (new 1-10-02)
• Official Program (New 9-16-03)
• Personal recollections of the festival
• Other attendees recollections (updated July 2008 )
• Information about band performances , personnel. set lists and recordings (updated July 2008 )
• Site Photos (updated July 2008 )
• The Film
• IOW posters, passes and tickets
• 1970 festival page with rare pix.
• The battle to prevent the festival.
• The Artist

The Underground press- NB: opinions expressed in these articles do not represent our opinions of the organisers or any other people involved in the running of the festival, it is possible that they may be innaccurate in some details or facts.

• Friends Article ; Richard Nevilles review- A Race Of Bloody Masochists.
• Friends Article ; Anarchists, White Panthers ,Desolation Hill, The Angels
• Friends Article : The Police, Drugs, Food.
• Friends Article : Freek Press, The Beach , Community Aid ,Money.
• Friends Article : The Concerts, the Music.
• Friends Article : Guerilla Medicine , The straight press.
• Friends Article : Hawkwind and PInk Fairies.
• Friends Article : Rupert finds d...s at IOW
• Freek press No 1 - 8 -updated August 2007- new copies and updates

• IOW article

Reports from the "Straight "press

• August 27th 1970

• August 29th 1970

• August 30th 1970

• September 1st 1970

The White Panthers

• Dr Robin Farquharson

1968 Isle of Wight festival

1969 Isle of Wight festival

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