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The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. 26th - 30th August 1970.
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The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. 26th - 30th August 1970.
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I'm looking for any pix you might have taken at the festival. Contact email
Photos on this page courtesy of George Stoller.
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The
press enclosure. Friday afternoon.
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George , who took these photos from the press enclosure says :
No big deal went on in the press enclosure: Arriving at the site Friday afternoon I didn't like much the idea to follow the whole festival staring at a matchbox-sized stage. Being a student of the "Centre Suisse d'éducation en publicité et information" (which is French for about the same thing in English) I was equipped with a legitimation card of that institution, which I presented at the press entrance. Believe it or not: With the few key words on that card I succeeded to convince them that I was about the most important Swiss representative of communications - so they let me in! Once I was in there I sat down on my bag starting to realize what just happened.
Five minutes later a guy spoke to me in French and asked: "You're Swiss, right?" How the hell did he know? Very simple: The field-grey bag I was sitting on was part of every Swiss soldiers ARMY kit...! And the other guy was a journalist of a French-speaking Swiss newspaper.
What happened to my camera after the Who's set? No big deal either: It just dropped and got broken on the scaffold in front of the stage...
L'n'P
George
Check out this link for more photos of the festival
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.International Times.
- 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
Reports from the "Straight "press
The White Panthers
Other IOW festivals.If you have any info you can contribute to the site, especially regarding the 1968 and 1969 festivals, such as details of recordings. recollections, programmes, tickets, pix or articles don't just sit there , Contact email1968 Isle of Wight festival 1969 Isle of Wight festival