Reading
August 27-29th 1976.
The Archive.
Updated June 2005
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Reading August 27-29th 1976. |
The 1976 Reading Festival.
Reading Recollections:The View From The Mud
I was there and remember the African band Osibisa closing the show. They are not mentioned on the site. They were totally brilliant.
Show best remembered by the UK mag NME featuring as Eddie and the Hot Rods saving rock and roll - NME was gagging for a change and of course it was already happening, under their noses. The Sex Pistols were up and running by then!
For me the young Aussie band AC/DC stole the show but again I remember them earlier, maybe the Saturday. They certainly played in daylight. Camel used fireworks and closed the Saturday show, Rory G was on the other stage before them - your order is wrong.
For me it was a very important
Reading. Punk was already in the wind (hence NME's comments) a sea of change
was about to happen and that particular Reading had a lot of what was going
on in those days, why rock was going up its own arse and dying - Camel! It had
the mega boring creative - Van de Graf Generator and 801 (I was a huge Roxy
Music fan so seeing them minus fart Ferry was good but I thought they sucked
a little) and all the crap in between. What was great though was Osibisa - I
guess they filled in for someone but they were more or less the only black act
then. The show was totally white, totally rock and roll but for them. Oh, and
did it rain!
Yours
Garry
1976 festival pages
The early festivals.
You can find out the complete
line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below ,as well as new
information recently received in 2004 .
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Festivals 65-83
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