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The Reading Rock Festival.

Richfield Avenue. 
Reading 
August 22-24th 1980.

Reading Rock Photogallery

John Sykes © photos Paul Brannigan

Praying Mantis © Paul Brannigan

Fishcer Z © Paul Brannigan

Another hail of cans ! © Paul Brannigan

Behold , a broken geetar ! Krokus © Paul Brannigan

Tygers of PanTang © Paul Brannigan

Quartz © Paul Brannigan

David Coverdale © Paul Brannigan

Unknown band © Paul Brannigan

Krokus © Paul Brannigan

Someone boring onstage who has lots of dry ice © Ferg Ranson

Leaving Reading © Ferg Ranson

Campsite near the Salvation army tent © Ferg Ranson

Ferg and a tinnie © Ferg Ranson

 


Reading 1980 pages

Thanks to photographer Alan Perry for allowing us to use his excellent photos of Reading 1980, you can purchase copies of these pix at his website where he has oodles of top photos of metal bands from the 70s to the 80s


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 .
 
  1961
1962
1963
1964

Festivals 65-83

Most of these have fairly complete documentation .But new contributions of any sort are always welcome regarding any of the festivals.
Richmond 1965
Windsor 1966
 Windsor 1967
Sunbury 1968
Plumpton 1969
Plumpton 1970
Reading 1971
Reading 1972
Reading 1973
Reading 1974

 

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