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information on today's festivals see eFestivals.co.uk
The Archive.
Updated Jan 2008
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For
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The Reading Rock Festival.
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Reading August 22-24th 1980. |
The Recordings
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Photos of Reading Rock 1980 © Pete |
Recordings
and Setlists .
It
looks like the BBC recorded a fair number of sets from the festival and these
have gredually emerged over the years, mixed with a smattering of audience recordings
, we have a pretty good recored documentation of this event .
Krokus 8-22-80
Tommy Vance show FM 40 mins |
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Gillan 8-22-80
Bonus tracks included on CD - Mr. Universe (Virgin) 1979 |
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Pat Travers Band 8-23-80
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Iron Maiden 8-23-80
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UFO 8-23-80
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Magnum 8-24-80
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Def Leppard 8-24-80
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Slade 8-24-80
(released as a single and EP by Cheapskate records, probably long deleted , but the tracks now may be available on other compilations or boxed sets ) |
Slade at Reading 1980 © Phil Ryan |
Whitesnake 8-24-80
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Whitesnake at Reading 1980 © Phil Ryan |
Whitesnake at Reading 1980 © Phil Ryan |
recordings also circulate of
Tygers Of Pan Tang 45 mins aud
Samson
We don't have copies of ANY of these shows nor do we know where they can be obtained.
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 date.
We need more info on this and the other Reading festivals, we are now in the curious situation of having better documentation of some of the earlier festivals, so c'mon headbangers, get yer photos out and fire up whats left of the aging braincells .Send your recollections and scans to us NOW ! !! Contact us
Reading 1980 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
Most of these have fairly complete documentation .But new contributions of any sort are always welcome regarding any of the festivals.
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