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Bath Recreation Ground .

June 28th 1969.

Photo© Tom Tom 1969
   The Bath Blues Festival was promoter Freddie Bannisters opening gambit in the UK rock festival stakes .In 1969 he dipped his toe into the murky festival waters ,with a solid line up featuring the cream of British Blues Bands plus a few progressive groups such as The Nice- and emerged ( unlike many of his co-promoters ) , financially unscathed and ready to have another go with a more ambitious line-up in the 1970 Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music .
   Colosseum onstage Bath festival 1969 © M Strachan		  

  The 1969 bash only attracted 12,000 punters, and has in general been overshadowed by its far bigger and younger sibling festival of 1970, but this site is an attempt to draw in more information from festival goers and ( hopefully ) tapers. Thanks to Malcolm Strachan and Mike Wheeler and Tom Tom , who took photos of the bands onstage, we now have pictorial memories to remind us what the event looked like.

Photo© Tom Tom 1969

If you have photos, recollections, set lists, newspaper reports  or tapes of the event then email us and we'll add them to the site. 

The pages below will eventually feature set lists, band line ups, press reports and recollections of the performances as well as links to other sites on the web as they become available.

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If you have photos, recollections, set lists, newspaper reports or tapes of the event then email us and we'll add them to the site. Contact email

Bands in order of appearance.(l to R)
Just Before Dawn.
Colosseum
Roy Harper.
Keef Hartley.
Edgar Broughton
Liverpool Scene. 
Champion Jack Dupree.
Chicken Shack. 
Blodwyn Pig  
The Nice
Led Zeppelin
Taste

John Mayall

Bands listed below most probably did not perform

 
Babylon 

Group Therapy.
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. 

Bath 69 reviews

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Bath festival products.

    All Bath festival fans will want to read the new book by Bath promoter Freddie Bannister about the 69 and 70 festivals. Its called " JUST BROKEN EVEN " -click on the photo to view more details and to learn how to purchase the limited edition before it sells out .

A limited edition of reprints of the 1969 and 1970 Bath festival posters can be bought online here
www.rockmusicposters.com
Rock festival memorabilia from various festivals can be viewed here

NB: Please note we have no commercial involvement with the Bath festival products , any enquiries regarding purchases need to be sent to the rock memorabilia and posters site itself, not to our e-mail address .