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An unknown band perform onstage at Windsor Monday August 26th 1973 © Vin Miles
The following lists of the bands that performed at the 73 and 74 festivals, was kindly provided by Paul Pinn of the band Night Angel. What a find , who would have thought that ANYONE would have kept that information ,many thanks Paul ! Also Jeremy Browning of Landslide kept a record of who played on the first two days of the 74 festival, so thanks to him as well we get to know at least part of the time line . ! Recently Steve Austin has also contributed a list of bands from 1974 . Thanks chaps ! |
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Click on the thumbnails to see the press releases which list bands who intended to play at the 73 festival. 1974 festival, click on the band photos to see larger versions, if you can help identifying these bands , or played in them , Contact us.! |
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An unknown band perform onstage at Windsor Monday August 26th 1973 © Vin Miles
Unknown band, Windsor 74 .Photo © Brian F. |
Hi there, Been checking your site out - originally searched Weeley - (what a line-up, and interestingly, half the bands are still going, albeit in reformed versions - The Groundhogs especially are better than ever, and Tony McPhee, at least last year, was playing like a demon half his 63 years or whatever he is now. Do wish Strife would reform, though) - but was delightfully surprised to come across the Windsor stuff, and spotting my band, me at an old address, and so on. |
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Voyage onstage Windsor 1974 Photo © Brian Farnan. |
Blaze onstage Windsor 1974 |
Hey guys,
just saw your website on the Windsor free festival and I was really pleased
to see that my band CANAAN got a real good review. This is funny since we were
young, unexperienced but full of dreams and enthusiasm. In fact it was my first
gig outside of Germany. To be a German band, performing in the U.K., which we
regarded as THE country of rock was really cool.
I still have the recordings of our band in quite decent quality, so I will listen
to them again tonight.
Yours Norbert
Hi Folks,
I just found
your site and was interested because I was there at windsor in 1974 with some
friends in a band called White as white and twice as dirty, who played the first
night plugged into an ice cream van because the generator broke on stage D.
I remember there being about a thousand cheering people. Their guitarist Ian
Mckean later played with Balaam and the Angel. I also saw at that festival
Graham Parker (later of rumour fame and Chuff (who later became Kenny Chart
success 'do the bump' i think.) happy memories apart
from the last hours being arrested....another story
John
Bently:
An unknown band perform onstage at Windsor Monday August 26th 1973 © Vin Miles |
hi,
I'm a Belgian musician, and I played with my band (at the time) at the 72 windsor
festival edition. I'm currently finishing a Ph.D. on psychedelic music, that's
why I found your site.
I was on holidays in london at easter time in 72 and I met the organiser (can't
remember his name...Rob ???) at hyde park's speakers corner, he was handing
a petition about legalizing grass. I signed it and told him if he wanted a belgian
band for his festival, we were the ones...at that time, i was making some kind
of soft machine like stuff...
We came to the headquarters of the festival in london and were carried there
in a van full of free food...
I remember that we played the same day as the Pink Fairies, and also Hawkwind,
they were very good...
We did not have enough money to carry our equipment with us from belgium, so
we had to wait for a band who had quite the same kind of setup as ours to play
right after ;-)
Somebody recorded a cassette tape from our performance, but the keyboard player
kept it and I never heard it again...
The next day, I remember the police harrassing people and we left the festival
at that time
I had some leaflets with the festival headline...if I could get a hand on them,
I'd send one to you, but it's such a long time ago... where are they in my house...
alain
Everyone Involved- Windsor 1973 © Vin Miles |
Further recollections,
The band I was involved with at the time "Profusion" turned up on
Saturday
afternoon and contributed a large PA system which was used for the rest of that
day. The band
played early evening directly after another band called Two Lane Road Block.
There was a very
young band playing earlier called Cum who may just possibly have been an early
XTC. There was a
magazine front cover from the festival (possibly Frendz) which I would love
to get a copy of as It
shows me holding up the stage canopy with my head while we tried to make it
rain proof any help
would be appreciated
Martin Knight
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Wandering Spirit get ready to play in the early morning Windsor 1973 Photo© Graham Cole |
Hi, Both years we drove in with our gear in a transit, long haired geezers getting absolutely no hassle or searches from the police at all-unlike many others! We finally managed to get a slot at the awful time of around 8pm in the morning when, just like most people it seemed, wanted to get a bit more shut-eye after the festivities the night before!! After
a visit to the Hare Krishna food tent and sampling wholesome veggie food
for the first time-this started me on a journey leading to green activism,animal
rights,non-violent direct action and veganism up to the present day. |
Jeremy Brownings timeline (and grades of bands) 25
08 73 |
Wandering Spirit loon in the park Windsor 1973 Photo Graham Cole |
Wandering Spirit veg out at Windsor 1974 Photo Graham Cole |
Steve Austins List 1974 Festival Witches Brew Jerry Spencers Mountain Child Gong, Panic, The Cat Went Mad, Stroll On, Blaze, Global Village Trucking Company, Night Angel, Contraband, Uncle Sam's Laughing Dice, Fantasy Circus, Zorch, Bliss, Dave Eliss, Trax, Juniors Eyes, Liberty Bell. |
Cannot for the life of me remember which ones were good bad or indifferent.
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Wandering Spirit prepare to play stage F Windsor 1974 Photo Graham Cole |
Hatfield and the North , Kevin Coyne,Lol Coxhill and Isotope are also reported to have played , but not confrimed by any eye witrness accounts so far.
Mark Hudson has this
to contribute re bands that performed
I've
got quite a few memories, which I'll try and write down properly if it would
be of any interest. But one (very trainspotterish) detail that struck me as
I looked through the list of bands, is that I have no recollection of Gong playing.
I certainly remember The Global Village Trucking Co, and my memory is that they
were the most famous band that played!
The MC on
the main stage was a relatively straight guy, who referred to every single act
as 'a really tight little outfit'... It became a bit of a joke. And he kept
telling us about an amazing French band that would be playing called Zorch (!!!)
- who were, he kept telling us, the heaviest band he had ever seen! I think
I heard some Tangerine Dreamish noises coming from the main stage at about 3am
that night.
I performed myself - reading out my poetry - which brought me into contact
with Bill
Dwyer. I was 17.
Cheers,
Mark
Can anyone else add any more to this list ?
