£4 A TICKET. Would have loved to of experienced this but a bit before my concert days, heres a few pics i hadnt seen before and a write up of the tour which also went to Celtic and Swansea
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I recall there was some rain, but for much of the day it was overcast, but not raining. It was quite loud (I've been to louder), but we were quite a way back. I think there was some trouble with people climbing the floodlight stands earlier on in the day, which was of concern to the event organisers, since the mirrors being used to bounce the lasers around during the Who set were located on them, and could have been sent skew wiff. There was a real problem with there being a major flood of forged tickets (plenty of notification in advance), and I think the organisers were seriously concerned that the ground was too small for all the people who were likely to show up with tickets.
Although I knew our tickets to be genuine, I was still concerned that we weren't going to get in, since we arrived part way through the first set. There was a lot of drunkenness around - I think I got 'stuck in' early on in the day, and ended up with a crushing headache through the Alex Harvey set, and slept it off some, but recall the Who's set bringing me back to some semblance of sobriety. They were stunning, as were the pyrotechnics.
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Good to see the pics again.
We bunked in by crawling under a turnstile behind the North stand at lunch time, went home for a bite to eat at tea time then bunked back in early evening this time via a garden at the back of the East terrace in time to see The Who
Happy Days
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The weather for the 76 gig was the wettest...
Just about the only day it rained during the hottest, driest summer in living memory.
Remember the slogan during the water shortages?: "Save water - bath with a friend"
Remember that all too well - and I remember August 28 when the draught broke even bettter.
First, Callaghan had belatedly appointed Dennis Howell as his 'minister for the draught' only a few days beforehand.
Secondly, I got married on a glorious summer's day on August 27 and the following day - the first of our our honeymoon, in the West Country which was regarded as an exotic destination in those days - the skies opened.
I was never sure who should take the credit for the end of the drought - Dennis Howell or me!
What with grass fires, old people dropping down dead with heat stroke and the boating lake drying up it was just too bloody hot...
After the season ended there was a God squad convention, on the first night they prayed for rain and by the next morning the staff chalets were under two foot of water...!!!
Still put on a fucking good gig though didn't they....a million times better than any punk band could even dream of fella!
And if called upon they could still do it to this day.
Punks before their Brains we're put in.......
I remember a guy a few yards back from the stage had a large banner which said "Nicky Horne is a w@nker"! I felt sorry for little Nicky Horne as he had to see that every time he came out to introduce a band. They had a revolutionary Laser Light Show, which was lashed to the floodlight towers - you can probably buy better lighting effects from Maplins for about a tenner these days!
I've got my old ticket packed away in a trunk in the loft, with my old Charlton programmes & stuff.
You'd give me £50, eh .....?
I've got my old ticket packed away in a trunk in the loft, with my old Charlton programmes & stuff.
You'd give me £50, eh .....?[/quote]
If that was sarcastic then :P
but i meant if they played the valley again
Tongue in cheek, mate ......!
;o)
Still not sure how to upload.
Still not sure how to upload.
There ya go mate...
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The 1974 concert, with lots of links on you tube at the side.