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Marking 50 years since the epic Weeley Festival
By Matt Plummer @MattPlummer4
Sports reporter
See all 12 photos
by GORDON WALKER
THIS August Bank Holiday weekend heralds the 50th anniversary of the Weeley Festival of Progressive Music, in 1971.
It wasn’t just any old festival and, for many reasons, it has gone down in rock music history.
This is because of how it was devised, the numbers attending, the bands who performed, the outbreaks of fire and violence and then the aftermath of court cases and legislation.
In 1971, Clacton Round Table decided to replace their traditional summer fete and donkey derby with a music event in Weeley.
Not familiar with organising rock festivals, the Round Table employed the Brighton-based Colin King Organisation, previous organiser of the Bath and Isle of Wight festivals, to assist. Colin King didn’t do small events.
“If you want big, then I’m your man,” he used to say.
Big is what they got.
The Weeley Festival turned out to be much more of an event than the Round Table ever imagined.
The festival was held on farmland from August 27 to 29, attracting some of the best progressive rock bands of the day.
Gazette: Eye in the sky - an aerial view of the main arena, festival village and camp site Picture: Ray Clark
Eye in the sky - an aerial view of the main arena, festival village and camp site
The music started at midnight on the Saturday and finished around 5.30am on Bank Holiday Monday.
The 24-page programme for the event, created by the Colchester Express, was provided as a free wraparound to the local paper and also sold at the festival for 5p a copy.
It listed 50 performers for the weekend, including Rod Stewart and the Faces, Status Quo, T.Rex, Rory Gallagher, Barclay James Harvest (with 40-piece orchestra), Stone the Crows, Lindisfarne, Van der Graaf Generator, Colosseum, Stray, Mungo Jerry, King Crimson, Curved Air, The Groundhogs, Mott the Hoople, Al Stewart, Caravan, Juicy Lucy, Edgar Broughton and Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come.
Amazingly, of the 50 acts booked to perform, around 15 are still performing in one form or another.
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Gazette: Mounting tension - police escort a Hells Angel from the site Picture: Ray Clark
Mounting tension - police escort a Hells Angel from the site
The festival was licensed by the council for attendance by just 10,000 music lovers.
It’s not surprising that when 130 to 150,000 turned up, the facilities provided struggled to cope.
There was limited food available and the toilets were far from acceptable.
130 Elsan-type chemical buckets catered for the women, while the men sat side-by-side on scaffolding poles, suspended over a 200ft long trench.
Gazette: No smoke without fire - one of the many fires during the weekend
No smoke without fire - one of the many fires during the weekend
Medical care was provided by Clacton GP Dick Farrow, who established an admirable medical centre, caring for 1,700 patients over the 72-hour period.
Copious straw remained on site following the harvest, creating a major fire hazard.
On the Friday, before the festival had even begun, there were at least five fires on site.
On two occasions, Frinton fire crew had just returned to base after fighting fires on the festival site - only to be called back again.
Gazette: Bumper crowd - the festival was licensed for just 10,000 music lovers. Instead, up to 150,000 descended on north Essex
Bumper crowd - the festival was licensed for just 10,000 music lovers. Instead, up to 150,000 descended on north Essex
During the weekend, fires destroyed cars, tents, motorbikes and catering stands and a number of people required medical treatment.
Hells Angels, employed to take care of site security, were involved in several running battles with on-site caterers.
The latter group put a call out for help and when reinforcements arrived, the Hells Angels were cornered behind the stage and received a severe beating and damage to their bikes.
As a result, the medical centre received around 15 moderate to serious trauma cases during a half-hour period and four patients, suffering from fractured limbs or skulls, had to be sent to Colchester General Hospital.
Following the events at Weeley, which reached the front pages of many national newspapers, a Government working party drew up the ‘Pop Festivals Report and Code of Practice’ which was issued by the Department of the Environment.
* If you’d like to read more about the epic Weeley Festival, search out ‘The Great British Woodstock - The Incredible Story of the Weeley Festival 1971’ by Ray Clark.
Credits for the photos used on this spread: Mike Sams; David Dagley/Rex/Shutterstock; Dick Farrow; Derrick Byford; Getty Images; Sunday Telegraph; PA Photos/TopFoto; ANL/Rex/Shutterstock all from The Great British Woodstock, Ray Clark
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/leisure/19492879.marking-50-years-since-epic-weeley-festival/ has pictures. Rod Stewart and Marc Bolan. Hell's Angels being escorted out of the festival the 5 British cops all visibly larger than the full patches. Pictures of fires and burnt out cars and concert goers. Never heard of this music festival but I have a video of the Isle Of Wight festival and it is good but they had to let thousands of ppl in free after they stormed the metal fences and there was an element decrying capitalism and demanding free concerts. Joni Mitchell got quite upset on stage and Kris Kristoferson said they would play their set until gunfire broke out. CBC broadcast it in Canada at midnight decades ago.
=============================================================Nothing to do with the above:
WE is a scam. They didn't even file their fiscals like other charities in Canada did last year. The Keilburgers and their parents belong in jail. They told the media they were shutting WE down then applied for a Wage Subsidy program funded by taxpayer sapproved by Trudeau. Trudeau, Telford, Butts, Chagger, Taggert and Hajdu, Tait the Pres. of the CBC who lamemted about American cultural imperialism and lives in New York City must resign. Alexandre (Sassy Sasha) Trudeau the mansion living brother of Justin and Maggie their pot smoking drug casualty cocaine and psilocybin bipolar, slut Mom must return all the money plus the expenses. $700k . Maggie the unattractive lives in a dingy Mtl apt. alone because no man wants her which because of her slovenly habits catches fire. Her sons Sacha and Justin with their inherited mansions and Justin's 2 million dollar Mercedes-Benz won't allow Maggie to live with them fearing for their children's lives. The Trudeau crooks gave tax payer dollars to WE to help out Mommy fornicator . They are engaged in a total coverup and the RCMP and Toronto Police and CRA and OPP just cash their cheques and do nothing with the CBC along for the ride. SNC-Lavalin. The Admiral Mark Norman debacle where the Liberals trumped up criminal charges against him only to later retract and apologize and give him taxpayer hush money to stay quiet. 5 times the Liberals have been cited by their own appointed Ethics Commissioner. DEFUND THE CBC. It costs taxpayers $1.3 billion ayear to prop it up. Turn the CBC Vancouver building over to developers make it 20% welfare disabilty rental housing and 10% low income or O.A.S. rental.Voting Tory. Talk of a summer election. All sorts of senior military resigning or being investigated for illegal sex stuff.MP Amos a Quebec Liberal was caught twice on live video while on working hours showing his penis he has not been charged for some reason and refuses to resign his well paying taxpayer funded job.
"Federal employees yesterday won a new day off with pay in the name of Indigenous
reconciliation. The Senate unanimously passed cabinet's holiday bill into law amid
complaints over the $388.9 million cost: 'It's easier to give bureaucrats the day off here
than it is to work on the more pressing but difficult issues that are facing Indigenous
communities every day of the week.'"
https://www.blacklocks.ca/new-holiday-for-fed-staffers/ (paywall)
Why does CBC NN always have the red Liberal logo on the right of its screen? Canadian taxpayers have to pay $1.3 billion a year for this useless anachronistic media outlet . Least they can do is rotate the corporate logo red one day, the next day blue for the Tories the next Orange for the NDP and then Green for the Greens and then whatever the colour of the Bloc. Defund the CBC end the media slush fund. During the Olympics the CBC has been showing their logo on the tv feed either white or black.
$420 million taxpayers dollars to Algoma Steel to get them off coal. Corporate welfare from Liberal govt.
Former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance has been charged with one count of obstruction of justice under the Criminal Code, allegedly for attempting to persuade a woman to make false statements about their past relationship.
Marking 50 years since the epic Weeley Festival
By Matt Plummer @MattPlummer4
Sports reporter
See all 12 photos
by GORDON WALKER
THIS August Bank Holiday weekend heralds the 50th anniversary of the Weeley Festival of Progressive Music, in 1971.
It wasn’t just any old festival and, for many reasons, it has gone down in rock music history.
This is because of how it was devised, the numbers attending, the bands who performed, the outbreaks of fire and violence and then the aftermath of court cases and legislation.
In 1971, Clacton Round Table decided to replace their traditional summer fete and donkey derby with a music event in Weeley.
Not familiar with organising rock festivals, the Round Table employed the Brighton-based Colin King Organisation, previous organiser of the Bath and Isle of Wight festivals, to assist. Colin King didn’t do small events.
“If you want big, then I’m your man,” he used to say.
Big is what they got.
The Weeley Festival turned out to be much more of an event than the Round Table ever imagined.
The festival was held on farmland from August 27 to 29, attracting some of the best progressive rock bands of the day.
Gazette: Eye in the sky - an aerial view of the main arena, festival village and camp site Picture: Ray Clark
Eye in the sky - an aerial view of the main arena, festival village and camp site
The music started at midnight on the Saturday and finished around 5.30am on Bank Holiday Monday.
The 24-page programme for the event, created by the Colchester Express, was provided as a free wraparound to the local paper and also sold at the festival for 5p a copy.
It listed 50 performers for the weekend, including Rod Stewart and the Faces, Status Quo, T.Rex, Rory Gallagher, Barclay James Harvest (with 40-piece orchestra), Stone the Crows, Lindisfarne, Van der Graaf Generator, Colosseum, Stray, Mungo Jerry, King Crimson, Curved Air, The Groundhogs, Mott the Hoople, Al Stewart, Caravan, Juicy Lucy, Edgar Broughton and Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come.
Amazingly, of the 50 acts booked to perform, around 15 are still performing in one form or another.
by Taboola
This is What Hearing Aids Should Cost in 2021
CLINIC COMPARE HEARING AID QUOTES
|
SPONSORED
Surrey: Here's What Full Mouth Dental Implants Should Cost
DENTAL IMPLANTS | SEARCH ADS
|
SPONSORED
Gazette: Mounting tension - police escort a Hells Angel from the site Picture: Ray Clark
Mounting tension - police escort a Hells Angel from the site
The festival was licensed by the council for attendance by just 10,000 music lovers.
It’s not surprising that when 130 to 150,000 turned up, the facilities provided struggled to cope.
There was limited food available and the toilets were far from acceptable.
130 Elsan-type chemical buckets catered for the women, while the men sat side-by-side on scaffolding poles, suspended over a 200ft long trench.
Gazette: No smoke without fire - one of the many fires during the weekend
No smoke without fire - one of the many fires during the weekend
Medical care was provided by Clacton GP Dick Farrow, who established an admirable medical centre, caring for 1,700 patients over the 72-hour period.
Copious straw remained on site following the harvest, creating a major fire hazard.
On the Friday, before the festival had even begun, there were at least five fires on site.
On two occasions, Frinton fire crew had just returned to base after fighting fires on the festival site - only to be called back again.
Gazette: Bumper crowd - the festival was licensed for just 10,000 music lovers. Instead, up to 150,000 descended on north Essex
Bumper crowd - the festival was licensed for just 10,000 music lovers. Instead, up to 150,000 descended on north Essex
During the weekend, fires destroyed cars, tents, motorbikes and catering stands and a number of people required medical treatment.
Hells Angels, employed to take care of site security, were involved in several running battles with on-site caterers.
The latter group put a call out for help and when reinforcements arrived, the Hells Angels were cornered behind the stage and received a severe beating and damage to their bikes.
As a result, the medical centre received around 15 moderate to serious trauma cases during a half-hour period and four patients, suffering from fractured limbs or skulls, had to be sent to Colchester General Hospital.
Following the events at Weeley, which reached the front pages of many national newspapers, a Government working party drew up the ‘Pop Festivals Report and Code of Practice’ which was issued by the Department of the Environment.
* If you’d like to read more about the epic Weeley Festival, search out ‘The Great British Woodstock - The Incredible Story of the Weeley Festival 1971’ by Ray Clark.
Credits for the photos used on this spread: Mike Sams; David Dagley/Rex/Shutterstock; Dick Farrow; Derrick Byford; Getty Images; Sunday Telegraph; PA Photos/TopFoto; ANL/Rex/Shutterstock all from The Great British Woodstock, Ray Clark
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/leisure/19492879.marking-50-years-since-epic-weeley-festival/ has pictures. Rod Stewart and Marc Bolan. Hell's Angels being escorted out of the festival the 5 British cops all visibly larger than the full patches. Pictures of fires and burnt out cars and concert goers. Never heard of this music festival but I have a video of the Isle Of Wight festival and it is good but they had to let thousands of ppl in free after they stormed the metal fences and there was an element decrying capitalism and demanding free concerts. Joni Mitchell got quite upset on stage and Kris Kristoferson said they would play their set until gunfire broke out. CBC broadcast it in Canada at midnight decades ago.
=============================================================Nothing to do with the above:
WE is a scam. They didn't even file their fiscals like other charities in Canada did last year. The Keilburgers and their parents belong in jail. They told the media they were shutting WE down then applied for a Wage Subsidy program funded by taxpayer sapproved by Trudeau. Trudeau, Telford, Butts, Chagger, Taggert and Hajdu, Tait the Pres. of the CBC who lamemted about American cultural imperialism and lives in New York City must resign. Alexandre (Sassy Sasha) Trudeau the mansion living brother of Justin and Maggie their pot smoking drug casualty cocaine and psilocybin bipolar, slut Mom must return all the money plus the expenses. $700k . Maggie the unattractive lives in a dingy Mtl apt. alone because no man wants her which because of her slovenly habits catches fire. Her sons Sacha and Justin with their inherited mansions and Justin's 2 million dollar Mercedes-Benz won't allow Maggie to live with them fearing for their children's lives. The Trudeau crooks gave tax payer dollars to WE to help out Mommy fornicator . They are engaged in a total coverup and the RCMP and Toronto Police and CRA and OPP just cash their cheques and do nothing with the CBC along for the ride. SNC-Lavalin. The Admiral Mark Norman debacle where the Liberals trumped up criminal charges against him only to later retract and apologize and give him taxpayer hush money to stay quiet. 5 times the Liberals have been cited by their own appointed Ethics Commissioner. DEFUND THE CBC. It costs taxpayers $1.3 billion ayear to prop it up. Turn the CBC Vancouver building over to developers make it 20% welfare disabilty rental housing and 10% low income or O.A.S. rental.Voting Tory. Talk of a summer election. All sorts of senior military resigning or being investigated for illegal sex stuff.MP Amos a Quebec Liberal was caught twice on live video while on working hours showing his penis he has not been charged for some reason and refuses to resign his well paying taxpayer funded job.
"Federal employees yesterday won a new day off with pay in the name of Indigenous
reconciliation. The Senate unanimously passed cabinet's holiday bill into law amid
complaints over the $388.9 million cost: 'It's easier to give bureaucrats the day off here
than it is to work on the more pressing but difficult issues that are facing Indigenous
communities every day of the week.'"
https://www.blacklocks.ca/new-holiday-for-fed-staffers/ (paywall)
Why does CBC NN always have the red Liberal logo on the right of its screen? Canadian taxpayers have to pay $1.3 billion a year for this useless anachronistic media outlet . Least they can do is rotate the corporate logo red one day, the next day blue for the Tories the next Orange for the NDP and then Green for the Greens and then whatever the colour of the Bloc. Defund the CBC end the media slush fund. During the Olympics the CBC has been showing their logo on the tv feed either white or black.
$420 million taxpayers dollars to Algoma Steel to get them off coal. Corporate welfare from Liberal govt.
Former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance has been charged with one count of obstruction of justice under the Criminal Code, allegedly for attempting to persuade a woman to make false statements about their past relationship.
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