Festivals and events
Live Review by Alan Smith, NME, April 1963
MIKE BERRY burst into the second half to the throbbing beat of 'La Bamba'. Close on its heels came his current release 'My Little Baby' ...
Live Review by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, June 1965
Most Fantastic Show Ever! ...
Donovan, Petula Clark: Fun, Work Behind The Cameras At Filming of 2nd T.A.M.I. Show
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, December 1965
A COUPLE OF weeks ago The BEAT took you behind the scenes of a recording session to show you that it was not so easy ...
Monterey Pops! An International Pop Festival
Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, for Newsweek, June 1967
Reporting for Newsweek took me to Monterey. I'd gone to work for Newsweek right out of college in 1965 – I was a reporter in ...
Monterey Pops! An International Pop Festival (2)
Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, for Newsweek, June 1967
Part TwoDAY TWO was over and Sunday came grey and cold, but the excitement was still there and growing. Could anyone believe what had happened, ...
The Bloodless Battle Of The Badge: The Press at Monterey Pop
Report by Derek Taylor, World Countdown News, July 1967
THE CLEAN YOUNG man at the window said he was from the Los Angeles Times and there was nothing in his face to say he ...
Rolling Stones, The: Monterey Pop Festival: Brian Jones
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
BEAT: Can you comment about what's happening this weekend in Monterey? ...
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...
Eric Burdon: Monterey Pop Festival: Eric Burdon — 'It Was A Good Beginning'
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
"I THINK THE Monterey Festival was agood beginning for what may follow in the next few years. But I think there were a lot of ...
Mamas and The Papas, The: Monterey Pop Festival: Mama Cass — 'I Want A Bit Of Freedom Myself'
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
BEAT: What's your reaction to what's going on here, Cass? ...
Monterey Pop Festival: How The Happening Happened
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
THE MONTEREY International Pop Festival was a fantastic success by all accounts. It was a real victory for the art of pop music over commerical ...
Where’s the Money from Monterey Pop?
Report by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, November 1967
For the first issue of Rolling Stone in November, 1967, editor Jann Wenner asked me to do an investigative piece on what had happened to ...
Grateful Dead: The First European International Pop Festival: Pigpen To Meet Pope?
Report by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, February 1968
THE FIRST EUROPEAN International Pop Festival, a resounding name for a still rather mysterious event, is being planned for Rome's huge Palazzo dello Sport February ...
Live Review by Ann Moses, NME, August 1968
NEWPORT FESTIVAL FAILURE ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Isle of Wight Pop Festival
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1968
A SMALL bronze medal should be struck and presented to all the survivors of the Isle of Wight Pop Festival. They are the brave men ...
Live Review by Carol Deck, Flip, December 1968
THE ONLY THING really wrong with the Newport Pop Festival held recently in Orange Country, Calif, was that it wasn't in Monterey. ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1969
Following Blind Faith to the shores of a lake ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, July 1969
A ZEPPELIN attacked the City of Bath on Saturday, and gassed 120,000. Airship Commander Jimmy Page kept the most fearsome dirigible in progressive blues aloft ...
Rolling Stones, The, Family: The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park: Out of the Way
Report by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, July 1969
A world turned upside down ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, July 1969
CHRIS WELCH SAYS: 'Somehow the magic worked' ...
Johnny Winter: Forest Hills Music Festival, Queens NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, July 1969
Agility Marks Blues By Johnny Winter At Forest Hills Fete ...
Report by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, August 1969
BETHEL, N.Y. – About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked. For them and the overwhelmed residents of this Catskills ...
Bob Dylan, Band, The: Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, September 1969
The gospel according to Dylan ...
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, January 1970
Garden Thronged for Songfest In Aid of Vietnam Moratorium ...
Recollected in Tranquility: Woodstock
Report by Mike Jahn, Music & Artists, June 1970
IN AUGUST 1969 we pulled into Woodstock, feeling about half-past dead. I had to go there and write about three days of love, peace and ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: Three Shades Of Wight
Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, September 1970
APART FROM the music, what went on at the Isle of Wight last weekend? Here are the most popular theories. ...
Report by uncredited writer, Mick Farren, International Times, September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, September 1970
JOHN SEBASTIAN brought a little sunshine into a gloomy Hyde Park, London, on Saturday. ...
Melanie: Festivals: Powder Ridge A Ball Anyway
Report by Danny Fields, Circus, October 1970
Let me take you down Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real Nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever Strawberry Fields forever ...
James Taylor, Alex Taylor: James and Alex Taylor: And He Played Real Good For Free
Report by Al Aronowitz, Melody Maker, April 1971
CHILMARK, MASSACHUSETTS.The Island Children's School gave its first annual benefit concert here last January 12 and if you've read The Vineyard Gazette then you know ...
Rock Festivals: Sometimes You Can Even Hear The Music
Overview by Mike Jahn, New York Times, July 1971
"EVERYONE'S SAYING the music's for free" — that's the line from a recent rock album by singer David Crosby. But there have been signs that ...
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, August 1971
Raga and Rock Link 2 Cultures ...
The First Great Rock Festival Of The Seventies
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Ink, October 1971
Isle of Wight/Atlanta — a CBS 3 record set ...
Hawkwind, Frank Zappa: The Foulk Brothers: Pop Promoting Blues
Report by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1972
"RONNIE..." RONALD Foulk's secretary broke into the conference. "Will you accept a transfer call from America?" ...
George Harrison: The Concert For Bangla Desh
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, January 1972
If you buy only one LP in 1972, make it this one ...
Report by uncredited writer, Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1972
The new Plastic Ono Band comes to Ann Arbor to Free John Sinclair – Starring David Peel, Archie Shepp, Ed Sanders, Stevie Wonder, Commander Cody, ...
Universal Exhibition: The Bickershaw Festival
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1972
"FESTIVALS," SAID Tommy Chong, leaning up against the RCA caravan at Bickershaw, "are just camping out with a light show." ...
Grateful Dead, Flamin' Groovies, The: Grateful Dead et al: Bickershaw Festival, Lancashire
Report by Nick Kent, Frendz, June 1972
BICKERSHAW, A SLEEPY little Northern town, had certainly never seen anything like it before. Coronation St had been invaded by the day glow kids and ...
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1972
Mr. Beck we salute you ...
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, September 1972
THE SIGNS were there once again at what was in effect just another one-day festival that a bummer was to be had by one and ...
Report by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1972
SUNDAY’S KGB "Charity Ball" was important for one reason: the concert proved that people in large numbers can still come together for an event and ...
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, July 1973
LIKE THE WEATHER, the music at London’s White City on Sunday was a mixture of fair and foul. ...
Mardi Gras: The Complete Mardi Gras Primer
Guide by Jim Esposito, Creem, March 1974
NEW ORLEANS – a party town without peer – annually hosts one solid week of rampant, unadulterated Bachanalia. It's called Mardi Gras. Sort of an ...
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1975
WHERE THE HELL is Lou Reed?Good question, if a trifle academic, but eminently suited for whiling away times in the coach by discussing. ...
Report by Mick Farren, NME, August 1975
MICK FARREN visits the Notting Hill Carnival ...
The Selling Of Reading Festival
Report by Chris Salewicz, NME, August 1975
THE SUN was westering in a haze of towering cumulus, fire-orange against midnight black, filling the still air with speckled light, as we came over ...
Windsor/Watchfield Festival: The Smallest Story Ever Told
Report by Andrew Tyler, NME, August 1975
Meanwhile...out west on Windsor's High Chaparral, a wandering hippie couple in search of the Ultimate Alternative Festival are waylaid by a pack of journalists hungering ...
Little Feat, Outlaws, The, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The, Who, The: The Who: Who-ray!
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1976
"Will the people on the lighting tower please get-off because it's very dangerous and we are afraid that tower might go" – Nicky Horne, Capital ...
Hawkwind, Curved Air, Status Quo, Strawbs, The: Status Quo: Quo Storm The Castle
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, July 1976
Rock festivals in Wales always tempt providence, as many a Marley or 10cc fan can attest. But at Cardiff Castle last Saturday, the sun shone ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Final Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Memoir by Al Aronowitz, Circus, September 1977
I HAD TO talk Miles into going to Jimi's funeral with me. ...
Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe: The Stiff Tour: Stiffs Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1977
"SEX AND drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll..." Hot damn, m'man, Leicester University is ...
Santana, Dave Mason, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Foreigner, Heart, Bob Welch: The California Jam Festival
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, April 1978
THERE WEREN'T even traffic jams. ...
Cramps, The, Mutants, The: The Cramps/The Mutants: Napa State Hospital, Napa CA
Live Review by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, July 1978
"LET'S DRIVE UP to the funny farm. The Cramps and Mutants are doin' a concert for the nuts; should be lotsa yuks." I wanna take ...
Graham Parker, Joan Armatrading, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan: Blackbushe Festival - Nice To See Ya, Bob
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, July 1978
...OR RATHER, IT would have been, but at least we heard him and that made the hassles worthwhile, reports our survivor of the million dollar ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Merger, John Otway, Doll By Doll, Clash, The: ZigZag: The Party (The Pain)
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1979
IT WAS OUR party... the day ZigZag came OUT. An erratic monthly "fanzine" (not owned by IPC or any other gardening clubs) celebrated ten years ...
Report by Paul Morley, NME, August 1979
EVENTS LIKE KNEBWORTH, the promoter Freddy Bannister had wanly predicted in Saturday's Guardian, cannot continue for much longer. The reasons for the inevitable decline and ...
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, August 1979
WELL, THAT'S OVER. No more Led Zeppelin front covers for a good while; no more wondering whether Mick would appear with the New Barbarians; no ...
Led Zeppelin: The Songs Remain The Same: Led Zeppelin at Knebworth Park
Live Review by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, October 1979
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Beat, The, Fleetwood Mac: The US Festival: Us & Them
Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, September 1982
That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...
Genesis, Peter Gabriel: Rhythm Of The Pete
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, October 1982
After the ambitious WOMAD Festival, the bailiffs cometh and PETER GABRIEL has decided to get himself out of hock – even if it means a ...
Led Zeppelin: Bath 1970: Confessions Of A Festival-Goer
Memoir by Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 1983
The 1970 Bath Festival: a personal view ...
Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, September 1983
A long, hot, emotional day it was too. Dublin's Phoenix Park throws open its gates to U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country and about 20,000 ...
Clash, The, Van Halen: US Festival ’83: No More In ‘84
Report by John Mendelsohn, Record, The, Summer 1983
AFTER PUNK, audiences weren’t supposed to pay large amounts of money anymore for the privilege of watching superstars from the length of a football field ...
Bob Geldof: The Rat And The Band Aid "Saint"
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Sunday Times, December 1984
BOB GELDOF has been transformed from fading Boomtown Rat to charity superstar behind Christmas’s biggest pop hit, helping Ethiopian famine victims. Mick Brown reports. ...
Pictures That Rocked the World: Live Aid
Report by Steve Turner, Radio Times, July 1985
Fresh from co-writing the world’s fastest selling single, Bob Geldof is up to his eyes in organising the world’s biggest and most ambitious rock concert. ...
A Conspiracy of Hope: Amnesty International
Report by Charles Bermant, Globe and Mail, The, June 1986
A CONSPIRACY OF Hope, a package tour benefiting the human rights organization Amnesty International, kicked off at the Cow Palace Wednesday night with more than ...
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, August 1987
MATALLIC KO ...
Acid Crackdown: Sunrise III, Greenwich
Report by Simon Witter, NME, November 1988
2003 note: Sunrise III, which took place in November 1988 on an industrial wasteland that would later house the Dome, was a pivotal event in ...
Report by Michael Gray, Times, The, May 1990
IT HAS TAKEN the music industry five years to transform the rock-stars-for-charity mega-event from Bob Geldof's coherent effort to ameliorate a real tragedy to this ...
Live Review by Mat Snow, Q, August 1990
IN DAYS OF yore, the elders tell, the grassy slopes of Knebworth would resound to the pagan strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and ...
By the Time I Got Back to Woodstock
Essay by Steve Turner, Independent, The, August 1990
TO SALLY GROSSMAN, the living room of her Bearsville home near Woodstock in New York State is nothing extraordinary. It has an old fireplace, some ...
Jane's Addiction: Jane’s Addiction and Lollapalooza: A Woodstock For The Lost Generation
Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, August 1991
There’s no contest: this summer's biggest tour is the aptly titled Lollapalooza, a mobile rock festival featuring a bill of premier alternative bands – Siouxsie ...
Live Review by Keith Cameron, NME, September 1991
FRIDAY: IT WAS obvious, really – he had to say it. Who better than His Supreme Iggyness Of Pop, the Godfather of (s)punk rock, to ...
Review and Interview by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, July 1994
WOOSTOCK BEGAN ON A GOLF course. Three years before they were to be responsible for Governor John Rockefeller declaring the Woodstock Festival area "a state ...
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 1994
THE DIFFERENCE between Lollapalooza 1994 and Lollapolooza Past is that this year Perry Farrell and colleagues decided the music being offered couldn't just be loud, ...
Report by Andrew Mueller, Vox, October 1994
Only the pissing rain made Woodstock '94 faithful to the original. Mostly, it was a hyped-up, chaotic gathering of middle-class punters and middle-order bands. ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, June 1995
Pink Floyd, The Soft Machine, The Move... Some of Swinging London's swingiest played at the legendary International Times benefit at Alexandra Palace. Johnny Black rounds up a ...
Peace, Love, Music: Woodstock Revisited
Retrospective by Tom Graves, American History, February 1996
"IT'S A NEW dawn," Grace Slick, lead singer for the Jefferson Airplane, told a swelling crowd of 400,000 at Woodstock, the most famous music gathering ...
T. Rex: Eyewitness: The First Glastonbury Festival, September 19-20, 1970
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, July 1996
No Glastonbury this year! No matter! Let Q whisk you back to the first festival of Pop, Folk & Blues At Worthy Farm – a ...
Interview by Carla DeSantis, Rockrgrl, July 1997
MOVE OVER, Lollapalooza. This year's summer traveling festival to watch is the Lilith Fair, the brain-child of Canadian artist Sarah McLachlan. ...
Report by Chris Smith, Performing Songwriter, The, March 1998
IF YOU HAD said to someone twenty years ago that Ireland was hot, they would have assumed you'd never been, because, truthfully, the place is ...
Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Who, The: Monterey International Pop Festival
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998
Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...
Glastonbury: Pop Feast Kicked Off By Football
Report by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, June 1998
Caroline Sullivan sorts fab from drab ...
R.E.M., Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert: People Have The Power
Report by Paul Lester, Uncut, August 1998
MONDAY, JUNE 15, THE CAPITOL BUILDINGIt is 10 days before Bill Clinton's historic first presidential visit to China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. An ...
Live Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, August 1998
AFTER THE quagmire of 1997 it surely couldn’t be Pop Passchendaele II could it? Oh yes it could. Unlike last year, when the Glasto monsoon ...
A Day in the Garden: Woodstock Revisited
Live Review by Richard Younger, Midtown Resident, Summer 1998
It took 29 years, but on Saturday, Aug. 15, I finally made it back for "A Day in the Garden". What attracted me to the ...
Eyewitness: March 1952 — The First Rock'n'Roll Concert
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, February 1999
10,000 people smashed down the doors to get in, none of the bands were paid and one man was stabbed in the arse. After the ...
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, August 1999
Woodstock. August 15, 16, 17, 1969. Three days of peace, love and music. For the past thirty years, it has been touted as a new ...
Newport Notes: How the Jazz and Folk Festivals made history
Retrospective and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, August 1999
"WELL, THIS IS real bullshit!" yelled Eddie Condon. ...
Spirit of '69 Woodstock Alive At Falcon Ridge
Comment by Chris Smith, Billboard, August 1999
BLAME IT ON the heat. Blame it on poor security. Blame it on the cause/effect relationship between artist persona and audience behavior. Blame it on ...
Comment by Tom Cox, Guardian, The, September 1999
HERE'S A JOKE. Last night, I met an alien outside a pub in north London. We got chatting about hobbies and stuff, and he ended ...
Rolling Stones, The: Altamont: An Eyewitness Account
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, November 1999
The Rosy Apocalypse ALTAMONT, 6th December, 1969. The name itself is fraught with menace – its flinty suggestive syllables (altar-mountain-tumult) reinforcing biblical overtones. ("The ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 1)
Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, June 2000
IT WASN'T YOUR typical ribbon cutting. Gazillionaire Paul Allen smashed a Stratocaster made of unflavored green rock candy, designed especially for the occasion by glass ...
Jimi Hendrix: Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 2)
Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, July 2000
SHORTLY BEFORE BO Diddley began his set at the Experience Music Project celebration, Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding approached him with greetings from a ...
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
My my, hey hey, hard rock will never die. OK, it doesn’t scan quite as well as ol’ Neil’s line, but you get my drift. ...
Life Support: Michael and Emily Eavis
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Observer, The, June 2001
Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival – taking a rest this year – and his youngest daughter Emily. ...
Report by Sheryl Garratt, Observer, The, August 2001
IT'S A WARM Sunday afternoon, and I'm stretched out on the grass watching white clouds blow across blue sky, while Norman Jay plays some of ...
Peter Green, Van Morrison, Nina Simone: Bishopstock 2001: Nina Simone and Van Morrison
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, September 2001
Two cantankerous legends hold court in the Devon sunshine ONE FESTIVAL, THREE DAYS, four major cancellations... and two obstreperous veterans doing their thang on Bank ...
Bob Dylan, George Harrison: George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, March 2002
The first hi-profile multi-star benefit concert of the post-psychedelic era. Harrison, Dylan and Shankar strut their stuff alongside Clapton, Ringo and Leon Russell. ...
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, May 2002
"IF YOU LOOK right through the centre of the Pyramid stage," says Michael Eavis, waving at the steel framework that squats surreally in the middle ...
The Meeting of the ‘Twain: Monterey Pop and the Great California Divide
Special Feature by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2002
"TRAVELING UP the Coast from the ruins of the Sunset Strip to the Haight is a Dante-esque ascent," New Yorker Richard Goldstein could write of ...
Isaac Hayes: A Black Woodstock: Wattstax
Retrospective and Interview by James Maycock, Guardian, The, July 2002
Intro: This is about 1000 words longer than the version published by The Guardian. There’s much more on the concert, more quotations and more on ...
Jefferson Airplane: The End Of The Beginning: Jefferson Airplane at Altamont
Book Excerpt by Jeff Tamarkin, Helter Skelter Books, Summer 2003
THE VIOLENCE AT Altamont had begun before the Airplane even arrived, when a number of Hell’s Angels, who had been amassing near the stage, wantonly ...
Windor 1974: The Forgotten Festival – I Was There
Memoir by Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, June 2004
A world away from today's money-spinning Glastonbury, the Windsor Free Festival of 1974 was illegal, drug-happy and absurdly idealistic, recalls Mark Hudson ...
Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Staple Singers, The: Wattstax
Retrospective by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, July 2004
THE BIGGEST soul concert ever was about to end in a riot. ...
Janis Joplin, Band, The, Grateful Dead: Choo Choo Ch’Boogie: Festival Express 1970
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2004
IT WAS THE Lollapalooza of its day – a week-long, three-date circus of a rock and roll tour featuring The Band, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, ...
Bob Geldof: Live Aid: The View From The Pitch
Memoir by Pete Paphides, Observer, The, October 2004
Nothing was going to stop a schoolboy fan of the Boomtown Rats making it to Wembley on that fateful day. Peter Paphides recalls every high ...
Live8: Just Another Gig – With Added Feelgood Factor
Comment by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, June 2005
NEARLY EVERY A-lister worth the name is doing their bit, making Live8 the first truly all-star charity show since Live Aid. Madonna! U2! Coldplay! You ...
Terrastock Festival: Providence, Rhode Island
Report and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, March 2006
THE SIXTH Terrastock Festival--that bastion of psychedelia, nu-folk and experimental music that grew out of Britain's revered Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine--will take place April 21-23 in ...
Beastie Boys, The, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen: Utah Saints: Sundance Music Festival
Interview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, May 2006
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Retrospective by Joel Selvin, MOJO, Summer 2007
ALL THROUGH the previous year, word filtered out of San Francisco about remarkable happenings and a strange new community of youths gathering around the city's ...
My Bloody Valentine, Amy Winehouse: Bestival, Isle of Wight ***
Report by Rick Pearson, Evening Standard, September 2008
Still bloody loud and clear at Bestival ...
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
Film/DVD Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2009
4-DVD, 2-Blue-Ray set comprising the original 1970 documentary of the ultimate rock festival, with two hours of new footage plus a new 50-minute documentary about ...
Various Artists: Woodstock 40 (Rhino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, July 2009
WE ARE ALL so inured these days to the business of rock festivals – sponsored, multi-generational, beamed into our living rooms – that it's difficult ...
Led Zeppelin: I Was There: Nostalgic Recollections From Led Zeppelin's 1979 Shows at Knebworth
Book Excerpt by Dave Lewis, Then As It Was (Tight But Loose Publishing), August 2009
FOR THE THOUSANDS of fans who converged on Hertfordshire over the first two weekends of August 1979, Led Zeppelin at Knebworth was more than a ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, August 2009
Radiohead's modern jazz wrong-foots the crowd ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, September 2009
40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...
Guns N' Roses: Reading Festival, Berkshire
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, August 2010
Axl flounders as Reading made to wait for its rock fix ...
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2011
STEVE VAN ZANDT, May 2011, Lillehammer, Norway: "The anti-apartheid Sun City project (single, album, video, documentary, book, teaching guide) was a high point and a ...
Live Review by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, June 2012
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Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, July 2012
Snow Patrol, Simon Le Bon and Ricky Gervais's beard strike a chord ...
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