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Seeing an Ad for Fairport Convention at a local club reminded me of this :
They had agreed to appear in a special television show in which they would play alongside their only folk-rock rivals, Fairport Convention, on Ainsdale Beach, just north of Liverpool. As the performance was being given just for television, it had been arranged that a token crowd of about 200 should come along as the audience. Unfortunately a Liverpool newspaper got the story totally wrong and announced that there was to be a free festival.
The result was utter chao 5,000 people turned up.The two bands stayed around for a while to play for the crowds when the recording was over and then - as more and more people kept arriving - the man operating the generator brought proceedings to an abrupt halt by driving the generator van away. It was then that the gallant Ainsdale police, all three of them, arrived to tell of another 5,000 people boarding trains in Liverpool. The resulting 10,000 furious fans first demolished the empty stage, then promptly set fire to it.
yep I was there Kanuck It's been mentioned on the music spot already (by me I think) have a look through, it was fairport and steeleye span. most of what you say is correct but there wasn't really any trouble can't remember the fire bit either, the tv company were really shortsighted and the whole thing was badly organised from the outset, it couldn't happen today
I have sent this thread, and Xroad's photo, to a gentleman who runs a Steeleye Span website. He would like more precise details of when the concert took place. Short of consulting the Viz archives (difficult for me) - is the information available anywhere online?
Touring with Tull also gave Steeleye their first experience in rock hysteria. At the Empire, Edinburgh, the band were beseiged by fans who came crawling up the drainpipes looking for Tull. Just a little later in the summer of 1971, Steeleye were involved in a riot of their own.
They had agreed to appear in a special television show in which they would play alongside their only folk-rock rivals, Fairport Convention, on Ainsdale Beach, just north of Liverpool. As the performance was being given just for television, it had been arranged that a token crowd of about 200 should come along as the audience. Unfortunately a Liverpool newspaper got the story totally wrong and announced that there was to be a free festival.
The result was utter chaos 5,000 people turned up.The two bands stayed around for a while to play for the crowds when the recording was over and then - as more and more people kept arriving - the man operating the generator brought proceedings to an abrupt halt by driving the generator van away. It was then that the gallant Ainsdale police, all three of them, arrived to tell of another 5,000 people boarding trains in Liverpool. The resulting 10,000 furious fans first demolished the empty stage, then promptly set fire to it.
It's also referred to on the liner notes of their compilation CD "Marrowbones".
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