Glastonbury Fayre

The band with Arthur Brown was "Kingdom Come" who were very strange & excellent too. the diddly-aye band was almost certainly Fairport Convention, and they did rock IIRC. I remember their violinist, Dave Swarbrick rubbibg his hands together at one point, if that's any help with ID. The band at the very end was Traffic (a toss up between them and Arthur Brown's Kingdom con as to who was the highlight IMO) The band with all the H4r3 Kr!5Hn4 shenanigans was Quintessence (terrible IMO) the band you don't see, b/c they show hippies fucking in a field (yeuch) is Gong, I forget the number they played, but it's on their album "Camambert Electrique" which I love. I wish they'd filmed Gong rather than the fucking hippies. Other than that I remember some band with Alan White from yes on drums who weren't too hot. Be aware that there's also a ludicrously rare triple album of "Glastonbury Fayre", pheaturing Gong, Hawkwind, Bowie, Grateful Dead, Pink Fairies, Edgar Broughton Band, and....uh....some others. I paid fifty quid for my copy twenty years ago. I remember speaking to Nik Turner from Hawkwind about the same length ov time ago, and I got him to sign one of the inserts (it was a lavish package) he told be that the people who made the album didn't sell all the copies, and dumped the remaining ones in a skip. There was a pirate 2 x CD of this festival (IIRC the second Glastonbury fest) which you might find reasonably priced somewhere

Even more obscure is a Dutch Festival called "Stomping Ground", which was filmed. I saw a rather ratty betamax vid ov it a couple of years ago. It also featured Family, as well as Pink Floyd and Santana. The Floyd performance was very good IIRC. More when I dig out my Glastonbury rekkid (tomorrow)

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was anyone watching this movie on BBC Friday night? There was some good bands on it. There was Family (featuring a lead singer with an odd vocal style)

Damn I never knew this was on. Family lead singer was Roger Chapman (squawky voice certainly distinctive).

Thanks for the info, Norman. Could you give me an ID of the band (who were on before the Fairport Convention clip) who looked and sounded like Sly and the Family Stone? I just caught the last two mins of them but they were tearing up and just going "Oooooh" "Yeahhhhh" and so forth over funky guitars.

are kingdom come the band that did time captives? thats a good song