Weeley Festival, 1971

I'd go again: all those great acts. And Ted's cider. Though to be clear, we took that with us.

Van der Graaf Generating at Weeley

Van der Graaf Generator – Weeley Festival, 28.8.1971

Having written about Peter Hammill and VDGG, here’s a link to what I think is a great bootleg recording [1971!] at one of the greatest unknown festivals ever, much of which I do remember and have written about here and there on this blog.

Setlist for this gig is

Darkness

Lost

Man-Erg

Killer

After the Flood

I Once Wrote Some Poems

Theme One

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Hippies' Apostrophe Stinker

The lamentable missuse of the apostrophe is not, as contemporary pedants would claim, a newish problem - not that I consider it pedantic to use this essential punctuation mark correctly.

Admittedly, far worse than its cross-gender missapplication at the Weeley Festival, Clacton-on-Sea, August, 1971, were the facilities themselves. I believe the female provisions were relatively superior, with buckets provided, but the male plumbing consisted of a deep trench, scaffolding and occasional boards - this construction element the nuance provided for those needing a poo. I didn't walk that lavatorial plank, as far as I recall.

I trust my readers can spot the three errors.