HW: Free Festivals

[M Holmes]

Alastair Sumner writes:

> Last weekend's festival has got me looking around on the web for Stonehenge
> and Free Festival stuff. Check this site out http://tash.gn.apc.org/ It
> documents the lives of those involved in the travelling, free festival,
> free rave and protest cultures. There are alot of photos from the 80s and
> early 90s and it is interesting to look back on it all these years later.
> There are 1 or 2 of photos of Hawkwind in the 'live music' photography
> gallery. Does anyone know what year Hawkwind played at a big site where
> everyone gathered to walk to the stones on the Solstice? I think maybe it
> was Cholderton Woods. I'm sure it was either 87, 88 or 89. Anyone know for
> definite?

IIRC it was the layby on the back road out of Ambridge in 1987. It's
about a mile from the Stones.


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