HW: Free Festivals

[Kirsten Procter]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, M Holmes wrote:

> 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.
>
 No... you're getting confused. No *way* is Ambridge about a mile from
the Stones, it's *much* further north than that. However, I think I'm
right in saying that they played in a field just outside Ambridge the
same year.

 HTH,

 Kirsten