42 years ago, I received this hand painted invitation to a free festival in t...

Julian Bond - 2018-09-26 10:22:17+0000 - Updated: 2018-09-26 10:22:17+0000

42 years ago, I received this hand painted invitation to a free festival in the ruined gardens of Rivington Pike near Chorley in Lancashire. I knew I still had it but it had gone missing and I'd been searching for it for 15 years at least. Yesterday it fell out of a bunch of old papers and yellowed copies of International Times.
http://internationaltimes.it/

There's a detailed write up here of the adventures we and others had.
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/rivington-pike-78.html

There's a postscript as well. Here And Now liked my write up so much, they asked me to do the liner notes for one of their Live CDs of their set at the festival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_%26_Now_(band)

Julian Bond - 2018-09-26 10:28:49+0000

In another instalment of festival memories, I did a post on a Stonehenge group on facebook. It was asking about which fields the various 70s Stonehenge festivals actually occupied. It seems that we all disagree and the Uk Free Festivals site has at least 3 diagrams which are all different. That led to a conversation about Caesar's Camp '78. Another commentor said he'd been there as well. Then that he'd run the free food kitchen. Then that I'd helped peeling spuds on the Bank Holiday Monday. So we must have sat next to each other.