'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,isitthatlongago!
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 11:44 PM

I was 18 and off to Manchester University that year. My best friend's Dad drove us from Nottingham and got as close as he could then left us to walk across fields to the concert area. It seemed to take forever and we had no idea if we were ever going to get there.

Eventually we found the concert area but wee must have been at least 200 yrds from the stage.

My most vivid memories were:
1. The Byrds (who had been billed to play an "acoustic" set) played their first song with acoustic guitars. Then one group member said something like "that wasn't what you came here to hear" and they picked up their electric guitars and rocked through their set much to the audiences appreciation.

2. By mid afternoon there was a cloud over the whole audience area. No it wasn't about to rain, everybody was just getting high and we didn't even have to pay for it :)

3. One of the English groups, I think it was Steeleye Span started playing a gig and everybody started clapping along. But they suddenly stopped and asked the back half of the audience to stop clapping. It was so far back from the stage that by the time the sound reached the group there was actually a delay and they couldn't follow the beat.

4. James Taylor was definitely the star of the show. I think he started his set just before midnight and nobody wanted it to end

Then in the early hours of Sunday morning we walked back through the fields and the stink of the ditches used as toilets, to find my friends father patiently waiting for us to return

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: doncatterall
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 07:41 AM

Drove there from Manchester in an old ford van I had just bought - my mate Eric (Rowan) accompanied me as I hadn't passed my driving test - wonder where he is now??

Brilliant festival - remember watching Carthy & Swarb as the last act by the light of the blazing bogs!

Don

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 09:47 AM

Threads like this are the reason for GigMemories - a Global Gig Archive !!!

http://www.gigmemories.com

If anyone has any definitive lists of who was on where, and when, get them posted on this site :-)

Pa

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 11:39 AM

So who is Guest dad then. Mine is also up there, so I doubt its him.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Banjiman
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 11:26 AM

He'll be calling from the great Morris Dance in the sky then.

I knew Mudcat was special but I din't know we had links up there......

He wouldn't have been there, far to newfangled and no Morris to play for..... unless anyone knows different?

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 11:22 AM

Oh dear a banjidad :-)

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Dad.
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 11:20 AM

She will have :-)

Dad.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Banjiman
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 09:28 AM

I think my Mum was there. I'll check this weekend and see if she has a tale or two.

Paul

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 09:01 AM

Hey I remember seeing Dick Appleton going all misty eyed over this festival.
So I guess he is older than he looks even?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:28 PM

John Chambers who runs the 2nd time round folk club in Beeston Nottingham was there - I think he told me, he did a spot.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,DeltaFred
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 05:51 PM

I think that John Rouse has the acts in the wrong order. That is maybe the order they should have performed. I remember walking from the car park listening to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee quite early on, we were there all day and did not miss much. Buffy Sainte Marie was definitely after them. The stand out act for me was Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee but I am an old blues fan. It was a really friendly festival and very enjoyable. Does anyone else remember the ritual torching of the toilets after dark, best thing for them unless you really needed them, but by that time no one cared.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: skipy
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:14 PM

I was there! I still have my prog. & ticket, it was where I first saw Harvey Andrews, the rest is history!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 May 09 - 01:49 PM

I thought this thread had died... It makes me feel OLD!!!! I'll probably die before it does!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,John (Jockey) McVey
Date: 05 May 09 - 12:48 PM

I remember building a wooden shack with old bits of wood, plastic bags n' straw. Called it "Lovesville"

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Lissa
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 06:05 AM

I remember this as one of the best festivals I ever went to. The Incredible String Band were brilliant. Buffy St Marie was great too. I remember having a very brief hallucination that James Taylor was playing a serpent and not a guitar. This was probably provoked by all the signs about there being adders in the woods.

It was a really friendly festival.

Yes I did have some trouble getting away and ended up walking to town on a very misty morning/dawn with a few other people so that I could catch a coach home. This was a very magical walk and has stuck in my memory ever since. It was just like that line from a String Band song about the misty, twisty day.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 03:02 AM

I see that it is possible to buy a poster of this event - on the following site.

http://rockmusicmemorabilia.com/posters.html

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 07:46 PM

The main toilets consisted of a pit about 8 ft deep - 12ft wide and about 50ft long. Suspended over this was some rough planking devided into back to back cubicles with a hole cut for one's bum.

Sitting there was a real all-round sensual pleasure and even if you did not use your eyes to look down - you could still smell and hear all the contributions of your neighbours falling to the bottom - with a resounding splat!

Perhaps if I write about this experience - I will be able to forget it?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 04:45 PM

I suppose you had to 'bring that up' Shambles!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:27 AM

I must have seen all the acts on the bill but it is interesting how few of these performances I can bring to mind. Not too sure what this means however? Most probably it means that only a few of the perfomances were truly memorable.......

Sonny and Brownie - James Taylor I do remember enjoying very much but Buffy St Marie really stands out. However, I was surprised then how much the performance of The Byrds easily eclipsed everyone else on the bill.

But I do have a general feeling that this was a festival that I enjoyed a lot. And whatever substances were then fuddling my mind - I will never be able to forget every detail of the toilets.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 03:59 AM

Just need to work on yours now Les! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Rasener
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 01:51 AM

Thats good then Mike - something has got your brain working again LOL :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 05:03 PM

That has brought even more memories flooding back...I followed Steeleye Span for years.....Spent time chatting to Pentangle and Ralph Mc Tell.....Amazing how memories re-appear.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,John Rouse
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 04:57 PM

"A concert of Contemporary and Traditional Folk Music, Tupholme Manor Park, Tupholme, Bardney, Nr Lincoln. Saturday July 24th.

Welcome to Tupholme Manor Park. We have tried to present a varied bill from the world of Traditional and Contemporary Folk Music and have placed the emphasis on quality throughout the entire programme. We hope you will enjoy todays concert. Frederick Bannister Productions Ltd."

List of artists in order of appearance

Ralph McTell
Steeleye Span
Tim Hardin
Pentangle
Dion
Incredible String Band
Buffy Sainte Marie
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Tom Paxton
The Byrds
Sandy Denny
James Taylor
Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy

I still have the tickets - an all day ticket was £2.

My two memories are sitting on the front bumper of Tom Paxtons roller talking to Ralph McTell amidst a fog of wacky backy fumes, and making our way across a muddy field to the strains of Buffy Sainte Marie, trying to find our way back to the bus stop. Needless to say we missed the train home and spent the night on Lincoln Bus Station.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 02:24 PM

A few more -

Tom Paxton, Tim Hardin, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Ralph Mctell, Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 11:21 AM

Yes Shambles..that's the one...I thought Buffy St Marie was tremendous. Of all of her songs, I think the theme song from "Soldier Blue" was by far the best....Julie Felix, who is still around and appearing at Gainsborough Folk Festival this year. Brian...(forget his surname) from Lancashire. My memory of it is also a bit fuddled but so was my head at the time.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 09:09 AM

Is it this one?

Subject: Where you there? Lincoln(UK) folk fest 1970?
From: The Shambles - PM
Date: 18 Apr 99 - 07:50 PM

I was thinking of this one for anther thread but with my failing memory I was going to forget someone that was memorable..... Can anyone help me complete the list of artistes appearing?
This was for, what I think was a one off Festival, of all acoustic acts, but on the lines of the big rock festivals held at the time. It was held at Lincoln UK in 1969, 70 or 71... I wonder why I can't remember it better?

I suppose this is a bit of a long shot but there were a lot of people there after all, so there must be someone out there who can help. They will surely will never forget the toilets, which was a long trench, well I won't go into that now, but I nearly did then!


Sandy Denny Band
The Incredible String Band
The Byrds
Buffy St Marie
James Taylor
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Dion



That list was in no order at all.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 04:41 AM

Didn't realise you were around in that era GS. did you ever get to the Grantham folk club - there used to be a bloke there called Roger the Postman who sang sea shanties.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 03:55 AM

I remember riding on a trailer behind a tractor and paying some extortionate fee for doing so! At that time I was working at Burtons the Tailors in Lincoln and my wife ran a Childrens Home on St Giles Estate. Great festival though:
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: BS: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 05:42 PM

Clearing out some of my wife's stuff, I found a programme for the Folk Festival at Bardney in 1971. I just wondered if any other mudcatters were there - and if they had the same trouble getting home?