Nice find mate, and I am touched you dedicated this to me. Bless ya. I like the way Stuart stands up to the crowd, obviously too much falling down juice had been consumed. "Ya Goats!" Hilarious.
Stuart also stopped the gig in Belfast 19.12.84 to be-little the eejit that threw a bottle onstage. Stuart is legend, his like will never be seen again..
Yeah I remember the bottles ...the whole festival felt like some medieval battle with fires and flags at sunset ...the atmosphere was electric....and it got pretty intense during big country and the following day with marillion..
i too was at Reading that weekend. i think they banned bottle throwing cos the year before just got so out of hand. Big Country were deffo one of the highlights of the weekend
the can/bottle fight was a reading tradition.i remember an epic one one saturday just after john peel had read the football results lol.fucking party 7s the lot going over.buns cake pizzas bloody corn on the cob.not usual;ly at the bands mostly between the two areas in fron of each stage over the press gangway,tee hee good times.
i thought the bottling was cool... when big country and marillion the next day came on about the same time during the sunset reading rock festival looked like some kind of medival battle ground with banners rising up from the crowds with wood smoke in the air and these plastic bottle fights starting up all over the place. Had to watch out for the full ones tho... i can only assume they were full of piss. Great atmosphere ... it would never happen today ..too sterile.
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Nice find mate, and I am touched you dedicated this to me. Bless ya.
I like the way Stuart stands up to the crowd, obviously too much falling down juice had been consumed. "Ya Goats!" Hilarious.
First time I saw Big Country was at Reading 1983 and I remember this incident. Stuart Adamson had the crowd in his hand. Best band of the day.
I was there! First time I heard this band. I saw them 2 weeks ago in Lincoln. Still amazing!!
I was the clown that detonated the gas canister in the arena lol!
I remember this, standing listening to him . I felt proud to be scottish.
Stuart also stopped the gig in Belfast 19.12.84 to be-little the eejit that threw a bottle onstage. Stuart is legend, his like will never be seen again..
LOL "ya goats!" Love this too. You're welcome, my friend.
I was there, and my mate Gary had his nose broken from "incoming" bottles. For all that, it was bloody brilliant!
Yeah I remember the bottles ...the whole festival felt like some medieval battle with fires and flags at sunset ...the atmosphere was electric....and it got pretty intense during big country and the following day with marillion..
i too was at Reading that weekend. i think they banned bottle throwing cos the year before just got so out of hand. Big Country were deffo one of the highlights of the weekend
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the can/bottle fight was a reading tradition.i remember an epic one one saturday just after john peel had read the football results lol.fucking party 7s the lot going over.buns cake pizzas bloody corn on the cob.not usual;ly at the bands mostly between the two areas in fron of each stage over the press gangway,tee hee good times.
i thought the bottling was cool... when big country and marillion the next day came on about the same time during the sunset reading rock festival looked like some kind of medival battle ground with banners rising up from the crowds with wood smoke in the air and these plastic bottle fights starting up all over the place. Had to watch out for the full ones tho... i can only assume they were full of piss. Great atmosphere ... it would never happen today ..too sterile.