The Bardney Pop Festival (1972) | BFI National Archive
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- Dive into the world of fuzz, fans, freaks and bands at the Great Western Express Festival, a live rock music extravaganza which caused controversy with the local Leicestershire residents one weather-beaten weekend in May 1972. Witness self-declared ‘square’ coppers cobbling together their old-school policing strategy; look on as the way-out long-hairs dig the groovy sounds - despite the lousy weather.
Atomic Rooster are captured onstage in their heyday in this fabulous compilation of fascinating footage shot for an Anglia Television documentary. Other notable acts at this contentious festival (at which the price of loon pants ranged between £2 and £2.60) included The Faces, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Beach Boys and an early incarnation of Genesis.
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I was a nine year old boy living in Bardney at the time, we had two bedraggled hippies knock at the door and ask for shelter.
Amazingly my Dad said yes and they could stay in the outhouse, the next night they slept in our lounge.
I have strong memories of it.
Peace
I was an American hitchhiking hippie when I stumbled onto this wonderful experience at the age of nineteen. It has remained one of my fondest memories in life.
I was with you maaan,hows it goin?im 97 now
I'll be 72 in July..those sure were great days my friend !@@Colin32269
I'll be 72 in July...still hanging in there.@@Colin32269
@@Colin32269 Going great...be 72 in July.
The house behind the chap being interviewed @ 1min 27 belonged to my grandparents who worked at Tupholme Hall Farm (Festival site). As kids we spent every day there and met some amazing people including Noddy Holder. Stanley Baker (one of the organisers and part of the money behind the event) came to have breakfast each morning with my gran, along with his son Martin. I remember they always turned up with something, bunch of flowers, chocolate and the most weird (now) trays of Ski yogurt .... Most memorable point, spending my birthday on stage (in the wings) whilst Slade played their full set and being introduced to all afterwards BRILL!
Reg, would you be a descendant of Cyril & Glad?
What memories this has brought back. I particularly remember Rory Gallagher doing 2 sets (wonderful) and the bloody rain. I wasn't 'dirty' when I got there, but we were certainly muddy when we left. And less said about the toilets the better. Festival facilities have certainly improved since those days. Cheers
Yes! It was the first time I'd seen Rory. He blew me away. I still can't get over that he stood in for Helen Reddy. Talk about chalk and cheese.
3 Of us went from Sheff/Rotherham in my mates Ford Corsair,I thought at first that was it at 3mins 10sec,but dont think so now...great times the 70's,you can never bring them back...but..you can't take away the great memories as me and my old mate says...and we are still great mates now in our mid 60's
Not far different from the eighties except the flares and long hair.But some bands of the 70s and even 60s still did some festivals
Leicestershire? Please get your facts right! My Father in Law was the Landlord of the Nags Head and we had a fantastic few days rammed out, everyone had a great time and absolutely no signs of trouble. Happy Days.
Came to this with a friend we travelled all the way from Southampton all I remember is weather being awful it was my first visit to lincolnshire now live nearby as my late wife was from this part of the world
The guy at the beginning is quite impressed with himself lol.."if theres a buildup of young people outside the walls,the security will contact me in my flat and I will release the hounds upon the children"
I was there for 8 days , what a wonderfull time . Stanley came on stage to raptuous applause. Seen all the best bands and experienced the love and good spirit of the people ( except the police ). Last of the great festivals.
Loving this, but surely it was Lincolnshire. I got the train to Lincoln, and a short bus ride to the festival.
yes it was lincolnshire
I remember it was in Lincoln.
Great video, captures the times. Thank you. More music.
They were great times I was a plumber 16 years old my boss said I had to get my hair cut because customers don't like people coming in their house with long hair.
I wouldn't change anything
I was there. I am the one with long hair …
I remember I snuck in through a hole in the fence the first day. On the second day I bought a tab of Orange Sunshine from some guy in in the crowd for the equivalent of about 1 U.S. Dollar and had one hell of an adventure...
@@frankgoodwell1261 Orange Sunshine … someone told me that it rarely produced a bad trip, but instead induced an incredible feeling of euphoria. I never tried it. I had a good supply of Red Leb and managed to score some Black too while I was there! The red is lightweight. The black however, is some heavy wacky hash for sure, man. I was off my nut for most of the time, met an amazing, beautiful chick called Julie and we kept in touch for a long time afterwards even though we lived hundreds of miles from each other geographically. Those were the days of course before corporate greed took over.
Hitchhiked down from Crieff just to see Roxy Music. Everything else was a bonus. I remember an insane Joe Cocker, and a power cut during The Persuasions set - rumor was that somebody cut a power cable with an axe. As others have pointed out it was unlikely that the festival "caused controversy with the local Leicestershire residents", because it was in Lincolnshire.
The video was interesting from a nostalgic perspective, but I don't consider it a great example of the documentarians art.
I was there, as were P.F.M,from Italy, Locomotive G.T, from Hungary and Dutch band ,Focus.
Focus! Brilliant band!
First I've ever heard anyone mention Locomotive GT . Seen them in Indianapolis, Indiana in the mid 70s, they rocked
And PFM and Focus are still touring. Don't know about Locomotiv GT
Me and 4 mates went to this - we were all in RAF at Cranwell at the time, we hiked there and back. So I can assure the gentleman we weren’t all long haired and dirty. We had. Great time
Just dirty EH....🤣 only JOKING 🤗
@@roberttreborable oh trust me the women there were still mostly in the 60/70 vibe. Dirty was de riguer and in plentiful supply.
Bugger! I squinted like crazy all through this and didn't see myself anywhere.
Me too! Then I realised the problem was I wasn’t born until 1977
You were in a state of levitation...
@@greenbunnyinabongo7299I swear I wasn’t there!
I went to the festival with some guys in the back of a van. There was showers and it wasnt that warm. The police tactics was very heavy handed and they searched us for drugs. The haystacks were stolen to build shelters and later set on fire by some idiots. The music was pretty good throughout though many of the bands didnt play more than a few songs. It was a pretty good festival all in all. But it got a bad press and future festivals were banned because of such negative press and police tactics.
I Remember The Beach Boys got a big cheer when they announced, before we leave the stage you'll hear us play all your old favourites, plus watching a guy surfing on a hay bail carried away by their music.
Atomic Rooster 👌👌👌
Awesome band.😎
With Chris Farlowe singing
I remember coming home from a family day out in Skegness (I was 8) and seeing hundreds of people walking along the A158, in particular one girl who was throwing up!
I was at this festival 18 years old, great memories. But still a lot of blank spaces I’m trying to fill in 😅
I was 20, went there with my friends from The Nelson in Sheffield. We were hard working youths. Vietnam was raging and we were all wondering when we would be called up to kill people. I thought we were going to change the world, but we didn't. Fond, strong memories of this time and place.
At least me were never called up to kill people, one thing I thank Harrold Wilson for keeping us (the UK), out of the Vietnam War, it means also none of us were killed in that pointless war. I too was 20 and travelled up from Norfolk to the festival with Three friends, all in My Austin A3O with a roof rack and tent my uncles, on the top.
6 months after the event I went back to the
states and was Drafted into the U.S. Army...oh well.
I was a 19 year old American kid at the festival and 5 months later I WAS drafted into the U.S. Army
No corporate vultures. Just people organising themselves.
Twenty years later I went to my first rock festival. It was exactly like this, right down to the unironic costumes and long hair. It was like punk and New Wave had never happened. We had message boards too, and no mobile phones.
I saw a band in Bardney about 10 years back, Woody and Dave the lead singers for a
I think a band named Urban Shelter, Fabtastic band and nice guys. Most of us thought they'd make it, any idea what happened to them?
I would give all I have to go back and spend a few days there with those people.
Not heard of this one. Was Chris Farlowe singing in braille?
Atomic Rooster, brilliant!
What a festival good company and good show
Hey BFI: "....extravaganza which caused controversy with the local Leicestershire residents" you say. Must have been VERY noisy to have disturbed Leicestershire, since Bardney is near Lincoln....in Lincolnshire. Doh!
And it's still in Lincolnshire, a county still targeted by pop festivalgoers
I had to check but was this festival also known as the great western festival? If so I was there
Fabulous and interesting bit of history, but 240p?? The difference it would make to have a hi res version would be huge.
Monged in a field watching Atomic Rooster. None more '70s.
My grandfather who went to war said we fought and died so you could be free as long as things were peace full he believed you only live once so enjoy your life
Does anyone know what band is playing at 8:30 ? Singer looks like Chris Farlowe, therefore I suspect Atomic Rooster. Am I right?
Spot on Sir. Now help me out out with the riffs near the end. Highway Star obviously, but that heavy descending riff {or two} is evading me
Only thing missing is the actual festival??
And then the cabal came in slowly, took it over and now we have crap music
It took about 20 years. Thatcher started the clampdown with public order act in the 80s. I was lucky to catch Stonehenge and various free festivals as a teenager in the 80s. All were left with now is extortionate, corporate rubbish like Glastonbury has become.
the uk state apparatus murdered Wally Hope
I was there at Glastonbury after the festival finished a smaller one carried on with the hippies... about 82/83, it was a different world back then , really nice....a taste of that can be found in remote parts of France I found
i just found the Wally Hope channel
cool stuff
I was nineteen at the time, not much i remember about this festival other than the awful weather, the wonderful Rory Gallagher and Joe Cocker off his head! some great bands playing there too. Not sure if this was the one where Rod Stewart was kicking footballs into the crowd during The Faces set.
Don McLean, Beach Boys, Brewers Droop.
17.35 Is that Chris Farlowe?
It looked surprisingly crap from this footage, which I'm sure it wasn't.
Perhaps the one in Leicestershire was.
This footage manages to capture everything except people enjoying themselves, which is a considerable feat of filming and/or editing after.
I live in Lincoln, and I have known about this legendary festival for years. I wish I could have gone but I was only seven years old at the time. I wonder why it never became an annual event like Glastonbury?
Maybe cause its Lincoln.. I'm from Gainsboro.. Nuff said??
Looks like this was really well organised. Thr attitude of the organisers and the plods seemed really positive. The scenes in the first aid tent could have come from the the 1950s. No sign of Hawkwind aying in the car park ("because festivals should be free")
Is that 30p leenocch
--- Bardney - LIncolnshire.
Brilliant decision to film the police explaining the car park layouts, but not to capture what would have been the first film of Roxy Music.
They were rather an also ran band at the festival from memory.
@@roberttreborableBut look how famous and influential they got not long after..
@@anthonymclean9743Were they any good? Love their stuff, but saw them twice (mid 70s) and, let's just say, never a good live act.
@@petertaysum8947 Saw them and they were excellent, and their influence on 70s and 80s bands is unbelievable including American bands as well.
Only Chris Farlowe and a sound bite of Deep Purple! Darn!
Time travelling festival goer at 21:26 left his modern tent behind!
Bagpipes at dawn and all those Hari Krishna devotees (including in disguise Eric Clapton and George Harrison),a remarkable event for me so young.
Great disguise I didn't know they were there.
12.32 the inrernet in that tent was a bit laggy😂
The Anglian TV knight❤
The trash can must have not been invented yet.
If you thought your grandparents/ parents are not Kool and the gang. This is what they where up too :)
Could that be Atomic Rooster playing?
Or Colosseum with that terrible blues shouter , Chris Farlowe ?
And the Womble on keyboards ?
Terrible???
Is this wjere hawkind had a.great big Inflafable marquee that went down with peep indise ??
that was the I.O.W.
Its Lincolnshire not Leicestershire
BFI, Bardney is in Lincolnshire not Leicestershire.
what's the name of the homosexual band playing onstage at 17:30??
You want dirt and long hair, copper? Well, you’ve come to the right place!
The straw fight, who remembers the straw fight!?
I remember watching Slade perched on top of a hay bale!
I remember Noddy Holder getting a kick up the jacksy … and quite right too!
So British. Mild mannered young people having a break in the country side. Apart from a bit of litter and arson. Happy Daze.
A cloth house is all you need if you got love.
We're there trains to bardney?
Not at the time, thanks to Mr Beeching! The line closed in 1970
No but it was a great walk to the site and there was a pub halfway along. Sandman by America was on the jukebox ,it was a magical time.
No, but there were rickshaws, occasionally.
they roll up now with campervans and a computer.....glad to have been alive for that period
Before corporate greed took over and we didn’t live in the land of Jeremys - Kyle, Vine, Clarkson, Irons, Corbin, Hunt …
I was on my mums womb when this was going down
Lemonade. 5 flavours. How?
🏁🏁🔔
Doctors getting ready for surgery in the medical tent 😂
There are obviously not many of us left judging by the few comments, I was offended by the guy's remarks at the start, dirty? I was clean and had clean clothes not so clean by the Monday night tho!!!
Tom Summers lesser known fest by the looks of it Tom. Whats your memories of it?
Pretty sketchy Rod judging by the other comments and memories. I cannot remember the rain being that bad, no I did not have too much dope. I do remember the Hell's Angels showed up on Saturday morning but left when they found a lot of their bikes tipped into a ditch!!. I remember Monty Python, Slade: the very first public appearance by Roxy Music and an early Nazareth, yes it was a fantastic weekend and a fantastic memory, shame I have no personal photos of those days.
Tom Summers lol at the Angels bikes. I got here by researching Levi's denim!!
I first got on the website in 2012 on the 40 th anniversary, there are also some audio recordings of Rory Gallagher which are pretty good but that is the sum total of it. I live in Australia now for the last 20 years so nobody here knows about it. Shame there is not a lot more people on here. Was 21 and living in London when I went to the fest,
Tom Summers yeah I was just checking that out. Bob Harris was 'd'j ing'. Mind, for Leics there was a decent turn out!!
Is it possible to get 5 flavours of lemonade? Surely the flavour of lemon is the only lemonade if you add something else then it wouldnt be lemonade it would be Lemon and whatever ade…
What a miserable experience it must have been - cold, wet and exploited. A whole generation taken for a ride.
loved the 70,s hate the 2020,s
Never Trust A Hippy 😜😁🥺😃☹️
It’s hard to believe those fields yon side Bardney were home to a festival with so many big names performing. It could never happen again, partly because everyone would complain there is no 5g and sheer logistics. It would be a commercialised joke like Glastonbury.
I missed it. Wrong continent.
No where near what I thought it was gonna be.
Overwhelming sound quality
The Doctor said several Babies were born what he did not say was the mothers were all female how things have changed...
2:58 - when that flag actually meant something positive
2'.57 " rainbow flags in 1972!
Well I’ll be Buggered! 😮
Noticed that myself. Maybe time traveling gays?
A rainbow was just a nice set of colours in those days.
It’s everyone’s rainbow people’s. 😉🤭😎
I doubt whether there was a single harmo-sexual at this festival. It was 1972 and they hadn't been invented yet. And it was Lincolnshire...
AnoTher PlaneT
what a mess they left behind
What a miserable looking event.
Not many smiles, but rock was a serious business back then.
A trip tent? Ffs
What a pointless piece of film
The hippie scene was cool. I can just about remember the early 70s and the long hairs, virtually nobody had short hair if under 25 unless they were in the army or whatever.
The music at this point in history was bloated qnd excessive and generally awful and thus many of thse groups are forgotten to the sands of time because they were drugged out and mediocre at best