They offered to give me a lift there and so I squeezed into the back of their Morris estate. This might well be the first year that you can spend the whole summer at one festival or another.
On the night before the Solstice, the sky was clear and there was a huge, beautiful, bright full moon in the sky.
I woke up the next morning to find the soldiers and a couple of half-in, half out strangers who had tried to squeeze into my tent after theirs had collapsed during the night.
Polecats were attacking rabbits all night long and in the dead of night a cow walked right through the middle of my tent. Among those already set are Twisted Sister, Hawkwind, Brilliant, Flux of Pink Indians, the American rock star Thor, Omega Tribe, Attila The Stockbroker, Conflict, Tank, Natural Roots, Dawnbringer, Winston Smith and Galaxy Soul Shuffle. I watched him over a period of a couple of hours.
There was a powerful sense of the veil between our world and the next being stretched very, very thin that night.
Stonehenge Festival 1982 -press articles. Fascinating.I came to the Stonehenge free festival purely by accident. I had been hitchhiking around the country and wound up camping on Glastonbury Tor. The festival was much smaller then than it was went I went again in 1983. the next morning, at dawn, we went to the stones where I just sat and meditated, whilst others hugged the stones or danced.
Hawkwind Ladbrokes Stadium, Wolverhampton - May 2, 1982 May 02 1982 Hawkwind Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth - May 4, 1982 May 04 1982 Jun 20, 1982 Hawkwind Stonehenge Free Festival 1982 - Jun 20, 1982 Jun 20 1982
'Stonehenge free festival will be in action again this year, and the organisers are busy lining up acts for the main music days. Great times.One night a big storm blew up - torrential rain and high winds.
The bender people had just arrived and were setting up.
It was cold and damp and everyone was wearing blankets.The atmosphere was amazing. We had a lovely time sharing a pin of scrumpy (the first time I'd tried it) and got to the festival fairly early. The decision to evict thousands of squatters from the London boroughs at the end of the 70s was one of the reasons in the growth of the travellers movement and the eventual rise of the Peace Convoy at Stonehenge in 1982. I didn't get much sleep there.
Convoy departing Stonehenge 1982 © Jambo The most significant occurrence in 82 was the formation of the Peace Convoy (above) a massive conglomeration of travellers vans, buses, trucks and caravans, which made its way toward the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common and caused considerable annoyance and embarrassment to the authorities.
The Stonehenge Free Festival was a British free festival from 1974 to 1984 held at the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in England during the month of June, and culminating with the summer solstice on or near 21 June.
I think of these times a lot, and I mourn the loss of total freedom and self expression that we had then.
A memory that is still etched in my mind. I crawled over the bodies to discover my little tent standing almost alone amongst an apocalypse of flattened, drowned smaller tents with only the teepes and larger tents still standing.On the Tor I ran into some young lads who were AWOL from the local military camp, on their way to the festival.
I pitched my little ridge tent and the soldiers set up next to me in an ancient canvas military cape converted into a tent. I went into the woods nearby with a flaming torch and listened to people running through the woods, howling and shrieking.
Sing and Shout For Joy ! One man used his blanket and various postures to mimic the different stones.
'The Stonehenge festival , for myself and thousands of other people . The growth of the hard drug culture, between 82- 84 although always confined to a minority of festival goers - led to increasing police interest and gave the authorities a stronger excuse to … It emerged as the major free festival in the calendar after the violent suppression of the Windsor Free Festival in August 1974, with Wally Hope providing the impetus for its founding, and was itself violently suppressed in 1985 in the Battle of the Beanfield, with no free festival held at Stonehenge …
By Jeremy Sandford . was about the opposite to commercialism and war. I had next to no money but people were kind and gave me food and I painted faces.
It was about love, peace, sharing, happiness, ecology, beauty, brotherhood and sisterhood, Yin and Yang, meditation and celebration, physical and spiritual awareness , Rock and Roll, music and theatre, sunshine and sun-bathing, alternative lifestyle and cosmic energy.' There was no room so some were sleeping with there legs sticking out.
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