OT. The futures Bright, the Futures Brexit!!!

[Andy_Faber]

Okay 'Junior'...I did...must have been a babe in arms...and '78 too. I think the '74 ticket cost £2.75!!! Doubtless you'll be able to translate that into today's equivalent.

Knebworth 79 for me and a reputed 249,999 others, Chas'N'Dave (brilliant), Marshall Tucker Band (asleep), Fairport convention's last gig (lol), Southside Johnny (brilliant), Utopia, (technically brilliant), New Barbarians (turned up a week late) and then the mighty Led Zeppelin, sloppy as hell but absolute magick IMO. Popped an alternator on the way down so drove 3/4 of the way on sidelights

[roger_ramjet]

Stones headlined for mine - long set but they farted around for ages getting the set together and so it was a late finish.

Lynyrd Skynyrd brilliant in what turned out to be their last ever gig in the UK before the plane crash took the heart and soul of the band away. 10cc (whose last gig it was supposed to be) were inoffensive but not that great. Todd Rundgren (Utopia) were excellent - I think they did 4 or 5 successive Knebworths so rA probably saw them too. Hot Tuna (a spinoff from Jefferson Airplane) were excellent and the warm up act I mostly missed but opinion at the time was that we hadnt missed much. Cant even remember who they were.

[Andy_Faber]

Stones headlined for mine - long set but they farted around for ages getting the set together and so it was a late finish.

Lynyrd Skynyrd brilliant in what turned out to be their last ever gig in the UK before the plane crash took the heart and soul of the band away. 10cc (whose last gig it was supposed to be) were inoffensive but not that great. Todd Rundgren (Utopia) were excellent - I think they did 4 or 5 successive Knebworths so rA probably saw them too. Hot Tuna (a spinoff from Jefferson Airplane) were excellent and the warm up act I mostly missed but opinion at the time was that we hadnt missed much. Cant even remember who they were.

I'm having a Lynyrd Skynyrd song played at my funeral (no its not booked quite yet)

[ramAnag]

Stones headlined for mine - long set but they farted around for ages getting the set together and so it was a late finish.

Lynyrd Skynyrd brilliant in what turned out to be their last ever gig in the UK before the plane crash took the heart and soul of the band away. 10cc (whose last gig it was supposed to be) were inoffensive but not that great. Todd Rundgren (Utopia) were excellent - I think they did 4 or 5 successive Knebworths so rA probably saw them too. Hot Tuna (a spinoff from Jefferson Airplane) were excellent and the warm up act I mostly missed but opinion at the time was that we hadnt missed much. Cant even remember who they were.

Ha...we could be the 'Knebworth Boys'...with Roger's avatar he's already only one vowel out.
No Todd Rundgren for me...Tim Buckley got that gig followed by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Van the Man in a rare good mood, the Doobie Brothers and the wonderful Allman Brothers at the top of the bill.

Top event but, imo, not as good as Blackbushe four years later.

Strange how we get to festivals from Brexit via Northern Ireland.

[roger_ramjet]

I was at Blackbushe too. Still got the T shirt somewhere. Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan on one night....

[ramAnag]

I was at Blackbushe too. Still got the T shirt somewhere. Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan on one night....

Feel like I'm being stalked.
Graham Parker and Joan Armatrading were good too but tbh I can't remember anything about Lake. Clapton and Dylan...didn't get much better than that in those days...thirty eight years and eleven months ago to the day. How did that happen?

[swaledale]

You did Knebworth 74 - I did Knebworth 76 headlined by the Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd....... what a pair of old farts we are!

Cable? Well everyone else seems to have had a go, and there aren't many to pick from!

I will go for Layla Moran as she has nice glasses and was named after a fine album - Layla & Other Assorted MP's is a good strapline for the party. The fact that there are more "Other Assorted Love Songs" than there are "Other Assorted MPs" is rather unfortunate. Side 1 Track 4 applies.

Now your talking Rog, Knebworth 76, 250,000 singing "star ****er" oh those were the days! Also Jefferson Starship minus Grace Slick (which was a disappointment) who had a strop and refused to play with them. Skynyrd were excellent but within one year half the band had departed this earth when their plane ran out of fuel!

[swaledale]

I'm having a Lynyrd Skynyrd song played at my funeral (no its not booked quite yet)

Tuesdays Gone? 'cept yer name isn't Tuesday but hey ho!

[swaledale]

I was/am a Clegg fan too, I saw him as the bloke who reigned in some of the worst excesses of the conservatives during the coalition, NOT their conspirator. He was even gracious at his political execution last week. R, I think you shared with me the hope of a small majority or minority (for either party) this time round, well if so we got what we wished for and what a shame it wasn't the LD's offering support again

Regarding his successor Tim Farren, and a shame (and sad indictment of our topsy-turvy world) that out of fairness, a number of other MPs and prominent politicians weren't pursued/hounded on the same subject.

Edit: yes I've heard that about VM, he's never appeared more than just a bit grumpy to me, and having crossed the path of more people from the wild world of popular music than most here, I doubt he would get into the premier league of prickdom.

Farren was weak and evasive and frankly no loss, Clegg reigned in the worst excesses of the Tories??? Mm so austerity never happened then?

[ramAnag]

Now your talking Rog, Knebworth 76, 250,000 singing "star ****er" oh those were the days! Also Jefferson Starship minus Grace Slick (which was a disappointment) who had a strop and refused to play with them. Skynyrd were excellent but within one year half the band had departed this earth when their plane ran out of fuel!

I used to entertain secret and wild fantasies about Grace Slick. Strangely she's about 77 now...so they must have been my first 'significantly older woman' fantasies. I don't know how any of that happened either especially as I'm still only 25 but she was gorgeous.

...and returning to reality...oh 'austerity' happened Swale - still is happening - but might it not have been worse without Clegg?

[Andy_Faber]

I used to entertain secret and wild fantasies about Grace Slick. Strangely she's about 77 now...so they must have been my first 'significantly older woman' fantasies. I don't know how any of that happened either especially as I'm still only 25 but she was gorgeous.

...and returning to reality...oh 'austerity' happened Swale - still is happening - but might it not have been worse without Clegg?

Don't touch the Swale blue touchpaper again....

Have we not done the Grace slick/Sonja Kristina top trumps on this thread already?

[ramAnag]

Don't touch the Swale blue touchpaper again....

Have we not done the Grace slick/Sonja Kristina top trumps on this thread already?

Spoil sport...just 'cos your Sonja story trumped everyone. Anyway she's fifteen (15!!!) years older than me so she stood no chance!
But Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks...now you're talking!
(IbRmaK'sbj)

[roger_ramjet]

Stick to the Mormons RA - Gladys Knight, Marie Osmond or any one of the Wolfgram sisterhood.....

[ramAnag]

I see the head of Rolls Royce (Warren East?) is the latest in a long line of businessmen to call for a 'soft' Brexit with as 'little change as possible'. Still what does he know compared to the likes of Farage, Johnson and Gove? He only runs one of the country's most prestigious companies that employs around 23,000 people in this country, many of them from Derby, whereas they...well what exactly have they achieved - other than feathering their own nests - entirely at the tax payers' expense?

[Andy_Faber]

I see the head of Rolls Royce (Warren East?) is the latest in a long line of businessmen to call for a 'soft' Brexit with as 'little change as possible'. Still what does he know compared to the likes of Farage, Johnson and Gove? He only runs one of the country's most prestigious companies that employs around 23,000 people in this country, many of them from Derby, whereas they...well what exactly have they achieved - other than feathering their own nests - entirely at the tax payers' expense?

I'm no longer in the areo environment but I'm guessing he will be looking out for number 1 (R-R) - and good for him, half my family work there - under the umbrella of a 'special arrangement' for the aero industry just like the 'special arrangement' being pushed by the auto industry. What that looks like from what I've seen (and this is from the commercial side, not the political side) is tariff-free movement of goods and services and labour (NOT 'people') where that labour can't be provided from within UK (plus I think students on relevant degrees).