steve
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Post by steve on May 24, 2020 8:09:41 GMT -5
Posters from music festivals from decades ago. Both the prices and the bands on the bill are now, er,... rather different!
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Post by steve on May 24, 2020 8:15:24 GMT -5
Music festival in 1970 in the south west of England... 50 shillings for an all weekend ticket? That converts to £2.50. Seems like pretty good value to me!
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Post by steve on May 24, 2020 9:22:20 GMT -5
Annual music festival in Reading in 1980 - about 40 miles west of London.
An all weekend ticket for £12.50. Sounds pretty good value to me. I just checked the prices for the 2019 festival (2020, of course, is cancelled) and it was £205 + booking fee for an all weekend ticket. And the now obligatory line up of mediocre pop bands, boy bands, and rappers does not appeal. It was a rock festival in the 70s and 80s.
The poster won't upload - it exceeds the attachment file space limit. So this thread might not work as I was hoping for.
Main Stage
Friday
Rory Gallagher
Gillan
Krokus
Nine Below Zero
Fischer-Z
Praying Mantis
Hellions
O1 Band
Red Alert
Saturday
UFO
Iron Maiden
Pat Travers Band
Samson
Grand Prix
White Spirit
Broken Home
Writz
Quartz
Trimmer and Jenkins
Sunday
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Slade
Budgie
Magnum
Girl
Tygers of Pan Tang
Angel Witch
Sledgehammer
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Post by jj on May 25, 2020 10:14:45 GMT -5
yeah, the 70s were a great time for concerts. Not a weekend festival, but a full day of great rock. 5 bands (in order of appearance, AC/DC, Van Halen, Pat Travers Band, Foreigner, and Aerosmith). $14.00. That was 1978. My first Aerosmith show the year prior cost $6.90, and that included the ticket company fee. Good times.
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