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The old festivals are still the best!
There are more festivals on the Isle of Wight than you can shake a stick at, and oddly enough, there is probably festival for that as well. For the more nautical but nice, there’s Cowes Week of course and the place also hosts the UK’s largest Walking Festival as well as a Garlic Festival. If you are not quite so well connected and more into dancing and trancing than yachting, you could always consider Bestival. The father-figure of all festivals has to be the legendary rock festival on the Isle of Wight.
The festival began in field in Godshill, Isle of Wight, where in 1968 a group of hippies met for an event lasting for a day. The only major act to appear on a makeshift stage set between two trailers, was the US giants of rock Jefferson Airplane. Support came from unknowns like The Move and some band called T-Rex. This shambolic rock festival the first one to be held in this country, and put in place a format to be followed by others in years to come. 2010’s Isle of Wight Festival runs from 10th to 13th June and is sure to keep up the recent good work, but it wasn’t always like that.
The Isle of Wight Festival became far more ambitious in 1969, expanding to two whole days and headlined by Bob Dylan, mainly because the prospect of performing on Tennyson’s home ground appealed to him– that and he saw a film of the island. Some of the best acts that followed included Free, The Who and Joe Cocker. After that success, IOW Festival promoters planned a stellar line up for 1970 featuring Jimi Hendrix (his last performance, he died a month later), Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, The Who, Leonard Cohen, Free and The Moody Blues. This mammoth five -day extravaganza was Britain’s ‘Woodstock’, but unfortunately the love and peace ethos of Mark Yasgur’s farm wasn’t shared, and with nearly 1 million rampaging hippies taking over the Island, it was decided that enough was enough. The 1970 ‘Isle of Wight Act’ was passed by Parliament to ban all future festivals.
The Charlatans headlined with Robert Plant in support in 2002 when the Isle of Wight festival returned after a gap of 32 years. Thousands of music fans took an Isle of Wight ferry to enjoy the festival’s revival and this was just the start of things to come. Once hooked to the Island festival scene, it is only natural to return for Bestival which is traditionally and end-of-summer event.
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