Hard News: Friday Music: When there were hippies
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OK this is something I just discovered, how addictive! I think I should be dancing to it but I have no idea how...
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Ah probably slowly. swaying ....
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Lilith __, in reply to
Ah probably slowly. swaying ….
I'm thinking I need a flouncey skirt.
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Jos,
Here's the 1979 Nambassa poster
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Jos,
close up of NZ artists
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I’m thinking I need a flouncey skirt
Essential!
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Islander, in reply to
Flouncey widebottom black*-silk trou do good as well-
midnightblue/scarlet/gold/pinegreen/duskgrey/whatever!
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
close up of NZ artists
Presold $13. Same as it cost for Tom Waits at the Ak. Town Hall that same year.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
midnightblue/scarlet/gold/pinegreen/duskgrey/whatever!
All those colours in a paisley mix...
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Here’s the 1979 Nambassa poster
Looks like that's been stored carefully, away from light and small creatures that make little paths through paper.
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Lilith __, in reply to
the 1979 Nambassa poster
Man, that font's hard to read!
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Hebe, in reply to
Ta. I was there for the full sentence, a couple of days before and after as well, and it occurred that I could remember nothing about what the place looked like, only Toots and the Maytals and a verry weird road trip home.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Hey, thanks for those.
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"Workshop demonstrations and lectures on crafts, self-sufficiency, healing, & alternative life styles". Take THAT, Big Day Out, you dilettantes.
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John Farrell, in reply to
A bunch of us drove up from Dunedin to the Ngaruawahia festival in a friend's clapped out Austin van. Two of us drove back down in an even more run down Vanguard, which was made up from at least 2 wrecked cars. Great days.
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I've found my negatives of pictures from Nambassa 1981. Will have to remove the paper that is stuck to them before I can scan them....
Most memorable - great beach and playing 500 a lot of the time.
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I went in 1980, or was it early 1981. Between 4th and 5th form years. Dad wanted to see a jazz musician, or was it a band?
We arrived late so camped amongst the cars, which would have been a relief to my parents. Ensuring their innocent children avoided the late night partying and drugs, I guess.
I have almost no memory of it. Except buying the coolest singlet (I think it had a rainbow on it), sunbathing topless (next to our tent) and missing out on seeing any penises (my younger sister was more observant ) until I sat up from the topless sunbathing at the same moment a totally naked man walk out of the river in front of me! I think I lay back down and pretended I hadn't seen anything, what a drip I was. My friend Sarah was there, but I never found her, she was busy being baptised, which was never my thing.
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Sacha, in reply to
young folk are just more self-sufficient with their knowledge these days :)
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
I've found my negatives of pictures from Nambassa 1981. Will have to remove the paper that is stuck to them before I can scan them..
I was going through stuff at my parents' place the other week and found a box with about 100 slides of Nambassa. Since I wasn't there I have no idea where they came from - or who took them.
This is The Plague (an early version of what later became Blam Blam Blam) during their notorious naked performance.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
This is The Plague (an early version of what later became Blam Blam Blam) during their notorious naked performance.
Featuring Richard Von Sturmer painted blue.
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Richard Aston, in reply to
( Dam the Dam )
Wasn’t that John Hanlon? Came across him working as an adman in Sydney in the mid-90s.
You are right about the songwriter but I am sure Corban Simpson sang that song at Ngaruawahia , mind you it was a while ago....
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
the hills are alive...
Black Sabbath kicked off with a huge burning cross on the hill that totally freaked out the Christians...
I remember thinking what tools Black Sabbath were - when they arrived (by helicopter IIRC) there was an announcement along the lines of "any girls who wanted to make them feel welcome should go round to the backstage entrance" - Fairport Convention were way better than Black Sabbath, as were Dragon...
I think Corben Simpson's big song at the time was "Running to the Sea"
Luckily I'd seen Ticket at Levi's Saloon a coupla nights before heading back down to Ngaruawahia, as Black-bloody-Sabbaf blew up Eddie Hansen's guitar amp (using it without permission, too!) so they never played.... -
Disclaimer. These are not great quality negatives. These are not great quality pictures. These are not great quality scans.
Jandals and cars at Nambassa 81
Stage and a few people Nambassa 81
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Then Sweetwaters.
Were beer cans stronger then, or were Mini's lighter?
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And are VW Beetles watertight?
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