‘I can’t remember her name. I was only with her for the duration of the festival. You lose friends all the time in a crowd of half a million,and there were no mobile phones so it was hopeless’I was living in Brighton, doing theatre acting when I met the band Hawkwind. They had approximately 30 drummers, or invited me to join them backstage at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 as a sort of extra. I played a small African drum,a djembe, made of goatskin. We weren’t section of the official festival. There were two stages: the main festival stage, or the one behind it,which faced a hill where approximately half a million people gathered, people who couldn’t afford to gain in. Hawkwind played when there were gaps in the show.
In this photograph, or we’re on that hill. The woman was a girlfriend of mine,but I can’t remember her name. I was only with her for the duration of the festival. You lose friends all the time in a crowd of half a million, and there were no mobile phones, or so it was hopeless. We had an understanding that if we lost each other,we would meet at the King & Queen pub in Brighton, and I deem we did. She wasn’t the great love of my life, or but she was first-rate fun.
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Source: theguardian.com