GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 1981 PHOTOGRAPHED IN 8mm CINEMASCOPE!
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- Random shots of the festival from 1981. This was only the fourth time the festival had been held and the first with the famous 'pyramid stage' - although I think this one burnt down a few years later. Photographed with the Sankyo XL25 Super 8mm Camera with sound running at 18fps. Fitted with a Kowa 8Z anamorphic giving the 2.66:1 ratio. Shot mostly on agfa stock but there is some superior kodak as well! Please forgive the quality - it wasn't so easy then.
Sorry I'm not sure which bands are featured briefly here (they were often unpublicised then!) - think one is Denny Laine. I was more interested in capturing the people watching etc. It was so very different then!
Maybe you were there and in this film?
The Sound 💔
Lovely to see this. It harks back to a time when festivals like this had a certain gentleness which is sadly no more. I wasn't there. I went to my first Glastonbury in 1983 and my fifth and final one in 1989. All those couples. I wonder whether they had children and are still together (or just hopefully alive). Perhaps like me they are no longer "alternative" and have been absorbed by the suburbs. Glorious times.
I was there too! It was so much fun. So nice to see Ronnie Lane and James Honeyman-Scott (my husband) up on stage. I have some great photos from that day too.
we were there, 5 sixteen year olds National Express to Taunton bus to Glastonbury and thought it cant be far to walk so stocked up on the beer...................... many hours later walked in took a spot on the grass at about 3am and watched the stage being finished (never thought about a tent, bin bags worked) walked back into Glastonbury sunday night after the finish and slept in the ruins until the bus on the monday. Absolutely BRILLIANT time had by all - memories do last a lifetome
Fuck me 3:02 in and there we are. Thanks.
Hey Michael - Fantastic!!
Great to see footage of The Sound. There's really not much out there :(
I managed The Sound who you see performing “Heartland” in this video. Funnily that day I was also doing the out front sound so was in the mixing desk. I had never used such a massive PA system before (it was Status Quo’s) and a separate desk for mixing the drums. I decided to have some fun, so on the song “Missiles”, an antiNuclear anthem, I dubbed-up the drums live and the band broke into a completely different semi-reggae version in a breakdown section. Amazingly it worked! Happy memories… over 40 years ago…
Hey Stephen. That’s brilliant!
Glad it’s brought back such good memories. Sorry the sound was only on 8mm stripe running at 18fps!
I remember speaking to Adrian that very day. He was rather surprised anyone knew who he was. Gave him a swig of my cider as I recall
Cool, Bella Churchill was a good friend of mine, she n]booked me years later for Glastonbury, ‘98 ‘99
My first Glastonbury was in 82,it rained a lot. Went a few more times, the last in 99, wouldn't go again, these were the best days of the festival, happy memories, thanks for uploading.
How do you know if you’ve not been for 1/4 of a century?
it is great that you posted this up. It does not matter that the qaulity is not up to scratch,or focused on any one particular musical porformance. Its the period of our social history that it documents that makes it worth watching. Simple roots in film,like folk music,has its place in the archive
of festival history. Thank you !!
Hi Allan, Thank you!
No sign of myself nor any of the group from Northumberland who hitched down... But what a great video and a great atmosphere... Great to see it, thanks
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Hi Mark, so sorry you and the group are not in it! Thank you so much for watching. It was an amazing time!
This is amazing. I was there, 17years old and it was the time of my life. Music and friends in simpler times. It was magic, it really was. 40 years have just gone in the blink of an eye. I hope this clip brings back wonderful memories for all that were there with me that weekend. Does anyone still shout WALLY! at festivals anymore?
Yep, 17 yrs old too back in ‘81, altho 1982 was my first Glasto. Such simpler times indeed, I wouldn't go near the middle class smooze fest with a barge pole these days.
I was there but I don't recall any of the bands shown. I remember a girl in a white dress similar to the one at about 6 minutes dancing in a marquee. Mainly because she didn't wear knickers and lifted her skirt up every now and then.
Flip, first went in '79. Walked there from Street with some mates from school having finished GSEs, climbed through the non existent security hedge and had the time of my life. Did the same in '81 after A levels. Been back a few times since, but it has changed and not always for the better.
I was there, 79 also, then 84 and 85 (the muddy, cold year) and not been back since. Simpler times. So nice to see this.
Same, exactly
This is superb. A real trip back to 40 years ago. Time travel!
Was Keith Allen here
In 81 with his Bonce in one piece 🎉
Thanks, I was there. It was a hot one!, my second Glasto. My first was 79. I'll be there again this year 2022 aged 70 :)
That's Steve Ashley singing "Down the Pub" near the start.
Excellent footage, my firts was 1987
Not the first with the Pyramid Stage - that honour goes to 1971. And it can be argued that this was in fact the 5th festival, as after September 1970 (Pilton Pop), and June 1971 (Glastonbury Fair), there was an unofficial event in July 1978 with the Peace Convoy from Stonehenge. Then June 1979 (Glastonbury Fayre)…
Well done and thank you, I was with them all there then and miss them all here now.
Hi Tony, thank you !
Never seen anamorphic 8mm before. I assume you had an anamorphic lens for you projector too? Class!
I used the same lens for both projector and camera. It was a Kowa 8z. Just used different brackets.Thank you for watching!
This was my 3rd Glasto, aged just 4👍
was this the year Ginger Baker had a bust-up with Roy Harper on stage? Dont spose you have any footage in a drawer somewhere . . .
It was. Harper opened with The Lord's Prayer. It blew me away. He was so good the audience wouldn't let him leave the stage. Baker eventually took his mic stand and Harper hit him. When Baker took to the stage afterwards he was canned.
Looks boring