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The Festival Fiend is the peter pan fan — change holds no attraction, but the greatest thing in the world is if a conga player who once sold Eric Clapton an anarchist pamphlet with the centre page torn out and the crossword puzzle three-quarters filled in forms a group that encores at a festival in forms a group that encores at a festival with "Sunshine Of Your Love." Ginger Baker's Nutters — take them away! — encored to a million mouselike screams with "Sunshine Of Your Love," and along with Lindisfarne parting the Tyne with their thousandth version of "Meet Me On The Corner" this decade, and the very appearance of the third chubbiest performer at the festival (Gallagher, beaten by the Feelgoods' drummer and horrifically, The Attractions' singer), this was the weekend's true festival highlight for the Festival Fiend. | The Festival Fiend is the peter pan fan — change holds no attraction, but the greatest thing in the world is if a conga player who once sold Eric Clapton an anarchist pamphlet with the centre page torn out and the crossword puzzle three-quarters filled in forms a group that encores at a festival in forms a group that encores at a festival with "Sunshine Of Your Love." Ginger Baker's Nutters — take them away! — encored to a million mouselike screams with "Sunshine Of Your Love," and along with Lindisfarne parting the Tyne with their thousandth version of "Meet Me On The Corner" this decade, and the very appearance of the third chubbiest performer at the festival (Gallagher, beaten by the Feelgoods' drummer and horrifically, The Attractions' singer), this was the weekend's true festival highlight for the Festival Fiend. | ||
The Festival Fiend needs his bearings: life's appeal lies inert as a combination of the obvious, the predictable, the discredited, the appeased, the ruined, the compliant. | The Festival Fiend needs his bearings: life's appeal lies inert as a combination of the obvious, the predictable, the discredited, the appeased, the ruined, the compliant. To the Festival Fiend, life is one act of being rooted to the spot. The Festival Fiend clings to the belief that loud noise, scruffy clothes, dirt, lethargy and "Led Zeppelin 1, 2 and 3" are the ultimate in anti-parent propensity. Some of us older ones have been a trifle silly in our time, some of us were perhaps fond of something the Feelgoods did, or whatever Gallagher had once upon a time. A lot of us have had flirtations with silly musics. But we grew out of it. We recognised the con. We responded to change, to choice. There was this strange urge to completely reject the tranquil treat of annual repeats of emaciated standards. | ||
For the Festival Fiend the only hope in life is the retreat supplied by the sound of | For the Festival Fiend the only hope in life is the retreat supplied by the sound of "Free Bird" or a dickhead trying to resurrect Wally or the tell-tale skulking of a Rory Gallagher solo. Can I tell all this without even going to Reading? Easily. Saturday attracted a less mugged sort of correspondent; Sunday was the implicating last work in ROOTED TO THE SPOT. The Festival Fiend screams give me my bearings. The Festival Fiend demands repeats. It'll be back next year. | ||
THE REST | THE REST | ||
I went up to Newcastle for a restful weekend. | I went up to Newcastle for a restful weekend. I made a mistake. I won't have recovered by the time you read this. | ||
LOWLIGHTS | LOWLIGHTS | ||
Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello — watching and trying to listen to Costello in these sort of circumstances is like trying to read Dostoyevsky in a cold waiting room in Crewe surrounded by bored United supporters. He played some new songs. I wrote down the titles on a piece of paper, but lost the piece of paper. This is the sort of thing that makes my editors sick. | ||
Ian Dury | Ian Dury — it was very little use without four walls. | ||
Newcastle | Newcastle | ||
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Ginger's hair. | Ginger's hair. | ||
The ruthless organisation which suggests that despite the meagre attendance, Rock On The Tyne will be as regular as Reading. | The ruthless organisation which suggests that despite the meagre attendance, Rock On The Tyne will be as regular as Reading. Brendan would make more money holding a jumble sale. Or preferably holding up a bank. | ||
The peace! | The peace! | ||
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Ginger's memories. | Ginger's memories. | ||
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{{tags}}[[Rock On The Tyne Festival]] {{-}} [[Bono]] {{-}} [[U2]] {{-}} [[Ian Dury]] {{-}} [[Jake Riviera]] {{-}} [[Dr. Feelgood]] {{-}} [[Ian Penman]] {{-}} [[Lindisfarne]] {{-}} [[Eric Clapton]] {{-}} | {{tags}}[[Rock On The Tyne Festival]] {{-}} [[Bono]] {{-}} [[U2]] {{-}} [[Ian Dury]] {{-}} [[Jake Riviera]] {{-}} [[Dr. Feelgood]] {{-}} [[Ian Penman]] {{-}} [[Lindisfarne]] {{-}} [[Eric Clapton]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] | ||
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<small>Photo by [[Peter Anderson]].</small><br> | <small>Photo by [[Peter Anderson]].</small><br> | ||
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{{Bibliography notes footer}} | {{Bibliography notes footer}} |
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