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The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 was a music festival held between 26 and 30 August 1970 at Afton Down, an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight in England. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and often acknowledged as the largest musical event of its time, with a larger ...
The 1970 event was by far the largest of these early festivals and the unexpectedly high attendance levels led, in 1971, to Parliament adding a section to the Isle of Wight County Council Act 1971 preventing overnight open-air gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special licence from the council. The event was revived in ...
The Isle of Wight's MP Mark Woodnutt (Conservative) succeeded in passing a Private Member’s Bill – The Isle of Wight Act, 1971 [12] – to control large scale gatherings in the Isle of Wight. Though not an outright ban, gatherings of more than 5,000 attending during the hours of 12.00 midnight and 6.00am were severely restricted.
The Isle of Wight Festival was a large rock festival near Afton Down, West Wight, in August 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and attracted somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 attendees. [ 76 ]
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26–31 August – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 begins on East Afton Farm. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull. [38]
During the festival there were messages for Wally being read out over the sound system, and a Wally chant developed over the weekend. Evidence suggests that this was a continuation of the same behaviour at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, [4] also see Wally Hope. While it started at the IoW festival the year before it had developed at Weeley ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Category for Cultural festivals and events associated with the Isle of Wight Subcategories. This category has the ...