It was indeed 1977.

The beer cans filled with urine included Party Sevens.

Last night at the Paramount Theater in Austin: Rhiannon Giddens with guest Charly Lowry!

I see that Rhiannon toured the U.K. in late 2023-early 2024, so she may not return this year. Nevertheless, I heartily recommend her to any fan of Americana, roots, and folk music. She is a skilled banjo-ist (if that's a word) and fiddler with a spectacular voice that blends operatic range with deep soul. Her background is in "old-timey music" (her words) with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, but she performed mostly contemporary and self-penned tunes last night. She is beautiful, smart, talented, and an enchanting performer. Two thumbs way up!

Charly Lowry, a North Carolinian with indigenous ancestry, opened the show. She accompanies herself on guitar and hand drum, singing in English and one or more indigenous languages. Like Rhiannon, she is a powerhouse vocalist. She joined Rhiannon in support on several songs, as well.

We're very glad we made it to this show, and we are now fans for life.

My one visit to the Monsters of Rock at Donington was in 85 and I needed medical treatment after a bottle of used beer (nice term!) hit me on the top of my head. Fortunately I was ok and enjoyed headliner ZZ Top but there were a few guys in the First Aid tent who were out cold.

I didn't go to another festival until T in the Park in the 90s. Punters there were more likely to drink and fall over than start throwing bottles around.

We've got rather off topic here. I'm listening to Lancashire v Kent on the BBC cricket website after a day of ELO yesterday.

1977 ?
That was a bad year for them at festivals all over the States too.
They were at the height of their substance abuse then. Only four years into their recording career, too. It took ten years to clean up and get back on track.

It was a GALLON container full of used beer that smacked me on the back of the head at Reading 87, also ten years later, that lead me to have a year off festivals in '88, try Glasto in '89 and '90, and wind up in Cropredy later in '90.

Funny how things work out.

New album from Julianne and Tim (All About Eve).  It's rather gorgeous...  Digital only so far.

https://reganbricheno.bandcamp.com/album/apparitions

We saw Aerosmith on their first visit to the UK. They played Reading Festival and were booed off the stage, with beer cans filled with urine being thrown at them.

I bought a number of CD's earlier this week from a charity shop. One was Watering The Spirit by Tom Hall (I thought it was by American singer-songwriter Tom T Hall but wasn't). Don't know who Tom Hall is or was but he seems quite a character. Part of the sleeve notes read "Mark Griffiths uses Dean Markley strings, Cozy Dixon uses Premier Drums and since the Black Lion closed Tom uses the Cricketers Arms, Northampton.  

Hope the dates don't clash... if they do, health first of course!!

Ha - it's nice when that happens.  My favourite is you can hear (if you're listening for it) me shouting out "Lemmmmmy" just before Lemmy gets announced at the Hawkwind Crystal Palace Bowl gig in '85.

I'm still prevaricating, mainly but not totally, because of my health...it could well be radiotherapy around there.