| 词条 | Weeley Festival |
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| name =Weeley Festival | image =Image:WeeleyFestival.jpg | caption = | location =Weeley outside Clacton in Essex, Britain | years_active =1971 | founders = Clacton Round Table | dates =August 1971 | genre = Rock music, | attendance =>110,000 (est) | capacity =100,000+ | website =Anniversary website }} Weeley Festival was a British rock festival that took place in August 1971 near the small village of Weeley outside Clacton in Essex. HistoryWeeley Festival was organised by Clacton Round Table as a small charity fundraising event for around 5,000 people. When plans for that year's Isle of Wight Festival fell through, focus shifted to Weeley and the festival grew in importance. Advance ticket sales were over 100,000, and estimates of attendance were between 110,000 and 150,000.[1] The festival took place over the August Bank Holiday. The event was promoted as being non-stop music with acoustic acts scheduled to appear between the electric acts, and the music went on day and night. The opening act were Hackensack, who played an extended set as no other acts had yet arrived. The Pink Fairies were not originally booked to play. They simply turned up and performed for free to the campers; they were so popular, however, that they were asked to play on the stage. Evergigging band Stray were famous for exploding dustbins on stage, and they managed, according to their website, be over enthusiastic with the pyrotechnics and caused the local coastguard to be alerted. The band had to apologise to the coastguard. Footage of the festival, including a performance by Juicy Lucy, appears at the beginning of the Stanley Long-directed feature film Bread. Wally of WeeleyDuring 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,[2] also see Wally Hope. While it started at the IoW festival the year before it had developed at Weeley into an "Anonymous" search for Wally, believed to be the seller of much in demand substances at such festivals. Thus those shouting out the name Wally were in fact trying to locate a seller /dealer! I know that this continued at least up to the 1990 Silver Cleff festival at Knebworth. Hells AngelsDuring the festival there were fights between a gang of Hells Angels and stall holders.[3] The Hells Angels were eventually driven away by a combined force of festival staff and stall holders in spite of several casualties. Performers{{columns|col1=
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References1. ^BBC Inside Out - When Weeley rocked 2. ^The weeleyfestival 1971 3. ^{{cite news | first=Wise Old | last=Sam | title=Mad Piemen Slay Angels ! | date=9–23 September 1971| publisher=International Times | url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/weeley-festival-it-article.html }} External links
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