Grateful Dead At the Hollywood festival North west England 1970 DVD + CD (2010)
As John Peel so rightly says Hollywood Festival and the arrival of the
Grateful Dead for their first performance in the UK was a defining
moment. The late sixties / early seventies counter culture and music
scene in the UK had always aspired to West Coast USA bands and their
ideology of large outdoor concerts. North West England with a strong
counter culture, arts and music scene would go on after Hollywood
Festival in subsequent years to see festival events and large outdoor
rock concerts no longer just held in the south of England. In the same
spirit as the Grateful Dead and crowd gathering at Hollywood in1970 the
North West would go on to stage Bickershaw Festival 1972 (Grateful Dead
again) , Deeply Vale Festivals 1976-1979, Rivington Pike Free Festival
1976 and 1977, the Northern Carnival Against the Nazis, Alexandra Park
Manchester 1978, and the Northern Carnival Against Cruise Missiles,
Alexandra Park Manchester 1981.
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