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Added 27th November 2009 by ozit

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Rivington Pike
1976

Rivington Pike - the festival ( along with Bickershaw) that inspired the Rochdale/Heywood Bury people to set up Deeply Vale Festivals after going to Rivington in 1976. A small festival at the top of the Pike near Bolton/Horwich in Lord Lever's walled gardens -held in 1976 and 1977. Bands I know definitely played over the two years are Tractor,Body,Here and Now and Krishna temple. Rivington was held in August. The Here and Now live set from Rivington 77 has just come out on cd
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“The first Rivington was a small affair organised my me and Pete Henry using my Marshall 50 and Sid Kavanagh's Vox AC30 with about 50 people in 1974 using the smaller pavillion in the Rivington Chinese and Japanese gardens as a focal point with just recorded music. The following year, we joined forces with Paul McCracken who'd run a similar small event in '74 in the railway cutting at Red Rock, near Wigan, featuring John Foxx, later founder of Ultravox! Paul built a mixer to improve our sound and we ran a festival at Red Rock and Rivington using 2 Altec Lansing Horn loaded speakers that Paul and I built. We used the larger pavillion in the Chinese gardens as our stage. '76 and '77 we hired a PA system from SAI and built a stage with scaffolding donated by Turner Scaffolding in Preston.”
07 Jun 2020
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