1972: Surviving BICKERSHAW POP FESTIVAL | Bickershaw | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

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What happens to the 1,500 people who live in a Lancashire mining village when 50,000 pop fans descend on them for the weekend? The underground workers meet the Underground in Bickershaw, a pit stop on the road to Wigan pier.
Austin Mitchell visits, as all manner of hippies, dropouts and assorted music fanatics convene on the normally sedate Lancashire mining village for a pop music extravaganza. Acts booked to play at the Bickershaw Festival include a variety of major US and British acts like Grateful Dead, The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, Hawkwind, Wishbone Ash, and Donovan.
As the festival begins at Naylor’s Farm, Mitchell talks to some of Bickershaw's residents and business owners about what they make of this sudden influx of young revellers, and how they plan to cope with the numbers. He interviews Harry "The Count" Bilkus - one of the brains behind the festival - and beleaguered festival organiser, Jeremy Beadle, whose workload has risen exponentially following the arrest of a fellow organiser just three weeks before the event.
Over the course of the weekend, Mitchell documents the impact this pop behemoth has on the local community, the fans, and the event organisers.
Clip taken from Bickershaw, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 July, 1972.
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  • @mattsan70
    @mattsan702 ай бұрын

    Jeremy had a colourful and varied career and raised over £100m for charities before his sad death aged only 59. He died of chronic lymphoma Leukemia. RIP Jezza

  • @mattsparling9843

    @mattsparling9843

    2 ай бұрын

    @mattsan70 A correction if I may . it wasn't £100k, it was £100m

  • @mrpugster

    @mrpugster

    2 ай бұрын

    @@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse the main young guy with the leather jacket

  • @adrinathegreat3095

    @adrinathegreat3095

    2 ай бұрын

    Like Jimmy Saville and made himself a few million along the way as well

  • @markpower9081

    @markpower9081

    2 ай бұрын

    @@adrinathegreat3095 "like Jimmy Saville"? Eh, really?

  • @robthomas5864

    @robthomas5864

    2 ай бұрын

    @@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypseDavid Walliams

  • @Ian-gw2vx
    @Ian-gw2vx2 ай бұрын

    I grew up in the 70s and old men who were dressed like that were ten a penny. I really miss that. You would have conversations with them that were pure gold.

  • @elainekerslake6865

    @elainekerslake6865

    2 ай бұрын

    Most of them were WW1 vets. Golden age of men.

  • @jimsimpson1006

    @jimsimpson1006

    2 ай бұрын

    I had a factory job in the early 1970s and knew a man near retirement age (his job was bagging the swarf from the lathes) who had been a shoemaker most of his life. He could have made you a pair of leather shoes, completely by hand.

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    Legends!! Really was like a different planet back then but simpler compared to now!

  • @Ian-gw2vx

    @Ian-gw2vx

    2 ай бұрын

    Nothing shallow or superficial about them for sure. These days I tend to draw on my memories more and more @@Paul-rt4ix

  • @wakeupuk3860

    @wakeupuk3860

    2 ай бұрын

    @@elainekerslake6865Me too, I am 71 now and was one of the leading hippies back in Wantage, Berkshire in the late 1960s and helped put up the Isle of Wight pop concert. I can well recall chatting to old timers who had fought in WW1 and WW2 like my father and not one was rude, critical or just down right nasty to me or my friends. They would just find us amusing and laugh at our antics, as @lan-gw2vx says "pure gold".

  • @villanelle8888
    @villanelle8888Ай бұрын

    Loved the shopkeeper who stated that he "wouldn't give yoghurt two glances". 😆

  • @terencemichaels
    @terencemichaels2 ай бұрын

    I was there! Just turned 17 and took my first tab of black dot acid. Mud and madness. I haven't been the same ever since.....thank goodness. Deeply grateful, thank you Bickershaw

  • @hopebgood

    @hopebgood

    2 ай бұрын

    If you liked it....well...that's good enough for me mate. I'm glad you had a laugh.

  • @memofromessex

    @memofromessex

    2 ай бұрын

    Did you meet Jeremy Beadle?

  • @anthonybowers7571

    @anthonybowers7571

    2 ай бұрын

    Me too ! I remember waking up to hear Cpn Beefheart and the Magic band playing 21st century Blues 🤣 great festival

  • @mrmojosrisen7514

    @mrmojosrisen7514

    2 ай бұрын

    Mud and madness on the same bill in 72! that will do for me..

  • @ianwhitehead691

    @ianwhitehead691

    2 ай бұрын

    Blue micro dot acid was good too 😜

  • @cambs0181
    @cambs01812 ай бұрын

    Harold the Count obviously misheard the locals when they told him what they nicknamed him.

  • @chrisbayes2972

    @chrisbayes2972

    2 ай бұрын

    Hahahaha

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @KarmasAbutch

    @KarmasAbutch

    2 ай бұрын

    🏆

  • @ipilot320

    @ipilot320

    2 ай бұрын

    He’s a descendent of king cnut the dyslexic.

  • @andrewarthurmatthews6685

    @andrewarthurmatthews6685

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes indeed!!

  • @helenhughes9420
    @helenhughes94202 ай бұрын

    Sod the festival 😂 Fascinating to see & hear the old chaps gathered at the front gate giving their opinion!

  • @primalconvoy

    @primalconvoy

    2 ай бұрын

    It was hard to understand some of the locals, due to the mumbling.

  • @pyeriotsquad

    @pyeriotsquad

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@primalconvoy I am from near here. Clear as a bell to me !

  • @willduffay2207

    @willduffay2207

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@primalconvoyno mumbling, just an unfamiliar accent

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    Love listening to them especially the lasses

  • @LANCSKID

    @LANCSKID

    2 ай бұрын

    No speak Lanky?

  • @zootius
    @zootius2 ай бұрын

    The startling moment when the pop-crazed youngster realizes they are witnessing a groovy young Jeremy Beadle. I'm off to enjoy a lovely yoghurt.

  • @Smelly_Minge

    @Smelly_Minge

    2 ай бұрын

    Watch out.... Beadles having a wee on your fence.

  • @mogadon7

    @mogadon7

    2 ай бұрын

    Yoghurt - there's no demand for it.

  • @Malegys

    @Malegys

    2 ай бұрын

    @@mogadon7That's still the case in Lancashire to this day

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein60132 ай бұрын

    Love the idea of those long haired hippy festival goers wanting yoghurt which the shopkeeper had heard of but never sold. A complete culture shock for the older locals (one of whom I'm sure was Thora Hird.)

  • @Simsydav

    @Simsydav

    2 ай бұрын

    A culture shock all round

  • @RayZappa

    @RayZappa

    2 ай бұрын

    live yoghurt

  • @peanutbuttercookiemonster8916

    @peanutbuttercookiemonster8916

    2 ай бұрын

    That was my grandma ha ha ha

  • @TomJonesisback

    @TomJonesisback

    Ай бұрын

    Your not in London now mate ❤

  • @ericsanimeshorts

    @ericsanimeshorts

    Ай бұрын

    Thora was the one in the flat cap on the left

  • @blzbob7936
    @blzbob79362 ай бұрын

    I was there as a youngster 13 yrs old. Obviously I thought it was bloody amazing. To have a festival so near to our home town (Leyland) was something all music fans didn't want to miss. Me and a buddy still wear our Bickershaw T shirts at events, to generate chat from others that were there.

  • @richardupton3323

    @richardupton3323

    2 ай бұрын

    nice 1. i lived in leyland for about 15 years it was that bad of a place.

  • @workid365h7

    @workid365h7

    Ай бұрын

    Did you pay to get in? Haha

  • @Bombabingbong66

    @Bombabingbong66

    Ай бұрын

    I m from Leyland...School Lane, I live in France now. Do you remember the Pram Race? I used to work at The Gables and The Tiger back in the day. Leyland was lovely when I was a kid but they have made such a mess of Hough Lane. I love visiting Worden Park when I visit, it's rare though. 😊😊😊

  • @effess8698
    @effess86982 ай бұрын

    3:47 "I've heard of yoghurt ... but there's no demand for it" The north never changes

  • @bernadettemurray8260

    @bernadettemurray8260

    2 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @phillipecook3227

    @phillipecook3227

    2 ай бұрын

    My friend that was over half a century ago.

  • @primalconvoy

    @primalconvoy

    2 ай бұрын

    It's the same with comprehensible English and washing.

  • @antonyberry1632

    @antonyberry1632

    2 ай бұрын

    Twerp

  • @koukouvania

    @koukouvania

    Ай бұрын

    he obviously hadnt heard enough about it to know that its supposed to go in the fridge lol...

  • @carolebarker2195
    @carolebarker21952 ай бұрын

    Bickershaw/Jeremy Beadle/Grateful Dead....parallel universe right there.

  • @Sol-Cutta

    @Sol-Cutta

    Ай бұрын

    No no.😂😂😂 Not Jeremy beadle, not as in you been framed, They were on about the festival manager, who has same name..

  • @longjonwhite

    @longjonwhite

    Ай бұрын

    That’s the same Jeremy Beadle, later of You’ve Been Framed.

  • @Sol-Cutta

    @Sol-Cutta

    Ай бұрын

    @@longjonwhite it's most definitely not.

  • @Sol-Cutta

    @Sol-Cutta

    Ай бұрын

    @@longjonwhite it bloody well is !!! 🙏😉😂 I thought no way Is that beadle...then I see his spacca hand...by goodness well spotted.. I would not have known even with same name ..mad

  • @Bombabingbong66

    @Bombabingbong66

    Ай бұрын

    ​@Sol-Cutta You are Correct. Its Beadle.

  • @danjensen2695
    @danjensen26952 ай бұрын

    Gosh - didn't realise it was Jeremy beadle till i read the comments - i only knew him from when i was a kid in the 80s - thought he was all cheese then , but this shows what a groovy cat he was back in the day

  • @primalconvoy

    @primalconvoy

    2 ай бұрын

    Me too!

  • @Picnicl

    @Picnicl

    2 ай бұрын

    The truth about 'cheese' is that it's just heavily layered goodwill. People mistake it for the kind of cheese you might see in adverts but that's an artificial cheese.

  • @theprogrammerrolandmc3039

    @theprogrammerrolandmc3039

    Ай бұрын

    i noticed him straight away anyone who hides one hand like that has to be beadle

  • @IThinkYouLookLarvely

    @IThinkYouLookLarvely

    Ай бұрын

    I recognised him, although it took a few minutes. Game for a Laugh was only about 9-10 years later, but I guess a suit, perm and a beard made him look quite different 😁

  • @jabestheshed09

    @jabestheshed09

    Ай бұрын

    Beefhearts uk tour manager

  • @filbertthedilbert1
    @filbertthedilbert12 ай бұрын

    I like how the count keep a looking at the camera during the interview, like David Brent.

  • @carolebarker2195

    @carolebarker2195

    2 ай бұрын

    I felt sorry for the poor little kitten !!

  • @PodOfHeat

    @PodOfHeat

    Ай бұрын

    I don't agree with that in the workplace!

  • @englishdeltajazz
    @englishdeltajazzАй бұрын

    One can only imagine what the Grateful Dead made of Bickershaw - they must have thought their last trip had marooned them in the 19th century

  • @immaterialimmaterial5195
    @immaterialimmaterial51952 ай бұрын

    WONDERFUL time capsule!

  • @jimsimpson1006

    @jimsimpson1006

    2 ай бұрын

    Exactly, it's why I watch these things.

  • @hashburystumble8808
    @hashburystumble8808Ай бұрын

    Friday night rainstorm saw Wishbone Ash, Hawkwind, Jonathan Kelly & a stellar performance from Dr John & the Night Tripper aptly named as we had no tent & spent the night tripping & sheltering under plastic underneath the lighting tower. Contrary to many accounts of Bickershaw, the Saturday was blessed with brilliant sunshine & I can remember the ice cream melting before it could be carried a hundred yards back to the tent which we had strategically erected that morning with the opening facing the stage.

  • @keithbessant
    @keithbessant2 ай бұрын

    Jeremy Beadle, I recognised him straight away. He looks a bit different there to the sharp suited, flashy gent he became in his later career. What a clash of cultures. Bless the older generation whatever side they were on. RIP all of them.

  • @mikemcmahon1970

    @mikemcmahon1970

    2 ай бұрын

    Watch out,Beadle's about!

  • @IThinkYouLookLarvely

    @IThinkYouLookLarvely

    Ай бұрын

    I recognised him pretty quick too. I laughed when he effectively criticised the camera crew sneaking up on him! Perhaps he was getting his own back 15+ years later 😄

  • @dfpguitar

    @dfpguitar

    Ай бұрын

    I was scratching my head for ages wondering where Beadle appeared when it finally clicked he was the Festival manager! Such a change in character and role

  • @Traveller69
    @Traveller692 ай бұрын

    Oh man, this is just so funny. That line, "I've heard of yoghurt" was the best laugh I've had in ages, genius! 😂 Thinking of getting T-shirts made!

  • @Dreyno

    @Dreyno

    2 ай бұрын

    Obviously, as we all know, yoghurt doesn’t really exist.

  • @anthonybowers7571

    @anthonybowers7571

    2 ай бұрын

    I remember when yoghurt first appeared in our village Culcheth , I was about 15 I think

  • @freemenofengland2880

    @freemenofengland2880

    2 ай бұрын

    @@anthonybowers7571 Hey come on, I grew up in Culcheth and we ate SKI yogurt from probably the late 60s onwards. My parents shopped at least once a month in Manchester, Liverpool or Chester so I'm sure we had access to it as soon as it was available. SKI was the first yogurt to contain fruit pieces and only began in 1963.

  • @anthonybowers7571

    @anthonybowers7571

    2 ай бұрын

    @@freemenofengland2880 I did say "i think " ..i ate it in a Wimpy bar in Leigh anyway 🤣

  • @freemenofengland2880

    @freemenofengland2880

    2 ай бұрын

    @@anthonybowers7571 Those were the days. Lol. 👍

  • @ncrongendov733
    @ncrongendov733Ай бұрын

    Pure gold. Born in 1966 in North Yorkshire. Be good if we could get back to these people and this time before it all started falling apart

  • @RandallSlick
    @RandallSlick2 ай бұрын

    Fascinating. So glad the BBC Archive exists.

  • @spooley
    @spooley2 ай бұрын

    From Wikipedia, the organizers didn't see a profit. Big surprise, hah. Great slice of history, thanks for uploading. Security on the gates was inefficient. Tickets were taken and resold to those who were entering the site or were not checked. Festival goers simply got passouts and sold their ticket at half price to people arriving. As a consequence the organisers lost money. By Sunday, all semblance of organisation had disappeared and locals wandered freely onto the site to watch the Grateful Dead. By this time much of the site was awash with mud.

  • @primalconvoy

    @primalconvoy

    2 ай бұрын

    Sounds like any typical old-skool music festival.

  • @philiplancaster9682

    @philiplancaster9682

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m sure the Grateful Dead were on Saturday night before Beefheart did his 5 hour set

  • @andrewarthurmatthews6685

    @andrewarthurmatthews6685

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes and British festival organisation had to learn financially painfull lessons along the way . It was due to all those that went before that had allowed Glastonbury Festival to be highly successful and profitable

  • @Tang.E
    @Tang.E2 ай бұрын

    "I've heard of yoghurt".

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield72182 ай бұрын

    yeAAAAH The Grateful Dead played...just listened to their set yesterday ❤⚡💙

  • @janegrassmarket1414
    @janegrassmarket14142 ай бұрын

    13:50 Austin Mitchell Died: 18 August 2021 (age 86 years), Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds

  • @Ratsotone
    @RatsotoneАй бұрын

    I was there, I was 17 and it was my first festival, had a great time despite the rain, the mud and those dreaded toilets, held back from using them until Sunday morning then I had to go, called to my mate to find me some arse wipe material, which didn't turn out too well when he passed me a wet Embassy box and an empty crisp packet. We loved it though, saw some great bands and met a lot of colourful characters, and just being there was an experience in itself and one that I'll never forget.

  • @bigboxbobby2
    @bigboxbobby22 ай бұрын

    I was there, but I don't recall having a great time in spite of seeing the Dead and Beefheart, Donovan and the like. The toilets were non existent. If it had rained it would have been an absolute shocker. Good atmosphere though. I didn't understand why the locals were so pissed off at us, but now I get it. Who would want the great unwashed descending on their little pit village and burning down their fences for fire wood and urinating and crapping in their gardens - not me!

  • @richardjames3356

    @richardjames3356

    2 ай бұрын

    Did you manage to catch one of the Grateful Dead's beer cans?

  • @bigboxbobby2

    @bigboxbobby2

    2 ай бұрын

    What was that? Don't remember! @@richardjames3356

  • @philiplancaster9682

    @philiplancaster9682

    2 ай бұрын

    FFS it pissed down all day Saturday and Sunday

  • @royrcf

    @royrcf

    2 ай бұрын

    Spent the whole weekend under polythene , as if the rain wasn't bad enough someone decided to empty the divers tank right into the field. @@philiplancaster9682

  • @LANCSKID

    @LANCSKID

    2 ай бұрын

    A nice old lady let me evacuate in her outside privy as often as I needed.

  • @ralphmilano1703
    @ralphmilano17032 ай бұрын

    i like that the older folks were cool about it all.

  • @fredo1070
    @fredo10702 ай бұрын

    If Spinal Tap was a pop festival.

  • @robt4390

    @robt4390

    2 ай бұрын

    “So it became a comedy number.” I dare say Ian Faith - armed with his trusty piece of wood - would’ve made more of an effort to squeeze a damn profit out of the thing.

  • @tonemc6047

    @tonemc6047

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m not about to do a Freeform jazz exploration in front of a festival audience !

  • @robt4390

    @robt4390

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tonemc6047 Not even with top billing above the children’s puppet show?

  • @vince5678
    @vince5678Ай бұрын

    Yeah so many wonder memories on You tube. I m a survivor of it, twenty two at the time,. Sadly my mate Stu who accompanied me on the three days tripping, curled up his toes just of few months ago. Shine on all you crazy Diamonds!

  • @leybald60
    @leybald602 ай бұрын

    In 1972 I was 12 living in Lowton a few miles away, I remember this being talked about at school. I also had an aunty and uncle in Bickershaw. Fascinating stuff.

  • @clouddog2393
    @clouddog23932 ай бұрын

    Remember that BBC's" news night" showing this and the Workings men club then switching briefly to film of Family on stage commentating that this is the Sound of the underground . Great lineup of American bands as l recall , The Dead , Beefheart , Captain Beyond and the New Riders Of The Purple Sage .

  • @bestbutter

    @bestbutter

    Ай бұрын

    Memories... of The Kinks, Ray Davies in a white suit sashaying around the stage with a bottle of red wine... of Beefheart's stupendous Booglarise You booming from a darkened stage at silly o'clock... of scintillating guitar rock from the Flaming Groovies... and sadly that's about it, even though I love Family, Hawkwind etc and went mainly for the Grateful Dead. Ingestion of too much of the brown yoghurt sent me to sleep shortly after the Dead started Dark Star... when I woke an hour later I believe they were still playing it... I also swear I saw giant, KKK-style burning crosses at the end of the festival, but that was probably also the yoghurt. (Did anyone else see them?)

  • @DDandrums
    @DDandrums2 ай бұрын

    Jeremy certainly put that interviewer in his place. He was marvellous on LBC though I can’t say the same for Beadle’s about etc.

  • @Kenny_P_abz

    @Kenny_P_abz

    2 ай бұрын

    Interviewer was Austin Mitchell, latterly a long serving Labour MP.

  • @DDandrums

    @DDandrums

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Kenny_P_abzquite so, and JB put him in his place.

  • @robinbennett3531

    @robinbennett3531

    2 ай бұрын

    I loved him on LBC, but sadly, on the telly I found him creepy.

  • @Hulalulatallulahoop2
    @Hulalulatallulahoop2Ай бұрын

    I was too young for the pop festival but I went to Bickershaw primary school...how fantastic!!!!

  • @pcalf101
    @pcalf1012 ай бұрын

    15:59 David Walliams! 30 years before little Britain. Spooky

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    I thought it was him but then thought naaah

  • @davidwhite4874

    @davidwhite4874

    2 ай бұрын

    For me, he's a cross between Walliams and Ben Elton...

  • @TheKevcarp

    @TheKevcarp

    Ай бұрын

    He was born in 1971!

  • @pcalf101

    @pcalf101

    Ай бұрын

    @@TheKevcarp was a joke kev..

  • @colinu9209

    @colinu9209

    28 күн бұрын

    @@pcalf101Kevs is being a bit too literal there 😂

  • @staceygrove5976
    @staceygrove59762 ай бұрын

    14:10 A similar thing used to happen at many British football grounds in the 1960s and 1970s. Some people used to turn up at my local club, Oldham Athletic, at 'threequarter time' and were able to watch the last 20 minutes or so for nothing.

  • @AFaceintheCrowd01
    @AFaceintheCrowd012 ай бұрын

    It was rainy, muddy, freezing cold and awful - like most outdoor events in the UK then and now. A few weeks later I saw the Dead twice in the comfort of the Lyceum.

  • @roygoad2870
    @roygoad28702 ай бұрын

    Omg I’am 71 and I could be in this film! Not much actual music, guess it’s the BBC being PC. Amazing to see Jeramy Beagle as a young man, what a talented and unique guy he was, unfortunately died far too young!

  • @mixapikalic
    @mixapikalicАй бұрын

    I used to love those afghan coats. Oh the good old days. Living through my teens in the 1970's was the best decade of my life. Compared to now, fifty years later, it was bliss.

  • @Lookup2Wakeup

    @Lookup2Wakeup

    Ай бұрын

    Back in the early 1970s I wanted one of those Afghan coats. I think they were around £20 & I only had 4 shillings pocket money per week .... 😢

  • @mixapikalic

    @mixapikalic

    Ай бұрын

    @@Lookup2Wakeup Ha! 4 shillings. But that changed to 20 new pence in the 70's. Then the prices rocketed. Fish & Chips was less than a pound. Now you'd be lucky to find it for less than eight to ten pounds. In fact, ten shillings (remember the 'ten bob note') was a small fortune back then. Now the equivalent is 50p and what can you buy for that these days. A Bounty maybe? How times change eh!

  • @gill8779

    @gill8779

    22 күн бұрын

    I had one of those afghan coats & loved it. Unfortunately it stunk awful when it got wet lol. Loved those hippie days!

  • @johndonaldson3619
    @johndonaldson36192 ай бұрын

    When' Ski" yogurt - we couldn't get enough of it - oh, and nice capri at 14.43

  • @user-un9go4qe5i

    @user-un9go4qe5i

    2 ай бұрын

    When Ski yogurt came in pots that looked like little milk churns. Funnily enough, my friend's dad (who naturally drove a Ford Capri) worked for Ski. I tried a pot of yogurt about 1971, 1972, and hated it. I love it now.

  • @seanrm

    @seanrm

    25 күн бұрын

    Ski, the full of fitness food - for all the famileeeeeeeeeee

  • @davidjbatley
    @davidjbatley2 ай бұрын

    The unmistakable voice of Austin Mitchell confused that this is on BBC as he was YTV calendar anchor about this time.

  • @YeOldeFootballChannel

    @YeOldeFootballChannel

    2 ай бұрын

    He was a short time in 1972 at the BBC.

  • @chrisbayes2972

    @chrisbayes2972

    2 ай бұрын

    "Austin, Austin, Austin...Don't jump the gun."

  • @davidjbatley

    @davidjbatley

    2 ай бұрын

    @@YeOldeFootballChannel Thanks for that I have an autograph somewhere when he set up Pennine radio in the mid seventies

  • @smacker2182

    @smacker2182

    2 ай бұрын

    Austin Mitchell broadcasting legend!

  • @v.rudeboy9829

    @v.rudeboy9829

    2 ай бұрын

    Grimsby

  • @patrickcrowther9195
    @patrickcrowther91952 ай бұрын

    Lots of hippies completely monged on red leb and Watney's Party 7. By festival's end they'd be game for a barf.

  • @englishdeltajazz

    @englishdeltajazz

    Ай бұрын

    LOL

  • @richardjames9091
    @richardjames90912 ай бұрын

    Great documentary and thanks for all involved . From an East Lancashire man.

  • @alisonlee3314
    @alisonlee33142 ай бұрын

    "I've heard of yoghurt, but I've never seen it" Great quote from the corner shop owner 😂

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt2 ай бұрын

    I love that the miners are “bring it on”. Exactly the opposite of what you’d expect. 3:05 yeah peace and love 😂 9:23 keep your eye on your telly I’ll be about

  • @mrlotusmic
    @mrlotusmic2 ай бұрын

    Ah the apprenticeship of Watch out Beadles a lout before rebranding. Great clip.

  • @rapman5791
    @rapman57917 күн бұрын

    I like the old timer who said, when asked what he thought of the festival coming to Bickershaw “we’ve ‘ad our time when we were young, let ‘em have theirs”

  • @athelstan927
    @athelstan927Ай бұрын

    I love that Lancashire accent.. beautiful! ❤

  • @stephenlegg262
    @stephenlegg2622 ай бұрын

    When the generations didn’t all dress the same. Now it’s tracksuits for all ages.

  • @pauldaviesantiques1556
    @pauldaviesantiques15562 ай бұрын

    'I've heard of yoghurt...'

  • @andrewp1075
    @andrewp10752 ай бұрын

    I think Steve Coogan must've based his Ernest Moss character on that shopkeeper 😂.

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    Hahahaha absolutely priceless fella!!!

  • @Santiagosd156
    @Santiagosd1562 ай бұрын

    I absolutely loved it!

  • @MrMjp58
    @MrMjp582 ай бұрын

    As a teenager, I liked the idea of pop festivals. I only ever went to one. That was enough.

  • @DanJamesJames
    @DanJamesJames2 ай бұрын

    My main memories are of rain, cold, mud, 3-day-old baked potatoes, a drunken and incoherent Ray Davies, a wonderful performance from Beefheart and the Magic Band, a seemingly never-ending Grateful Dead set, and, after it was all over, mud-caked toilets at the nearest motorway services heading North on the M6.

  • @rawbluecheese
    @rawbluecheese2 ай бұрын

    I would love to see the entire documentary! C'mon bbc!

  • @BlackOnionMission
    @BlackOnionMission2 ай бұрын

    I watched this for ages before I realised it was Jeremy Beadle!

  • @davidflaneau2810
    @davidflaneau28102 ай бұрын

    Who knew Jeremy Beadle was the world's most defensive & aggravated festival impressario in a previous life?

  • @TheOldHacker
    @TheOldHacker2 ай бұрын

    "Count" Dracula was a a Wigan market trader called Harry Cohen, who also owned a pub in Bickershaw. The other investor was Peter Harris, who was arrested for dodgy business dealings three weeks before the event.

  • @hopebgood
    @hopebgood2 ай бұрын

    I really liked this vid. I'd never even heard of the Bickershaw Pop Festival (and tbh I can see why!)

  • @OldBigCD
    @OldBigCD2 ай бұрын

    This is the best Bickershaw footage I've ever seen, the DVD available for sale doesn't have any music from the actual festival. I'm impressed the hippies were able to find any firewood, there didn't seem to be a tree in the entire village.

  • @wesleyashworth5061

    @wesleyashworth5061

    2 ай бұрын

    Ther was no live music on this video either

  • @anthonybowers7571

    @anthonybowers7571

    2 ай бұрын

    DVD ? tell me more please ?

  • @OldBigCD

    @OldBigCD

    2 ай бұрын

    There's a DVD for sale advertises all the bands who played at Bickershaw. Unfortunately none of the footage on the DVD shows those performances, just still photos and audio which may or may not be from the festival. There are other performances on the DVD which are from TV appearances. The only actual footage of the festival shows a couple of interviews with the organisers, a guy jumping off a tower into a small pool and some stoned hippies sitting around a campfire. Best avoided unless you want to waste your money.

  • @anthonybowers7571

    @anthonybowers7571

    2 ай бұрын

    @@OldBigCD ok , thanks !

  • @onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677
    @onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677Ай бұрын

    wow it looks like the 40s. amazing doc

  • @stephenchappell7512
    @stephenchappell75122 ай бұрын

    Jeremy Beadle ⬆️

  • @spidyman8853

    @spidyman8853

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes at 4:28 is a young Jeremy beadle - Watch out Beadles about Before he was famous

  • @retr0naut823

    @retr0naut823

    2 ай бұрын

    Jeremy was a lovely man,very kind and down to earth.

  • @andrewarthurmatthews6685
    @andrewarthurmatthews66852 ай бұрын

    Important video in terms of British social history and so good to see this archive footage. The early festivals were relatively sparsely attended by the counter culture with a legacy of the 1969’s hippie ideal . In the days pre internet etc it was the specific music papers such as rather more mainstream New Musical Express, Sounds , Disc & Music Echo, Melody Maker. Others like Frendz, Zigzag etc catered more for the progressive / underground music scene as those publications were not available at the usual high street outlets.

  • @stephenleighton6349
    @stephenleighton63492 ай бұрын

    I was there, the people of bickershaw did not know what hit them !

  • @peterellison3478

    @peterellison3478

    2 ай бұрын

    I was there too. I've only just dried out.

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@peterellison3478😂😂😂😂

  • @lochside7647
    @lochside7647Ай бұрын

    It was like the Somme with music. Maybe it was the black mini microdots or the yoghurt stash, but I seem to recall incessant Pishing rain and a Slag heap nearby with a train running up the side of it. But it was so memorable for all the reasons on this video: flat cap old geezers and Coronation type matrons tutting away at 'bloody 'ippies' ; amazing lineup, most of whom I missed by sleeping in the big tent after the tabs wore off; the high wire guy setting fire to himself and diving into a tank of water, which then flooded the front of the stage even more into a quagmire; Stacia's magnetic..to my loony eyes... gyrations in front of Hawkwind; one of our mad squad..Laurie falling on top of the log fire..smouldering for a bit...then rising up all smoke and scorched sheepskin..announcing that he was 'aff tae the pub'; me finally staggering out of the place as the 'Dead' played what appeared to be on repeat a nine hour set on the Sunday. How I made it back home?....Dunno....Happy daze yes.

  • @johnm2558
    @johnm25582 ай бұрын

    Changed times. "I've heard of yoghurt" wouldn't amount to much of a boast these days.

  • @therookerybookery
    @therookerybookery2 ай бұрын

    Ahhh I had no idea about this! Only heard about the Zoo meets Factory Records Halfway (Fac 15) one in Leigh in 1979 😅

  • @davidpollard4051
    @davidpollard4051Ай бұрын

    Austin Mitchell presenting and that's Jeremy Beadle answering the questions - blimey

  • @edwardmclaughlin7935
    @edwardmclaughlin7935Ай бұрын

    Great to watch. Would have been even better with a glimpse of the stage acts.

  • @bugandbay
    @bugandbay9 сағат бұрын

    Jeremy beadle deserves a big hand for this 👏🏻

  • @defunked___
    @defunked___2 ай бұрын

    Gotta feel sorry for the poor shopkeeper, first day he's fine, second day (doesn't know WTF is going on)

  • @northernsnow6982

    @northernsnow6982

    2 ай бұрын

    He sold more that weekend than he had all year. Hid profits were great, and I'm sure he restocked his shelves and had plenty of money left over.

  • @primalconvoy

    @primalconvoy

    2 ай бұрын

    Enough to buy some yoghurt.

  • @BuJammy

    @BuJammy

    2 ай бұрын

    Profit margins are about 5%. A small amount of theft will wipe that out@@northernsnow6982

  • @Sandylaner63

    @Sandylaner63

    2 ай бұрын

    😂😂 he wasn’t used to people “ in capes and what have you “

  • @MichaelBennett1
    @MichaelBennett12 ай бұрын

    2:48 all those people have COPD now.

  • @Vinkabbeats
    @VinkabbeatsАй бұрын

    Raw stuff, l like the old style tv interviews

  • @colinwilcock9736
    @colinwilcock9736Ай бұрын

    Although not called that then Elvis Costello and Joe Strummer were there in the audience. Joe Strummer later cited the sun coming up at the end of Beefheart's set as one of the all time great festival moments. Plus l got to see the Dead !

  • @derekrobinson2324
    @derekrobinson2324Ай бұрын

    I was there, Beefheart and Stackridge were excellent

  • @syteanric
    @syteanric2 ай бұрын

    The old boy at the start with the glasses fair play to him!

  • @mikeatcora
    @mikeatcoraАй бұрын

    I live close by, I was 7 at the time and my dad took us down there. I remember noise and mud and little else. It's common knowledge that Jeremy Beadle helped set it up, he did a decent job in reality. The one thing that hasn't changed is the amount of rain.

  • @deepindercheema4917
    @deepindercheema49172 ай бұрын

    The shopkeeper had never really encountered yoghurt. How times have changed as the biome makes its mighty presence known.

  • @rapman5791
    @rapman57917 күн бұрын

    “Grateful Dead are on stage, I’ve got the ungrateful living here” 😂😂😂😂

  • @adrinathegreat3095
    @adrinathegreat30952 ай бұрын

    Amazing to see those old men, who were probably early 50s but looking like 80 year olds, saying let they young have the fun, we've had our day. Now the middle aged men go around trying to look like teenagers, blasting music out of car windows, walking around with spiky balding hair, moaning about the youth.. Instead of bowing out gracefully and letting the young be the young instead of trying to be like them.

  • @Paul-rt4ix

    @Paul-rt4ix

    2 ай бұрын

    I agree. I think we live in a day & age where folk over 40 are just scared of getting/looking old. Some can pull the younger look off but some look absolutely ridiculous!

  • @andrewarthurmatthews6685

    @andrewarthurmatthews6685

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes that’s exactly what I thought

  • @andchat6241

    @andchat6241

    2 ай бұрын

    It seems like that - I can't recall (or seeing a picture of)my parents ever being young ! ....a problem now is missing out on being middle aged !.. I thought I was 'youngish' & then I suddenly felt old !

  • @andchat6241

    @andchat6241

    2 ай бұрын

    It all went wrong when the 'comb over hairstyle' ended . So you can go baldish & hang on to a youthful style .

  • @richardhadfield8033

    @richardhadfield8033

    Ай бұрын

    Have you lot heard yourselves 😂 generalising. Don't tar all of us oldies with such a broad brush please...

  • @defunked___
    @defunked___2 ай бұрын

    Jeremy Beadle the Promoter ?!?

  • @spidyman8853

    @spidyman8853

    2 ай бұрын

    Yea, young Beadle before he was famous. Watch out Beadles about

  • @defunked___

    @defunked___

    2 ай бұрын

    Beadle the hip young gun slinger, who knew !

  • @Pymmeh
    @Pymmeh2 ай бұрын

    And less than a week later the tooth brush was invented...

  • @smithpm81
    @smithpm812 ай бұрын

    hawkwind and grateful dead amazing

  • @Mute_Nostril_Agony
    @Mute_Nostril_AgonyАй бұрын

    10:20: fantastic wallpaper. And those collars

  • @enjoythemoment6596

    @enjoythemoment6596

    Ай бұрын

    I was thinking the exact same thing! ❤

  • @cityboy9301
    @cityboy93012 ай бұрын

    Watch out beadles about 😮

  • @Wrest88
    @Wrest882 ай бұрын

    Jeremy beadle reminds me of Johnny rotten. When answering some of the questions 😂

  • @S-Ltd1000
    @S-Ltd10002 ай бұрын

    What a lineup.👍

  • @MikeyD347
    @MikeyD347Ай бұрын

    That reporter is the kind of guy to show up at the very moment you've broken a glass just to ask you if you've just broken a glass.

  • @jonathanmadden5112
    @jonathanmadden51122 ай бұрын

    I was at my first art college in East London at this time and remember it being talked about. A few intrepid students went along including my friend Roger Hutchinson who became, I learned later involved in the free festival movement. I unfortunately did not go, which I regret I suppose, I was always trying to earn extra money particularly during the summer break to supplement my grant, sad but true. A ‘bread head’ as we used to refer to them!

  • @scottprather5645
    @scottprather5645Ай бұрын

    Love these Brits 👍 Good window into history. Could use some subtitles for some of them though 😅

  • @longjonwhite
    @longjonwhiteАй бұрын

    Haha! David Walliams @ 16:02 … looking very mature at only one year old!

  • @Dunbar0740
    @Dunbar0740Ай бұрын

    Didn't realize it was Beedle. My first thought was, this young fella is a natural in front of the camera. I recall reading interviews in the '90s where he expressed some surprisingly progressive opinions, that were out of kilter with his high profile light entertainment media persona. This early incarnation as a hepcat puts it perspective.

  • @teutonicAnon
    @teutonicAnonАй бұрын

    I grew up in Leigh, not far from there, bit before my time though, ha.

  • @pujapete3665
    @pujapete3665Ай бұрын

    wonderful

  • @djs7734
    @djs7734Ай бұрын

    It's interesting that there isn't one single fat person in the whole video.

  • @davidlamb7524
    @davidlamb7524Ай бұрын

    The Summer of Love was long gone by 1972 !

  • @Lookup2Wakeup

    @Lookup2Wakeup

    Ай бұрын

    The future was the summer of mud .... 😅😂

  • @mukhumor
    @mukhumor2 ай бұрын

    Jeremy Beadle! 😄 'Watch out, Beadle's about!'

  • @alexfenton229
    @alexfenton229Ай бұрын

    Newfound respect for Beadle!!!!! What a battle he had!!!

  • @keijotoivonen3988
    @keijotoivonen3988Ай бұрын

    ❤Goooöd Dockument.

  • @paulinemoriarty3627
    @paulinemoriarty36272 ай бұрын

    That wallpaper gave me a headache, must of been cheap down market, but what a marvellous look at the past

  • @Santiagosd156
    @Santiagosd1562 ай бұрын

    Es interesante que aparecen personas de varias generaciones... Quedé impresionado con la aparación de esos señores al final del archivo, que aparentan tener unos 70 años e inclusive más. Esas personas nacieron a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. Que diferencia tan grande con los adultos que se ven, que también son muy interesantes y la enorme brecha con la generación de los jovenes.

  • @Lookup2Wakeup

    @Lookup2Wakeup

    Ай бұрын

    Good observation. It was called the generation gap.

  • @Santiagosd156

    @Santiagosd156

    26 күн бұрын

    @@Lookup2Wakeup Me intereso mucho por la generación de los baby boomer. Infelizmente son los viejitos de hoy. David Hoffman tiene un documental muy interesante sobre la década del 60, "Making Sense of the sixties".

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