No doubt you were still basking in the glory of promotion from Football League Division III.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Mmm, Rachid Harkouk. Now there was a player.

Poofs

The Rolling Stones lent their mixing desk stage, which was used as a main stage.

Rumour had it that Steve Hillage was going to call his new album 7 and play on 7/7/77 at Glasto but he didn't show and called the album L instead.

Usual protagonists were there , Here and Now, I think Tim Blake did a set and Hawkwind were knocking around too.

Some bright spark decided to sell scrumpy and people were passing out in the heat all over the place.

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These are the bands that didn't play...

For the record Sunstroke are playing the Glastonbury free festival , a celebration of 7/7/77 marked simply , from the main road - FUN . Situated on a beautiful ley line ridge near Street in Somerset , attended by upwards of 3,000 people advertised solely by word of mouth . MC'ing was performed by a dope pipe selling lunatic in Indian headdress, tinted shades and levi shorts , given to reciting the rain chant from Woodstock and singing and dancing with all the bands .
In the context then, of this decidedly bizarre festival ( the weirdos wore clothes and the straights stuck to hashish and acid ) Sunstroke seemed oddly normal. The audience listened intently , idiot danced or did the lysergic pogo and had a good laugh during the bands two well received sets.
Among the better known names present were Edgar and Steve Broughton with their respective latest outfits, Here and Now ( of course) and the members of Skywhale .
Edgar Broughton confidently restored a reputation eroded by years of rampant untogetherness and a resulatant apathy- although one is temporarily at a loss to divine why he has parted with his brother, for both bands sounded, to these ears , similar- fresher and cleaner then the Broughtons of yore - plus the brothers appeared to be sharing a tent . Edgar is a vastly underrated songwriter , the proficiency and vigour of the band -Childermass, should correct this lack of critical and popular recognition . To his credit he denied repeated requests for Out Demons Out with the words ., 'it still needs saying, but not by me'- and not here either - the last thing this magical festival needed was a heavy political exorcism .
Here and Now more than made their presence felt , after a lacklustre performance on Thursday afternoon, and an undignified if spontaneous participation in the Glastonbury Zodiac Band - a mammoth jam starring NikTurner ( a sublime sax player, make no mistake, he really should get a band together soon ) on Friday , Saturday evening saw them tuning once more into the music of the spheres . It was an especially exhilarating phenomenon for those who had taken note of the dropping time - 7pm, on the daily BIT broad sheet .
It was disappointing the complete Skywhale did not play , for in the Bristol musicians jam , featuring several of their members, their numbers seemed somewhat nondescript .
T he music went on 24 hours a day, often from more then one source simultaneously . Apart from the main stage ( the mixing tower from last years Knebworth festival,) private vans broadcast recorded sounds (lots of Gong , Beatles, Lamb Lies Down On Broadway , Spirit , Cheech and Chong )and impromptu percussion jams frequently filled the air .
Everyone got superhumanly stoned.
Not that it was all squalid degeneracy . The Tipi People ( nee Wallies ) have started a Save the Horse charity , collections for which brought some down from London to roam the festival site. It has been the vision and dogged persistence of the Tipi people ( in particular that of their guiding light Sid Rawles, that has kept the free festival spirit alive over the past few years.
A lso a grateful thanks must go to the organisational efforts of BIT and Release most definitely without whom ....
Other bands worthy of mention and worth watching out for the future . Corina and Friends, Rotbang, Desperate Straights and Planets - as different in detail from one another as chalk and cheese ( respectively - folkie, punkoid, progressive and space )but each with a similar ly exciting , optimistic Aquarian quality distinguishing them from the rest of the music scene with its bright shining newness.