BLACK SABBATH, ALICE COOPER, STATUS QUO Part Of Reading Festival Book
April 3, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Bbc.co.uk:
With the first Reading Festival hitting Richfield Avenue way back in 1971 it's about time someone wrote a book about it. Ian Carroll has done just that, collecting memories of 500 bands and punters who can just about remember they were there.
"The crowd are there to be part of something. The band want to create something special. It's in the air. Everyone is working together to create something legendary."So says FUTUREHEADS frontman Ross Millard about the Reading Festival. And it's just one of 500 memories to be shared by artists and punters in a special book all about the legendary rock festival.
The author is Ian Carroll, a 41-year-old father-of-one who's enjoyed virtually every Reading Festival since 1983.
"I thought it was about time someone wrote a book," says Ian, who lives in Plymouth, "so in 2004 I started writing, I contacted (festival organisers) Mean Fiddler and it just escalated from there."For the last two-and-a-half years Ian has been collecting memories from festival-goers and performers alike, from old veterans such as VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, BLACK SABBATH and STATUS QUO to more recent artists such as OASIS, FOO FIGHTERS and SLIPKNOT.
ALICE COOPER, who headlined the Sunday for the festival's 25th anniversary in 1987, has this particular gem:
"We only played it once. The cool thing about it was, all we were told was they were going to throw bottles at us!"The funniest thing was, I said I guarantee they would not throw anything at us. ZODIAC MINDWARP went on and they got covered, there wasn't one bottle thrown at us.
"I said they wouldn't dare throw anything at Alice Cooper, they know how dangerous he can be, Alice will come after them in their dreams!"
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The Reading Festival Book, is planned to hit the shops the week of the Reading Festival this year, which starts on Friday 24 August 2007.
