Slade - Take Me Bak 'Ome & When I'm Dancin' (Reading Festival 1980)

Live audio with photos of Slade.

[@martinhowe1422]

I was there, I rocked, Slade & the bog rolls, bloody highlight. best bloody 3 musical days of my bleedin' life. Thank you Nod, Dave, Lea & Don. Totally Bostin!!!

[@rosemarytaylor1504]

I’m a die hard Slade fan from the 70’s, but also AC/DC, Rush, Rainbow, Springsteen. To see Slade at Reading was off the chart, I’ve never forgotten it. Or the whole chicken flying thru the air 😂 Noddy and that voice, he is the best

[@sladeippie5841]

To who ever filmed 'Slade' at the Reading Festival 1980, could you grow a pair and release the footage into the public arena and deal with the copyright issues after. It's gone on long enough.

[@carlgerard3791]

Why is it impossible to see the video of this concert?

[@stuartmorton1279]

Greatest concert never filmed, glad i recorded it off the radio from the Friday night rock show.

[@NBM3]

Good eye !!!!

[@michael5089]

@@Zopf-international thanks for that. I always wondered about any footage. What can we do about this? How much is out there!? 👍🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@garythomas2417]

Awesome band and Nod the God best lead singer ever... Best British rock band of Al time 👍👍👍👍👍

[@billyboo59]

Me and my mates were (and still are) hardcore rock/metal fans. We saw Slade at Bradford University a few months before Reading and they absolutely brought the house down. We were at Reading, and when Slade were announced as the last minute replacements for Ozzy you could hear a pin drop - except for a few denim clad Yorkshire lads in the middle of the crowd who went bonkers. We knew what was coming - they totally smashed it, and got 30,000+ rock fans bouncing up and down on a balmy August evening. Slade at Reading is still one of my greatest rock’n’roll memories.v

[@vmax4steve524]

I was there as well, the crowd who were mostly there for the metal were raised on Slade and loved them. Great weekend that, stoned for three days, Rory, Pat Travers, UFO, Whitesnake and the fledgling Iron Maiden along with Saxon, Tygers, Samson, Def Leppard. I remember the parachutists coming down during UFO's set, has that ever happened at a festival before or since ?

[@marklorne6790]

I remember hearing the Whitesnake set on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show ; weren't the other bands recorded too? The Slade performance was so good it saved their career

[@kieranculligan6351]

Yep I was there as well they totally smashed it

[@garymiller3702]

@@marklorne6790 Yes they were, TV played most of the performances over a period of time, if I remember correctly he dedicated 2 Friday nights to the bulk of the performances.

[@tommyandersson7702]

The kings of heavy rock n roll

[@crockagator919]

What I would do for a time machine!

[@paulwitveendaal3381]

hell yeahhhhhhhhhh

[@garywray2503]

Am 66years old and my kids tell me give it up dad But I'll do it

[@ЮстасАлексу-т2ш]

да. лучшие года. это молодость.

[@peterdutton2414]

Is it loud enough everybody? NOOOOOOOOOO Turn it up Charlie! :))

[@Blaa_Boi]

Was meant to be their last gig, they were on the verge of splitting up due to dwindling record sales. They got a phonecall at the last minute to fill in for Ozzy Osbourne as he was under the weather. This one gig shot them straight back into the stratosphere.

[@TheLee105]

Totally saved the career of a great band......

[@CB-xr1eg]

@staggerinsanta No, Ozzy cancelled as he didn't feel that Blizzard Of Oz was ready to do the gig.

[@michaelholmes4374]

That's fait stepping in

[@dillongstaff5625]

LATE REPLACEMENT FOR OZZY...THE REST IS HISTORY

[@АлександрКлиманов-к6и]

Выше...Крыши...Супер...Нодди Холдер☝️😁👍❗

[@HonaloochieBoogie-sx5le]

スレイドで最初に買った シングル盤です。 B面はワンダリンでした。 カッコ良かった。

[@andreverhagemusic]

yes

[@garythomas2417]

Nod could and have sell condoms to the pope!!?? Keep on ROCKIN

[@KelleyStrzelczyk]

Karl Pilkington was in Slade? Cool. Thats funny. I suppose it could be his twin uncle.

[@paulgoddard8133]

SLADE never disappointed a crowd playing live.. no band will ever touch em ' when noddys in control you know your in for a great time.. best live band ever love them always..

[@spudbyrne9497]

The best rock voice ever and the most underrated band ever and there songs today sound as good now as the did in the 70s look at all the bands that covered there songs and made names from it keep on rocking

[@stevechouffot3687]

The best band this country has ever had

[@andreverhagemusic]

hell yeah!!!!!!!

[@davidcrabbe1243]

I THOUGHT THE PRESS SEX BOWIE.....LOL

[@jeffreyedwards609]

Beatles?

[@paulwitveendaal3381]

@@jeffreyedwards609 second place

[@paulwitveendaal3381]

hell yeah!

[@MarkAtkin]

I lived in Reading at that time. Sat in my garden listening to this, about a mile away!

[@garywray2503]

Try sitting in the front row

[@garmit61]

One of the best gigs I ever saw. Stole the show.

[@davetaylor7903]

That was my first time seeing them live .. what a show, blew everybody away . Best live band ever. Saw them 3 times before they split up.

[@theskidmarkoforion4829]

Dave Hill guitar got more knobs than the space shuttle

[@andreverhagemusic]

lol

[@richardcarr7557]

Remember the crowd booing Slade when they came on stage but not for long they rocked! Proper rock n roll band. Brilliant live 👍

[@dominicparker6545]

I was at this gig and as anyone who was there will know, it was one of those magical ones where the entire place went mad... it was utter brilliance and I so wish there was video of it today... I am so glad I made it there as a 17 year old and just passed my driving test in my mums Allegro :).. what great memories

[@scottblair4691]

Lol. Did your Allegro leak when it rained too? :)

[@rayenbow3281]

You passed your test with a car with a square steering wheel? Well done Sir, you've earned your wings!

[@norfolkrover]

My mates used to laugh at me for loving slade. I didnt care.Great days.

[@TopProductReviews2]

More fool them - tell em to see em live

[@troopz4683]

Watched them live 9 times, and my favorite track was Everday........... fantastic!!!

[@TheUrbanWarthog]

I went to Reading 1980 to see Ozzy. That was my one and only goal. I went back a Slade fan. Who cares about Ozzy?

[@andreverhagemusic]

true mate!

[@carrkizz]

Cool ... Slade is Greatest Hail from AustriA

[@jousted]

saw this,astounding ,really showed what they were capable of

[@antaog5961]

Like anyone else there that day it was a special moment, especially to a spotty 16 year old who had grown up with slade in the early 70s but certainly didn't expect them to be there that weekend ,amongst whitesnake maiden gillan... cos of an ozzy non show, what a great 3 days we had ,even the cans hitting me on the head couldn't wipe the happy grin off me,singing Merry Christmas everybody in august seemed a different lifetime ago. Happy days...

[@markpowell1026]

I have their whole set on cassette, I haven't listened to it for a while. I'll have to find it and see if it is still playable. Recorded off Radio 2, Tommy Vance if I remember right.

[@NBM3]

Post it !!!!

[@robhanhart2730]

40 years ago today!!!

[@garythomas2417]

Amazing live act saw them at the monsters of Rock at Donnington in 81 blew everybody away again

[@richardwood6222]

Got to be up there one of the best performance I've ever seen . This big ginger Scot bloke bounced over to me bollock naked and said here hold my pants...here disappeared into crowd...I never saw him again..!

[@wernerbartnick5382]

Stimmt...One of the best Groups of Rock musik...

[@andrewhudson8966]

The hit singles of course were great records but the teeny bop image the records got for Slade deflected from what they were,a great LIVE rock band.

[@dowvidz]

Slade 1973 was my first concert at 11 years old and every other gig has compared to that. Ear splitting volume and great chant along tunes. Felt sorry for anyone sharing a stage with those guys. One of the greatest rock vocalists of all time who smashed it every time I saw them

[@davidcrabbe1243]

Wot an afternoon....awesome p.a.

[@brianmooney6468]

One of my all time favourite songs ever

[@macca1146]

All my mates were Quo fans, and i was a Slade fanatic, i had seen them live a few times and Quo too, i finally talked my Quo mates to come and see Slade live at the Civic Hall Wolverhampton, they still say to this day that it was by far the best concert they had ever been to, and admit that Slade were the best band they ever saw live, and the loudest lol.

[@alanberkeley7282]

1976-1979 were the doldrum years of Slade. This kept them together for another 12 years.

[@delaBoujardiere]

That was when punkrock and heavy metal were introduced. A time change in rock style. I started by then to lose interest in Slade after "nobodys fools" - a terrible album in my opinion. With those gospel chorus in title song in an attempt for pleasing the american market???. I must admit I also had some problems with the flame album but all in all it was an ok album. The next "whatever 'appened to Slade" was a very good album. But the fact rockers wanted something new and different and that became their downfall if we look away from internal busts they had. I revived my interest in Slade when they introduced the "til death do us part". I'll say one of the best recordings ever!

[@goreweed]

I laughed at first like a hell of a lot of people that day but they rocked and had the crowd going mental, great memories for a 16 year old lad from hull let loose with a group of older mates😁 epic

[@dodibenabba1378]

Same thing happened at Donington 81, everyone laughed and then Slade stole the show! 😂😂😂

[@Johnny-dz6vl]

I wish this on 🎥 to see the energy. Best live act around

[@rocketqueen7355]

Love the rawness 🔥🔥🔥

[@ianthomas4568]

I was there they stole the show, did 5 encores if I remember rightly? Plus Def Leppard had to follow them and they had a bloody hard time! 😄😄

[@stevetheprogger1]

Went to Reading in '78,'79,'81 and '82.....Fuck!!!

[@sladeippie5841]

🤣🤣🤣 Ne' mind 'eh. I wasn't there either and i'm a massive Slade fan. They only knew they were playing three days prior, so i had no chance of knowing

[@mkruup]

AMAZING!!!

[@videosfromallvehicles2069]

The best rock band ever

[@andreverhagemusic]

great photo's Dave!

[@raycollins2990]

Slade took Reading by storm that year it doesn't come any better than this.

[@JoopZweetsok]

they should have been on live aid!

[@operator6471]

I always thought their clothes took something away from them but just hearing them is full on hardcore greatness.

[@GH-el9ch]

Huge Slade fan here from Canada for 45 yrs now...I always loved their clothes....suited their music/spirit perfectly

[@supermamamaxi]

Heavy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ВалентинТерешков-й8с]

GREAT SLADE !!!

[@garywray2503]

The start of their 2nd coming. Walked on walked off 45 minutes later. Reminded everyone one. Not a glam band but one of the greatest live rock bands that ever existed

[@COLEEN322]

Need the visuals.

[@timetraveller9321]

What about deep purple, black sabbath, the Beatles , queen , whitesnake, led zep, iron maiden, to name but a few slade were great but they are not the greatest band this country ever had…

[@alangreenley3257]

who was better than slade live? not many groups in the 70,s early 80,s slade were top of the pile

[@andreverhagemusic]

All bands you mention were live boring

[@timetraveller9321]

@@andreverhagemusic the 1973 made in Japan album by deep purple is one of the greatest live rock albums ever made,

[@johns7272]

Saw them at the palladium in 72. Beyond awesome live band. You have no idea unless you witnessed it