Stonehenge 1984

what we did on our holiday

[@Aengus42]

We were the first vehicle on site on the 1st June in a Chinese six panorama elite. The fuel line from the back, a small bore copper pipe that ran the whole length under the floorboards, blocked up. It sputtered and stopped. No way would we ever have found the blockage. Hardly any tools... So we scrounged a huge container & syphoned the diesel out of the tank to fill it. Took the engine cover off and split the fuel rail just above the rail to the injectors. Started a syphon with some reinforced hose. As soon as it was running I jammed it onto the fuel rail. Balancing the fuel on the dash I sat beside it. Held the end of the hose as high as I could without air getting in to keep as much pressure as possible. The bloody thing started! From somewhere near Wincanton every mile felt like a victory! Finally, we climbed up onto the chalk and made it to the site. Damn that felt good! No bugger there! Grass sy armpit height in places we parked at the top of Rainbow Drive and watched a town grow around us. Stayed the whole month. Right up to when the Krishnas were hoovering up the waifs and strays in their bus with that spooky busy of their leader in the front. They'd fed us some gorgeous food. Bima burgers were excellent as long as you could cope with a Krishna on each side of you as you ate trying to convince us to join. We politely declined 😆 That was one hell of a month! Every festival after the henge felt like your Nan's garden party with cucumber sarnies after that! The Battle of the Beanfield hurt like hell the next year. I'd heard it would've been the 12th consecutive year in '85 and we'd've been able to hold the festival in perpetuity if it had happened. Instead they sicked riot police with no insignia on the convoy, fresh from beating up the miners at Orgreave... horrible!

[@junglie]

True I saw them all heading north as I came down to the festival the year before on my bike & said to my girlfriend on the back, we'll be next.......

[@rootsquare]

Yep, me too, did 83 and 84, both midway through my exams at school. Best experience of my life ever, grew up more in those 2 years than in a lifetime since.

[@jeannieprice65]

I was here😀😳Man holy hot Knifes💥💥💥

[@JCHM13]

Yeah - 50p for one or three for a quid. We usually bought four each.....

[@acnalbassacnoom]

Amazing. I'm transported home in an instant. What a magic time that was. Oozing oddness and wide eyed warmth. We had an establishment there -the asylum cafe. Paying was optional.

[@mikenorledge4110]

I'll pay you tomorrow then, I'll probably still be awake ;-)

[@buzznagual]

Stonehenge People's Free Festival 1984 was the last great event.

[@StovePipe-lx8vv]

it was an eye opener I was 17 in 83

[@lostindebespace]

thanks, now i am full of even more yerning for the stonehenge free festival, bring it back, it was free in them days we didn't think all that freedom would leave us or be taken away, we just lernt so much from back then that we didn't see till it was gone. you could trip out and talk to most people even if you didn't know them. the vibe was like nothing else. i wish my kids had a free festival to take their kids to instead of this plastic money land ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. LOVE IT NICE ONE

[@100roberthenry]

excellent video, i was there in 83/84/..and tried in 85...ended up at woodhenge camped... saw hawkwind, /the cardiacs...brilliant days...thanks for these memories... :)

[@tonyworld5388]

what a time to be alive loved it

[@slobls]

henge 84 was my first ever free festival+that was my main inspiritation to live on the road

[@tarronspencer5483]

I was there 4 years old hot summer of 76 Stonehenge rocks Hawkwind forever ❤️🙌🙏✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@The11041966]

Anggy & Cass age 16 travelled down fae Glasgow to see HAWKWIND."and so departin' leave behind us,footprints in the sands of time"

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

The best party ever held in Britain, first festival I went to as a fresh 17 year old, spent all me money on Charlie in the Bedouin tent near the mounds, was there from 79-84, brilliant days...

[@williamgreer4087]

My dad told me there was a place called Cocos Cocaine Emporium 😂

[@junglie]

@@williamgreer4087 Coco loco's actually......

[@davethebass3517]

We were camped next to the ice cream van selling hash cakes :-) and I remember a tent with a DHSS flag (Dursley Hash Sampling Society) 😀

[@kirkvincent5047]

Went for 4 weeks this year ace fun. When I see Glastonbury on the box now it just makes me shudder. With the BBC's running commentary like it's some sort of sports event with their blabbering pundits. Back in the day you didn't tell people you went to festivals as you were thought of as some weirdo, so it was a real underground movement. Now it just seems like some middle class, middle age right of passage dinner party one-upmanship.

[@rumplestilskint67]

oh my god i was there i saw hawk wind that's all i can remember it was that good and every one had triangles instead of heads , my friend tried to give me an apple and i thought she was trying to poison me then her boyfriend became a werewolf but i think that was the blue microdots talking, agh those where the days

[@rod1e]

thanks... I've got stomach ache!! I miss it.... I remember the "vigil" at Portondown.... Ah yes, blue mikes... and supermen...

[@PeteGlastonbury]

Thanks for that. I was there that year before it all went tits up the next year. Peace...

[@merkinbloke]

Brilliant film. I loved going to the festivals. Happy memories indeed. I have spotted a friend in the film too. Sadly they are no longer with us.

[@bezale]

my first festy...acidic memories.

[@liontigerhydra]

I was there, last year before Thatcher put a stop to it

[@CelticSaint]

And not a mobile phone in sight.....heaven!

[@richguest]

I was there, back when festivals were somewhat alternative events rather than the corporate, commercial bollox they’ve become.

[@pmf598]

aahhh . . . . the true British spirit of adventure . . . excellent . . :)

[@davethebass3517]

I remember seeing the Tibetan Mountsin Troupe there, they were excellent!

[@pmf598]

Well done kiddy, that's the Spirit . . . . i was there and there will be no going back, cos time moves forward . . . . . . . but in our hearts, brains and minds are the memories, these are timeless . . . pass them on . . :) .

[@e23video]

so many memories - deciding last minute to hitch down from preston, arriving without a tent driven by a squaddie, getting totally lost for a day or so, finding people who'd let us stay in their bender, poison girls doing tired of crying as the sun was setting, bored by hawkwind and finally falling asleep, missing the solstice, debating about the punks v hippies issues, amazed that people left for glastonbury but glad for the stuff they left behind.

[@michaelmilburn563]

One of my treasured memories was having a go on the hang glider being towed by a classic open top touring car.felt as free as a bird.cushty view tripping at the time.memories of good friends gone by.mad Milly's militia .burges hill Brighton branch.shine on.milly just Milly Hartlepool..Ali...ali

[@francisco56948]

my name is francisco ritter and i was the 18 year old with his late friend colin archer . in a burgundy mark 3 cortina . faced with the prospect of my annual pilgrimage being halted by the blue meanies . i took the law and my steering wheal into my hands and rammed dawn fence with my car. swiftly followed by my fellow pilgrims. so i like to think , i started festivities in that final golden year 1984.. Vidio brings it all back. [ THANKS]

[@g2sticks]

thanks for posting if i rember right the burnt out car [5.30] was some smack dealers .

[@sionyevans]

Got the dvd..effin loves it...can smell that hash..great lookinh back on these fezzies...never happier than at a decent festival..love to1984

[@TheSallyzoe]

just so glad someone was together enough to film it sally nanny and mum thanks to festiful daughter zoe was conceived in bedder how many kids can say thatwell lots of people got marrid at stones winder if any still together now lol

[@TeamOneBillion]

That must be so cool to go back that long ago and watch videos like this! I'm only 26 and started going to Festivals about 10 years ago and I can't think of a better place to have fun with friends! I MISS SCHWAGSTOCK!!!

[@arsydd]

Yeah, great clip and great use of 'Where The Freaks Hang Out' by original Motorhead guitarist and Pink Fairies 'Kings of Oblivion' era lead singer and guitarist Larry Wallis. It's off his solo album 'Death In The Guitarfternoon'.

[@MrHendo747]

My 2nd Stonehenge at 18... hooked up with the convoy for a few weeks before the 'push' onto the henge site.. Happy Daze!! Played with 'Unicorn' in the Tibetan Ukranian Mountain Troop marquee. a whole month of Festynesstivities. Free Peanut Butter Massages by gorgeous girls seem like a good idea when you're tripping... until after, when you suddenly realise the 'catch', lol... I wonder how many others got caught with that one... STILL living 'where the freaks hang out' in N.NSW Aus. Memories+++

[@Aengus42]

Hahaha! I saw the Tibetan Mountain Troupe and asked a guy called The Venusian,who had a baker's van fill of tat to sell, what they were doing in the UK. He said "No mate, they're not Tibetan. They just want to go there!" 😆 I bartered a huge, circular mirror from him. The perfect size to place on a barrel with a semi circle of candles around one side. "Ally ally ally!" 🌬️ ☮️

[@M66GUS]

I woz there. Played a few sets with my band Tamarisk, and one with Rory’s Invisible Band. Went in 80/82/83 and tried in 85 only to end up camped on the White Horse in Westbury😢

[@peterwilson2256]

I am here and there acid casualty number 12,675.

[@hadyhaha]

bezale you are right what you say i went to stonehenge in 1980 and played there with a group changed me too im not a hippy either but love the concept of it all

[@andrewdowne3067]

I was with the Double Decker bus but not seen in video. Went on to get nicked at Nostral Priory,got photo of me being chucked into meat wagon on the Times, Telegraph etc.

[@herostratics]

Excellent. The good old days. One of my favourite memories from those times is the sound of "Summertime Blues" wafting across the stones when the "druids" were doing their thing in the early seventies. The camp/festival site was quite a walk away then.

[@mikenorledge4110]

"Ken Barlow.. Ken Barlow.. Ken Barlow" if you know you know ;-) .. Dave Brock started it off when he saw Ken amongst the hooded Druids

[@666xochi]

The last year..... ....RISE UP PEOPLE.. ......"Fight the Power'.....😈 ....🌻🌈💝

[@draco4966]

The last of the proper free festivals , it took me three week s to get home in 84 , we went on to another festival somewhere ,it all went tits up in 85 THATCHERS FUKIN BRITAIN

[@WiltshireByways]

The night after this Hawkwind performed a surprise set at the Leipzig Plantation in Roundway near Devizes. It was something of a local legend amongst people of a certain age in the town.

[@mikenorledge4110]

Hawkwho? Stonewhat? .. Brock the Badger did you say? .. dunno what yer on about mate .. let me think about it, OMMMMMMMMMMMM ;-)

[@davecarrick2194]

Amazing times.

[@animaltatz]

I was there in 84.Awsome festival and great weather.85 was a bit different tho :(

[@johnmoore1485]

I travelled with the convoy all the minor free festivals ending up at the Elephant Fair to finish the british year ...lost my way after Beanfield however there are less coppers now i think we should steal it back....freedom my freinds freedom

[@jeannieprice65]

Had the best weekend here,Met a character called Harlequin,Always wandered what happened to him.

[@alex-E7WHU]

Hope you are not Jeannie price from Waltham abbey..🤔

[@JCHM13]

Ahh... first time I encountered the amazing MAN! Also the first time I dropped acid and bizarrely went up to the sound of Donna Summer's "State of Independance." Cant remember much after that....

[@2013jjjTHUNDER]

glastonbury festival always was the poor mans stonehenge, or rather it is now the richmans stonehenge, admitedly the never ending 8 hour set by hawkwind on the solstice in the last henge 1984 was genuinely one of the worst musical experiences of my life but in other respects stonehenge festie was so classic...bring it back! where else could you pitch up a bender at one of the prime crossroads and wake up one day to find your special spot has been colonised by the windsor hells angels marquee? (followed by a very sensible and rapid relocation... lol)

[@jaket9559]

I was there in 1984 great days Way before the invasion

[@trinderfilms1357]

This footage is great. I'm making a doc about the free festival / parties of the 80s and 90s do you know who shot this?

[@bpb901]

Loco Coco was definitely there in 1984 I got shouted at for taking a pic of it!

[@Andy_1964]

Played with "earthbound" in the field in 84 ..waa a punter 82, 83 , 84 .. tried to get there 85 but alas we all know what happened then... I suspect that 84 wouldn't have happened either and it was only because the cops were away fighting the miner's that year ...

[@bezale]

Borg...these "hippies" organised an at least four week long concert/festival at Henge, with tens of thousands attending. Personally it was one of the most amazing experiences i've had...life changing. Think you could do better? I'm not a hippy, most there would have laughed at the concept. If you were to confront us, you would become aware of this.

[@paulyoung2328]

If anyone's interested after a lot of suggestions who sang this song I've finally found after delving deap it's sung by Larry Wallis titled where the freaks hang out obviously lol I've had suggestions of Captain Beefhear .The Enid and lots more enjoy .peace x

[@freetommy777]

Thank You!...

[@isleofwightdave2286]

Someones been listening to Huw lloyd Langton.

[@Gibbo1]

I was there in '84, saw some lenticular clouds near the stones which was strange as they normally form next to mountains. Did anyone else see them? They looked like flying saucers..

[@davethebass3517]

That rings a bell :-) I remember one morning seeing a rainbow's end coming from the centre of the stones ... or maybe I was 'influenced' by something 🤔

[@Gibbo1]

@@davethebass3517 I really did see the saucers, it was nothing to do with the acid I dropped the night before

[@Aengus42]

Me and my GF were laying atop a burial mound, flat on our backs looking up. We'd just been to the Chai bus (and you know what went into that Chai. Plastic bags that'd very nearly been emptied, the last few blotters from one guy and the broken mikes from the bottom of the bag. Anyone involved in commerce used that Chai urn as a handy place to lose all sorts in. It changed by the hour and got stronger day by day... Anyway, the classic white summer cumulus puffs of cloud above my head formed into gingerbread men shapes, they held hands and formed rings in the sky dancing above me I gasped and all I could think of to say was "Are you watching them too?" My GF said "What? The rings of dancing gingerbread men clouds?" Gasp! We shouldn't be sharing the same sky, seeing the same thing! "Y-y-yes!" I stammered! Bugger me sideways that Chai was so good it was bloody telepathic! It's surprising what happens on top of those mounds...

[@jamesstasiak]

Thanks, Arsydd. I'm now struggling to find a copy!

[@jamesstasiak]

By the way, what's the name of the amazing song in the video please?

[@broadgategnomefilms]

Come back allisforgiven xx

[@PeterGoggz]

ms Magical cat ... it was kinda the last one , the year after we all ended up on Westbury hill, (the white horse) .. but it did nothing but RAIN for days ,, we got blown up by a gas bottle .. on white lightning lol (the irony) .. anyhow the talk was of a 'mass walk' to the Stones on the morning of the solstice but I think the weather just killed it all ...That and the army ... they were patrolling the perimeter in armoured vehicles and the kept buzzing overhead really low in a helicopter .

[@olikane530]

was i there that year?

[@Sciencebox2010]

It was the best

[@bezale]

amen to that

[@kathymcbride2425]

is the sound been changed

[@rus2y]

anyone remember what year the Loco Coco tent was there? I would say happy memories but like most people posting it's all a bit (purple) hazy!

[@grahamwatson3898]

Who hung my name on the fence🤔

[@jonbell3020]

Nothing here about when the bikers turned up and started kicking the shit out of people… me and my mate tripping watching Poison Girls with bottles sailing over our heads towards the stage. I think Crass were supposed to play but I don’t think they even managed to come on thanks to those arseholes.

[@earthoceanstv1227]

was there where druids if he earyh ?

[@zippyde]

so what happened to free love baby?

[@Aengus42]

It was in the steam lodge, massage tent! Well, it was free if you were a "local" but weekenders got fleeced 😆

[@TheSallyzoe]

we run that cafe have pictures will try put up sally baker 47 now lol

[@mickbeeee]

What was the catch then ? I went there in 1987 when it turned into a running battle :-) . but it was great at Choldeton the previous evening

[@MikeGreenwood51]

The first 10 years '74 to '84 were allowed. '85 wasn't.

[@riknohat]

wot happened 2 the invisible infinity band

[@adambollocks6464]

like

[@parrothface100]

whats this track?Larry Wallis?

[@unviciouscircle]

Yeah Fee , did you get our permission to film us ? Did you get permission from the organisers to film something that was Free?Shame on your attitude.

[@johnarundell7951]

Uncle Dave Tough titties uncle Dave! Get real. Will you get over it 30 years later? Did you originally get permission from the builders of Stonehenge to get loose at their sacred site or from the National Trust to run amok with a few thousand of your closest friends? Give us a break. All that dope and acid might have fried your brain mate :D

[@richardscott4821]

Why would anyone want permission to film a free festival.There were organisers,but who cares less about that.People seem to forget that free festivals were fuck all about laws and regulation.

[@unviciouscircle]

You shouldn't ...check out the original complaint.

[@richardscott4821]

I stand in awe.Anyone lucky enough to have a camera in those days were lucky. Its great to see this footage.Who really cares less if you lot were in the shot? If you didn't like it,fine.Ask not to be filmed,but there is nothing illegal in what this guy has done filming wise. Hes not authority and he is in a public place. So personally,I think your argument is full of shit.

[@unviciouscircle]

Dont mind at all Richard.The rant started from someone saying that the posted film was done with no permission and had ripped someone off.And yes it's great to see the footage.

[@sxmand]

whats this soundtrack ?

[@acnalbassacnoom]

sxmand Larry Wallis from the album Death in the Guitarfternoon

[@sxmand]

acnalbassacnoomthank you x

[@feemercurymoon]

This was created by my husband and has our Mercury Moon watermark at the end. You have RIPPED THIS OFF his Web Site and uploaded it yourself with no credit. Shame.

[@e23video]

so many memories - deciding last minute to hitch down from preston, arriving without a tent driven by a squaddie, getting totally lost for a day or so, finding people who'd let us stay in their bender, poison girls doing tired of crying as the sun was setting, bored by hawkwind and finally falling asleep, missing the solstice, debating about the punks v hippies issues, amazed that people left for glastonbury but glad for the stuff they left behind.