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!!!
Me and some friends did a performance with a huge phallus on the pyramid stage just before Hawkwind came on at sunrise. Looking for footage of that. Had a mad day on acid after that and ended up in Hospital after stabbing myself in the chest. Ha Hippy trippy wacko days.
can never forget stonehenge 84"! i was 21 then, we got the bus (absolutely jam-packed!) from salisbury town, and when we arrived, the pigs had set-up at the entrance..... (must of caused some paronoia for anyone who"d dropped a trip on the way in!!) and the next thing we saw were lots of naked bodies (male & female) as the travellers freely showed their naked flesh!!. hawkwind,the enid & the cardiacs were great! a giant penis was errected (excuse the pun!) on the main stage for hawkwind !
I loved it, there was a sense of the possibility of change. Evidence that we were on the right track is that it was all squashed the next year. Same with the acid house parties a few years later, people coming together and doing their own thing. Surprise, surprise that got jumped on to. When something feels that right, it isn't wrong. Never give up. Peace and love and unity..
I was there,,after glastonbury,,met eddie from anjuna beach,,,,hey,, if you happen to see this,,hows it going,,and what happened to joey and shankar !!!
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]
I went there on a lovely summers day in June 84 and stayed for Two weeks. It was like landing on a different plantet, once in a lifetime experience. And never to be repeat again
The last Henge ever and crazy to even be in the footage... Kev's broken down van at Hayling Island, nearly stacking Rich's Harley on the sea front - getting there well late... watching the lips, doing it all the first night, Hawkwind memories across the sea of bodies, the solstice and crisp packets in the sky! Diagonally cross the planet now - but memory traces and friendships still remain...
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.
I was there every year from 78, I still remember the smell of the hedgerows around the site and the mix of woodfires and weed on it. The dreamy sights and sounds at night time and the fact that it was almost impossible not to get smashed. I remember sharing spliffs with complete strangers at the side of the stage when Hawkwind played and running out cash and thanking God for the free food stall. I lament its loss and dream that we shall have that sort of freedom once more.
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'.
It looks like them days were crazy days. I was born in 1980, so by the time I was partying the microchip had started to enslave us, drugs had gotten shit, and George Orwell's 1984 had started to become more of a reality rather than the work of good fiction. I suppose the movement wasn't without it's oppression (hmm... Battle of the Beanfield springs to mind), but at least you could drive a bus to live in without the old Bill knowing your fucking shoe size by running the plate through a computer!
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.
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
I was 16,this was the first festival I ever went to.
"Don't get taking any drugs"was the last thing I heard my mother say as I left the house......I took my first lsd and had the best time of my life for I will never forget Stonehenge 84.
Giv,Reno or Arfer if you ever find this contact me M.
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 . . :) .
About 10 of us can down in a battered old transit(cheers tony) from Leeds,driving overnight arriving at 4am..totally surreal when we got there heavy fog and people just milling about in silence..when in rome etc!! myself and ron tree(very pre hawkwind) scored some microdots and over the next 10 days my head turned to mush!!..missed hawkwind as the only time i slept was when they were on... bugger!
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was having a good ol' look for my girlfriend Jan & I, plus our vintage Austin & the legendary Grunt tent! Still got pile of posters and 'meet me by the cesspit' type messages I grabbed when it was all over. We took an hour off that weekend to sit on a hilltop over the Glastonbury fest, & the Smiths were on. Then picked up a black hitchhiker called Frank who was totally dressed in green, to "not offend the earth"!. Magic stuff, happy daze
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!!!
TeamOneBillion 3 weeks ago
Mmmmmmm
Wakeymedia3 1 month ago
happy winter solstice peeps.....
hoolychris 2 months ago
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underterraingrunter 3 months ago
Me and some friends did a performance with a huge phallus on the pyramid stage just before Hawkwind came on at sunrise. Looking for footage of that. Had a mad day on acid after that and ended up in Hospital after stabbing myself in the chest. Ha Hippy trippy wacko days.
piggywig22 7 months ago
yeah burning the smack dealers
jamesrenforth 8 months ago
can never forget stonehenge 84"! i was 21 then, we got the bus (absolutely jam-packed!) from salisbury town, and when we arrived, the pigs had set-up at the entrance..... (must of caused some paronoia for anyone who"d dropped a trip on the way in!!) and the next thing we saw were lots of naked bodies (male & female) as the travellers freely showed their naked flesh!!. hawkwind,the enid & the cardiacs were great! a giant penis was errected (excuse the pun!) on the main stage for hawkwind !
MothershipOracle 9 months ago
My first festival i was 16 and got arrested on the way out.
1966spanner 10 months ago
thanks for posting if i rember right the burnt out car [5.30] was some smack dealers .
g2sticks 10 months ago 2
missed this great event .....
hippie1950 10 months ago
I loved it, there was a sense of the possibility of change. Evidence that we were on the right track is that it was all squashed the next year. Same with the acid house parties a few years later, people coming together and doing their own thing. Surprise, surprise that got jumped on to. When something feels that right, it isn't wrong. Never give up. Peace and love and unity..
HelmetBlissta 11 months ago 5
I was there,,after glastonbury,,met eddie from anjuna beach,,,,hey,, if you happen to see this,,hows it going,,and what happened to joey and shankar !!!
eckankarpaul 1 year ago
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]
francisco56948 1 year ago
I went there on a lovely summers day in June 84 and stayed for Two weeks. It was like landing on a different plantet, once in a lifetime experience. And never to be repeat again
pfcruleok21 1 year ago
The last Henge ever and crazy to even be in the footage... Kev's broken down van at Hayling Island, nearly stacking Rich's Harley on the sea front - getting there well late... watching the lips, doing it all the first night, Hawkwind memories across the sea of bodies, the solstice and crisp packets in the sky! Diagonally cross the planet now - but memory traces and friendships still remain...
Scuvatis 1 year ago
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... :)
100roberthenry 1 year ago
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
lostindebespace 1 year ago
thanks... I've got stomach ache!! I miss it....
I remember the "vigil" at Portondown....
Ah yes, blue mikes... and supermen...
rod1e 1 year ago
Thank You!...
freetommy777 1 year ago
I was there every year from 78, I still remember the smell of the hedgerows around the site and the mix of woodfires and weed on it. The dreamy sights and sounds at night time and the fact that it was almost impossible not to get smashed. I remember sharing spliffs with complete strangers at the side of the stage when Hawkwind played and running out cash and thanking God for the free food stall. I lament its loss and dream that we shall have that sort of freedom once more.
ZEROTHEHERO1960 1 year ago
Thanks, Arsydd. I'm now struggling to find a copy!
jamesstasiak 1 year ago
great sountrack-nice one-I bet them "Mighty Boosh" fellas would dig it ;-)
MrTulip65 1 year ago
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'.
arsydd 1 year ago
thanks
jumblymamba 1 year ago
"Stonehenge 1984" -- nice bit of poetry in itself.
motogoku 1 year ago
By the way, what's the name of the amazing song in the video please?
jamesstasiak 1 year ago
It looks like them days were crazy days. I was born in 1980, so by the time I was partying the microchip had started to enslave us, drugs had gotten shit, and George Orwell's 1984 had started to become more of a reality rather than the work of good fiction. I suppose the movement wasn't without it's oppression (hmm... Battle of the Beanfield springs to mind), but at least you could drive a bus to live in without the old Bill knowing your fucking shoe size by running the plate through a computer!
jamesstasiak 1 year ago
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.
rootsquare 1 year ago
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
draco4966 2 years ago
Loco Coco was definitely there in 1984 I got shouted at for taking a pic of it!
bpb901 2 years ago
I was 16,this was the first festival I ever went to.
"Don't get taking any drugs"was the last thing I heard my mother say as I left the house......I took my first lsd and had the best time of my life for I will never forget Stonehenge 84.
Giv,Reno or Arfer if you ever find this contact me M.
Remember the watermelons?
kanehedde 2 years ago 3
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 . . :) .
pmf598 2 years ago
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!
rus2y 2 years ago
It was the best
Sciencebox2010 2 years ago
Anggy & Cass age 16 travelled down fae Glasgow to see HAWKWIND."and so departin' leave behind us,footprints in the sands of time"
The11041966 2 years ago
About 10 of us can down in a battered old transit(cheers tony) from Leeds,driving overnight arriving at 4am..totally surreal when we got there heavy fog and people just milling about in silence..when in rome etc!! myself and ron tree(very pre hawkwind) scored some microdots and over the next 10 days my head turned to mush!!..missed hawkwind as the only time i slept was when they were on... bugger!
MsBabster 2 years ago
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
rumplestilskint67 2 years ago
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
TheSallyzoe 2 years ago
brilliant 5 stars...... the burnt out car brought back some memories..... :) it was a great festy shame it was the last one :(
hot tongs
grandmasurfs 3 years ago
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merkinbloke 3 years ago
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.
merkinbloke 3 years ago
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.
herostratics 3 years ago
i saw Field Marshal Slug as well dude ?
flippineek 3 years ago
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
hadyhaha 3 years ago
my first festy...acidic memories.
bezale 3 years ago
field marshal slug were there with drugs !!
jamesxuxbiz 3 years ago
I have a life, you get a wash you soap dodging crusty.
BorgCymru 3 years ago
Bloody hippies, look at the state of the place. Dirty bastards.
BorgCymru 3 years ago
stuff you its great....get a life moron
ozrichobbo 3 years ago
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.
bezale 3 years ago
henge 84 was my first ever free festival+that was my main inspiritation to live on the road
slobls 3 years ago
Bugger me that transports me back! My first ever festival! Life's never looked the same since...
I swear I remember a couple of those benders too. I think one one doing the most amazing fudge (that I lived on all weekend!)
Thanks for the memories!
donkeykebab 3 years ago
we run that cafe have pictures will try put up sally baker 47 now lol
TheSallyzoe 2 years ago
this was also my last visit to the hengde i was even filmed here with my friend nic turner
great advent there will never be a fes like this.
nigegt 3 years ago
And not a mobile phone in sight.....heaven!
CelticReject 4 years ago
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.
e23video 4 years ago
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.
e23video 4 years ago
wot happened 2 the invisible infinity band
riknohat 4 years ago
I was having a good ol' look for my girlfriend Jan & I, plus our vintage Austin & the legendary Grunt tent! Still got pile of posters and 'meet me by the cesspit' type messages I grabbed when it was all over. We took an hour off that weekend to sit on a hilltop over the Glastonbury fest, & the Smiths were on. Then picked up a black hitchhiker called Frank who was totally dressed in green, to "not offend the earth"!. Magic stuff, happy daze
45junkie 4 years ago
I wasnt thats unfair lol!
BTW I'm only 21!
artstudent07 4 years ago
Thanks for that.
I was there that year before it all went tits up the next year.
Peace...
Glaznoz 4 years ago