Legendary gig on an island on the Mersey Estuary.
An odd experience to say the least!
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“Phil Jones got me to layout this ticket in the Olympic Festival office or the like where I was fundraising etc. It's just possible that he gave me a ticket as a souvenir of my skill and industry a year or two back. The idea of the spike was already determined. As I recall I decided all the type sizes, colours and layout and succeeded in spelling everything correctly. Dave Logo printed ... maybe I'm not sure. But IIRC all this stuff was very late getting done.
Around the same time we were doing Reggae Sunsplash preparations for Hough End - Bunny Wailer to headline. But some local vicar found some restrictive covenant from some spoilsport silent order of bestial curates who had banned whistles, rattles and all mechanical noise 100 years before or whatever. Which the lawyers finally agreed was a gig stopper.
The spoilsport vicar (was it John Leech's dad???) was also worrying about the sterotypical (not) spliffheads dropping their dirty heroin needles around the Nell Lane Estate.
Probably more risk at that time of the kids there dropping their needles and hippies and rastas cutting their bare feet chilbobblin'.
As far as I remember the posters were printed. But I don't have one. Black ink on yellow. A departure for the G and M crew who mostly did those generic white red and black efforts. Bunny Wailer in one of those classic Marley-esque dreads swinging above head shots ... only better.”
“I still have the original hand-drawn artwork. We posted it to the printers ( based Near Birmingham FYI), late on a Friday night, or else we missed the booked print deadline of Monday.
We produced all of Spike Island from that Olympic Festival office (Churchgate House, 56 Oxford St) and my office at home in Chorlton. As payback, the tickets have the original Manchester Olympic Fest logo on the back, which Ian Brown was happy to support. He even dropped by the office a few times. As regards using Hough End for Bunny Wailer, yes it was the local vicar who found the covenant. I always argue that The Police dog training HQ is on Hough End and every year they produced a weekend festival of events on Hough End and no one moaned about that, for some reason. I'm not sure we did print any posters, but may be wrong.
We'll leave you all to draw your own conclusions
Cheers, Phil Jones.”
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Around the same time we were doing Reggae Sunsplash preparations for Hough End - Bunny Wailer to headline. But some local vicar found some restrictive covenant from some spoilsport silent order of bestial curates who had banned whistles, rattles and all mechanical noise 100 years before or whatever. Which the lawyers finally agreed was a gig stopper.
The spoilsport vicar (was it John Leech's dad???) was also worrying about the sterotypical (not) spliffheads dropping their dirty heroin needles around the Nell Lane Estate.
Probably more risk at that time of the kids there dropping their needles and hippies and rastas cutting their bare feet chilbobblin'.
As far as I remember the posters were printed. But I don't have one. Black ink on yellow. A departure for the G and M crew who mostly did those generic white red and black efforts. Bunny Wailer in one of those classic Marley-esque dreads swinging above head shots ... only better.”