Friday, August 14, 2020

A day in the life (40 years ago)

 Europe 1980. Pre-Schengen treaty. Borders. D-Mark & Francs ...

Living aside the frontier not really knowing what happens "on the other side". No newspaper, no fanzine, no local magazine I was aware of then shouting out loud "THE CLASH+THE CURE+KEVIN COYNE+ROXY MUSIC!!!" play a festival near you, just cross the damned border and enjoy your fav bands at time. Even UFO! Okay, they weren't no longer the "Prince Kajuku" space rockers i once loved.

If only one german source would have told me about that festival but there was none... but reading french magazines, especially the legendary "Rock & Folk" (enough Stuff for a very, very big fandom-post ...) was helpfull: they made me aware and asking friends, if they were interested. Sad truth: No one was - we were younger then and even loving the bands most of us with no money in our pockets. Not for a "commercial" festival while working organizing our first free festival at the so called "Hinterwald"

To the Püttlingen part of the scene, the punky-reggae-party section, younger folks, The Clash (they just released "London Calling") and The Cure (just transforming themselves with "Seven Seconds" into a more goth-style) were common sense, the Köllerbach-section, most of them elder Deadheads, needed "Sandinista" with the well beloved Mikey Dread to warm up with the Clash. Long story short: I couldn't find no one to come with me so I had to go alone there (only company: some Mescalin ..)

And so the Festival started ... Personal highlight definitly Kevin Coyne (no record of that found yet but a longer post still ahead) .. great sets by the Clash and The Cure, Roxy Music didn't show up ... and the day ended with a car suffering on a cylinder head gasket deep in the night ...

So this is what I found on the net ...

1980-06-14 Rettel Festival, France FM

The Clash

01 London Calling
02 The Guns Of Brixton
03 Train In Vain
04 White Man In Hammersmith Palais
05 Somebody Got Murdered
06 I Fought The Law
07 Jail Guitar Doors
08 Clampdown

The Cure


01 A Reflection
02 Play For Today
03 Three Imaginary Boys
04 In Your House
05 Fire In Cairo
06 10.15 Saturday Night
07 M
08 At Night
09 Accuracy
10 Jumping Someone Else's Train
11 Another Journey By Train
12 Grinding Halt
13 A Forest
14 Seventeen Seconds
15 Plastic Passion
16 Boys Don't Cry
17 Subway Song
18 Killing An Arab


Not my rips but the best versions.

Big thanks to the original posters


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