Woodstock

Well it wasn't really Woodstock, but it was inspired by that festival - in fact Joni Mitchell never made Woodstock either even though she wrote the song. We did get our own back on the nuns, in that in 1970 my friend and I managed to get permission to go to the Bath Festival, held at Shepton Mallett, in pursuit of our Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. I still don't know how we did it - it was unheard of to get a weekend off in term time, and to be allowed to go to a music festival was surreal. The line up was amazing - Pink Floyd, Country Joe, Jefferson Airplane and the Byrds to name a few. We had no tent, no sleeping bags, no-one knew what to expect - we stayed up for the duration so I know we must have seen everyone on the bill. Magic times.
And the Duke of Edinburgh connection was that our special interest was folk music.......