Labour Party Freedom Concert 1986 - memories?

[Jennaonthebeach]

Going through a box of old tickets this week, I find this.


Now i remember going to the occasional Red Wedge thing back in the day, and I assume this was a similar ritual trotting out of all the same old red wedge acts - Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford, The Frank Chickens, etc. But can anyone remember for sure, were you there, are there photographs? I seem to have absolutely non memory of this at all, though clearly i was there.

 

[skyscraper101]

There's some video out there. Not sure if its from this gig or what



Telegraph article of relevance

Why Billy Bragg and Red Wedge failed to make Labour rock

Assembled in 1985, the pop collective set out to swing the youth vote for Neil Kinnock and kick Thatcher out. It didn’t quite go to plan

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Fozzie Bear]

A quick google suggests that the Freedom Festival was an Artists Against Apartheid thing.

Looks like they did a concert on June 28th 1986 with Hugh Masekela and a bunch of others on Clapham Common. Artists Against Apartheid UK Freedom Festival 1986 Setlists

3rd May was a Saturday in 1986 so that would be the year.

 

[The39thStep]

A quick google suggests that the Freedom Festival was an Artists Against Apartheid thing.

Looks like they did a concert on June 28th 1986 with Hugh Masekela and a bunch of others on Clapham Common. Artists Against Apartheid UK Freedom Festival 1986 Setlists

3rd May was a Saturday in 1986 so that would be the year.

Is it that long ago that Labour was against an apartheid regime ? How times change

 

[TopCat]

A quick google suggests that the Freedom Festival was an Artists Against Apartheid thing.

Looks like they did a concert on June 28th 1986 with Hugh Masekela and a bunch of others on Clapham Common. Artists Against Apartheid UK Freedom Festival 1986 Setlists

3rd May was a Saturday in 1986 so that would be the year.

I was there. There was a feeder March?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I was there. There was a feeder March?

Yeah looks like a brisk march from Hyde Park to Clapham Common - 4.5 miles comrades.



Flyer for the music bit here - https://www.aamarchives.org/archive...r-freedom-28-june-1986/viewdocument/8403.html

None of this is much help to Jennaonthebeach though...

 

[belboid]

I was there. There was a feeder March?

Can't have been. They didn't form till 1994.

 

[TopCat]

Yeah looks like a brisk march from Hyde Park to Clapham Common - 4.5 miles comrades.

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Flyer for the music bit here - https://www.aamarchives.org/archive...r-freedom-28-june-1986/viewdocument/8403.html

None of this is much help to Jennaonthebeach though...

It went over Chelsea Bridge. Ian Bone got drunk and caused trouble and got hit by a drunk miner.

 

[The39thStep]

It went over Chelsea Bridge. Ian Bone got drunk and caused trouble and got hit by a drunk miner.

This sort of detail is very hard to find on the internet .

 

[Fozzie Bear]

This sort of detail is very hard to find on the internet .

….until now!

 

[The39thStep]

….until now!

I think it was EP Thompson who wanted to view history from the point of view of the man in the crowd not the king

 

[TopCat]

This sort of detail is very hard to find on the internet .

When I die huge amounts of political trivia will die with me.

 

[The39thStep]

When I die huge amounts of political trivia will die with me.

Need to post it on here asap