HERE AND NOW 1978
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Deeply Vale 1978 in full swing - photographer not yet known - from the
Grant Showbiz collection
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HAIRY
BARBER |
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HERE
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FREE
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GOSPEL
OF FREE |
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©here
& now 1978 |
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| Here and Now on Sunday afternoon
at Deeply Vale Free Festival 1978 - pic 2 : Craig Mitchell |
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Here and Now on Sunday afternoon at Deeply Vale
Free Festival 1978 - pic 3 : Craig Mitchell |
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| Here and Now on Sunday afternoon
at Deeply Vale Free Festival 1978 - pic 4 : Craig Mitchell |
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Here and Now on Sunday afternoon at Deeply Vale
Free Festival 1978 - pic 5: Craig Mitchell |
The party's over
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Ironically, the Free Festivals, which had always been the raison d'etre
for the band, now found themselves fitting around the burgeoning schedule
of free tours and recording commitments. And the sheer quantity of work
would take its toll in way and another.
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Deeply Vale - the aftermath pic : Craig Mitchell |
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Altogether, from March to December '78, Here & Now did four British
free tours and visited several festivals. We were on the road for six
months doing around 100 shows
In the meantime we recorded a studio album "Give & Take",
a live album "What You See Is What You Are" (with punk icons
A.T.V.), an E.P. "Dog in Hell", lent our bus to "Stephen
and the Farm Band" for their European Tour, and had another baby
(Lily-Rose).
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STRAWBERRY |
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HERE
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FREE
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GOSPEL
OF FREE |
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©here
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It's not surprising that the details of that year are rather blurred.
Not surprising really that, on the mid-winter solstice, on the way back
in to London after the last gig of the last tour of 1978, our new bus
broke down. But completely.
The crankshaft had snapped from the strain
I knew how it felt.
It never recovered, It was towed back to Latty Road (well Freston Road
actually) Then back to the bus garage we bought it from. We had no money
to fix it and never saw the darling again..
It wasn't the only one that didn't recover. Body and soul half mashed
from perpetual performing, maybe; the desire for fresh and crazy musical
meadows too strong, perhaps; The Beautiful Dream had been dreamed;...
I went my own way;... As did Suze, and Ano soon after.
The Here & Now band went on, but thus endeth the Gospel of Free
according to Frank Honest
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Back Home
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Text - Frank Honest (taken from 'Gospel of Free'
booklet) with some additions. |
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