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Canterbury
Fayre 2002
Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th and Sunday August 25th
2002
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Canterbury
Fayre 2002, held over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Mount
Ephraim Gardens in Hernehill, Faversham, Kent was for the first
time a three day festival, having previously only been a one
day affair.
Promoters Brain Wave Festivals and Second Wave Promotions took
the ambitious step of jumping straight to a three day event
with an impressive list of bands and from what we saw of things
it was a very successful event.
The line-up over the three days was as follows:
23rd August 2002
Fish - 9.00pm
Ozric Tentacles - 7.00pm
Nik Turner's Space Ritual - 5.00pm
Kevin Ayers - 3.40pm
24th
August 2002
Jack Bruce and the Cuicoland Express - 9.00pm
21st Century Schizoid Band - 7.00pm
All About Eve - 5.00pm
The Electric Prunes - 3.30pm
Diesel West Coast - 2.40pm
Muffin Men - 1.30pm
Mostly Autumn - 12.30pm
25th
August 2002
The Stranglers - 9.30pm
The Damned - 7.30pm
Love with Arthur Lee - 5.30pm
The Pretty Things - 4.15pm
Oysterband - 3.00pm
Arthur Brown - 2.15pm
Man - 1.00pm
Karnataka - 12.00pm
Lighting for the festival's one Main Stage was provided by
Fruit
Salad Lights/Coloursound Experiment with Lighting Director
Jasper Johns thrashing 6 Golden Scans to within an inch of
their lives and displaying his skills on the lighting desk
with some excellent chases/crossfades and other wild stunts.
The FOH sound engineer was Ian Bond (of Dream
Theater fame) who fed wonderful sound around the natural
amphitheater that formed the main stage area.
Due
to unavoidable circumstances we could not get to the festival
until early Saturday morning but we had some people reporting
on Fridays events for us.
Kevin Ayers performed a very
blues influenced set in the pouring rain, which did not put
off his hardcore fans who stood there and endured the downpour
while he played!
At one point his daughter came on and performed an acoustic
piece and showed considerable talent.
Nik Turner's Space Ritual played
a good but somewhat chaotic set that once things had settled
down turned out to be a good performance, followed by what
we were told was also a good performance from festival favourites
Ozric Tentacles. Fish
was, well, Fish................sorry!!
pOoTer and Boris
arrived very early Saturday fuelled on copious amounts of
Red Bull, Pro Plus and Vodka after a breakneck journey around
the M25 and plenty of Speed Camera dodging on the M2/A2 (bastards....)
and after erecting the monster Pooterland tent went in search
of some fun......
We have been in touch with James Lowe from the
Electric Prunes for ages and he wanted to meet up with
us so first up we went backstage on a 'Prunes hunt.
After meeting up with Jasper from Fruit
Salad we heard James Lowe shout out "Pooter!"
and turned round to see him walking towards us smiling (we
had walked straight past him....duh!!). We hung out and chatted
with the 'Prunes for while doing an informal interview and
snapping some pictures and also ended up meeting Arthur
Brown (who didn't know who the 'Prunes were until our
buddy Neil introduced them.....)
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Pooterland
meet the 'Prunes
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Mark
Tulin, Arthur Brown and James Lowe
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James
Lowe, Mark Tulin and pOoTer
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Mark
Tulin, Neil Rice, Jasper Johns, James Lowe and Schmoo
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Jasper
Johns, James Lowe, Mark Tulin, Neil Rice
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James
Lowe, Mark Tulin, Jasper Johns and Neil Rice (barely
visible!!)
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We stood
talking to the 'Prunes for so long that we blew out Mostly
Autumn (too Prog for us!) and the Muffin
Men (Zappa tribute band..) after which we went looking
for some breakfast that didn't involve Red Bull!!. This was
found in the shape of some of the best vegetarian burgers EVER
seen at a rock festival, these fuckers were so good that we
lived off them for the next few days (apart from Boris's love
affair with vegetable Tempura.....).
We heard the last part of Diesel West
Coast before getting down the front for the highlight
of the afternoon...........The Electric
Prunes, live in the UK for the first time in 35 years!!!
After a terrible introduction from Master Of Ceremonies, Arthur
Brown they were on and played the following set:
Lost Dream
Never Had It Better
Ain't It Hard
Last Night I Had A Dream
Too Much To Dream
Canterbury 'thing' (Mojo/Wind Up Toys etc. etc)
I Happen To Love You
Try Me On For Size
Long Days Flight
Get Me To The World On Time |
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Apart
from some slightly overpowering lead guitar the set was brilliant
and it was a truly memorable experience to see one of America's
legendary Garage/Psych bands actually playing live here in England!!
We heard All About Eve whilst hitting
those veggie burgers (again!!) for lunch before going back into
the VIP area for another chat with the 'Prunes where we chatted
about the years 'between the Prunes', Mark Tulin's disappointment
at British weather, he had bought a raincoat over from LA and
desperately wanted to wear it (it NEVER rains in California),
Cameron Lowe's new found rock 'n' roll lifestyle playing in
a 'legendary band' and the future.
I suggested a photo shoot and James and Pamela Lowe quickly
got the band together for some pictures on the steps of Mount
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to catch up with the band later and went in search of some alcohol
and more Pro Plus in preparation for 21st
Century Schizoid Band, which are the closest you will
ever get to the original King Crimson
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They played
a strong set to an appreciate crowd, we nipped down the front
for some pictures before sloping back up to the Lighting Tower
and watching the rest of the set from there (the BEST sound
and best view of the lights...). We stayed there for Jack
Bruce and the Cuicoland Express who did a few Cream
covers, amongst some strong blues and rock numbers and the crowd
went wild. The highlight for us was Jasper's awesome lighting
effects which looked excellent from our vantage point.
We finished the evening up at the band merchandise tent where
we met up with the 'Prunes again, drank more beer, ate more
burgers and ended up bumping into Chris Hewitt from Oz-IT
Records and ending up in deep discussion about the current
'troubles' in the Hawkwind/Xhawkwind
camp (see our News
page) then wandering backstage watching some footage shot of
Kevin Ayers earlier on Friday before
drunkenly attempting to put up some camp beds in the Pooterland
tent (without a torch....duh)
The Pooterland tent played host to Neil Rice from Optikinetics
on Saturday night, but we were not very good hosts, having no
food or lights (only Red Bull and Vodka!!)
Sunday morning looked like being a washout as it pissed down
with rain for an hour or so before suddenly clearing, we took
the opportunity and had our first breakfast (2 cans of Red Bull)
before sneaking back to the veggie burger stall for more awesome
veggie cheeseburgers and bumping into some Pooterland.com visitors
who stopped and said "Hi".
We stumbled down to the stage and caught Karnataka
who, although not psych by any stretch of the imagination played
an excellent 'first band of the day' set (never easy) to an
appreciative crowd.
Man played a good set although
I am not sure what they played as I am not really familiar with
their material, their guitarist Mickey Jones had been taken
seriously ill and his son George had stepped in to take his
place, he was AMAZING for a young kid, it has to be said!!
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We ditched
Arthur Brown in favour of more
food and came back to watch the Oysterband
who played an interesting Folk/Rock set and I think were a little
suprised to be on the same bill as The
Damned etc.!!
Also The Pretty Things. The Pretties
were not quite what we had expected although they did play a
kick ass version of Midnight To Six, Don't Bring Me Down, SF
Sorrow, Baron Saturday and LSD. Their Vox guitar was also very
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Next up
was Love with Arthur Lee and we
were seriously not expecting the totally mind-blowing performance
they we were witness to, this dude was awesome, he was so cool,
the songs were so tight and his voice was absolute perfection,
he was backed this afternoon by the same band (Baby Lemonade)
he has been playing with for the last few years:
Dave Chapple-bass
Rusty Squeezebox-guitar, backing Voc.
David Green-Drums
Mike Randle-Lead Guitar, backing voc.
The set-list was this (thanks to Pooterland visitor David Johnston
for sending in this correct version):
1. 7&7is
2. Signed D.C.
3. Live and Let Live
4. Your Mind And We Belong Together
5. Alone Again Or
6. Andmoreagain
7. Bummer in the Summer
8. You Set The Scene
9. Everybody's gotta Live / Instant Karma
10. Singing Cowboy
11. Encore 1 A House is not a Motel
12. Encore 2 The Daily Planet |
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They virtually
had to throw him off stage as he was not gonna leave on his
own accord, these guys were THE hottest band!!
Spotted watching from the edge of the backstage area was Dave
Vanian and Patricia Morrisson from The
Damned (who were on next and kept waiting by Mr Lee!!)
The Damned played an excellent
set, with Captain Sensible wearing an Electric
Prunes 'Rewired' T-shirt and commenting on 'how many
of their heroes' had been playing that weekend, and keyboard
player Monty Oxy Moron being possibly the most comically entertaining
person of the entire festival......what the fuck is that bloke
on? (somebody let me know 'cos if it can make a 41 year old
wig out like that then I WANT some!!).
Their current line-up for those of you who have bothered to
read this far is:
Dave Vanian - Vocals
Captain Sensible - Guitar
Patricia Morrison - Bass
Monty Oxy Moron - Keyboards
Pinch - Drums
Their set list was something along the lines of this:
Street Of Dreams
Democracy
Song.com
New Rose
Would You Be So Hot
Amen
Plan 9 Channel 7
Rain
Ignite
Neat
Disco Man
Eloise
13th Floor Vendetta (??? confirm....somebody...pleaes??)
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We did
not hang around for The Stranglers,
who are minus Hugh Cornwell these days (see Sons
Of Shiva for Hugh's new project....) (sorry
guys...) and blasted off up the motorway, stopping only for
more Red Bull on the way.
Coming soon to these pages, many more photo's from the other
cameras (non digital) so check back in a while.
Words: pooter
Photos: pooter
and Boris
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