Actuel Festival - Revision history

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Added more info, with sources.

Spider of Destiny at 17:54, 6 October 2013

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 RS: So, did you perform with anyone?<br>
 '''DS:''' Yeah. To nail that down once and for all, you did not perform with Pink Floyd, right?<br>
-'''FZ:''' No. I think I performed with Aynsley Dunbar, and then, there was a jam session that had Archie Shepp, 'Philly Joe' Jones, and some other jazz guys that played.</blockquote>
+'''FZ:''' No. I think I performed with [[Aynsley Dunbar]], and then, there was a jam session that had [[Archie Shepp]], 'Philly Joe' Jones, and some other jazz guys that played.</blockquote>
 <div align="right">-Extract from [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2]]</div>
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 <blockquote>'''Interviewer:''' Do you recall jamming with Frank Zappa?<br><br>
-'''Sinclair:''' That was later, at the Actuel Festival in Amougies in Belgium, in a big marquee that held about five thousand people. It was a double, round-ended tent with a big gantry through the middle. The Festival was compered by Pierre Lattes, who was a radio presenter. On the bill were artists like The Nice and Archie Shepp. It was like a whole job lot. I’ve still got the programme. That’s where I first saw Gong. On the day that we played they had The Nice, East Of Eden with Dave Arbus, the violinist who still lives in Canterbury [the town Caravan were from], The Band, and Zappa was there to play with everybody.<br><br>
+'''Sinclair:''' That was later, at the Actuel Festival in Amougies in Belgium, in a big marquee that held about five thousand people. It was a double, round-ended tent with a big gantry through the middle. The Festival was compered by Pierre Lattes, who was a radio presenter. On the bill were artists like The Nice and [[Archie Shepp]]. It was like a whole job lot. I’ve still got the programme. That’s where I first saw Gong. On the day that we played they had The Nice, East Of Eden with Dave Arbus, the violinist who still lives in Canterbury [the town Caravan were from], The Band, and Zappa was there to play with everybody.<br><br>
 Just before the concert got going he spoke to every group that he’d seen doing a quick rehearsal. He just said ‘Hello I’d like to play with you for about ten minutes, have you got a tune that could work with us?’ I think Pye [band member] suggested that we play ‘If I Could Do It All Over Again’. We made it last ten minutes and he played a solo on it. He was quite a small man actually and he looked very stoned indeed, but actually he made a good job with everybody he played with. I remember him climbing onstage with us and it was like someone putting in the handle to start up a vintage car engine. He just wound it up and it was amazing, just incredible. We were just playing a 7/4 figure over a small amount of chords and Dave was rocking it up. It was really good.<br><br>
 The band that played before The Nice, Germ they were called, were like a 15 piece, maybe more, and they did an ‘experimental’ bit of entertainment. Amongst all of this Rock & Roll and Jazz they played one note for thirty minutes and it disturbed the audience so much! They were just going ‘Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr’, all one tone, all of the lot of them. In total contrast to lots of notes and rhythms it was just one note with varying rhythms, droning on and on and the audience just pelted them and made them leave the stage. They pelted them with everything they’d got, cans and everything. The Road Manager of The Nice, Baz Ward, came shooting on stage and turned all the Marshall cabinets the other way so that all the speakers didn’t get broken because all the tins were hitting everything in sight. Then he had to dash off stage and hope the gear would survive. They had to wait until the audience had calmed down and then The Nice came on and everything was OK, but that was one of the highlights. It was like "What IS that?" Bang, Bong etc because they didn’t like one note being played for thirty minutes.</blockquote>
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 ==Films==
-Jérôme Laperrousaz and Jean-Noel Roy made a documentary during the festival called [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344831/ Music Power - European Music Revolution].  Zappa can be seen playing with Archie Shepp, Captain Beefheart and [[Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]].
+Jérôme Laperrousaz and Jean-Noel Roy made a documentary during the festival called [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344831/ Music Power - European Music Revolution].  Zappa can be seen playing with [[Archie Shepp]], [[Captain Beefheart]] and [[Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]].
 The [[Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-1982]] set also includes two videos of [[Captain Beefheart]]'s performance (with Zappa in the background).

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 '''Monday Night: 27th Oct'''<br>
 '''Pop Music'''<br>
-*Yes
+*[[Yes]]
 *Pretty Things
 *Chicken Shack

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 *Arthur Jones
 *Jochim Kuhn
-*Don Cherry<br>
+*[[Wikipedia:Don Cherry|Don Cherry]]<br>
 [[Image:FZ_CB_Amougies.jpg|right|frame|Zappa and Beefheart<br>
 Onstage at Amougies, Tuesday 28th Oct, 1969]]

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	Zappa was a Master of Ceremonies (with Pierre Lattes) - at the [[69/10/24-28 Amougies Belgium Festival d'Amougies\|Actuel Festival 24th-28th October 1969]]. The festival was organised by [[wikipedia:BYG Actuel\|BYG Actuel]], a French record label.		Zappa was a Master of Ceremonies (with Pierre Lattes) - at the [[69/10/24-28 Amougies Belgium Festival d'Amougies\|Actuel Festival 24th-28th October 1969]]. The festival was organised by [[wikipedia:BYG Actuel\|BYG Actuel]], a French record label.

−	The five day, 24 hour, open air, festival was to be held at the Parc de Saint Cloud in [[Paris]] but the French authorities banned the festival a few days before it was due to start. The organisers moved the festival to Amougies in [[Belgium]] - a three hour drive east of Paris. Over 15,000 people attended the festival despite the seasonal cold, damp and fog.	+	The five day, 24 hour, open air, festival was to be held at the Parc de Saint Cloud in [[Wikipedia:Paris\|Paris]] but the French authorities banned the festival a few days before it was due to start. The organisers moved the festival to Amougies in [[Belgium]] - a three hour drive east of Paris. Over 15,000 people attended the festival despite the seasonal cold, damp and fog.

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 [[Category:On The Road]]
 [[Category:Concerts]]
 [[Category:Interviews with Zappa]]

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 Bootlegs from the festival include Zappa performing with:
-*Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation: Improvisation (7:08 - Oct 24th)<br>Victor Brox (vocals, harmonica); John Moorshead (guitar);<br>[[Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski)|Alex Dmochowski]] (bass); [[Aynsley Dunbar]] (drums)
+*Aynsley Dunbar's "Retaliation: Improvisation" (7:08 - Oct 24th)<br>Victor Brox (vocals, harmonica); John Moorshead (guitar);<br>[[Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski)|Alex Dmochowski]] (bass); [[Aynsley Dunbar]] (drums)
-*[[Pink Floyd]]: Interstellar Overdrive (20:25 - Oct 25th)<br>David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (organ);<br>Roger Waters (bass); Nick Mason (drums)
+*[[Pink Floyd]]: "Interstellar Overdrive" (20:25 - Oct 25th)<br>David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (organ);<br>Roger Waters (bass); Nick Mason (drums)
-*Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (7:55 Oct 26th)<br>Pye Hastings (guitar & vocals); David Sinclair (keyboards);<br>Richard Sinclair (bass & vocals); Richard Coughlan (drums)
+*Caravan: "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You" (7:55 Oct 26th)<br>Pye Hastings (guitar & vocals); David Sinclair (keyboards);<br>Richard Sinclair (bass & vocals); Richard Coughlan (drums)
-*Blossom Toes: Improvisation (26:10 Oct 26th)<br>Brian Godding (guitar, vocals & keyboards); Jim Cregan (guitar & vocals);<br>Brian Belshaw (bass & vocals); Kevin Westlake (drums)
+*Blossom Toes: "Improvisation" (26:10 Oct 26th)<br>Brian Godding (guitar, vocals & keyboards); Jim Cregan (guitar & vocals);<br>Brian Belshaw (bass & vocals); Kevin Westlake (drums)
-*Sam Apple Pie: Moonlight Man (6:04 Oct 27th)<br>Sam Sampson (vocals & harmonica); Danny Barnes (lead guitar);<br>Andy Johnson (slide guitar); Bob Renny (bass & vocals); Lee Baxter Hayes Jr (drums)
+*Sam Apple Pie: "Moonlight Man" (6:04 Oct 27th)<br>Sam Sampson (vocals & harmonica); Danny Barnes (lead guitar);<br>Andy Johnson (slide guitar); Bob Renny (bass & vocals); Lee Baxter Hayes Jr (drums)
 Zappa can be heard introducing [[Captain Beefheart]]:
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 ==Films==
-Jérôme Laperrousaz and Jean-Noel Roy made a documentary during the festival called [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344831/ Music Power - European Music Revolution].  Zappa can be seen playing with Archie Shepp, Captain Beefheart and [[wikipedia:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]].
+Jérôme Laperrousaz and Jean-Noel Roy made a documentary during the festival called [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344831/ Music Power - European Music Revolution].  Zappa can be seen playing with Archie Shepp, Captain Beefheart and [[Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]].
 The [[Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-1982]] set also includes two videos of [[Captain Beefheart]]'s performance (with Zappa in the background).
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 '''Tuesday Night: 28th Oct'''<br>
 '''Pop Music'''<br>
-*Soft Machine
+*[[Soft Machine]]
 *[[Captain Beefheart]]
 *East Of Eden
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 '''New Music'''
 *Musica Elettronica Viva<br>
 [[Category:On The Road]]
 [[Category:Concerts]]
-[[Category: Interviews with Zappa]]
+[[Category:Interviews with Zappa]]

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 <blockquote>DS: Alright. Here's a controversy you can settle. There are many people who think that you performed, in 1969, at a festival in Belgium called 'Amougies'...<br>
 '''FZ:''' Yes<br>
-'''DS:''' ... performed onstage with [[wikipedia:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]]. True or false?<br>
+'''DS:''' ... performed onstage with [[Pink Floyd]]. True or false?<br>
 '''FZ:''' Not with Pink Floyd.<br>
 '''DS:''' That's what I thought. You introduced Beefheart to the audience...<br>
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 *Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation: Improvisation (7:08 - Oct 24th)<br>Victor Brox (vocals, harmonica); John Moorshead (guitar);<br>[[Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski)|Alex Dmochowski]] (bass); [[Aynsley Dunbar]] (drums)
-*[[wikipedia:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]]: Interstellar Overdrive (20:25 - Oct 25th)<br>David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (organ);<br>Roger Waters (bass); Nick Mason (drums)
+*[[Pink Floyd]]: Interstellar Overdrive (20:25 - Oct 25th)<br>David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (organ);<br>Roger Waters (bass); Nick Mason (drums)
 *Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (7:55 Oct 26th)<br>Pye Hastings (guitar & vocals); David Sinclair (keyboards);<br>Richard Sinclair (bass & vocals); Richard Coughlan (drums)

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 Zappa was a Master of Ceremonies (with Pierre Lattes) - at the [[69/10/24-28 Amougies Belgium Festival d'Amougies|Actuel Festival 24th-28th October 1969]].  The festival was organised by [[wikipedia:BYG Actuel|BYG Actuel]], a French record label.
-The five day, 24 hour, open air, festival was to be held at the Parc de Saint Cloud in Paris but the French authorities banned the festival a few days before it was due to start.  The organisers moved the festival to Amougies in Belgium - a three hour drive east of Paris.  Over 15,000 people attended the festival despite the seasonal cold, damp and fog.
+The five day, 24 hour, open air, festival was to be held at the Parc de Saint Cloud in [[Paris]] but the French authorities banned the festival a few days before it was due to start.  The organisers moved the festival to Amougies in [[Belgium]] - a three hour drive east of Paris.  Over 15,000 people attended the festival despite the seasonal cold, damp and fog.
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 '''Pop Music'''<br>
 *Soft Machine
-*Captain Beefheart
+*[[Captain Beefheart]]
 *East Of Eden
 *Fat Mattress