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Update 9th January  2004

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Latest Info
Polishing up a few bits.  If time will add more stuff.

Better Video?
Try
this one or for download (3MB) or for broadband (100 kbps) try this one.

Also...
For more sights and sounds, see  the individual band pages as well as the Photo page. More Photos, Video and Better Audio coming soon. CDs and/or videos on sale later.

Recordings
Recordings are in Windows Media

Most newish PCs have it already. Need not be latest version, but if you have problems, you could
download a fresh one.

News Media
Many thanks to local TV, Radio and Newspapers for their support in spreading awareness of this event, whose audience increased by 50% compared to previous years,  to about 700. Yes!

Background
This was 2003’s Charity Gig, continuing to help pay for the building extension and further disabled facilities in Arborfield’s
 
Village Hall.

Eleven live bands played (in rapid succession!) from Noon till very late on Arborfield recreation ground, behind The Bull public house
(in Arborfield, near Reading, Berkshire,UK). Click here for an on-line map

Organized by Dave Woodwards (of The Swan) and Helen Reed-McGregor (Chair of the Hall Committee and Parish Council).

Only possible thanks to our community- minded  Sponsors.

Come back soon to review the day thanks to photos as well as streaming audio and video !

Site Credits
Website designed and supported by David Esp

Videos courtesey of Gary Cowan and another cameraman (sorry, don’t know your name!) not to mention Steve Burkwood who capturted them all to CD (using DivX & mp3). Video processing is by Dave Esp.

Sound recordings thanks to Norman Wootten (Minidisc) and David Esp (mixing & processing). Shame about the cheap mic.!  Better quality is to come from the videos - check back later.

Somehow we ended up with 12 sets...

Arborfield’s Charity Rock Extravaganza ! 21 June 2003

picnic and party in the sun...

Eleven Great Rock Bands played to loads of peeps from noon to very late - in  styles from popular to heavy to Mersey.  Here’s to next year!

Video

Audio

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More Audio & Video Clips

“get up on the stage and dance!”

To those that came to rock, we salute you!. More photos, audio and video coming online all the time.  Multimedia CDs on sale later.

Bands Line-Up:         ...though not in this order
See also the pages for each band -- for more sound and video recordings etc.

A “blues & soul” band (at least, according to one review...).  No, they’re really a rock band of which we’re just not worthy - get up around the stage and dance!

As in “who ate all the...” - Rock ‘n Roll, Get Over It, Rocky Mountain Way, Get it On, ... with Bizarre ‘Bike Show!.

Merseybeat,  strangely enough... “I like it!”

Loud and heavy - Thin Lizzy, style

Punk, new wave - Stranglers, Clash, Rats

“Too-many”-piece soul & funky grooves band, with really tight brass section that will blow your mind away! - Harlem Shuffle...

Electric Blues, Hendrix style - Little Wing, Hoochie-Coochie Man. High octane, hard hitting, undiluted blues power!

(I’m the bassman) - Petty, Adams, Beatles, REM, originals.

Smokin’! - ‘Lizzy, Doobies, ZZ-Top, Pink Floyd.

Martin of “Je Suis”, this year in company (vous etes?) with Mark Rood, Colby Sipson and Andy Green - with pile-driving rock.

Martin Cotton, filling-in a slot at the last minute. A true hero! Check the videos for pans around the field start of the day.

Youngest band of the day - Chilli Peppers style.

Entrance:

£6.00 advance ticket, £8.00 on the day (no late discount), children under 14 Free

Where:

The recreation ground behind The Bull public house
(
multimap.com, RG2 9QD)
at Arborfield Cross near Wokingham, Berkshire.

This Website: www.go.to/rockintherec
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