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Start of the three-day 1989 Reading Festival in the UK, which now has a new musical focus, shifting away from heavy rock. Today's event features The Sugarcubes, New Order, House Of Love, The Swans, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine and That Petrol Emotion.Full article:
Harold Pendleton (organizer) : I had approached the Mean Fiddler Organisation which, at that time, was an up-and-coming promoter and quite ambitious. We employed them to book the festival on a three-year contract and were very impressed with the booker, David Phillips.
I didn’t get on with Vince (Vince Power of Mean Fiddler) and he wanted to take over the event completely. Before his booking contract ended, he had already registered a company called Reading Festival Ltd.
(Source : Audience magazine, July 2001)
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I didn’t get on with Vince (Vince Power of Mean Fiddler) and he wanted to take over the event completely. Before his booking contract ended, he had already registered a company called Reading Festival Ltd.
(Source : Audience magazine, July 2001)