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Flaming Pie · Joined: 26 Nov 2016 Posts: 971

Not certain how to tag this onto the recent discussion on the forum about pirate programmes. This Victor programme has got a Wolves v Real Madrid 1957 front cover and England v Wales 1957 back cover. Is this a bit of a unusual pirate , or was this common practice? Is it worth a fortune? Laughing

slightfold · Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 610

The pirates had set up their printing blocks for the covers for these games 2 days apart and were just checking the ink it was ok for the England game 2 days later, when more gullible punters would part with their pennies? Sherlock

Flaming Pie · Joined: 26 Nov 2016 Posts: 971

Slightfold, so it looks like they just threw them in with the batch they were selling outside the grounds. I wonder how many of these double covers survived? On the subject of programmes, l have just paid the most l have ever paid for a programme. £50 for an lsle of Wight Festival programme 1970 . I was there and purchased one at the time ( 50p l think?) and gave it away..

Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:53 am Post subject:

10 shillings rather than 50p in 1970! Very Happy

So you were at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970.... Wow. From Wiki.....

The 1970 version, following Woodstock in the previous year, set out to move one step forward and enlisted Jimi Hendrix. With Hendrix confirmed, artists such as Rory Gallagher, Cactus, Chicago, the Doors, Lighthouse, the Moody Blues, the Who, Miles Davis, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Free also took part. The event had a magnificent but impractical site, since the prevailing wind blew the sound sideways across the venue, and the sound system had to be augmented by Pink Floyd's PA. Organizers also faced the logistical problems involved in transporting some 600,000 people onto an island with a population of fewer than 100,000. The Island's transport services were already stretched by the annual influx of summer holiday-makers at the same time. French anarchists armed with knives were already causing trouble on the ferry crossing.

Flaming Pie · Joined: 26 Nov 2016 Posts: 971

Pete, the lsle of Wight 1970 was fantastic. Didn’t arrive until Saturday lunch time. We had two £3 weekend tickets. When you entered the site they took the Sat and Sunday tickets off you and put them in a burning bin. This was to make sure you didn’t pass them out for others to use. I’ve still got the two Friday tickets. Because they were destroying the tickets , that has made any surviving tickets quite rare. I’ve seen surviving Sunday tickets selling for up to £1000. Jimi Hendrix’s last major concert and all that.. We travelled over on the ferry with large groups of French. The only things they were armed with was guitars and baguettes! They were fine and just having a sing song. You know what our press is like! A year later went to The Oval, London and the atmosphere there did have a nasty undercurrent with bottles being thrown and lots of cut heads. A few years after that at Charlton’s ground once again lots of bottles being thrown and too many kids crammed into the ground . As l said, The lsle of Wight was out of this world. If you had been old enough I’m sure you would have been there..Highlights for me was The Who, at that time they were in a class of their own as a live act,, Jethro Tull,, The Doors( playing in the dark because Jim didn’t want to be filmed) Free and seeing Jimi Hendrix just before his death of course .