I think I went to about 8 or 9 Reading Festivals. That was the place to go for great rock lineups in the UK – Rory G, Frankie Miller, Cockney Rebel, The Kinks, Pat Travers and Budgie, to name just a few. 1980 was my first. There was one telephone box on the site and I remember standing in a...

How bad is the design of the Reading ’82 program? Good lord. With four or five exceptions, the lineup wasn’t much better than the cover. Budgie were horrid. I’ve always loved them but they made two mistakes (a). not playing any ‘70’s material (it was only ’82 for god’s sake) and (b). coming...

Nice program, ridiculous cover and surprisingly, a pretty good...

My program from the first ever Monsters of Rock at Donington. An amazing day...

  Owner of a Lonely Heart period Yes. Being a bit of a rock elitist, I was amazed how much I liked 90125. Good production...

  Lizzy were a wee bit past their sell-by date by the Renegade tour. I hated the keyboards and Snowy White, while a great player, just didn’t have the passion and vigor of Robertson or Gary Moore. Still, it was Lizzy, and we loved ‘em anyway!...