HW: Festival poem & Palace Springs

M Holmes fofp at CASTLE.ED.AC.UK
Fri Nov 17 09:28:18 EST 1995


Rob S writes:

> >
> > > No-one here has mentioned Festivals yet - I like this song.  The lyrics
> > >>> are basically the poem on the sleeve of Palace Springs
> >
> > Ahhh this poem again:-) A good friend of mine asked Chadwick about the
> > significance of this poem.  Chadwick pensivley replied that 'the poem is
> > something from the past-that members of HW will not discuss. It was a painful
> > time for the band'.
> > Can anyone shed any light on this topic.
> >
>
>     My guess is that it is something to do with the band's bus
>    getting trashed by a vicious group of travellers called the
>    "Brew Crew" at a free-festival near Brighton in the eighties.
>     I gather this is why they haven't played many free-festivals
>    since, but I don't know exact details of what happened that
>    day.

The way I heard it the travellers shook up cans of special brew and
sprayed it over Brock because someone had announced that it was his
birthday. Apparently this is a traveller tradition. Brock went spaz.
After that they turned up at other gigs and caused trouble.

>   bye - Rob

FoFP



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