30 Years Gone / Seeing Was Believing Again
The days leading up to the Knebworth Celebration Day Lytton Arms Event were somewhat fraught here. Amongst other things, late on Friday we suffered a leaking bathroom which led to water coming through the ceiling. Thankfully our man Pete came to the rescue, but as we left for Knebworth at 11 am on Saturday morning, the house was not looking too good.
Before all that, Larry Bergmann had arrived from America on Friday and we met with Gary Foy in the Fox for …

Plenty of news and feedback on the new John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme venture.

First live reviews and info see links at:
Chicago Tribune.com
NME.com
RollingStone.com

30 years ago today, I and thousands of others, were in that field just outside Stevenage eagerly awaiting the live return of Led Zeppelin.
30 years on it’s been like a lifetime… but a second.
Think of Knebworth and the images remain vivid: The campsite,
Tommy Vance’s Friday night rock show filling the air, chants of ‘’Zeppelin’’,’’Zeppelin’’ , the early morning rush for the gates, the long wait during the day ,Skynyrd’s Tuesdays Gone fading from the PA. the screen unfolding…and there in the light performing The Song Remains The Same, Led Zeppelin …

The current issue of Record Collector has an extensive ten page feature on Zep at Knebworth and the In Through The Out Door album written by Dave Lewis with discography from Nick Anderson.
Visit www.recordcollectormag.com

The Rocks Backpages website has a preview of the Then As It Was Led Zeppelin At Knebworth book
See link at
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=14730

Knebworth 30th Anniversary Then As It Was Celebration Day Latest: Tickets still available, Itinerary Announced

There’s still time to order tickets for the Knebworth 30th Anniversary Celebration Day being staged On Saturday August 8th 2009 at The Lytton Arms Park Lane, Old Knebworth SG3 6QB (www.lyttonarms.co.uk)
Admission by advance ticket only price – £10 (includes buffet meal) – order now!
To reserve your ticket please send £10 cheque (payable to D.Lewis) to 14 Totnes Close, Bedford MK40 3AX
Please include your e-mail address – confirmation of your reservation will be acknowledged via e-mail/ e-ticket
This …

As I write, the Knebworth countdown is on – with 6 days to go to the actual 30th anniversary of the first show, and 10 days to go before the return to Knebworth Celebration Day Event. The Knebworth book is currently at the printers and may well arrive next Tuesday which would be quite fitting.
Graeme and I are travelling over to Old Knebworth tomorrow to check last details at the Lytton Arms.
Trawling through my diary of 30 years ago, my Knebworth countdown back then included the purchasing of a …

Robert Plant will join a variety of artists performing never-to-be-repeated collaborations at the Rockwell Event.
The concert is being staged at the 02 Arena on September 11 with all proceeds going to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity. Alongside Robert, artists such as Razorlight, Joss Stone, David Gray, Tom Jones,  Gabriella Cilmi, Danny and Gaz from Supergrass are scheduled to appear.
More details at http://www.o2rockwell.com/
http://www.o2blueroom.co.uk/Microsites/rockwell/

‘’For the next three hours your mother wouldn’t like it’’
Those words, uttered from the Earls Court stage a few feet away from me, around about 8 o clock on May 24th 1975 by an unassuming guy with a beard are ingrained on my brain – a similar announcement on the evening of August 11th 1979 made by the same person is equally as memorable. So it was very heart warming to be face to face last Sunday night with Nicky Horne the man responsible for that statement.
The occasion was the …

Tight But Loose Publishing presents
Then As It Was
Led Zeppelin At Knebworth 1979
30 Years Gone
Compiled by Dave Lewis

1:PREVIEW

Then as it was…
This time there’s no sleeping bags required…
“Mum…” I recall testing the water to see if she was asleep or not that night. “Can I go to see Zeppelin in August pleeeese?”
Negotiations had begun. Living in the backwater of Goole meant that I’d had a pretty sheltered existence and going to gigs hundreds of miles away was by parental permission only. Over the ensuing week Mother undertook a deal of …