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The three day Nambassa Festival, held on a Waihi farm in 1979, is the subject of this TV doco. Attended by 60,000 people, it represented a high tide mark in NZ for the Woodstock vision of a music festival as counter-culture celebration of music, crafts, alternative lifestyles and all things hippy. Performers include a frenzied Split Enz, The Plague (wearing paint), Limbs dancers, a yodelling John Hore-Grenell and prog rockers Schtung. The only downers are over-zealous policing and weather which discourages too much communing with nature after the first day.
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excellent, been waiting a long time.. thanks Peter.
Ah such memories. 21 yrs old, The Enz, Eddie Hansen, Schtung, the dire bogs,the showers, the beach and getting food poisoning from the Hari Krishnas strawberry yoghurt.
wowie zowie.I thought the film was lost.But to see this brings it all home again.Thanks muchly
Love this doco. Brings back many memories. Clip 3 is unavailable at the moment, tho,
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Music Video, 1981
Song co-written by The Plague’s Richard von Sturmer
Television, 1978 (Full Length Episode)
Neville Purvis’ TV show
Television, 1980
Another large scale Kiwi music and culture festival
NZ ON SCREEN 2013
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The synopsis and credits are included
Paul Moss
Posted at 09.23PM - 04.05.2013
found myself in two places, first, from behind, at the breadmaking scene, where LittleJohn and I were rigging sound, and second, engineering foldback for The Plague.. I also did FOH for Flight 77 but that footage isnt in this version. Flight 77 did make it to the Record Album though. www.paulmoss.co