Radio with Pictures - Sweetwaters

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1980

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Rod

19 Aug 2021 - 03.02am

As a kid the memories of this event was collecting milkshake cups full of the pull tabs off the beer cans and swapping them for bottles of coke. And the bloke who climbed the cabbage tree in the middle of the hill getting cans chucked at him. And the cans hitting the stage upsetting everyone.

Mark Brady

9 May 2015 - 11.16pm

Went to this concert along with the Nambassa one also featured. Attended two more Sweetwaters in the 80s also....Great music..great times..fond memories of friends past.
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17 Apr 2015 - 02.41am

Mi-Sex nailed main stage Saturday night : one of the greasiest live Kiwi bands ever. Sweetwaters 80 was the follow-on from a huge mini Woodstock in Nambassa 79. Other music festivals never quite captured the buzz of these two, but hey...folk kept showing up to get a weekend of drugs, booze and cool music....some guys even got a root.

13 Sep 2014 - 06.42pm

Mi-Sex were great too and Sweetwaters was a great promotional platform for them ... I knew their singer Steve Gilpin from the TV One Avalon days where he spent a lot of time performing and he was a lovely good-natured guy - it was so sad he died in QLD after a car crash in 1992.

13 Sep 2014 - 06.34pm

I was there too - briefly back in NZ and doing some stuff for Radio NZ and Morning Report. I remember the Elvis Costello performance as a stand-out - but what stuck in my mind were the overflowing Porta Potties and a guy drowning. Dylan was was always great and one of my best Media Mates - we worked together in the seventies.

26 Jul 2014 - 11.02am

Dylan Taite - Rock Star. (got his Psitols interview up atall?)

joe gilmour

3 Dec 2013 - 09.47pm

The best 3 days i will never remember.