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Radio with Pictures - Sweetwaters
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1980
The legendary Dylan Taite hosts this RWP special on the first Sweetwaters music festival. The event took 12 months and half a million dollars to set up. Headliner Elvis Costello proved media-shy; some heavy-handed attempts to keep the cameras away are seen. Meanwhile, Taite muses on the impact of late 1970s bands on the future of festivals. Sweetwaters would go on, although financial problems in 1999 led to the jailing of organiser Daniel Keighley. As this documentary shows, the Ngāruawāhia edition attracted an audience of 45,000 concertgoers.
Sweetwaters was to illustrate how vast the gulf now is between the new bands of the late seventies and 80s, and everybody who came before.– Dylan Taite
Key Cast & Crew
Dylan Taite
John Longworth
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