To those who were there and are no longer here, we miss you: Barrington Anderson (Ekome), Jonathan Arthur (WOMAD co-founder), Peter de Freitas (Echo And The Bunnymen), Alan James (Great Friend).
On the 15th of July 1982 I was dropped into the 240-acre Bath and West Showground, Somerset, after spending eighteen months with fellow co-founders organising a seminal event, with five stages and sixty bands, from over twenty countries. I ran around for several hours, before I was handed a walkie-talkie the size of shoebox. Breathe.
In October 1980 Thomas and I interviewed Peter Gabriel for our vinyl-with-magazine creation, The Bristol Recorder, later The Recorder. Peter generously gave us previously unreleased tracks for our record. After the interview we talked about a tape of Indonesian gamelan music that I had in my pocket, Thomas’s experience of South American music and Peter’s work with rhythms from various African countries. Peter called us soon after with an idea: to acknowledge the influence of non-Western music on successful Western bands and musicians and to create a wider audience for that music, by combining both in the same event — a festival celebrating music as a universal language.
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