Thursday 8 April 2010
Sunday 4 April 2010
The Villagers.
The 1981 Chigley Fayre is a legendary free festival that took place on the Chigley common land after the original site at Camberwick Green was abandoned due to a concerted attempt by the Local Police force to deter festival goers, by all means necessary. The festival organisers were similarly hard nosed and were determined to have their Fayre, so some wily folk led the Trumpton constabulary (PC McGarry) on a wild goose chase across the meadows by Trumpton henge, while an alternative site on Chigley Common was located and prepared. A plasticine Nik Turner brought his pyramid stage, the bands set up, even the Police decided to turn on, tune in and subsequently dropped out...and the party commenced as the sun went down.
music and film by m4sk 22; footage from Dziga Vertov's Cheloveks kino-apparatom, an experimental 1929 silent documentary film from the Soviet Union.
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