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Procol at the 'Progressive Pop Festival'

3 and 4 April 1970 • Cologne, Germany

 
This charm-free yet Zeitgeist-heavy poster
was kindly sent to BtP by Dirk Kahler.


Procul [sic] Harum, The Kinks, Soft Machine, The Nice (but see note below), Colosseum, Deep Purple, Ekseption, Chicken Shack, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Barcley [sic] James Harvest, among others, over two days.

Not a bad line-up at all.

If you were there, why not write in and tell us something about it?

Andreas Havlik writes to BtP, January 2010:

I was there in Cologne on 3 and 4 April. Together with a friend we arrived and had some strange two days. Most of the time I was really bad stoned (must have been the poster, laugh!)

 

I remember, that The Nice wasn't there, because they split up just before the Festival. I remember Ekseption made a surprising act - a really Newcomer-Band at this time. Liked it much. And Arthur Brown got some serious Boo-Boos. Procol Harum did a very good Job - I remember a Newspaper later wrote something like "real progressive part of the Festival".

 

Ok, sometime later I found myself with my friend standing on the highway, trying to get a lift back home. We were still stoned - oh my dear.

 

Keep up your work, folks - see you!

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