Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival (1996) on Netflix
NR19962h 7mDocumentaryHistoryMusic
600,000 fans gathered on the Isle of Wight in August 1970 for the festival's last year there. Promoters face gate-crashing, crowd invasions of the stage and anger over ticket prices.
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Plot summary
The documentary covers the five days of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, both the concerts and the chaos around them. Eight cameras recorded rock, folk and jazz acts playing to a crowd of 600,000, gathering 175 hours of film. Between performances come gate-crashing, crowds climbing onto the stage, and a singer booed off it. The head promoter shouts at the audience as conditions worsen, and scuffles break out over ticket prices. Interviews, backstage dealings and announcements are woven through the music. The title is drawn from one of the songs performed at the festival.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival (1996)
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- Rikki Farr's rant at the crowd, "We put this festival on, you bastards, with a lot of love!", was later used as the intro to Fuckin' in the Bushes, the first song on Oasis' 2000 album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.
- The film was shot with eight cameras and yielded 175 hours of 16mm and 35mm Ektachrome footage, later edited down to roughly 78 minutes of music and 41 minutes of interviews and announcements.
- Financial difficulties kept the film off screens until 1995 in the UK and 1997 in the US, following a 1995 premiere at a San Jose film festival.
- Every headliner was captured on film, but Sly Stone and Chicago refused permission to be filmed at all.
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