Band Grateful Dead
Venue Ted Askeys Lower Pig Farm, Leycett
Location Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England
Date 5/24/1970 - Sunday posters tickets, passes & laminates
One [2:14:44] ; Intro [0:21] ; Casey Jones [4:39] ; [0:42] ; China Cat Sunflower [3:17] > Jam [2:05] > I Know You Rider [4:14] ; [0:58] ; Hard To Handle [7:52] ; [0:33] ; Me And My Uncle [3:15] ; [1:46] ; Cryptical Envelopment [2:03] > Drums [2:48] > The Other One [8:39] > Cryptical Envelopment [7:24] > Attics Of My Life [5:36] % [0:53] ; Drums [0:26] > Good Lovin' [1:57] > Drums [1:27] > Good Lovin' [6:17] ; [0:55] ; Cold Rain And Snow [5:55] ; [0:15] % Dark Star [21:21] > Saint Stephen [6:06] > Not Fade Away [6:08] > Turn On Your Lovelight [12:40] > Darkness Jam [0:34] > Turn On Your Lovelight [20:00] ; [1:45]
Comments The "Holly Wood Festival" This is the complete Dead set. Timings are from a combination of the AUD and the SBD. Several bandmembers said this was the coldest audience they ever played for, and you can feel them straining mightily to finally achieve liftoff over the 33:14 span of the showclosing Lovelight. A bit more than a minute into the Attics someone (Phil?) can be heard in the left channel calling out "E -- E chord" to Pigpen -- Attics was still new. There is a Tighten Up Jam starting about 3:30 into Dark Star. There is a Dancin Tease at 18:03 into Dark Star. There is a cut 23:16 into the Lovelight on the AUD, probably a tape flip, with 20-40 seconds lost. The AUD tape contains the complete show. The newly circulating SBD of the entire show has the first 30 seconds of Casey Jones clipped. It also has a cut at 3:24 of Saint Stephen, with 26 seconds missing.

This was the Dead's first overseas show (they played Canada in '67). There is said to be film of at least part of this set in existance.

Eaton lists:

05/24/70 Newcastle Under-Lyme, Newcastle England - complete
4.6, 133min, Sbd, A1D0, Reel RM->Cass 1->Dat 0, 48k,
7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk->Tascam 122mkIII Cass 1st Gen->3800 x 0
Recordings 135 SB 135 AF
Master recording source(s): 7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk
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Contributors Jim Powell Joan Bailey Bart Wise Dwight Holmes Simon Phillips[vbcrlf][vbcrlf]
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