MC5 - West Sussex 1970

MC5
Phun City Festival
Worthing, West Sussex, England
July 25, 1970

Audience Recording

01. Rambling Rose
02. Tonight
03. Rama Lama (Fa Fa Fa)
04. Miss X
05. Looking At You
06. I Want You
07. Sister Anne
08. Kick Out the Jams
09. Black to Comm (cut)

Rob Tyner ... vocals
Wayne Kramer ... guitar
Fred "Sonic" Smith ... guitar
Michael Davis ... bass
Dennis Thompson ... drums

Phun City was a rock festival held at Ecclesden Common near Worthing, England from 24 July to 26 July 1970.

Organised by the UK Underground anarchist Mick Farren and financed by Ronan O'Rahilly, the festival was notable for having no fences and no admission fees. It was not intended to be a free concert, but funding was withdrawn a few days before the event. Rather than cancel it, the organisers told the scheduled bands who turned up that they would have to give their services for nothing. Remarkably, most of the acts stayed on. Free were billed to play, but withdrew. Those who did appear included MC5, The Pretty Things, Kevin Ayers, Steve Peregrin Took's band Shagrat, Edgar Broughton Band, Mungo Jerry, Mighty Baby and Pink Fairies "who were taking all their clothes off as they played". The Beat generation poet William Burroughs also appeared.

The Hells Angels - UK had been hired as the security force, but Farren said, "It slowly dawned on us that although none of our original plans had come together, we were no longer in control." Instead, the audience themselves were now in charge, with the organizers just making sure the bands came and went – it was, if somewhat inadvertently, the first large-scale "people's festival" held in the UK.

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