Sweetwaters Music Festival
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Sweetwaters Music Festival was a series of events held between 1979 and 1999, at venues such as a Farm in Ngaruawahia, moving north to a farm near Pukekawa, and finally to South Auckland, New Zealand.
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[edit] Events
- 1980 - Ngaruawahia
- 1981 - Ngaruawahia
- 1982 - Pukekawa
- 1983 - Pukekawa
- 1999 - Auckland
[edit] Music
Elvis Costello, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music, Dragon, Mi-Sex, Split Enz, Jo Jo Zep,Cold Chisel, The Tigers, Midge Marsden, Th'Dudes, The Crocodiles, 1999 - Bird & Truck Collision, Mahinarangi Tocker
[edit] Backstage
"The official Sweetwaters Artist Passes got us backstage at the main stage, which with a bar and porcelain toilets was somewhat more luxurious than the fenced compound with Portaloos behind the NZ Stage. When Shihad played we stood at the back of the stage and looked out over the crowd." Dave Edwards (1999 - played first On Saturday morning, with the members of the Bird & Truck Collision, incl Brent Hayward.)[1]
[edit] Sound Engineering
- Oceania, Barton Sound, and ACT (Artist Concert Tours), Jands.
- House engineer - ACT
- The Tigers engineer - Paul Moss
[edit] Administration
- Head - Paul McLuckie (originally a Radio Engineer with NZPO, then property developer at Ohakune)
- Head - Helen McConachie (a property developer at Ohakune)
- Head - Daniel Keighley (industry promoter)
- Operations -
- Communications - Alan Judd
- Stage -
- FOH (front of house) Sound -
- FOH (front of house) Lighting -
- Hospital -
- Security - Eden Security
- Paramedics - St Johns
- Transport -
[edit] Film & Television
Radio With Pictures: Sweetwaters Festival, Television New Zealand, 1980 Reporter: Dylan Taite
[edit] Books
- Sweetwaters - The Untold Story - by Daniel Keighley
'Sweetwaters - The Untold Story' by Daniel Keighley Reviewed by Simon Sweetman "Daniel Keighley was the man behind the financial disaster that was Sweetwaters ’99. He was charged with fraud and jailed and Sweetwaters - The Untold Story is his account of what went wrong. Billed as an autobiography,.." [2]
