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Chesterwick
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Re: Nick Drake on film?
Oct 10, 2015, 11:08
That 'Nick Drake at 70s festival' YouTube clip has no authority whatsoever.

The clip is from a BBC Old Grey whistle Test documentary on festivals that was broadcast in early 2007. The YouTube guy watches that, sees a vague resemblance to Drake and uploads it on April Fool's day a couple of months later. If the film camera had been left running for another minute it's pretty obvious that a fair amount of other guys of similar appearence would have wondered past! It's a hoax. Plus, I've read healthy speculation from a couple of people that it's from the Reading festival in 1975 so that, if true, would blow it out the water completely.

The TV appearance that Nick did make was on a long-forgotten arts programme called 'Octopus' that went out in the Granada region at 6.30 on a Wednesday evening in (it is considered) March 1970. The Manchester-based series only ran for around six months and featured a musical spot filmed in the studio (Badfinger and Canned Heat also appeared on it) as well as some filmed reports. Alas, none of the video masters of this series are known to exist - possibly wiped as long ago as just a year or two after original transmission. The only chance of something turning up would be from a 'telerecording' (in-house, 16mm off the TV monitor) but that again is looking unlikely as the programme probably wasn't sold to other, outside of the UK TV stations.

Nick was recorded live at a collage concert that Robert Kirby orchestrated in May 1968 by a chap called Peter Rice. Despite the good sound quality and Peter's wishes for it to be released both Cally and Gabrielle don't think it comes up to scratch, citing a rather strained vocal performance from Nick, apparently.
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