Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music

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The Box
Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music


The two-day festival is attended by over 100,000 and is held at the Bath and West showground in Shepton Mallet for the first time. It opened with this set from Joe Jammer and his new band featuring Joe on vocals and guitar, Frank Farrell (Breakthru, Supertramp) on bass guitar, Steve Hoard (White Pepper, Cock Robin) on vocals and guitar and Richard ‘Plug’ Thomas (Breakthru) on drums. Peter Grant (The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company) was their manager.


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