Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 3: Pentangle

After Donovan, the next act at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was the British folk-rock band Pentangle.

When I first posted this album in 2023, it also included three songs from Donovan's set, which came right before Pentangle's. However, when I reposted this in 2026, I was able to finally include Donovan's set as a separate album. So this album, previously "Part 2," has been renamed to "Part 3," and the Donovan songs have been removed.

We're lucky to have most of the Pentangle set. None of it has been officially released, nor did any of it appear on any bootlegs that I know of. However, in 2019, Colin Harper posted what he had of the set on YouTube, and I've taken it from there. Harper wrote a book about Pentangle and has been involved in the rerelease of all their albums, so he's had access to material from their vaults. 

That's the good news. The bad news is, there were a number of problems with this recording. First off, the first three songs are missing: "Train Song," "Sally Free and Easy," and "Bruton Town." There was nothing I could do about that. Also, the first minute or so of "Hunting Song" was missing, and the last couple of minutes of the final song, "Pentangling," was missing. I found a good bootleg from the same year at Berkeley, and I patched in parts of that to fill in the missing sections. As a result, there are now about 37 minutes out of what had been a 55 minute set.

Pentangle was not happy with how their set went. Harper wrote: "The group always recalled the show as sub-par, to do with various offstage distractions, poor onstage sound, and someone stage-invading at one point and standing on singer Jacqui McShee's foot (indeed, you can hear her asking this person to get off her foot during 'Rain and Snow'). [However,] at this remove, it sounds like they acquitted themselves very well in the circumstances."

This album is 37 minutes long.

034 talk (Pentangle)
035 Light Flight (Pentangle)
036 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Pentangle)
037 Hunting Song [Edit] (Pentangle)
038 Rain and Snow (Pentangle)
039 House Carpenter (Pentangle)
040 Pentangling [Edit] (Pentangle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/paqWbbjX 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tEX3yaxk0EWN6Cq/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.