It’s a safe bet that founding members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey have much to be rightfully proud of. Tonight’s headliners, in terms of rock n’ roll history and nobility, are in my books on at least parity with their surrounds.Ī career, rammed to the gunnels with notoriety, spanning across seven decades and a round dozen albums of which all bar two have graced the top ten of the UK charts. There is, after all, a double decker Routemaster bus serving Pimms near the back of the temporary arena. The home of the internationally renown Badminton Horse Trials and where the sport that shares the estate’s name was popularised in the 19 th century this estate is much lauded lands. Not quite the mods and rockers tearing up Brighton’s seafront, in fact it’s all convivial between the once rival factions. The Duke not the lawn in case clarification is somehow required) there pervades a well-heeled, genteel air of gentrified respectability. Whilst, nestled in the shadow of the Worcester Lodge – the estate’s Northern entrance, we’re a little way away from the 12 th Duke of Beaufort’s front lawn (more of him later …. Still, we’re amongst a crowd of many thousands gathered to take in the spectacle of British rock legends The Who take their music to another level with the most capable assistance of The Heart of England Orchestra. Splitting hairs, here at Badminton Estate, we’re about a half hour’s drive and as far removed from the hustle and bustle of Bristol’s city centre as one can be. It’s a very pleasant Sunday afternoon, in between the blustery downpours, for The Who to ‘Hit Bristol’ as their tour poster for today proclaims. It’s very leafy and green here in the countryside of South Gloucestershire, it’s also rather refined hereabouts too.
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