1988 – Rock Summer I
August 26–28, 1988
Glasnost Rock – Rock For Peace!
Festival was held under the auspices of the Estonian Peace Committee
Audience: 190 000 people altogether in three days
ARTISTS
Lineup More than 20 artists
Estonia G.G.G., Lainer, Singer Vinger, Ultima Thule, Rock Hotel, Ivo Linna with In Spe & Kiigelaulukuuik, Vitamiin, Mahavok, Seitsmes Meel
Argentina La Torre
Czechoslovakia Citron
Finland Mamba, Eppu Normaali, Leningrad Cowboys/Sleepy Sleepers, Juice Leskinen & Huhtikuu ’88, Pave Maijanen
Italy Balkan Air
Russia Dinamik, Dialog
Sweden Leather Nun, Sky High
UK Big Country, Public Image Ltd./PiL, Steve HackettHeadliners Big Country, Public Image Ltd./PiL, Steve Hackett, Ivo Linna with In Spe & Kiigelaulukuuik
MASTERS OF CEREMONY
Ivo Linna (Estonia), Joke Linnamaa (Finland)
1 STAGE
Sound Eastway Show Services OY (Finland)
Lights Ekku Peltomäki OY (Finland)
Stage Telinekataja OY (Finland)ORGANIZERS
Estonian Philharmonic Society, Estonian Club of Rockmusicians Muusik, Radio One (Finland)
WITH THE HELP OF
Tallinn City Hall, Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, Estonian Radio
SPONSORS
Flora, Marat, Ranna, Standard, Limonaaditehas, Finest Hotel Group, KalevMEDIA
- 100 journalists, MTV (Finland), NHK (Japan), CNN (USA), RTR (Russia), Latvian TV, Lithuanian TV, Estonian TV
- Estonian Radio made 28 hours of live broadcast
- Finnish Radio Ykkönen was on the air all three days
MEDIA COVERAGE
RADIO
28.08. Estonian Radio / Steve Hackett – interview by Tiit Karuks
28.08. Estonian Radio / Pave Maijanen – interview by Jaak Ojakäär ja Andres Jõesaar
27.08. Estonian Radio / Stuart Adamson / Big Country – interview by Tiit Karuks
27.08. Estonian Radio / John Lydon / P.I.L. – interview by Andres Jõesaar
27.08. Estonian Radio / Toni Volpe / Balkan Air – interview by Marika Urb
27.08. Estonian Radio / Patricia Sosa / La Torre – interview by Marika Urb
27.08. Estonian Radio / Ismo Kätkä ja Juha Nordlund / Juice Leskinen & Huhtikuu ’88 – interview by Andres Jõesaar
27.08. Estonian Radio / Juice Leskinen – interview by Jaak Ojakäär ja Andres Jõesaar
27.08. Estonian Radio / Ladislav Križek ja Vaclav Vlasak /Citron – interview by Tiit Karuks
27.08. Estonian Radio / Nils Wohlrabe ja Fredrik Adlers / Leather Nun – interview by Andres Jõesaar
27.08. Estonian Radio / Tero Vaara / Mamba – interview by Tiit Karuks, Jaak Ojakäär
27.08. Estonian Radio / Clas Yngström ja Zemia Hamilton / Sky High – interview by Marika Urb ja Tiit Karuks
27.08. Estonian Radio / Martti Syrjä ja Mikko Syrjä / Eppu Normaali – interview by Tiit Karuks ja Andres Jõesaar
27.08. Estonian Radio / Joke Linnamaa ja Ivo Linna – interview by Tiit Karuks ja Jaak Ojakäär
27.08. Estonian Radio / Vladimir Kuzmin / Dinamik – interview by Tiit Karuks
27.08. Estonian Radio / Kimol Breitburg ja Toomas Vanem / Dialog – interview by Marika Urb
NEWSPAPERS
Estonian newspaper Sirp ja Vasar wrote /02.09.1988/ “The miracle was there on the Song Festival Grounds from Friday noon to the late hours of Sunday, to be observed and even captured on an international level... It feels strange to praise our own, but what to do if a hundred of press people, guest musicians and their managers – in a word, everyone coming from outside Estonia, couldn’t help but marvel the seamless organization and surprisingly peaceful audience of this event of giant proportions... Rock festival, the organization of which all guests deemed as extraordinary, was done really by a group of dare devil enthusiasts... Artemy Troitsky, music critic from Moscow and Nikolai Meinert, sociologist from Tallinn came in their radiotalks to one and the same conclusion that it would have been impossible to do a festival like that anywhere else in the Soviet Union yet!“
IF YOU CLICK ON ONE OF THE PHOTOES, IT WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW. IF YOU KLICK AGAIN, YOU ARE ABLE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN FINNISH.- Finnish magazine Musiikkiuutiset published a long article about the first Rock Summer
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi I
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi II
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi III
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi IV
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi V
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi VI
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi VII
- Written by Jukka Laaksonen, photoes by Pentti Niemi VIII
Glasnost Rock – Rock Summer 88
Film made by Finnish TV station YLE Teema about first Rock Summer. In Finnish and Estonian. 1 hour 26 minutes.
Glasnost rock trailer
A short film about first Rock Summer in English. 4 minutes 50 seconds
- Logo of the festival was designed by Ilona Gurjanova
- Festival booklet introduced all the artists in four languages: Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English
- The "uniform" of the first Rock Summer – Glasnost Rock jacket
- Blue-black-white national flag hoisted for the first time in more than 40 years in the radio tower of the Song Festival Grounds
- Press conference of the organizers. From left to right: Rein Lang, Jüri Makarov, Erki Berends, Marku Veijalainen, Joke Linnamaa
- Young militia at Rock Summer
- Let's have a party!
- The Song
- Johnny Rotten! Johnny Rotten!
- In spite of nasty weather...
- The Song Festival Grounds packed with people
- Colourful kind vol 1
- Colourful kind vol 2
- Cool stuff!
- Singer Vinger from Estonia
- Leningrad Cowboys from Finland
- Steve Hackett from UK
- Johnny Rotten from UK
- Big Country from UK
- In darkness and in rain
- Grand finale
- The last bow!
- Stage manager Aivar Sirelpuu and Estonia's beloved artist Gunnar Graps with Rock Summer flag
- Steve Hackett and stage manager Aivar Sirelpuu
- The stage is growing
- Soon...
- They saw something like that for the first time
- Rock Summer flier
- Rock Summer matchbox
- Steve Hackett at press conference
- John Lydon at press conference
- Badge of 1988 festival, though it reads 1989:) Black badge is that of Rock Summer 1990 that was cancelled. Plus wristband and badge of 1989
- Red sunshade
- Black sunshade
- Festival booklet looked like this
