1991 – Rock Summer III
July 19–21, 1991
Audience: probably 150 000 people altogether in three days
ARTISTS
Lineup More than 30 artists
Estonia Compromise Blue, Yellow Submarine „G“ (Joala-Mägi-Linna), Long Loff, Urmas Kruuse Band, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Justament, Vanaviisi, Peiar, Laks & Mattiisen
Australia The Travelling Wallabies
Belorussia Ulis
Brazil Kaoma
Canada Hart Rouge
Denmark Fate, The Sandmen
Finland Havana Black (Finland-USA), Leningrad Cowboys, Riki Sorsa
Holland Poppi UK
Hungary Sexepil
Ireland The Chieftains
Japan Bo Gumbos, Kotobuki
Latvia New Moon
Lithuania Veto Bank
Russia Boris Grebenchikov, Avia
Sweden Kalmar Folkdanslag
Switzerland Jivaros Quartet
UK Jethro Tull, The Stranglers
USA The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Headliners Jethro Tull, Yellow Submarine “G“
3 STAGES
Sound Eastway Show Services OY (Finland), Tallinn City Hall
Lights Eastway Show Services OY (Finland)
Stages Telinekataja OY (Finland), Centras (Lithuania)ORGANIZER
Makarov Muusik Management
SPONSORS
Marlboro, Tallink, Mazda, KoffMEDIA
Estonian TV, RTR (Russia), Asahi TV (Japan), YLE (Finland), Ukrainian TV, Lithuanian TV
MEDIA COVERAGE
Jethro Tull
After having an empty bottle and a can of beer flung at him on stage, Ian Anderson is quoted as shouting: “What kind of a zoo is this?”. Either way, the newspaper Rahva Hääl had him promising: “I will never come back here.”The Fabulous Thunderbirds
“We think Rock Summer was a fantastic experience... And when we came to Tallinn, we felt we were introducing American music.” /Õhtuleht, July 25/Urmas Kruuse Band
When the newspaper Esmaspäev asked on July 27 how it was to work with Japanese TV, Urmas Kruuse said: “...for half a day they filmed me lifting gear from the car, bustling about at the warehouse, lifting shoeboxes from one pile to another and then back again. To make the shots work, I had to redo every movement many times... We invited them to our rehearsal. We had rented a rehearsal space and hadn’t bothered with cleaning it, so there were old cigarette butts, empty bottles, used mattresses... During the whole rehearsal the Japanese were like firefighters, coming in for two minutes, until they ran out of air and their ears started ringing, going out quickly and then back again.”- Logo of the festival was designed by Ilona Gurjanova
- A festival booklet was printed that introduced the artists in Estonian and English
- Three-day tickets were exchanged for a wristband
- There was a guarded camp site for the visitors by the Pirita River
