The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 41 The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival

I had only just turned 14 and had never been to a gig in my life but I was getting heavily interested in music. Mike, my next door neighbour, was 15 and not really into music at all. He was more into outdoors kind of things though and had got some tickets to The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival.

It was the summer holidays between my third and fourth form…