Among the 17 clear bands are Les Big Byrd, Maida Vale, Tears, Kebnekajse and French Trion.

The new festival will take place on August 31 and will receive a maximum of 3,000 visitors, which is as many as the festival in 1970 - but the organizers then expected to sell 300,000 tickets.

The idea of ​​organizing a new festival got the organizers Rockered Kulturförening during the work on a short film about the Mantorps fiasco, which is expected to premiere in August.

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From the archive (1970-06-22): Reporting in the SVT program Now by Tom Alandh

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From the archive (1970-06-19): Feature in Report on the Mantorps Festival by Margareta Hjelm

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From the archive (1970-06-19): Feature about the Mantorps festival in TV-Nytt

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