Clamour for more, then protests break out Expressions on the faces of some of the performers on stage, and some members of the audience who watched or joined in, while waiting for the appearance of Bob Dylan (below, riht). Pictures bv Geoffrey Bridgett and Harry Kerr, of The Times.' tor a supposedly undisciplined generation they are remarkablv orderly about queuing. They queue to get into the pub in the village near by, for the cold water taps and to go to the lavatories, the only place apparently where segregation by sex is observed. In the dormitory tents you stake your claim to a piece of floor simply by rolling out your sleeping bag and leaving it there. Nobody disturbs your claim. As the evening gets colder the com- pere jokes that two ii: a seeping bag are probably warmer than one. This raises scarcely a mur- mur of laughter. Everybody knows that. The concert arena is roughly circular. about 200 yards in diameter. The organizers. Fiery Crea- tions, provided what they des- cribed as an extensive programme of "' multi-media activities ': In 2ddition to the music these in- cluded film shows, poetry read- ings, and a tent where anvbodv could perform or, as they put it. do their own thing . One of the more bizarre entertainments planned was described in the official booklet: " Anthony Scott's ' Swizprix ' are huge phal- Uc plastic balloons that slowly in- flate over the festival period until on the Saturday night, coinciding with the performance of The Who, they reach 100ft. high into the air and then ejaculate foam and tinsel into the spotlit air. The climax is reached when thev ex- plode gently into flame and the low hydrogen content burns in an orgy of self-destruction." As it happens, this amazing event never teok place. One of the organizers. a trifle enigmnatic- ally, said it would have been too dangerous. This was about the closest the festival came to the orgy for which Fleet Street and much of the world's press have been keeping a watchful eye. The organizers said they had no control over the private morals of the pop fans. One young couple embraced in a mass of soap foam as part of a hiappening" before hundreds of onlookers. Later the girl who said she came from nowhere- remarked: "It was beautifuL' From DAVID WILSWORTH Ryde, I.O.W., Aug. 31 With much pushing and shoving. more t;han 100,000 people crammed into the arena here tonight to see Bob Dylan tihe American singer. make his first major concert appearance for more than three years. He finally appeared about II o'clock tonight, more than two hours late. He walked on to the stage and without any preliminary announcements' went straight into his first song. A tiny figure, dressed in a white suit. white shirt and trousers, he was enthusiastically applauded by the audience who had been getting restive earlier in the evening, and empty beer cans were thrown towards the stage. After his first song he said: " Hallo, great to be here ". Then he went into his next number. The programme ran late be- cause there were simply too many people with special passes to the so-called press enclosure. The organizers tried to clear the area without much success. Eventually the press were sitting on each other's laps. The main audience was no less crushed and there were several calls for doctors and stretcher- bearers. Dylan's performance was the climax of the three-dav festival of pop music. But the concert ended shortly after midnight after Dylan had been on the stage for just one hour. After repeated cheenng and whistling from the audience he returned to perform for another 10 minutes, then finally left. Jeering and booing broke out from some sections of the audience. and the compere, Mr. Ricki Farr, placated them by saying: " Bob Dylan came here to do what he had to do and he's done it, and I'm afraid that's the end ". In all, Dylan and his musical group, called The Band. had been on stage for less than two hours. Mr. Dylan is reported to have been paid about ?35,000 for this performance. Mr. Farr, who is also pro- ducer of the pop music festi- val. and a man not given to understatement, earlier told his massive audience at Woodside Bay, near Ryde: "You are the blessed generation. You are the body beautiful. Thank you: keep it that wav." The blessed generation. sprawl- ing on the grass. cuddling on groundsheets or contemplating a stewpot on the camp site. took this tribute to their psaceful be- haviour as their just duc. Thev had no intention of disturbing the peace, at least not in the .riminal sense as opposed to the musical. Even the police have been com- plimentary about their I ehaviour. The 150 men of the Isle of Wight police force who had all their weekend leave cancelled because of the pop music festival might have been excusably apprehensive about the army of the young who moved in at the weekend. But Superintendent Arthur Maynard said this morn- ing: "Everything has been verv good tempered. The kids have been well-behaved and there has been no trouble of a serious nature ". Indeed the peaceful atmos- phere was partly due to the police tactics of avoiding force whenever possible. In any case, the festival had its own elaborate security ar- rangements including a group of uniformed men with Alsatian dogs who struck a note of incon- gruity among the generally ami- able crowd. One of tbeir jobs was to prevent people from climbing the eight-foot wooden fence around the arena; in this they were only partly successful. It was a security man who stepped in and stopped a girl who stripped and danced before the crowd yesterday evening. If he had not stopped her nobody else would have bothered. The audience was almost totally unmoved. As a young girl explained to me- " It was very beautifuL. She just had to do her own thing and so she did it ". Isadora Duncan could not have wished for a more sympa- thetic audience. The invasion began towards the end of last week and built up rapidly to more than 100,000 yesterday and today. Many came mainly to see Bob Dylan. the American singer who chose this festival to make his first formal concert appearance lor more than three years. But many came simply because it was a weekend of pop music with groups such as The Who, Fat Mattresses, Blodyn Pig and Blonde on Blonde. A girl of 18 from Ealing, London, travelling with her boy friend, said: " We came mainly for the groups but also because we are aU the same kind of people here. We all think more or less the same wav." They sat in a dormitorv tent at the festival site on Friday night but found it uncomfortable, and were thinking of sleeping on the beach instead. Between them thev expected to spend about ?4 during the whole weekend, plus ?5 for their two concert tickets and travelling costs. On Tuesdav she and her boy friend would go back to work. Like thousands of others here, they are weekend Beduins. This nomadic band of pop followers put up with extra- ordinary discomfort for the sake of their music. Thousands of tents are pitched on sloping ground, ploughed perhaps last year and very rough as a result. The only washing facilities are some cold water taps specially installed. The makeshift village supplies food: 2s. 6d. for a tiny plate of curry and rice, 2s. 6d. for a not very good hamburger. A queue .stretches for 30yd. out- side' the fish and chip shop because fish and chips are the best meal available apart from the cnacrobiotic health foods which are in huge demand. Many do their own cooking. Clamour for more, then protests break out 100,000 pop fans get one hour from Dylan