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Ferris Wheel’s gigs 1967-1969

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Welcome to another posting of a series of gig listings for 1960s bands. None of these lists is exhaustive and my idea is to add to them in the comments section below over time. They are here for future researchers to draw on.  I have also added a few interesting bits of information and will add images in time.

I’d like to encourage band members to get in touch to share memories, or for anyone to send corrections/clarifications to my email: Warchive@aol.com 

Equally important, if you attended any of the gigs below or played in the support band, please do leave your memories below in the comments section for future historians to use. If you know of any missing gigs, please add them too, if possible, with the sources.

Diane Ferraz – lead vocals

Michael Liston (aka Snow) – keyboards/guitar/lead vocals

Keith Field – guitar

Dave Sweetnam-Ford – saxophone/lead vocals

George Sweetnam-Ford – keyboards

Barry Reeves – drums

1967

22 April 1967 – Bluesville ’67, St Thomas’ Hall, Brentwood, Essex (Brentwood Review & Romford Recorder) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

27 April 1967 – RAF Leuchars, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

28 April 1967 – Palladium, Greenock, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

29 April 1967 – Community Centre, Auchinleck, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

30 April 1967 – Top 10 Club, Dundee, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

 

5 May 1967 – Slipper, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire (Nottingham Evening Post) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

20 May 1967 – Bluesville ’67, St Thomas Hall, Brentwood, Essex (Brentwood Review and Romford Recorder) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

20 May 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker) Billed as formerly Diane Ferraz and The Checkmates

24 May 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

30 May 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

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31 May 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset with The J J Preston Group (Bournemouth Evening Echo) Billed as Diane Ferris & The Ferris Wheel (formerly The Checkmates)

 

1 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

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3 June 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Symbols and The All Night Workers (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/) Billed as Diane Ferraz with The Checkmates 

4 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

10 June 1967 – RAF Coningsby, Lincoln (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

11 June 1967 – Dolphin Hotel, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

12 June 1967 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, London (Melody Maker) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

14-15 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The New Checkmates

15 June 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

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18 June 1967– Britannia Theatre, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, The Nite People and Neil Diamond (North Norfolk News) Billed as Ferris Wheels

21 June 1967 – Hatchetts Playground, Piccadilly, central London (Evening Standard)

29 June 1967 – Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

30 June 1967 – Town Hall, Alloa, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

 

1 July 1967 – Town Hall, Kilmarnock, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates (Birmingham Evening Mail also has the band playing at the Co-op, Rainbow Suite, Birmingham with The Peasant Sec on this day but this seems very unlikely).

2 July 1967 – Palais, Dundee, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

The band started to use the Ferris Wheel name from this point

2 July 1967 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with The Original Checkmates and The Raynes (Crewe Chronicle) Billed as featuring Diane Ferraz

3 July 1967 – Adam & Eve Club, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

4 July 1967 – Savoy Hotel, Strand, London (Fabulous 208)

6 July 1967 – Hatchetts Playground, Piccadilly, central London (Evening Standard)

7 July 1967 – Clouds, Derby, Derbyshire (Fabulous 208)

8 July 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

8 July 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Melody Maker)

9 July 1967 – Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (Fabulous 208)

According to Michael Snow’s website and blog, the band’s debut as Ferris Wheel took place at the Bag O’Nails club in August 1967 but earlier dates suggest this wasn’t the case.

Fabulous 208 notes that the group went to south of France in mid-July

1 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

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2 August 1967 – Big Beat Cruise, Solent, South Parade Pier, Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier Head with The Wrong Direction (Portsmouth News)

3 August 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

4 August 1967 – “Big C”, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

5 August 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London with The Electric Circus and Chunks Jump Band (Melody Maker) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

6 August 1967 – John’s Children’s Club, Leatherhead, Surrey (Fabulous 208) This is The Bluesette Club

7 August 1967 – Wheels Discotheque, Reading, Berkshire (Fabulous 208)

8 August 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

11 August 1967 – Solihull Civic Hall, Solihull, West Midlands with Idle Race and The Brand (Birmingham Evening Mail)

12 August 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, London (Fabulous 208)

12 August 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Fabulous 208)

13 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

14 August 1967 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

19 August 1967 – RAF Coningsby, Lincoln (Fabulous 208)

20 August 1967 – Dolphin Hotel, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Fabulous 208)

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22 August 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

24 August 1967 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

25 August 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

26 August 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with The Shevelles (Melody Maker)

26 August 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

27 August 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Fabulous 208)

28 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous)

30 August 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

31 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

 

1 September 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire (Fabulous 208)

2 September 1967 – Rainbow Suite, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail/Fabulous 208)

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3 September 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

4 September 1967 – Bamboo Club, Stockport, Greater Manchester (Fabulous 208)

8 September 1967 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

9 September 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with James and Bobby Purify and Big Maybelle and The Senate (Lincolnshire Standard)

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13 September 1967 – Big Beat Cruise, Solent, South Parade Pier, Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier Head with The Blackout (Portsmouth News)

15 September 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Basildon, Essex (Fabulous 208)

16 September 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

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16 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London with Mike Stuart Span and The Workshop (Melody Maker)

19 September 1967 – Fishmonger’s Arms, Wood Green, London (Fabulous 208)

20 September 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

21 September 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

22 September 1967 – G Ranch, Maidstone, Kent (Fabulous 208)

23 September 1967 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Fabulous 208/Melody Maker)

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24 September 1967 – Foseco Sports and Social Club, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Fabulous 208/Tamworth Herald)

 

2 October 1967 – Bluesville ’67 Clubs, Manor House Ballroom, Ipswich, Suffolk (Ipswich Evening Star)

6 October 1967 – Boulevard Club, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

7 October 1967 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

8 October 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

9 October 1967 – St Matthew’s Baths Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

10 October 1967 – Queen Mary Social Club, Ocean Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

11 October 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

13 October 1967 – Oak Leaf Hotel, South Bank, Middlesbrough with Mike Stevens & The Shevelles (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

14 October 1967 – Club A Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear (Fabulous 208)

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15 October 1967 – Civic Centre, Corby with Geno Washington & His Ram Jam Band and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (Fabulous 208/Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

16 October 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

25 October 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Echo) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

26 October 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Bristol (Fabulous 208)

27 October 1967 – Beaconsfield Youth Club, Beaconsfield, Bucks (Bucks Free Press) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

28 October 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with The Original Drifters, The Soul Survivors and The Purple Barrier (Lincolnshire Standard)

 

2 November 1967 – Clouds, Derby, Derbyshire (Derby Evening Telegraph)

2 November 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

3 November 1967 – Beaconsfield Youth Centre, Beaconsfield, Bucks (Fabulous 208)

3 November 1967 – Bluesville, Manor House, London (Melody Maker)

4 November 1967 – Disco Blue, Ryde, Isle of Wight (Fabulous 208)

6 November 1967 – St Matthew’s Baths Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

7 November 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Melody Maker)

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10 November 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

11 November 1967 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent with The Dyaks (East Kent Times & Mail)

14 November 1967 – Fishmonger’s Arms, Wood Green, London (Melody Maker)

17 November 1967 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

19 November 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

22 November 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

23 November 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

24 November 1967 – “Big C”, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

25 November 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Traffic and Six Across (Lincolnshire Standard)

26 November 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Melody Maker)

 

1 December 1967 – G Range, Maidstone, Kent (Fabulous 208)

2 December 1967 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Fabulous 208)

4 December 1967 – St Matthew’s Baths Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

6 December 1967 – Big Beat ’67 concert, Royal Albert Hall, London with Joe Tex, Alan Price Set, Steve Hammond and Jan Kimbell (Melody Maker) Disc &  Music Echo says that this was cancelled

8 December 1967 – Burton Constable Hall, Hull, Humberside with The Amboy Dukes, Joe E Young & The Toniks, Roger Bloom’s Hammer, Gospel Garden and The Mandrakes (Scarborough Evening News)

9 December 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, London with Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede and Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers (Melody Maker)

9 December 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

19 December 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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23 December 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Six Across, The Rubber Band and Ray Bones (Lincolnshire Standard)

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29 December 1967 – Foseco Sports & Social Club, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Tamworth Herald)

1968

9 January 1968 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

11 January 1968 – Hatchetts, Piccadilly, London (Poster at Jonathan Marks’ website: https://imgur.com/a/sWtBd#0)

12 January 1968 – Beaconsfield Youth Club, Beaconsfield, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

14 January 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

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15 January 1968 – Bluesville ’68 Club, St Matthew’s Baths, Ipswich, Suffolk (Ipswich Evening Star)

19 January 1968 – Big C Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hamphshire (Aldershot News) Billed as Diane Ferraz and The Ferris Wheel

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26 January 1968 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

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2 February 1968 – Clockwork Orange, Chester, Cheshire with Phil Ryan & The Scorpions (Crewe Chronicle) Billed as featuring Diane Ferraz

2 February 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

4 February 1968 – Alex Disco, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Salisbury and Winchester Journal)

6 February 1968 – Public Hall, Witham, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

8 February 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

9 February 1968 – North West Leicestershire Technical College Students Union Dance, The Grand, Coalville, Leicestershire with Magazine (Leicester Mercury)

11 February 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

 

3 March 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

4 March 1968 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

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10 March 1968 – Cat-Balou Club, Grantham, Lincolnshire (Melody Maker/Grantham Journal)

11 March 1968 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts with The Bakersville Blues Band (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)

12 March 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

14 March 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

17 March 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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24 March 1968 – Frolicking Kneecap Discotheque, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph/Leicester Mercury) Marmalade did not appear

 

4 April 1968 – Quay Club, Exeter, Devon (Express & Echo)

5 April 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

6 April 1968 – Evington Club, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

14 April 1968 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

17 April 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

18 April 1968 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey (Camberley News & Bagshot Observer)

25 April 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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25 May 1968 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Barrier (Cambridgeshire Times)

30 May 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

 

1 June 1968 – Brave New World, Eastney, Hampshire (website: http://michaelcooper.org.uk/C/birdcage.htm) Billed as Diane Ferraz and The Ferrez Wheel

16 June 1968 – Beat Centre Discotheque Club, Co-op Hall, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

22 June 1968 – Hervines Park, Amersham, Bucks with The Rebel Rousers (Buckinghamshire Advertiser)

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29 June 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

30 June 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

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5 July 1968 – Park Hall Hotel, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with Delroy Good Good Band and Spangles Maldoon (Express & Star)

6 July 1968 – The College, Digby Avenue, Nottingham with The Redhouse Blues Band (Nottingham Evening Post)

7 July 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

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8 July 1968 – Bluesville ’68, Manor Ballroom, Ipswich, Suffolk (Ipswich Evening Star)

10 July 1968 – Summerhill House Hotel, Kingswinford, West Midlands (Express & Star)

According to Michael Snow’s book Mersey Me! A Liverpool Lad on the Loose in the Swingin’ ‘60s, Diane Ferraz left on the eve of a month’s residency at the Voom Voom club in St-Tropez that summer (most likely around now). She was exhausted from European tours. They undertook the French dates without a female singer and briefly added singer Marsha Hunt on their return to London

19 July 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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20 July 1968 – Grand Pavilion, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire with Shock Treatment (Derbyshire Times)

21 July 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel) Billed as Marsha Hunt with Ferris Wheel

22 July 1968 – Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes with Happy Magazine and Glass Showband (Grimsby Daily Telegraph)

25 July 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

 

1 September 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

7 September 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire with Blossom Toes (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

24 September 1968 – Rasputin’s, Oxford Street, central London (Time Out)

28 September 1968 – Coventry College of Education, Coventry (Fabulous 208)

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29 September 1968 – Beat Centre Discotheque Club, Co-Op Hall, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

30 September 1968 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

 

2 October 1968 – Kew Boathouse, Kew, west London (Fabulous 208)

3 October 1968 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, central London (Fabulous 208)

5 October 1968 – Royal Lido Ballroom, Prestatyn, Wales with Technicolour Dream (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

9 October 1968 – Rasputin’s, Oxford Street, central London (Time Out)

Singer Linda Lewis joins from White Rabbit around mid-October 1968. As she lived in Hampstead, it’s possible her first gig was there. Around the same time Barry Reeves was replaced by Dennis Elliott on drums

10 October 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

14 October 1968 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

19 October 1968 – Victoria Ballroom, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (Derbyshire Times)

19 October 1968 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Fabulous 208)

27 October 1968 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent with Nepenthe (Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham Evening Post)

 

1 November 1968 – College of Education, Leicester (Fabulous 208)

2 November 1968 – Bin Lid, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

3 November 1968 – Surrey Rooms, Oval, south London (Melody Maker)

10 November 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

16 November 1968 – College Hall, Farnborough Technical College Students’ Union, Farnborough, Hampshire with The Gods (Aldershot News)

16 November 1968 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Poster)

22 November 1968 – Rag Ball, Avery Hill College, Eltham, southeast London with Ace Kefford, Jigsaw Band and Keith Sine (South East London Mercury)

23 November 1968 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Sons and Lovers (Lincolnshire Standard)

24 November 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London with Nepenthe (Melody Maker)

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1 December 1968 – Union Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post) Billed as Ferris Wheel featuring Linda Lewis

5 December 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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27 December 1968 – Bridge Place Country Club, near Canterbury, Kent (Folkestone & Hythe District Herald)

29 December 1968 – Yorkshire Grey Ballroom, Eltham, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

1969

2 January 1969 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

In early 1969, Keith Field left and was succeeded by Terry Edmunds

8 February 1969 – The Barn Ballroom, Little Bardfield Hall, Little Bardfield, Essex (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)

20 February 1969 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

21 February 1969 – Bay Hotel, Sunderland (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

 

6 April 1969 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, London (Melody Maker)

13 April 1969 – John D’Milton’s Discotheque, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

 

10 May 1969 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with Kiss (Julie Fielder book: What Flo Said Next)

23 May 1969 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Windsor, Slough & Eton Express)

 

15 June 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, west London (gig poster on website: http://www.donpowellofficial.com/)

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10 August 1969 – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London with The Misunderstood, Reflection and Andromeda (Melody Maker)

20 August 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

24 August 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, west London (Time Out)

27 August 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

 

7 September 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, west London (Kensington Post)

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14 September 1969 – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, north London with Edgar Broughton, Grail and Daddy Long Legs (Melody Maker)

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27 September 1969 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

30 October 1969 – Rasputin’s, Oxford Street, London (Time Out)

 

21 December 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

24 December 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

27 December 1969 – Bridge Place Country Club, Canterbury, Kent (Folkestone & Hythe District Herald)

28 December 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Time Out)

According to Michael Snow’s blog (https://michaelsnowpresents.wordpress.com), they went to Geneva to play at the Black Bird club in December 1969 and, judging by newspaper clippings, were still playing there in the first week of January 1970, due to popular demand.

1970

17 January 1970 – Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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Categories: England, London

Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers’ gigs 1965-1969

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Welcome to another posting of a series of gig listings for 1960s bands. None of these lists is exhaustive and my idea is to add to them in the comments section below over time. They are here for future researchers to draw on.  I have also added a few interesting bits of information and will add images in time.

I’d like to encourage band members to get in touch to share memories, or for anyone to send corrections/clarifications to my email: Warchive@aol.com 

Equally important, if you attended any of the gigs below or played in the support band, please do leave your memories below in the comments section for future historians to use. If you know of any missing gigs, please add them too, if possible, with the sources.

HERBIE GOINS & THE NIGHT-TIMERS:

 Herbie Goins – lead vocals

John McLaughlin – lead guitar

Mick Eve – tenor saxophone

Harry Beckett – trumpet

Nigel Stanger – Hammond organ/saxophone

Dave Price – bass

Bill Stevens – drums

1965

23 March 1965 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book) This might have been before the link-up with The Night-Timers who were working with Ronnie Jones

 

21 April 1965 – Orford Cellar, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

25 April 1965 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (Melody Maker)

 

8 May 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/) Says straight from the Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London

16 May 1965 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

29 May 1965 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

 

2 June 1965 – Le Disque A Go Go, Bournemouth, Dorset (website: https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/)

7 June 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Leyton, Leytonstone and Waltham Forest Guardian) Billed as The Night-timers

11 June 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with support (NME) Billed as The Night-timers with Herbie Goins

13 June 1965 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with Kim & The Kinetics (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

20 June 1965 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey (Aldershot News)

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27 June 1965 – Galaxy Club, Woburn Park Hotel, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

 

1 July 1965 – Bowes Lyon Youth Centre, Stevenage, Herts with The Bumps In The Night (Hertfordshire Express)

4 July 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

10 July 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with Gary L Thompson & The Sidewinders (NME)

23 July 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

 

6 August 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

7 August 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with Group Survival (NME) Billed as The Night-timers with Herbie Goins

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8 August 1965 – Galaxy Club, Woburn Park Hotel, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

28 August 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London (NME) Billed as The Night-timers with Herbie Goins

Sometime in late August/early September 1965, Nigel Stanger returned to Newcastle upon Tyne and worked with Alan Price. Former member Dave Morse returned on Hammond organ

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4 September 1965 – Zambesi Club, Hounslow, west London (Middlesex Chronicle)

12 September 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

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16 September 1965 – Ritz Club, Skewen, Wales with The Kingpins and The Iveys (Port Talbot Guardian)

17 September 1965 – Archer Hall, Billericay, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)

18 September 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London (Melody Maker)

24 September 1965 – Orford Cellar, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

 

8 October 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

13 October 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Rick ‘N’ Beckers (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

16 October 1965 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with Loomers Ltd (Essex Chronicle)

24 October 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

 

3 November 1965 – Farnbrough Town Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

12 November 1965 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

13 November 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

14 November 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Worrying Kind (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

21 November 1965 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

28 November 1965 – Ricky Ticky, Plaza, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

 

5 December 1965 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey (Aldershot News)

9 December 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

11 December 1965 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

15 December 1965 – Le Disque A Go Go, Bournemouth, Dorset (website: https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/)

24 December 1965 – King Mojo Club, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with Tony Knight’s Chessmen (Melody Maker)

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26 December 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Pontiac, southwest London (Melody Maker)

1966

1 January 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

5 January 1966 – Farnborough Town Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

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8 January 1966 – House of Aden, Witham Hall, Essex with Elkie Brooks, The Marionettes and Ray Ford and The Statesiders (Essex County Standard)

20 January 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

22 January 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

30 January 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (The Star)

 

4 February 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

5 February 1966 – Winter Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire with Elkie Brooks, The Marionettes and Phase II (Brackley Advertiser) Is this possible with the gig below?

5 February 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

13 February 1966 – Ricky Ticky, Plaza, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

18 February 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London with Dakota Station (Melody Maker)

19 February 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and The Blueberries (The Star)

26 February 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

Dave Morse departed on the eve of a Swiss tour and former member Nigel Stanger recommended his friend Mike Carr

March 1966 – Hazyland Club, Hazy Osterveld, Zurich, Switzerland (one month) (Mike Carr recollections)

19 March 1966 – Mod Place, Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol with Elkie Brooks, The Marionettes and The Reasons (Western Scene) Is this possible with Swiss dates above

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1 April 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Melody Maker)

4 April 1966 – Penthouse, Birmingham, West Midlands with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Birmingham Evening Mail)

9 April 1966 – Jigsaw, Manchester with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Graham Bond Organisation (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

10 April 1966 – Plaza Ballroom, Handsworth West Midlands with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Birmingham Evening Mail)

15 April 1966 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

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16 April 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnbrough, Hampshire with Screaming J Hawkins (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

18 April 1966 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey with support (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

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23 April 1966 – Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Plain & Fancy and The Tykes (Lincolnshire Standard)

30 April 1966 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Score (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

 

2 May 1966 – Esquire, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (The Star)

3 May 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

4 May 1966 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Score (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

8 May 1966 – Blue Moon, Hayes, Middlesex (Melody Maker)

15 May 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London with The Seventh Sun (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

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27 May 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnbrough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News) David Else also has the band playing at the Camberley Ricky Tick at the Cambridge Hotel on this date with The Blues Syndicate

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28 May 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

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Around late May/early June John McLaughlin left and first Mick Barker and then John Smith came in on guitar (Ed: would welcome any insights from readers)

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4 June 1966 – Zambesi, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

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10 June 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

12 June 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

15 June 1966 – Orford Cellar, Norwich (Eastern Evening News)

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17 June 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with Mood Indigo (Melody Maker)

19 June 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

24 June 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with support (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

29 June 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London with Nocturnal (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

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2 July 1966 – Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, Hertfordshire (Welwyn Times)

11 July 1966 – Majestic, Reading, Berkshire (Bracknell News)

July/August 1966 – Papagayos, St-Tropez, France with Steampacket (Mike Carr recollections)

 

7 September 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London with The Charge (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

9 September 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

10 September 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald/Melody Maker)

11 September 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with The Jimmy Brown Sound (Nottingham Evening Post)

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12 September 1966 – Queens Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail/Express & Star)

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14 September 1966 – Scene Club, Cardiff, Wales (Western Daily Press)

19 September 1966 – Locarno Ballroom, Bristol (Evening Post)

19 September 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

25 September 1966 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

25 September 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

29 September 1966 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, west London (London Life) This may be 30 September

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30 September 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Washington DCs (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

Sometime in early October, Speedy Acquaye joined on congas from Georgie Fame’s Blue Flames, having appeared on the sessions for “Number One in Your Heart” earlier in the year

1 October 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with Broodly-Hoo (Nottingham Evening Post)

2 October 1966 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

8 October 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

15 October 1966 – The New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

16 October 1966 – Dereham Tavern Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Sullivan James (North Norfolk News)

22 October 1966 – The Location, Woolwich, southeast London with The Images (Melody Maker)

23 October 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

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26 October 1966 – Elbow Room, Aston, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

27 October 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

28 October 1966 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

29 October 1966 – Plebians, Halifax, West Yorkshire (Halifax Evening Courier & Guardian)

31 October 1966 – The Village, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

 

2 November 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Coloured Raisins (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

5 November 1966 – The Union, Manchester University with Cock-A-Hoops and All Soul Band (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

9 November 1966 – Harpenden Town Hall, Harpenden, Hertfordshire (Melody Maker)

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11 November 1966 – Top Spot, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with The Blues Generation (Gloucester Citizen)

13 November 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham with Sonny Childe & The TNT (Nottingham Evening Post)

14 November 1966 – Stafford College of Art, Stafford, Staffordshire with Powerhouse (Express & Star)

17 November 1966 – Blaises, Queen’s Gate, Kensington (Tatler)

18 November 1966 – South Bank Jazz Club, Grimsby, Humberside (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

24 November 1966 – Concorde, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

27 November 1966 – Dereham Tavern Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Marvin Lois Enterprise (North Norfolk News)

 

2 December 1966 – Dancing Slipper Ballroom, West Bridgeford, Nottingham with The Tribe (Nottingham Evening Post)

3 December 1966 – Burlesque, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

3 December 1966 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

4 December 1966 – Douglas House, Lancaster Gate, west London with Freddie Mack & The Mack Sound (Melody Maker)

4 December 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

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9 December 1966 – Carousel Club, Farnborough, Hampshire (Camberley News)

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10 December 1966 – Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, southwest London with The Merseybeats (Balham & Tooting News and Mercury)

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11 December 1966 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with Phil Ryan & The Scorpions (Chester Chronicle)

14 December 1966 – Stourbridge Town Hall, Stourbridge, West Midlands with The Satin Dolls (Poster)

15 December 1966 – London College of Fashion, John Princess Street, London (Melody Maker)

16 December 1966 – Wimbledon Palais, southwest Wimbledon, London (Mitcham News & Mercury)

18 December 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London (Melody Maker)

23 December 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Satin Dolls and The Situation (Melody Maker)

29 December 1966 – Speakeasy, central London (Disc & Music Echo)

30 December 1966 – Chislehurst Caves, Chislehurst, southeast London (Melody Maker)

31 December 1966 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Disc & Music Echo)

1967

1 January 1967 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham with The Satin Dolls (Nottingham Evening Post)

3 January 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

5 January 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Coventry, West Midlands with The Silverstone Set (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

6 January 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Wynder K Frog (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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7 January 1967 – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London with Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, The Creation, The Artwoods and St Louis Union (Melody Maker)

11 January 1967 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with John Bryan Fraternity (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

13 January 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Satin Dolls and The All Night Workers (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

15 January 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent with Satin Dolls (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

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20 January 1967 – Mod Ball, Pavilion Ballroom, Weymouth, Dorset with Teak and Smokey and The Nite People (Western Gazette)

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21 January 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with The Satin Dolls, Timebox with Richard Henry, Triads and Ray Bones (Spalding Standard)

26 January 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Jimmy Cliff & The Shakedown Sound (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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27 January 1967 – Top Spot Ballroom, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with The Knak (Gloucester Citizen)

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28 January 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

28 January 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

 

1 February 1967 – Elbow Room, Aston, West Midlands (Fabulous 208)

2 February 1967 – Bowes-Lyon-House, Stevenage, West Midlands (Fabulous 208)

4 February 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London with The Avalons and The Mack Sound (Melody Maker)

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5 February 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

6 February 1967 – Queen’s Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

7-8 February 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

9 February 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Satin Dolls and The In Crowd (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

10 February 1967 – Hereford College (presumably Hereford but could be Oxford college) (Fabulous 208) They may have played the Stage Club on this date too (Cherwell)

11 February 1967 – Durham University, Durham, County Durham (Fabulous 208)

14 February 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, west London (Fabulous 208)

14 February 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

16 February 1967 – Cadenas Club, Stoke Hotel, Guildford with The Jeremiah Thing (David Else’s research)

17 February 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, West London (David Else’s research)

18 February 1967 – Ricky Tick, Thames Hotel, Windsor, Berkshire (David Else’s research)

19 February 1967 – Saville Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London with Chuck Berry and The Canadians (Fabulous 208)

21 February 1967 – Pavilion, Bournemouth Colleges Student’s Union, Landsdowne, Dorset with The Palmer James Group (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

23 February 1967– Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The In Crowd (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

24 February 1967 – Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales with The Yardbirds (Fabulous 208)

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25 February 1967 – Matlock Bath Pavilion, Matlock, Derbyshire with John L Watson and The Web (Derby Evening Telegraph)

According to the Guardian Journal’s 18 March issue, page 5, Mike Carr departed in early March. His replacement was Jamaican musician Junior Kerr.

Kerr came in via backing singers and dancers Cassie and Candy (aka The Satin Dolls) who were part of the Ready Steady Go dancing troupe. They joined around in late 1966 (Ed: would welcome any reader insights)

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4 March 1967 – Royal Lido, Prestatyn, Clwyd, Wales with The Raynes (Rhyl & Prestayn Gazette)

16 March 1967 – Locarno, Derby (Fabulous 208)

17 March 1967 – Queen’s Rink, West Hartlepool, County Durham (Fabulous 208)

18 March 1967 – Sheffield University, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

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19 March 1967 – Cosmo Ballroom, Carlisle, Cumbria with 22nd Street People (Cumberland News/Fabulous 208)

22 March 1967 – College of Tech, Nottingham with Unit 4 Plus 2 (Fabulous 208)

23 March 1967 – Palace Hotel, Southport, Lancashire (Fabulous 208)

24 March 1967 – Top Ten, Manchester with Candy Choir (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

24 March 1967 – Bluesville, Manor House, London (Melody Maker)

25 March 1967 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Legay (Cambridgeshire Times)

26 March 1967 – Belle Vue, Greater Manchester (Fabulous 208)

9 April 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

14 April 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

16 April 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

18 April 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset with The Bossmen (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

23 April 1967 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

26 April 1967 – Bromel Club, Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, Kent (Melody Maker)

28 April 1967 – Steering Wheel Club, Dorchester, Dorset with Adge Cutler & The Wurzels and The Gordon Riots (Western Gazette)

29 April 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with The Executive (Melody Maker)

30 April 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent with Satin Dolls (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

Sometime around this period, Linda Lewis also sang with the group briefly having worked with The Q-Set in late 1966. She didn’t stay long and cut a solo single for Polydor that summer. She would reunite though with Kerr soon after in White Rabbit

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6 May 1967 ­– Shoreline Club, Bognor Regis, West Sussex with The In Crowd (Dave Allen research)

9 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London with The Satin Dolls (Melody Maker)

12 May 1967 – Drokiweeny, Manchester with The Satin Dolls (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

12 May 1967 – Tabernacle, Stockport, Greater Manchester with The Satin Dolls (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

12 May 1967 – Mr Smith’s, Manchester with The Satin Dolls (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

16 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London with The Web (Melody Maker)

23 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Melody Maker)

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27 May 1967 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

27 May 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

29 May 1967 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post) Is this possible with the gig below?

29 May 1967 – Supreme Eastern Esplanade, Ramsgate, Kent with The Satin Dolls and Len Marshall Sound (Melody Maker/East Kent Times & Mail)

30 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Melody Maker/Record Mirror)

 

2 June 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London with The Satin Dolls (Melody Maker)

This large gap in June suggests they may have been overseas

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30 June 1967 – Koo Koo Byrd, Cardiff, Wales (Glamorgan County Times)

 

1 July 1967 – Supreme Eastern Esplanade, Ramsgate, Kent (East Kent Times & Mail)

8 July 1967 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

10 July 1967 – Queen’s Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

29 July 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London with The Fraternity and The Army (Melody Maker)

I would welcome any further insights from readers but I believe that in late July/early August, the group headed to Italy for a short tour. John Smith and Bill Stevens left on the eve of the tour and former Pack/Flowers of Wisdom members Andy Rickell and Terry Stannard joined. Stannard had recently worked with Freddie Mack.

The tour was a disaster and all of the equipment was stolen. Most of the group returned home and Junior Kerr, Andy Rickell and Terry Stannard formed White Rabbit with former member Linda Lewis

A new formation was formed on Goins’ return:

Herbie Goins – lead vocals

Alan Roskams – guitar (ex-Gass)

Mick Eve – tenor saxophone

Harry Beckett – trumpet

Speedy Acquaye – congas

John Carroll – Hammond organ

Dave Price – bass

Ian Hague – drums (ex-Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds/The Nice)

+ Satin Dolls backing singers/dancers Cassie and Candy 

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19 August 1967 – Wellington Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Midnight Times (North Norfolk News)

20 August 1967 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with Satin Dolls (Nottingham Evening Post)

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25 August 1967 – Steering Wheel, Dorchester, Dorset with The Cellar Rats (Dorset Evening Echo)

26 August 1967 – Floral Hall, Southport, Lancashire with The Maraccas (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle/Formby Times)

27 August 1967 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Bluecaps (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

30 August 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London (Melody Maker)

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2 September 1967 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire with Mike Stuart’s Span (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

3 September 1967 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London (Melody Maker)

6 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

8 September 1967 – 5D, Leicester with The Worrying Kynde (Leicester Mercury)

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9 September 1967 – Pink Flamingo, Soho, central London with The Paper Blitz Tissue and Geranium Pond (Melody Maker)

10 September 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

11 September 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

12 September 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, west London (Melody Maker)

13 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

20 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

22 September 1967 – 5D, Leicester with The Wild Flowers (Leicester Mercury)

27 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

30 September 1967 – Glastonbury Town Hall, Glastonbury, Somerset with The Safety Catch (Somerset County Gazette)

 

3 October 1967 – Bournemouth Pavilion, Bournemouth, Dorset with Granny’s Intentions and The Palmer James Group (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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9 October 1967 – Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales with The Searchers, Lucas with The Mike Cotton Sound and The Zombies (South Wales Echo)

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15 October 1967 – Cosmopolitan, Carlisle, Cumbria with Tamla Express (Cumberland News)

20 October 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

21 October 1967 – Northwich Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire (Crewe Chronicle)

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22 October 1967 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

29 October 1967 – South Bank Jazz Club, Grimsby, Humberside (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

This large gap in November suggests they may have been overseas

2 December 1967 – Pearce Hall, Maidenhead, Berkshire with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch and The Echoes (Bucks Free Press)

3 December 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

8 December 1967 – Students’ Union, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and Precious Few (Eastern Evening News)

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9 December 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London with Ferris Wheel and Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede (Melody Maker)

12 December 1967 – New Century Hall, Manchester with Kibbus (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

14 December 1967 – Student’s Union, University of East Anglia, Norwich with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and The Reasons (Eastern Evening News)

25 December 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker) Guest with The Tonicks, Ronnie Jones, Owen Grey and The Youth

26 December 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Portsmouth, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

1968

This large gap in January suggests they may have been overseas

4 February 1968 – Wooden Bridge Hotel, Guildford, Surrey with The Strange Brew (Surrey Advertiser)

18 February 1968 – New Regis Club, Bognor Regis, West Sussex (Brighton Evening Argus)

23 February 1968 – Shades, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Sheffield Star)

 

1 March 1968 – Hotel Leofric, Coventry, West Midlands with Scarlet Religion (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

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2 March 1968 – Sheffield University Student’s Union, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Sheffield Star)

8 March 1968 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

10 March 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

18 March 1968 – Park Hall Hotel, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with Time and Mr Showbiz (Express & Star)

25 March 1968 – Cosmopolitan, Carlisle, Cumbria (Cumberland News)

29 March 1968 – Poole College Rag, Poole College Main Hall, Poole, Dorset with The Nite People (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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30 March 1968 – Ewell College, Ewell, Surrey with Robert Plant & The Band of Joy (Melody Maker)

 

1 April 1968 – Staffordshire Yeoman, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

John Carroll left about this time to join The Flowerpot Men’s backing band. Former member Junior Kerr may have briefly returned as footage from French TV show Bouton Rouge dated 4 April reveals; however, this may have been a recording from the previous year. In the first week of April 1968, Kerr played with his new band Junior’s Conquests

Eddie Thornton, who’d worked with Georgie Fame (and more recently The Amboy Dukes) also joined in time for the French tour on trumpet, taking over from Harry Beckett

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10 April 1968 – Cellar Discotheque, Hartlepool (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

13 April 1968 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

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15 April 1968 – The Shrubbery Hotel, Ilminister, Somerset (Somerset County Gazette)

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19 April 1968 – Scene, Cambridge YMCA, Cambridge (Cambridge News)

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20 April 1968 – Tin Hat, Kettering, Northamptonshire with Howling Robin (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

21 April 1968 – Le Metro, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

26 April 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington (Melody Maker)

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27 April 1968 – Ettington Park Hotel, Alderminster, near Stratford, Warwickshire (Birmingham Evening Mail) Could this have been the date below or did they play again a few weeks later?

29 April 1968 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

 

4 May 1968 – Wolverhampton College of Technology, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with Soul Seekers (Express & Star)

11 May 1968 – Ettington Park Hotel, Alderminster, Warwickshire (Stratford upon Avon Herald)

12 May 1968 – Excel Blue Angel, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

19 May 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, London (Poster)

23 May 1968 – Liberal Hall, Yeovil, Somerset with The Klick (Western Gazette)

31 May 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

 

6 June 1968 – James Finegan Hall, Eston, Middlesbrough with Rivers Invitation and The Tramline (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

8 June 1968 – Mistrale Club, Beckenham Junction, London with The Shiralee (Coulson & Purley Advertiser)

16 June 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, London with The Satin Dolls (Poster)

23 June 1968 – Cosmopolitan, Carlisle, Cumbria with Junco Partners (Cumberland News)

 

31 August 1968 – Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey with The Strange Brew (Surrey Advertiser)

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2 September 1968 – Top Spot, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with Lot 39 with Mel Taylor (Gloucester Citizen)

Around September 1968, Dave Price and Alan Roskams left.

Would welcome insights from readers but I think a new formation featured the following:

Herbie Goins – lead vocals

Kelvin Bullen – lead guitar (ex-Joe E Young & The Tonicks)

Hugh Bullen – bass (ex-Joe E Young & The Tonicks)

Mick Eve – tenor saxophone

Eddie Thornton – trumpet

Speedy Acquaye – congas

Ian Hague – drums

+ Satin Dolls backing singers/dancers Cassie and Candy

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5 September 1968 – Speakeasy at Blaises, London (Poster from Paul Kane)

6 September 1968 – Pavilion Ballroom, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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7 September 1968 – Alex Disco, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Salisbury Journal/Western Gazette)

20 September 1968 – CLCE Scraptoft, Leicester with The Shevelles and The Decoys (Leicester Mercury)

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21 September 1968 – Stage Club, Oxford (Oxford Mail)

 

7 October 1968 – Quaintways, Chester, Cheshire with Perfumed Garden, The Hands and Wall City Jazzmen (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

13 October 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

19 October 1968 – Students Union UEA, Norwich, Norfolk with Bumbly Hum (Eastern Evening News)

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3 November 1968 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

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7 December 1968 – Stage Club, Oxford (Oxford Mail)

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10 December 1968 – King’s College, Strand, London with The Nice and The Circus (Melody Maker)

14 December 1968 – Mid-Herts College, Welwyn Garden City, Herts with The Herbal Remedy (Welwyn and Hatfield Advertiser)

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18 December 1968 – Candlelight, Scarborough, North Yorkshire with The Satin Dolls and Free (Scarborough Evening News)

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21 December 1968 – The Catacombs, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

1969

Sometime in early 1969, Ian Hague left to join J J Jackson’s backing band

21 February 1969 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

23 February 1969 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

 

1 March 1969 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

30 March 1969 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

 

13 April 1969 – Blaises, London (Hounslow Post)

27 April 1969 – Le Metro, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

 

2 May 1969 – Lyceum Ballroom, Strand, London with Alan Bown, Spooky Tooth, Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum and Portrait (Melody Maker)

3 May 1969 – New Union Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

24 May 1969 – Farnborough Technical College Students’ Union, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

 

14 June 1969 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

28 July 1969 – Soul Club, Plaza Ballroom, Newsbury, Berkshire with Simon K & The Meantimers (Reading Evening Post)

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28 September 1969 – Rebecca’s, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

Soon after the above gig, the band landed a part-time residency in Rome, Italy

I would welcome any insights from readers on what happened next with the band’s formation

I’d like to thank David Else for generously sharing his own history on the band and helping to cross check timelines and facts. Also, thanks to Mick Eve for his insights.

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One

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One 1969. Left to right: Alan Marshall, Bobby Sass, Kevin Fogerty, Conrad Isidore, Brent Forbes and Norman Leppard

Alan Marshall – lead vocals/guitar

Bobby Sass – keyboards

Kevin Fogerty – lead guitar

Brent Forbes – bass

Norman Leppard – horns

Conrad Isadore – drums

In late 1969/early 1970, a motley crew of London-based musicians entered Trident Studios in the heart of Soho to record a lone, rare album for Fontana Records. Helmed by Indian-born musicians and childhood friends, singer Alan Marshall and keyboard player Bobby Sass, One had initially formed in early 1969 after a series of jam sessions at Marshall’s studio flat, located at 6 Denmark Street which he shared with manager Roger Burrow, a friend of Graham Nash’s.

Born in Lahore, Alan Marshall had quite the musical pedigree. Starting out with Bexley Heath, Kent R&B outfit The Loose Ends in the early 1960s, Marshall had cut two excellent singles on Decca before the original formation splintered in October 1966. Forming a new version with members of Croydon band The Subjects and another Bexley Heath area aggregation, Bob ‘N’ All, the new-look Loose Ends landed a short residency at the Bang Bang Club in Milan during January-February 1967.

When the musicians returned to London that March, they were spotted by Otis Redding at the Scotch of St James (or Speakeasy depending on who you speak to) and, ‘blown away’ by Marshall and co-vocalist Bob Saker’s duets, the soul legend took both singers back to the States to record two tracks at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals – “Johnny B Goode” and “Keep Pushing”. The plan was to couple the two recordings for a single on Atlantic but internal politics led to the tracks being shelved. Tragically, Redding died later that year.

Back in the UK, Alan Marshall reunited with guitarist Peter Kirtley who’d been playing with Alan Price’s band after leaving The Loose Ends the previous October. The pair decided to form a new group, Happy Magazine, and Marshall recommended his childhood friend Bobby Sass (not Bobby Tench under an alias which has often been misreported) to play keyboards. Unfortunately, after some tentative rehearsals, it was decided that Sass didn’t fit the band concept and he was dropped.

“He was a tremendous piano player and he loved Errol Garner. He and I grew up together in Karachi,” says Marshall. “Bobby didn’t make it in Happy Magazine. They didn’t like his style; he was too jazzy.”

Happy Magazine, 1968. Alan Marshall (back left). Peter Kirtley (second right). Thanks to Peter for the image

Signed to Polydor, Happy Magazine cut three singles with Alan Price in the producer’s chair before splitting in early 1969. By this point, Marshall had moved into a studio flat on Denmark Street (aka as Tin Pan Alley) with his friend and manager Roger Burrow; Bobby Sass was a regular visitor. As the singer recalls, the doors were always open and musicians used to wander in.

This is the most likely explanation for how Dominica-born drummer and percussionist Conrad Isidore entered the picture that spring. An incredibly gifted musician, Isidore had first come to prominence working with noted R&B outfit Joe E Young & The Tonics during 1967 after playing with The Links and The Grendades. It was with The Toniks that Isidore worked with bass player Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuels, a former member of The Blue-Act-Unit, who also featured future Bob Marley sideman, Junior Kerr (aka Junior Marvin).

Conrad Isidore (bottom right) with Joe E Young & The Toniks, 1968

Isidore and Samuels soon moved on to form The Sundae Times with singer/guitarist Wendell Richardson. Produced by The Equals’ Eddy Grant, the trio recorded three singles and an LP, Us Coloured Kids, during 1968-1969 before the musicians went their separate ways. Somehow Isidore’s path crossed with Marshall and Sass and the drummer threw in his lot with the two Indian musicians.

Not long after, bass player Brent Forbes also joined the loose-knit set up. Originally from Salford, Greater Manchester, Forbes had previously played with The Rogues, who cut a lone single for Decca in December 1967. After changing their name to Sunshine in February 1968, the musicians turned pro and landed a residency in Turkey of all places. This was followed by a six-month stint playing clubs in Crete before the musicians returned to the drizzle of Greater Manchester.

At this point, Forbes joined a short-lived group called Zac, who moved down to London and cut an album’s worth of material at IBC Studios near Marble Arch. When this project failed to materialise, Forbes’s former band mate from Sunshine, guitarist Rod Alexander, who was managing Sound City on Shaftsbury Avenue, directed him to Marshall’s nearby studio flat.

The next musician to join was guitarist Kevin Fogerty, who had first come to prominence with Southport R&B group, Timebox. Fogerty appeared on the band’s early recordings but around October 1967, he jumped ship and signed up with The Dave Davani Four, which is where he later met tenor saxophonist and flutist Norman Leppard.

Originally from Handscross in West Sussex, Leppard was 23 years old when he turned professional. “I was mainly a freelance musician, working with different bands, touring all over the place,” he says. “I was always busy. I did a fortnight tour with The Temptations”.

Sometime in 1968, Leppard auditioned for The Dave Davani Four and landed the gig, despite being up against about 20 sax players. “Kevin was with them before I joined them,” he adds. “I ended up sharing a flat with Kevin and his then girlfriend Jenny in Kennington.”

According to Forbes, the loose-knit group of musicians spent ages rehearsing material before album sessions commenced at Trident Studios in St Anne’s Court, Soho, encompassing the latest in 16-track technology.

“We spent weeks, months, it felt like forever, in this studio [in Denmark Street] and the band would go in and play,” recalls the bass player. “We’d do an arrangement one day and go in the next day and it would be totally different as music should be. Depending on the mood of everybody it would be totally different.”

Production was split between the band’s manager Roger Burrow and Alan Marshall and Bobby Sass, working with sound engineers Robin Cable and Roy Baker. Production supervision meanwhile was handled by Lee Hallyday, who’d recently recorded his brother Johnny’s self-titled LP in France. According to several band members, the sessions at Trident’s studios also featured Alan Marshall’s former band mate from The Loose Ends and Happy Magazine, Peter Kirtley, who provided lead guitar on several cuts.

“Kevin was on some of the tracks,” explains Leppard. “He was mainly on rhythm guitar I think. I am not sure he’s on all the tracks, but he’s definitely on most of them.”

Brent Forbes is quick to credit Isidore and Marshall as the key inspirations during the recording process.

“Whether he’s playing guitar, percussion, drums or singing, [Marshall’s] just a warm spirit,” he says. “Conrad was [also] a fantastic influence for me. Great feel. He sat down one day and said: ‘Brent the notes are all right but the feel’. He made me think about that and I managed to maintain it and got a reputation for it over the years.”

Judging by the track listing, Richie Havens was a huge influence on the singer, but Marshall is not entirely happy with how some tracks turned out. “There are a couple that I am not too keen on,” says Marshall. “It was marijuana fuelled and they went on and on like ‘Run, Shaker Run’ but we didn’t know any better. We were young guys.”

That may well be, but One’s storming cover of Havens’ “Don’t Listen To Me”, which opens the LP and third track, “Stop Pulling and Pushing Me” are inspired, extended workouts full of inventive playing and powerful instrumental passages. The musicians also do justice to “Cautiously”, an atmospheric reading of the ballad written by Maurey Hayden, singer, stand-up comedian and wife of Lenny Bruce. Alan Marshall and Bobby Sass’s “Near The Bone”, the band’s lone contribution to the song-writing stakes is also noteworthy.

According to Forbes, there were no left-overs from the album sessions, which is perhaps surprising considering how long the musicians spent rehearsing material.

With the sessions complete, Norman Leppard was invited to become a fully-fledged member of One. “After the album was done, they asked me to join the band, which I then did for quite a long time,” remembers the session player.

Fontana duly released the LP in the UK in late 1969, followed by continental releases in France, Germany and Spain. The label also issued several singles but like the LP, none of the releases charted, which is perhaps not surprising considering that One undertook very little live work to promote the records. One notable gig took place on 7 October 1969 when the musicians made a rare appearance on stage at Hatchettes Playground in Piccadilly.

During March-April 1970, the musicians got to meet Stephen Stills, who was in London to record sessions for his first solo LP. It’s not clear who in the band made the initial contact. Marshall says that he used to leave the flat door open and musicians used to wander in. One strong possibility is Roger Burrow, who of course was a friend of Graham Nash’s. Alan Marshall, however, is pretty certain that it was Bobby Sass who ran into Stills.

“I don’t know how he met Stephen [but] we used to go over to the house [in Elstead],” says Marshall. “[Stills] had Peter Sellers’ old house and we used to go out there and hang out.”

Impressed by Conrad Isidore and his friend Calvin Samuels, Stills recruited both for his solo LP sessions. In May 1970, no doubt concerned about the shortage of live work, the drummer jumped ship to join Manfred Mann Chapter 3.

“We didn’t do as many gigs as we should have,” admits Forbes. “We did a hop or two to [West] Germany and we probably did the Marquee. We never did enough work really. How on earth we existed [I don’t know] – I think Roger [Burrow] the manager helped support everybody.”

The German club in question was the Happy Cat in Eschollbrucken near Darmstadt, which is close to Frankfurt. However, the shortage of live work soon led to cracks in the group and by the summer of 1970 both Kevin Fogerty and Norman Leppard had also moved on.

Interestingly, while One’s revolving door of personnel changes continued at pace, Fontana issued a French-only ‘45, ‘How Much Do You Know” (adapted from Adagio Royal by F de Boivallee), which was credited solely to Alan Marshall backed by One’s ‘Don’t Listen To Me”.

By the time the single appeared, Alan Marshall, Bobby Sass and Brent Forbes had pieced together a new formation which included guitarist Jack Lancaster and drummer Terry Stannard.

“There was a guitar player called Jack Lancaster, [who had] the same name as the famous one in Blodwyn Pig and he came from Swindon. He came in and took [Kevin Fogerty’s place],” says Forbes.

“God knows what we did after that. I can’t remember doing many gigs. It was a time when Fat Mattress got £200,000 advance and just sat rehearsing. It was a time when groups could afford to do that.”

Stannard, meanwhile, also originated from Wiltshire where he’d worked with Calne group, The Pack during late 1966. In the summer of 1967, the drummer moved up to London where he briefly landed a gig with Freddie Mack & The Mack Sound (and may have spent a short stint with Herbie Goins). He then moved on to join Junior Kerr (aka Junior Marvin) and Linda Lewis in the short-lived White Rabbit. By mid-1968, however, Stannard had moved on. While it’s not clear who he played with in the interim, one of the bands was Mirrors featuring Boz Burrell and Nick Judd.

Forbes remembers the new formation cutting an LP for Johnny Hallyday at a studio near Marble Arch, which could well have been IBC, towards the end of the year. “I remember getting session money for it because I went home to my uncle’s and had a very nice Christmas,” says the bass player.

Not long after, in early 1971, One underwent yet another reshuffle. On this occasion, Alan Marshall and Bobby Sass put together a short-lived version featuring former Them/Trader Horne guitarist/singer Jackie McAuley, future Traffic bass player Roscoe Gee and drummer Glenn LeFleur, who like his predecessor Terry Stannard, went on to play with Kokomo.

“I don’t know how I met Roscoe and Jackie,” says Marshall. “I used to meet so many musicians because I used to leave the door open in summer and musicians would drift in. We had a PA and Hammond organ and drums all set up.”

The new formation played at the Speakeasy and also Strawberry Fields where according to Marshall, “Paul McCartney and those guys used to love hearing us.”

During 1972/1973, Marshall’s old friend Ron Bryer, the original guitarist with The Loose Ends, joined after returning from Switzerland and playing with Brainticket.

Unfortunately, the group wound down in 1973/1974 after with the musicians scattering to work in a diverse range of projects.

Marshall ended up joining Strabismus, which subsequently changed its name to Riff Raff when the singer’s former band mate from The Loose Ends/Happy Magazine, Peter Kirtley joined and also featured bass player Roger Sutton and keyboard player Tommy Eyre. However, Marshall quit before Riff Raff’s debut album was recorded and pursued a solo career before recording with Zzebra. He then joined Gonzalez in the late Seventies in time for their 1979 release, Move It To The Music. Based in Thames Mead, he has become a pastor but continues to busk in Stratford, East London.

His school friend Bobby Sass later moved to Australia but died in the 2000s. Kevin Fogerty also passed away, in December 2010. During the early 1970s, he worked for a while in The Tommy Hunt Band.

As for Norman Leppard, he joined Eric Delaney’s band after leaving One and also appeared on Jack McDuff’s Blue Note LP, issued in late 1970. He continues to work as a session player.

Conrad Isidore meanwhile became a noted session player, working with the likes of Joe Cocker, Linda Lewis, Terry Reid, Vinegar Joe and Eddy Grant to name a few. He also later played with Junior Marvin in his band Hanson and with Hummingbird. Isidore later moved to Porvoo near Helsinki in Finland but died in 2019.

Brent Forbes also landed on his feet and, immediately on leaving One, joined the West End show, Catch My Soul. Like Isidore, he later moved into session work, playing with Doris Troy, Jimmy Helms, Lulu, Locus, Jim Capaldi and Hudson Ford among others. From 1975-1980, he also landed regular work on West End shows like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Les Miserables. During this period, he also briefly performed with Herbie Goins and Zzebra. Later, he moved into TV session work, providing music for Young Ones, the Lenny Henry Show, Victoria Wood among others.

As for One, the group remains something of an obscurity. While the LP has been issued on CD by two different labels, neither appear to be official releases. Given the collectability of the record and the fact that a mint copy will probably fetch you close to £100, perhaps it’s time that the band was given a proper re-issue treatment, complete with detailed liner notes.

Many thanks to the following for their help with the story: Alan Marshall, Brent Forbes, Norman Leppard and Jackie McAuley.

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Joe E Young & The Toniks

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Colin Young – lead vocals

Oscar Knight – lead guitar

Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuel – bass

Ken Cumberbatch – keyboards

Tony Bauman – saxophone

Denis Overton – saxophone

Conrad Isidore – drums

London-based West Indian soul outfit, Joe E Young & The Toniks recorded a superb, ultra-rare, and highly collectable, LP called Soul Buster! for Vicki Wickham’s small Toast label during 1968 before splintering when singer Colin Young joined British chart toppers The Foundations, subsequently singing lead on the UK #2 hit, “Build Me Up A Buttercup” and UK #8 hit, “In The Bad Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)”.

The band’s career is shrouded in mystery and very little is known about its tangled history, not to mention its origins. What we do know, however, is that Colin Young was born in Barbados on 12 September 1944 (although some sources suggest the United States) and first came to London for a holiday with his father in the mid-Sixties (possibly in late 1965).

It seems likely that the original Toniks were formed around the Stoke Newington area as that was a hotbed for musicians from the Caribbean, who had moved to London.

Colin Young formed the group with guitarist Oscar Knight; sax player Anthony Barman (aka Bauman); bass player Sam Southwell; and drummer John Seally.

However, at some point in late 1966/early 1967 Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuel took over from Sam Southwell; Conrad Isidore replaced John Seally; and keyboard player Ken Cumberbatch and second sax player Denis Overton joined. Samuel and Cumberbatch knew sax player Anthony Bauman from The Blue-Ace-Unit.

Antigua-born London-raised Calvin Samuel’s first notable musical outfit appears to have been The Blue-Ace-Unit, formed around early 1965 by future Bob Marley sideman, Junior Marvin, who at the time used the name Junior Kerr. Apparently, it was Kerr who coined Samuel’s nickname ‘Fuzzy’ after the musician used a fuzz box on his bass. Samuel replaced the original bass player in The Blue-Ace-Unit around the same time that Ken Cumberbatch joined Kerr’s group on keyboards.

Blue Ace Unit gig from 31 October 1965. Photo: Melody Maker. Photo may be subject to copyright

In mid-1966, Samuel briefly joined The Rick ‘N’ Beckers before hooking up with another Antigua immigrant, guitarist Wendell Richardson, who’d grown up in Tottenham after moving to the UK at the age of 11. This may (or may not) be the same band that Richardson refers to on his website as The Four Aces, who could also have been The Blue-Ace-Unit (aka Blue Aces) after Junior Kerr joined Herbie Goins & The Night-timers.

When that group folded, Samuel reunited with Cumberbatch in the new version of The Toniks. Also on-board were Dominica-born Conrad Isidore, who had previously played with The Grenades and The Links.

Around the same time, a second sax player, Denis Overton also joined. Overton is most likely the same South African-born musician who had previously played with John O’Hara & His New Playboys during 1965-1966 and then briefly worked with Liverpool band, The Roadrunners.

Incidentally, Samuel was also close friends with The Equals and apparently Eddy Grant used Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuel as a session bass player on many of The Equals’ recordings. Grant would later produce and pen material for Samuel’s post-Toniks band, The Sundae Times.

Billed as either The Toniks or The Tonicks, the sextet quickly found work gigging across the north London club scene in venues that catered for the city’s burgeoning West Indian population.

The New All-Star Club near Liverpool Street railway station became a favourite haunt. The Toniks also became regulars at Count Suckle’s Cue Club in Paddington and the Roaring 20’s in Carnaby Street, Soho.

According to Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band guitarist Pete Gage, who would work with the band in late 1967, it was Colin Young’s manager Ken Edwards, who owned the Cue Club who renamed the singer Joe E Young.

Some of the gigs below (particularly the early ones) didn’t list Joe E Young, but Colin Young was there from start to finish.

British music magazine, Melody Maker, lists the following gigs for the band (unless otherwise noted). Some of the earlier gigs from 1966 were probably by the original formation.

Selected gigs:

7 September 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London

11 September 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London with The Pilgrims

 

2 October 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

5 October 1966 – Zebra Club, W1, central London

8 October 1966 – Club West Indies, Stonebridge Park, northwest London

9 October 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

 

17 November 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London

17 November 1966 – Whisky A Go Go, Wardour Street, Soho, central London

 

3 December 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

9 December 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

17 December 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

25 December 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

26 December 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London with The Sugar Simone Show

 

8 January 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

27 January 1967 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London with Inez and Charlie Foxx

28 January 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

28 January 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Dave Berry & The Crusiers and The Crestas (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

28 January 1967 – Chalk Farm, north London with The Vaudeville Band, The Soft Machine and The Hectic Poets (Billed as the band only)

 

3 February 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder) (Billed as The Tonics)

4 February 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Poster) (Billed as The Tonicks featuring Joey Young)

5 February 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Joey Young & The Tonicks Band)

11 February 1967 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

11 February 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

17 February 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

17 February 1967 – Roaring 20’s, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London

19 February 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

24 February 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

25 February 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

25 February 1967 – Roaring 20’s, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London

Photo: Aldershot News. Photo may be subject to copyright

4 March 1967 – Harvest Moon Club, Guildford, Surrey (Aldershot News)

4 March 1967 – Roaring 20’s, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London

5 March 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder) (Billed as The Tonics)

5 March 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

7 March 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Poster)

10 March 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder) (Billed as The Tonics)

16 March 1967 ­– Roaring 20’s, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London

18 March 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

23 March 1967 – Roaring 20’s, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London

23 March 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

24 March 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

25 March 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

27 March 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

30 March 1967 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire with The Drifters, The Senate and Jimmy Cliff (Evening Sentinel)

31 March 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

 

7 April 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire with Les Fleur De Lys (Evening Sentinel)

Photo: Essex Chronicle. Photo may be subject to copyright

8 April 1967 – Bluesville, St Thomas’ Hall, Brentwood, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

9 April 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

9 April 1967 – Flamingo, Soho, central London

Photo: Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald. Photo may be subject to copyright

15 April 1967 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent with The Tribe (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

16 April 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

21 April 1967 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette) Billed as The Tonicks

29 April 1967 – Tabernacle, Stockport, Greater Manchester (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

 

14 May 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

Photo: Evening Sentinel. Photo may be subject to copyright

21 May 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

22 May 1967 – Queen’s Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

29 May 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London with Nyla Rose

 

2 June 1967 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

2 June 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

17 June 1967 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Kinsmen (Cambridgeshire Times) (Billed as the band only)

17 June 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Billed as John Lee Hooker & The Tonicks)

24 June 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London with The Toys (Billed as the band only)

 

22 July 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester (Disc & Music Echo)

The Nite Owl gig may not have happened as it took place during the period that the band played at Snoopys in Palma, Majorca which was from around late June to late August 1967.

Photo: Melody Maker. Photo may be subject to copyright

9 September 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

9 September 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

 

15 September 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

Photo: North Norfolk News. Photo may be subject to copyright

23 September 1967 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with Soul Concern (North Norfolk News)

24 September 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

28 September 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

 

13 October 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as The Tonicks Band)

Joe E Young & The Tonicks pictured in Rhyl & Prestayn Gazette (22 Dec 1967, page 10). Photo could be taken at the New All-Star Club and shows the original line up

From late October-mid-November 1967, Melody Maker reports that Joe E Young & The Toniks were resident band at the New All-Star Club but did not say if this was every night. In early November, Ruby James & The Stax were also residents.

20 October 1967 – Rendevous Club, Margate, Kent with The Coloured Raisins (East Kent Times & Mail)

21 October 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as The Tonicks with Joey Young)

21 October 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London

Photo: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph. Photo may be subject to copyright

22 October 1967 – Kettering Working Men’s Club, Kettering, Northamptonshire with Lloyd Alexander Blues Band (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

Photo: Melody Maker. Photo may be subject to copyright

27 October 1967 – Railway Hotel, Wealdstone, Harrow, northwest London

28 October 1967 – Leeds International Club, Leeds, West Yorkshire

31 October 1967 – Adelphi Ballroom, Slough, Berkshire

Photo: Possibly Swindon Advertiser. Photo may be subject to copyright

3 November 1967 – Deers Leap, Penhill, Wiltshire (possibly Swindon Advertiser)

4 November 1967 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent with The Vogues (East Kent Times & Mail)

Sometime around early-to-mid November 1967, Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuel departed to form The Sundae Times with guitarist Wendell Richardson. The Sundae Times later landed a record deal with President Records thanks to their friendship with Eddy Grant. Conrad Isidore also participated but continued to play with Joe E Young & The Toniks simultaneously.

Ken Cumberbatch left around the same time and moved into session work, including working with Junior Marvin. Oscar Knight also departed at the same time.

Trinidad and Tobago-born siblings Kelvin Bullen (lead guitar) and Hugh Bullen (bass), who had started out with Reading, Berkshire band, The Soul Trinity, took Knight and Samuel’s places. Richard London came in from south London bands The Heads and The Stax for Ken Cumberbatch.

Left to right: Kelvin Bullen, Richard London, Hugh Bullen, Colin Young, Conrad Isidore (sitting), Denis Overton and Tony Bauman

Colin Young – lead vocals

Kelvin Bullen – lead guitar

Hugh Bullen – bass

Richard London – keyboards

Tony Bauman – saxophone

Denis Overton – saxophone

Conrad Isidore – drums

Sometime in November, Joe E Young & The Toniks landed a recording deal with Vicki Wickham’s Toast label. Paired with former Ram Jam Band guitarist Pete Gage as an arranger, the band started to record material for an LP with producer Tommy Scott, which appears to have been cut over several sessions, starting in late 1967 and culminating with a final session in mid-1968.

The band is featured in the Rhyl & Prestayn Gazette (22 Dec 1967, page 10) and article suggests there may have been some temporary members

According to Gage, it was Vicki Wickham (Dusty Springfield’s manager) who approached him via Rik Gunnell to arrange and produce Joe E Young & The Toniks. Gage believes that session players, which possibly included keyboard player Tim Hinkley and guitarist Ivan Zagni, who’d previously played with Mike Patto in The Chicago Blues Line and worked with his girlfriend Elkie Brooks in early 1968, may have been employed on some tracks. He also thinks that Colin Young’s friend Jimmy Chambers and Trinidad-born singer Ebony Keyes may have contributed vocals to the sessions.

Two of the earliest tracks to be recorded were two Pete Gage songs, co-written with Ebony Keyes (aka Kenrick Pitt), “Lifetime of Lovin’” c/w “Flower In My Hand”. Paired as a single, the tracks were issued on Toast in January 1968 but did not chart. Incidentally, the single also saw a South African release on the Continental label.

Debut single promotion. Courtesy Dave Else

Selected gigs:

23 November 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

Photo: Hull Daily Mail. Photo may be subject to copyright

8 December 1967 – Burton Constable Stately Home, Hull, Humberside with The Amboy Dukes, Ferris Wheel, Roger Bloom’s Hammer, Gospel Garden and The Mandrakes (Hull Daily Mail)

9 December 1967 – Enfield Technical College, Enfield, north London with Ten Years After (Poster)

9 December 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

10 December 1967 – Ram Jam Club, Brixton, south London

Photo: Hull Daily Mail. Photo may be subject to copyright

11 December 1967 – Hull University Union at the Skyline Ballroom, Hull, Humberside with The Moody Blues and The Gods (Hull Daily Mail)

Photo: North Norfolk News. Photo may be subject to copyright

16 December 1967 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with The Rubber Band (North Norfolk News)

Photo: Rhyl & Prestayn Gazette. Photo may be subject to copyright

23 December 1967 – Royal Lido, Prestatyn, Clwyd, Wales (Rhyl & Prestayn Gazette)

Photo: Woking Herald. Photo may be subject to copyright

24 December 1967 – Sunday club, Addlestone, Surrey with Art Movement (Woking Herald)

25 December 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London with Ronnie Jones, Owen Grey, The Youth and Herbie Goins

26 December 1967 – Shelimar Club, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

30 December 1967 – Israeli Student Association, West Hampstead, north London

30 December 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London

31 December 1967 – “Big C”, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire

31 December 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

 

6 January 1968 – Dorothy Ballroom, Cambridge with The Reformation and The Apricot Jazz Band (Cambridge News)

13 January 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

Photo: Northwich Chronicle. Photo may be subject to copyright

21 January 1968 – Alvaston Hall Hotel, Middlewich Road, Nantwich, Cheshire (Northwich Chronicle)

 

3 February 1968 – Cosmo, Carlisle, Cumbria with The Gallavanters (Cumberland News)

4 February 1968 – Cosmo, Carlisle, Cumbria with Freddie Mack and The Mack Sound (Cumberland News)

9 February 1968 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Page, east London with James and Bobby Purify

10 February 1968 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with Hylton Ks (http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

24 February 1968 – Tinned Chicken Club, Castleford, West Yorkshire with Max Bear & The Chicago Setback (Sheffield Star)

Photo: Harrow Weekly Post. Photo may be subject to copyright

2 March 1968 – Burton’s, Uxbridge, London (Harrow Weekly Post)

2 March 1968 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

8 March 1968 – Drill Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (Stratford upon Avon Herald)

15 March 1968 – Camberwell Rag Ball, Camberwell, southeast London with George Bean & The Runners and The James Stewart Dance Band (South East London Mercury)

24 March 1968 – Downbeat Club, the Swan, Maldon, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

30 March 1968 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

31 March 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London with Count Suckle Sound System (Billed as Tonicks Band)

Photo: Ipswich Evening Star. Photo may be subject to copyright

2 April 1968 – Ready Steady Go Club, Pier Pavilion, Felixstowe, Suffolk with Tony Jackson & The Vibrations (Ipswich Evening Star)

Photo: Leicester Mercury. Photo may be subject to copyright

5 April 1968 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

12 April 1968 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

Photo: Western Gazette. Photo may be subject to copyright

20 April 1968 – Princes Theatre & Ballroom, Yeovil, Somerset with Satan’s Chase and The Pandas (Western Gazette)

21 April 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

22-25 April 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London with Count Suckle Sound System

Photo: Middlesbrough Evening Gazette. Photo may be subject to copyright

25 April 1968 – James Finegan Hall, Eston, Teesside with The Engine and Chelfont Line (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

26 April 1968 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London

30 April 1968 – Falcon Hotel, Eltham, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

Soon after Joe E Young & The Toniks participated in a tour supporting American soul legend Aretha Franklin. Also on the bill were Johnnie Walker, Robert Knight and Lucas with The Mike Cotton Sound. One of the highlights was a show at what later became the Hammersmith Odeon in May 1968.

4 May 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Tonicks Band)

Photo: Redbridge & Ilford Recorder. Photo may be subject to copyright

10 May 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

17 June 1968 – Barn Club, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)

Photo: Cambridgeshire Times. Photo may be subject to copyright

22 June 1968 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Soul Mates (Cambridgeshire Times)

22 June 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London

Photo: Cumberland News. Photo may be subject to copyright

6-7 July 1968 – Cosmo, Carlisle, Cumbria (Cumberland News)

14 July 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

20 July 1968 – Club LaBamba, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (Kent & Sussex Courier)

Photo: East Kent Times & Mail. Photo may be subject to copyright

27 July 1968 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent with Magic Roundabout (East Kent Times & Mail)

27 July 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, west London (Billed as Joey Young & The Tonicks Band)

Photo: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph. Photo may be subject to copyright

17 August 1968 – Nags Head, Motown Club, Wollaston, Northamptonshire (Northamptsonshire Evening Telegraph)

18 August 1968 – Railway Hotel, Wealdstone, northwest London

Melody Maker lists some gigs under the name The New Toniks, which may or may not be the same band. The ‘new’ prefix suggests that a new formation was put together and this writer would welcome any further information.

Selected gigs (New Toniks):

22 August 1968 – White Hart, London

23-25 August 1968 – Scotland

25-26 August 1968 – Manchester

27-28 August 1968 – Recording

Colin Young joins The Foundations. Courtesy Dave Else

According to Melody Maker, Colin Young joined The Foundations in late September and made his debut at Aberdeen University on 4 October 1968. By this point, Conrad Isidore had already jumped ship to commit to The Sundae Times full-time. With the band splitting, the Bullen siblings ended up joining Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers.

With the album ready to release, Toast quickly shipped a second single in November 1968, pairing the soul classic, “Sixty Minutes of Your Love” with Lennon & McCartney’s “Good Day Sunshine”.

Around the same time, the label also belatedly issued the Soul Buster! LP, highlights of which include one of the best covers of Darrell Banks’ “Open The Door To Your Heart”. Sadly, it was all too little, too late. With few copies pressed and scant promotion, the LP slipped out unnoticed. In subsequent years, however, it became a highly prized collector’s item, not least due to the band’s personnel and individual members’ post-Toniks career.

In a final, last gasp, Toast paired “Good Day Sunshine” with the year old “Lifetime of Lovin’” for a final single, issued on 31 January 1969, but it also failed to dent the charts.

Besides Colin Young’s chart success with The Foundations, Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuel and Conrad Isidore also went on to greater things.

During his time with The Sundae Times, Isidore also played and recorded with Alan Marshall’s band One, who released a rare eponymous LP for Fontana. After a stint with Manfred Mann Chapter 3 during 1970, he became a noted session player, working with the likes of Joe Cocker, Linda Lewis, Terry Reid, Vinegar Joe and Eddy Grant to name a few. He also later played with Junior Marvin in his band Hanson and with Hummingbird.

Samuel appeared on Stephen Stills’ first two solo albums, thanks to his connections with Conrad Isidore, who landed the gig after Stephen Stills  caught the drummer playing at the Speakeasy in March 1970.

The bass player was hired for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, appearing on the single, “Ohio” and subsequently worked in Stephen Stills’s Manassas before also finding work as a session player, including with Graham Nash, Rita Coolidge and Taj Mahal. Samuel later wrote and recorded songs with Marianne Faithfull and Stevie Winwood and worked with The Alvin Lee Band and Tumbling Dice with Mick Taylor and Nicky Hopkins. In 1999, he self-released two CDs, This Train Still Runs and Love Don’t Taste Like Chicken.

Latter day member Kelvin Bullen went on to work with Swiss rock band, Toad, while his brother Hugh found success with the highly revered British funk band, Gonzalez after a spell in Italy with Herbie Goins. Hugh Bullen also cut an Italian solo LP, Feeling, in 1978.

Colin Young meanwhile went solo and recorded for Pye Records. He later joined UK group Mercy, Mercy who had a hit with “It Must Be Heaven” in the 1980s. Since then he has participated in various Foundations reunions.

Many thanks to Pete Gage for his recollections. I would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who can add or correct any of the information here.

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Junior Kerr’s 1960s bands

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Junior Kerr (second left) with White Rabbit in early 1968. Photo courtesy of Rod Goodway

Born in Kingston, Jamaica on 3 May 1947, Donald Hanson Marvin Kerr Richards Jr, started to learn the piano at the age of two. When he was nine years old, he moved to London to live with his mother in Stoke Newington. In mid-1965, he starred in The Beatles’ movie, Help! Kerr only appeared briefly, playing one of the policemen who chase Ringo Starr in a beach scene.

Growing up on Kyverdale Road in Stoke Newington, Kerr learnt to play guitar and also further developed his keyboard skills, inspired by Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Booker T, among others.

During late 1964, he formed his first group, The Blue-Ace-Unit, with keyboard player Reo Dayes, a school friend from Tyssen community primary school in Cazenove. With Kerr on lead guitar and vocals, the group also included Ian McLaughlin (rhythm guitar), Errol Pennant (bass) and Alvin Campbell (drums).

The following year, Ken Cumberbatch replaced Dayes on Hammond organ. Kerr also met Calvin Samuel, who he allegedly nicknamed “Fuzzy” because the musician played his bass through a “fuzz box”. Blown away by his bass playing, Kerr invited Samuel to take over from Pennant on bass. The Blue-Ace-Unit auditioned for a gig at the Flamingo in Soho but lost out to The Gass who secured the residency. Around June 1966, the group, which had changed name to The Blue Aces, split up and Kerr began to hang out at Soho clubs, the Roaring ‘20s and later the Bag O’Nails.

Around October 1966 (some sources say as late as March 1967), he joined Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers (where he later met guest singer Linda Lewis) and it was during this early period that Kerr saw Jimi Hendrix playing at the Bag O’Nails in Soho. Inspired by his incendiary guitar work, Kerr started to practise guitar in his free time.

Around September 1967, Kerr left Herbie Goins to form The Junior (Pretty Boy Kerr) Group. The Aldershot News lists the band playing at the “Big C”, a popular club on 1 Camp Road, Farnborough in Hampshire on 4 November. It’s not clear who else was involved in this band and whether it was the same line-up of musicians that became White Rabbit but Linda Lewis was featured as singer.

In July 1967, Polydor Records had issued Linda Lewis’ debut solo single, “You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet” but it had not been a chart success.

Towards the end of the year, Kerr and Lewis put together White Rabbit, which comprised lead guitarist Andy Rickell from Calne, Wiltshire groups, The Pack and J P Sunshine, and his friend (and former Pack member) drummer Terry Stannard, who’d recently been working with Freddie Mack & The Mack Sound. The remaining members were rhythm guitarist/singer Brian Henderson and bass player Ralph Richardson from Lisa Strike & The Jet Set. Henderson had also worked with Nirvana.

Managed by Ian Samwell (Lewis’ manager) and Laurie O’Leary who managed the Speakeasy, the group played a month’s residency in Biarritz, the south of France, at the Canasta Club. Then, in the early months of 1968, White Rabbit toured Italy and France, but after their return (around late March), Kerr decided to leave.

Although he is rumoured to have re-joined Herbie Goins briefly (Ed. he appears on French TV on 4 April; this is more likely to have been a recording from the previous year), he in fact formed a new band that debuted in early April. 1968.

At some point in early 1968, Kerr ran into guitarist Mike Piggott in London, who had just left The System Soul Band, led by singer Ivan Sinclair.

The pair formed a new outfit, Junior’s Conquest, who landed a regular gig at the Pheasantry on the King’s Road in Chelsea.

According to the Redbridge & Ilford Recorder, the band also performed at the El Grotto in Ilford, east London on 7 April 1968, which may have been the group’s debut show.

Junior’s Conquest, late 1968. Courtesy of Mike Piggott. Pete Dobson is far left, Mike Piggott (top) and Junior Kerr. The person on the right might be John Best

It’s possible that while at the Pheasantry the group was invited to perform at a club in Stockholm, Sweden that summer called Alexandra’s, kicking off with a show on 17 May billed as Don Kerr & The Conquests.

Thanks to Mats Jarl for the clippings
Advertised in paper on 31 May. Billed as The Conquest. Thanks to Mats Jarl for the clipping

With drummer Pete Dobson and a bass player, who was replaced by John Best, Junior’s Conquest played together for about six months, including a show at the Victoriana in Liverpool with Sinbad on 11 September 1968.

Returning to London, they played the Speakeasy at Blaises the following night (12 September), according to a club poster.

They also appeared at the Broken Wheel in Retford, Nottinghamshire on 5 October 1968 and the popular West End club, Hatchettes in Piccadilly on 22-23 November 1968.

Sometime in early 1969, however, the band split up. While he was fronting Junior’s Conquest, Kerr had also participated in the London production of Hair on Shaftsbury Avenue, which debuted on 27 September. It was here that he met singer Marsha Hunt whose band he briefly worked with in 1969.

During the early 1970s, Kerr would work with Keef Hartley and then move to the US before subsequently changing his name to Junior Marvin and finding fame with Bob Marley during the late 1970s.

I would be interested to hear from anyone who can add any further details to Kerr’s 1960s career.

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White Rabbit

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White Rabbit in late 1967/early 1968. Left to right: Brian Henderson, Junior Kerr, Terry Stannard, Linda Lewis, Andy Rickell, Ralph Richardson. Photo courtesy of Rod Goodway.

A fascinating, yet short-lived band that included a number of notable musicians who went on to greater things.

The original White Rabbit line-up came together about November 1967 around singers Junior Kerr and Linda Lewis, who’d met earlier that year as members of Herbie Goins & The Night Timers.

Junior Kerr, incidentally, had started out with The Blue-Ace-Unit while Lewis had performed with John Lee Hooker in 1964 and sung with The Q-Set before they backed Maxine Brown and then Ronnie Jones.

White Rabbit was managed jointly by Ian Samwell (Lewis’ manager) and Laurie O’Leary, who managed the Speakeasy club in London.

Linda Lewis in Record Mirror. Thanks to David Else for the cutting

The band’s guitarist Andy Rickell and drummer Terry Stannard had both previously worked together in Calne, Wiltshire band, The Pack during 1966 with future White Rabbit singer Rod Goodway. The trio had also played with another, albeit short-lived, Wiltshire group, Flower of Wisdom between February-June 1967.

When Flower of Wisdom broke up, Terry Stannard moved to London where he joined Freddie Mack & The Mack Sound, which is probably how he ran into Junior Kerr, who’d formed his own band, The Junior ‘Pretty Boy’ Kerr Group around October 1967. In fact, Stannard may well have been a member of this band after working with Freddie Mack (and possibly may have been with Herbie Goins briefly).

Meanwhile, Rickell and Goodway began working with the studio project J P Sunshine, which they kept together after Rickell joined White Rabbit (possibly also after a short stint with Herbie Goins) and Goodway was invited to replace Art Wood in the post-Artwoods band, St Valentine’s Day Massacre between January-April 1968.

The original version of White Rabbit was completed with two additional musicians, rhythm guitarist/singer Brian Henderson, who’d recently been part of Nirvana’s backing band and was previously in The Soul Mates and Liza Strike & The Jet Set, and bass player Ralph Richardson, who’d worked with Henderson in The Jet Set.

According to the Redbridge & Ilford Recorder, White Rabbit played at El Grotto in Ilford, east London on 9-10 December 1967.

After a short Italian tour, which included playing in Turin (see poster above) and billed as Junior Kerr and Linda Lewis and White Rabbit, they performed at the “Big C” club in Farnborough on 24 February 1968.

On 10 March, White Rabbit returned to play at El Grotto in Ilford, east London, according to the Redbridge & Ilford Recorder.

The band also played at the Revolution Club in central London before travelling to France to perform, which included a few weeks in Biarritz (most likely the Canasta Club).

On their return in late March, Terry Stannard departed, later working with Mirrors (with Boz Burrell and Nick Judd), Alan Marshall’s band One and Kokomo among others. Kerr remembers a Jewish drummer called Mick, who briefly filled in.

However, Junior Kerr also departed in late March and formed his own band, Junior’s Conquest who debuted in early April. (Ed. He is seen on French TV playing with Herbie Goins in April 1968 but this must be a recording from 1967.) In later years, he would change his name to Junior Marvin and work alongside Bob Marley.

Brian Henderson, who later worked with J J Jackson, and Ralph Richardson also departed.

On 6 April, the group was advertised playing on the French TV show Bouton Rouge but it’s not clear if this definitely happened. If they did appear, this would have been the broadcast date and would have been recorded in March while they were working in France.

Thanks to Bruno Ceriotti for photo

Linda Lewis and Andy Rickell meanwhile pieced together a new version of White Rabbit in late March 1968. Rickell recruited his former Pack and J P Sunshine colleague, singer Rod Goodway, who’d left St Valentine’s Day Massacre, to replace Junior Kerr.

Rod Goodway shortly after joining White Rabbit

The pair also recruited drummer Ron Berg, who interestingly had also played with Freddie Mack & The Mack Sound (alongside Stannard) during mid-late 1967.

To complete the new version, they added Cyprus-born bass player Pete Pavli and organist Mick Aron.

Redbridge & Ilford Recorder has them playing at the El Grotto in Ilford on 4 April. It is possible this may have been just with Linda Lewis singing before Rod Goodway joined.

White Rabbit in St Tropez. Left to right: Ron Berg, Rod Goodway, Linda Lewis and Peter Pavli. Courtesy Rod Goodway

Almost immediately, the new White Rabbit left the UK for the south of France and performed at the Papagayo Club in St Tropez for three weeks, starting in the first week of May.

The musicians were back in London for a notable gig at the Middle Earth club in Covent Garden, opening for Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band on 25 May. The group also opened for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown around August.

Around August/September 1968, however, Rod Goodway and Linda Lewis both left, the latter to embark on a successful solo career after fronting Ferris Wheel where she played alongside future Foreigner drummer Dennis Elliott.

Pete Pavli also left to join High Tide while Mick Aron went on to work with Pete Brown.

Andy Rickell and Ron Berg kept the band going until around November/December  of that year, bringing in a number of musicians, including Hammond organist Peter Jennings, who subsequently joined Cressida in September 1969.

Jennings says that he worked with Berg at Sidney Bron’s ‘Bron’s Orchestral Service’ in Oxford Street and then Newman Street, collecting music from publishers in the area and sending them to customers.

The Hammond organist recalls that they also had a singer, who he thinks came from Leicester and a trumpet player from Wales.

He remembers that Laurie O’Leary was still managing the group and that they rehearsed in a gym on Tottenham Court Road. Jennings recalls a gig in Ilford (most likely El Grotto; there is a guest group appearing there on 14 November 1968) one at Sybilla’s in Swallow Street, central London before splitting. 

On the band’s demise, Ron Berg joined Mick Abrahams’ post-Jethro Tull group, Blodwyn Pig while Rickell later joined The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

Jennings worked with several bands before joining Cressida, including one with guitarist Ged Peck called Storm. The others were Van Dyke and Luther Morgan.

This author would be interested to hear from anyone who can add any further information. Huge thanks to Rod Goodway for photos and background information. 

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The band live in St Tropez. Left to right: Andy Rickell, Pete Pavli and Mick Aron. Photo courtesy of Rod Goodway
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The Speakeasy, 48 Margaret Street, London

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Speakeasy Holiday Card
front of a holiday card from the Speakeasy

Speakeasy Club, London

The Speakeasy club, located at 48 Margaret Street in London, was a notable music venue that opened in December 1966.

During its heyday, the club was frequented by record industry and artist agency executives who in turn brought in many bands, hoping to land a record deal.

Many notable British bands played at the club during the 1960s, including The Move, The Soft Machine, Traffic, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd. I’ve started a list below but would welcome any additions and any memories of the venue.

Jim Carter-Fea who managed Blaises (and later the Revolution) was also behind the Speakeasy.

1966

15 December (Thursday) – The Move (Melody Maker)

The Move opened the club.

27 December (Tuesday) – The VIPs (Fabulous 208)

29 December (Thursday) – Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers (Disc & Music Echo)

1967

According to Disc & Music Echo, Roy Flynn and Mike Carey operated the club from early 1967. Apparently, the club was officially opened on 4 January.

Sometime in 1967, New Zealand/US band The New Nadir played at the club and Jimi Hendrix sat in. The band’s bass player was the late Gary Thain who went on to The Keef Hartley Band. 

18 January (Wednesday) – Family (Melody Maker)

19 January (Thursday) – The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Melody Maker)

 

Disc & Music Echo reported that The New Vaudeville Band attended the Speakeasy’s club party during the week starting 6 February.

14 February (Tuesday) – The Valentine’s Day Massacre party (Disc & Music Echo)

Disc & Music Echo reported that Roger Daltry from The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Pretty Things attended this party.

22 February (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

This appears to be The Soft Machine’s debut Wednesday residency at the Speakeasy.

 

1 March (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

Disc & Music Echo reported that Jimi Hendrix’s manager Chas Chandler introduced them and Duane Eddy attended the show.

7 March (Tuesday) – Keith (Disc & Music Echo)

8 March (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

9 March (Thursday) – Dudley Moore (Disc & Music Echo)

According to Disc & Music, Dudley Moore played every Thursday and Sunday from this date.

12 March (Sunday) – Dudley Moore and The Move (Disc & Music Echo)

14 March (Tuesday) – The Byrds (Disc & Music Echo)

Disc & Music Echo reported that Scott Walker attended the band’s show.

15 March (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

16 March (Thursday) – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Jimi Hendrix website)

According to Disc & Music Echo’s 25 March issue, the new Track label had its launch party at the Speakeasy this week with guests including Michael Caine, Terence Stamp, Bobby Moore, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. The website link suggests it was 16 March.

19 March (Sunday) – Dudley Moore (Disc & Music Echo)

21 March (Tuesday) – The Byrds (Byrds website)

22 March (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

29 March (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

 

The Stax-Volt Revue had its after show party at the Speakeasy at the conclusion of its European tour in April.

Disc & Music Echo’s 8 April issue reported that Mia Farrow attended the club around about this time.

5 April (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

12 April (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

18 April (Tuesday) – Marmalade (Fabulous 208)

This website reports that Jimi Hendrix reportedly jammed with Ben E King and Georgie Fame on 18 April.

19 April (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

22 April (Saturday) – The Soul Sisters backed by The Trend (Newham & Stratford Express)

26 April (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

30 April (Sunday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo/Melody Maker)

Disc & Music Echo reported that Auger’s band played every Monday so perhaps this is 1 May.

 

2 May (Tuesday) – The Web (Melody Maker)

3 May (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

4 May (Thursday) – The Coloured Raisins, King Ossie and Honey Darling (Melody Maker)

8 May (Monday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo)

Disc & Music Echo reported that Zoot Money, Georgie Fame and Jimi Hendrix attended this show.

9 May (Tuesday) – Garnet Mimms (probably backed by The Senate) (Melody Maker)

10 May (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

12 May (Friday) – Amen Corner (Melody Maker)

Disc & Music Echo reported that John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles, Brian Jones, Eric Burdon, The Bee Gees and The Jimi Hendrix Experience attended Amen Corner’s show. Hendrix also sat in with the band.

15 May (Monday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo)

Auger’s band gig is likely but needs confirmation.

17 May (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

Melody Maker also lists Prince Buster & The Bees for 17 May.

22 May (Monday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo)

Auger’s band gig is likely but needs confirmation.

24 May (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

Melody Maker lists The Web on 24 May.

Procol Harum also played on this date. Disc & Music Echo’s 3 June issue reported that all four Beatles, Georgie Fame, Chris Farlowe, Cat Stevens, Eric Burdon, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry attended The Procol Harum gig. This website has more information.

29 May (Monday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo)

Auger’s band gig is likely but needs confirmation.

31 May (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Soft Machine website)

 

4 June (Sunday) – The Turtles (Disc & Music Echo)

The music magazine reported that Jimi Hendrix, Denny Laine, Brian Jones, Peter Asher and Terence Stamp were among those in the audience.

5 June (Monday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo)

Auger’s band gig is likely but needs confirmation.

8 June (Thursday) – Amen Corner (Melody Maker)

Disc & Music Echo reported that Jimi Hendrix, Denny Laine and Eric Burdon were in the audience.

According to Disc & Music Echo’s 10 June issue, Eric Burdon told stories and Brian Auger had a “happening” sometime this week.

The same issue reported that guests at the club had included The Beach Boys, The Turtles, Mary Wells, Ben E King, The Byrds and the Stax-Volt tour.

12 June (Monday) – Brian Auger & The Trinity (Disc & Music Echo)

Auger’s band gig is likely but needs confirmation. Disc & Music Echo’s 10 June issue did report that they played Mondays.

14 June (Wednesday) – Marmalade (Disc & Music Echo)

This date needs confirmation but the magazine’s 17 June issue reported that Marmalade played here and John Lennon and Paul McCartney attended. The Scottish band also played at the Speakeasy on 12 July.

28 June (Wednesday) – The Soft Machine (Fabulous 208)

 

12 July (Wednesday) – Marmalade (Disc & Music Echo)

The music magazine reported its 15 July issue that John Lennon, Graham Nash, Spencer Davis, Mike Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Gary Leeds, Eric Clapton, Georgie Fame, Keith Moon and Roger Daltry were among the guests. It’s possible, however, that this event took place on the previous Wednesday, 5 July.

20 July (Thursday) – Amen Corner (Fabulous 208)

26 July (Wednesday) – The Eyes of Blue (Marmalade Skies website)

This was the band’s club debut.

 

According to Martyn Hanson’s book on The Nice, PP Arnold & The Nice played at the Speakeasy during August 1967.

3 August (Thursday) – Sharon Tandy & Les Fleur De Lys (Keith Guster’s gig diary)

10 August (Thursday) – Eric Burdon & The New Animals (Disc & Music Echo)

17 August (Thursday) – Cream (Melody Maker and Eric Clapton website)

Fabulous 208 lists Ten Years After on 17 August. However, this is missing from this Alvin Lee website) 

19 August (Saturday) – Granny’s Intentions (Marmalade Skies website)

21 August (Monday) – Pink Floyd (cancelled) (Marmalade Skies website)

26 August (Saturday) – Dantalion’s Chariot (Marmalade Skies website)

27 August (Sunday) – Fairport Convention (Marmalade Skies website)

According to Disc & Music Echo’s 9 September issue, Alan Price, Mitch Mitchell, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and Keith West were among the guests at Fairport Convention’s show.

31 August (Thursday) – Dantalion’s Chariot (Marmalade Skies website)

 

Feltham band, Barney J Barnes & The Intro played at the Speakeasy once during September or October 1967, according to sax player Peter Davies.

19 September (Tuesday) – Pink Floyd (Marmalade Skies website)

27 September (Wednesday) – Ten Years After (Fabulous 208)

 

1 October (Sunday) – The Incredible String Band (Marmalade Skies website)

According to Disc & Music Echo’s 14 October issue, Scott McKenzie and The Mamas & The Papas went to the Speakeasy on the Friday to celebrate Mama Cass’s clearance at West London of theft charges. Most likely it was 6 October to see Eric Burdon & The Animals play but needs confirmation.

6 October (Friday) – Eric Burdon & The Animals (Marmalade Skies website)

10 October (Tuesday) – Tim Rose (Melody Maker – needs confirmation)

12 October (Thursday) – The Pretty Things (Melody Maker – needs confirmation)

18 October (Wednesday) – The Moody Blues (Melody Maker – needs confirmation)

19 October (Thursday) – Vanilla Fudge (Fabulous 208)

Drummer Keith Guster of The Fleur De Lys confirms this gig happened as he attended and noted it in his diary.

21 October (Saturday) – Vanilla Fudge (Disc & Music Echo)

26 October (Thursday) – The Jeff Beck Group (Marmalade Skies website)

 

28 November (Tuesday) – Potential jam session (Electric Prunes website)

As this website notes, the band reportedly were in attendance when a jam took place – see The Electric Prunes website for more information. 

 

According to Disc & Music Echo, sometime in the week starting 11 December, The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation played and Noel Redding, Jimi Hendrix and Alan Price attended the show.

Spooky Tooth may also have played their debut show at the Speakeasy this month but this needs confirmation.

6 December (Wednesday) – The Foundations (Disc & Music Echo)

The music magazine reported that The Spencer Davis Group, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Manfred Mann and Mick Wilsher from The New Vaudeville Band were among the guests at the after party following The Foundations’ gig.

10 December (Sunday) – The Moody Blues (Disc & Music Echo)

14 December (Thursday) – Fairport Convention (Disc & Music Echo)

The magazine reported that Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix attended The Fairport Convention show.

18 December (Monday) – Traffic (Marmalade Skies website)

21 December (Thursday) – Pink Floyd (Disc & Music Echo)

28 December (Thursday) – The Electric Prunes (Disc & Music Echo) 

29 December (Friday) – Tintern Abbey (Marmalade Skies website/Melody Maker)

1968

5 January (Friday) – Jethro Tull (Greg Russo’s research)

6 January (Saturday) – Circus (Stormsville Shakers’ website)

16 January (Tuesday) – Procol Harum (New Musical Express)

27 January (Saturday) – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (New Musical Express)

This was probably either 26 or 28 January instead as Keith Guster confirms that his band The Fleur De Lys played this evening. His diary also notes that Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell joined the band for a 45 minute jam onstage.

 

4 February (Sunday) – Jimmy McGriff (Melody Maker and New Musical Express)

5 February (Monday) – Jethro Tull (Greg Russo’s gig diary)

10 February (Saturday) – Taste (Rory Gallagher website)

Melody Maker reported that Dr K’s (Blues Band) played around the week starting 19 February.

19 February (Monday) – Robert Plant & The Band of Joy (Marmalade Skies website)

21 February (Wednesday) – The Attack (Marmalade Skies website)

22 February (Thursday) – Monopoly (Marmalade Skies website)

24 February (Saturday) – Legay (Marmalade Skies website)

25 February (Sunday) – Tim Rose and Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (Melody Maker)

Keith Guster’s gig diary confirms that Tim Rose played on this date. The Fleur De Lys’ drummer attended the gig with DJ Johnny Walker.

26 February (Monday) – The Eyes of Blue (Melody Maker)

This might have been Saturday, 24 February instead so needs confirmation.

28 February (Wednesday) – The Penny Peeps (Marmalade Skies website)

29 February (Thursday) – Sharon Tandy & The Fleur De Lys (Keith Guster’s gig diary)

Keith Guster confirms that The Fleur De Lys did two 15-minute sets. They then backed singer Sharon Tandy for 30 minutes; singer Donnie Elbert for 30 minutes and then both singers for 20 minutes.

 

10 March (Sunday) – Traffic (Marmalade Skies website)

16 March (Saturday) – Dr K’s (Blues Band) (Melody Maker)

21 March (Thursday) – Gospel Garden (Marmalade Skies website)

30 March (Saturday) – Tim Buckley (Revelation – Elektra Records’ newsletter)

According to Melbourne music magazine, Go-Set, Australian band The Groop played the Speakeasy between early March and mid-April.

2 April (Tuesday) – Reparta & The Delrons (Melody Maker)

7 April (Sunday) – Spooky Tooth (Keith Guster’s gig diary)

Keith Guster confirms that he went to see the band at the Speakeasy on this date.

8 April (Monday) – Dr K’s (Blues Band) (Melody Maker)

9 April (Tuesday) – Circus (Stormsville Shakers’ website)

19 April (Friday) – Dr K’s (Blues Band) (Melody Maker)

25 April (Thursday) – Ike & Tina Turner (New Musical Express)

26 April (Friday) – Tuesday’s Children (Bob Hodges’ gig diary)

On Saturday, 27 April, a fire broke out and gutted the Speakeasy, according to Melody Maker’s 4 May issue. The fire caused £20,000 worth of damage. Roy Flynn, the club’s co-owner, said that the Speakeasy could not be re-opened for about three months and gigs would be transferred to Blaises and promoted as “Speakeasy at Blaises”.

28 April (Sunday) – Ike & Tina Turner (Melody Maker)

The above gig was either cancelled or moved to Blaises.

30 April (Tuesday) – Bill Haley & The Comets (Melody Maker)

The above gig was either cancelled or moved to Blaises.

 

1 May (Wednesday) – Bobby Goldsboro (Melody Maker)

The above gig was either cancelled or moved to Blaises.

5 May (Sunday) – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (Melody Maker)

The above gig, if it happened, would have taken place at Blaises.

12 May (Sunday) – The Byrds (needs source)

The above gig, if it happened, would have taken place at Blaises – see that entry for more information (link through to this).

 

16 June (Sunday) – PP Arnold (with TNT) (Melody Maker)

This gig took place at Blaises and was billed as “Speakeasy at Blaises”.

30 June (Sunday) – The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (Melody Maker)

This gig took place at Blaises and was billed as “Speakeasy at Blaises”.

Melody Maker’s 29 June issue (page 3) noted that the Speakeasy would reopen in September (but this was not the case).

 

18 July (Thursday) – Tuesday’s Children (Bob Hodges’ gig diary)

See the Blaises entry for more information on this.

 

New Musical Express reported that Roy Flynn planned to reopen the Speakeasy on 13 December 1968.

13 December (Friday) – Yes (Peter Banks’ website)

The above gig looks like the reopening of the club after seven months’ closure.

According to the East of Eden website, the band played at the Speakeasy in December with Taj Mahal. Mahal took part in The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus on 11 December, so it’s quite possible if the club reopened on 13 December that Mahal and East of Eden played the following day (Saturday, 14 December) but this needs confirmation.

24 December (Tuesday) – Yes (Peter Banks’ website)

31 December (Tuesday) – Yes (Peter Banks’ website)

1969

Melody Maker noted at the end of January that the club had been closed for eight months and only reopened that month but it was in December 1968.

The music magazine also reported that The Nice had played here in late December or early January.

10 January (Friday) – Kaleidoscope (Marmalade Skies website)

13 January (Monday) – Clouds (Time Out)

14 January (Tuesday) – Jethro Tull (Time Out)

15 January (Wednesday) – Juniors Eyes (Time Out)

16 January (Thursday) – Gary Farr & Mighty Baby (Time Out)

18 January (Saturday) – Freedom (Time Out)

20 January (Monday) – The Eyes of Blue (Time Out)

22 January (Wednesday) – Edgar Broughton Blues Band (Time Out)

23 January (Thursday) – Van Der Graaf Generator (Time Out)

Time Out and Fabulous 208 both list Eclection on 23 January, so perhaps there were two bands that evening.

25 January (Saturday) – Village (Time Out)

28 January (Tuesday) – Harmony Grass and Eclection (Fabulous 208)

30 January (Thursday) – The Eyes of Blue (Time Out)

31 January (Friday) – Barclay James Harvest (Time Out)

1 February (Saturday) – Edgar Broughton Band (Melody Maker)

3 February (Monday) – Caravan (Melody Maker)

4 February (Tuesday) – Idle Race (Melody Maker)

Time Out lists Spooky Tooth on 4 February so perhaps both bands played.

5 February (Wednesday) – Van Der Graaf Generator (Melody Maker and Time Out)

6 February (Thursday) – Spooky Tooth (Melody Maker)

7 February (Friday) – Eire Apparent (Melody Maker and Time Out)

8 February (Saturday) – Jody Grind (Melody Maker and Time Out)

10 February (Monday) – Clouds (Melody Maker and Time Out)

11 February (Tuesday) – Taste (Melody Maker and Time Out)

12 February (Wednesday) – The Gods (Melody Maker)

13 February (Thursday) – Juniors Eyes (Melody Maker and Time Out)

14 February (Friday) – The Eyes of Blue (Melody Maker and Time Out)

15 February (Saturday) – Love and Poetry (Melody Maker)

17 February (Monday) – Village (Melody Maker and Time Out)

18 February (Tuesday) – Colosseum (Melody Maker and Time Out)

19 February (Wednesday) – McKenna Mendelson Mainline (Melody Maker)

20 February (Thursday) – The Nice (Melody Maker and Time Out)

21 February (Friday) – Pendulum (Melody Maker)

22 February (Saturday) – Sleepy (Melody Maker and Time Out)

24 February (Monday) – The Gods (Melody Maker and Time Out)

25 February (Tuesday) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog (Melody Maker and Time Out)

26 February (Wednesday) – Dr K’s Blues Band (Melody Maker and Time Out)

27 February (Thursday) – Yes (Peter Banks’ website)

28 February (Friday) – Jody Grind (Melody Maker and Time Out)

 

17 March (Monday) – Eire Apparent (Time Out)

18 March (Tuesday) – Dr K’s Blues Band (Time Out)

19 March (Wednesday) – Blonde on Blonde (Time Out)

20 March (Thursday) – Deep Purple (Melody Maker and Time Out)

24 March (Monday) – Steamhammer (Time Out)

26 March (Wednesday) – Village (Time Out)

27 March (Thursday) – East of Eden (Time Out)

28 March (Friday) – Entire Sioux Nation (Time Out)

31 March (Monday) – Barclay James Harvest (Time Out)

 

4 April (Friday) – Yes (Peter Banks’ website)

8 April (Tuesday) – Arcadium (Time Out)

9 April (Wednesday) – King Crimson (Time Out)

10 April (Thursday) – The Eyes of Blue (Time Out)

12 April (Saturday) – The Spirit of John Morgan (Time Out)

14 April (Monday) – Turnstyle (Time Out)

16 April (Wednesday) – Village (Time Out)

19 April (Saturday) – Smile (Time Out)

Smile featured future Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor.

22 April (Tuesday) – Clouds (Time Out)

23 April (Wednesday) – Steamhammer (Time Out)

25 April (Friday) – Arcadium (Time Out)

28 April (Monday) – Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath website)

29 April (Tuesday) – Keef Hartley (Melody Maker and Time Out)

30 April (Wednesday) – Hard Meat (Time Out)

 

Canadian guitarist Stan Endersby says that Mapleoak (Pete Quaife’s post-Kinks band) played the Speakeasy in May 1969.

Melody Maker reported that Audience played before 8 May. It also noted that Steppenwolf and The Misunderstood jammed at the club before 22 May.

14 May (Wednesday) – Lowell Fulsom (Melody Maker)

19 May (Monday) – Blonde on Blonde (Time Out)

20 May (Tuesday) – Eclection (needs source)

21 May (Wednesday) – Howlin’ Wolf with The John Dummer Blues Band (Melody Maker)

22 May (Thursday) – The Idle Race (Time Out)

27 May (Tuesday) – Juniors Eyes (Melody Maker and Time Out)

28 May (Wednesday) – Sam Gopal (Melody Maker and Time Out)

29 May (Thursday) – Spooky Tooth (Time Out)

30 May (Friday) – King Crimson (Time Out)

 

2 June (Monday) – The Spirit of John Morgan (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

3 June (Tuesday) – Samson (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

4 June (Wednesday) – Glass Menagerie (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

John Warburg says that Freddie King played on 4 June

5 June (Thursday) – Renaissance (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

6 June (Friday) – Velvet Opera (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

7 June (Saturday) – Audience (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

9 June (Monday) – Blonde on Blonde (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

10 June (Tuesday) – East of Eden (Time Out and East of Eden website)

11 June (Wednesday) – Three Dog Night (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

12 June (Thursday) – Jackie Lomax (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

13 June (Friday) – Entire Sioux Nation (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

14 June (Saturday) – The Majority (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

16 June (Monday) – Steamhammer (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

17 June (Tuesday) – Bodast (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

18 June (Wednesday) – Audience (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

19 June (Thursday) – Buddy Guy & His Band (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

20 June (Friday) – Gracious (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

21 June (Saturday) – Sk’Boo (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

23 June (Monday) – Brainbox (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

24 June (Tuesday) – Poet & His One Man Band (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

Time out lists Brainbox for 23 June.

25 June (Thursday) – Bodast (Time out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

26 June (Thursday) – The Wallace Collection (Time Out and Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

27 June (Friday) – Arcadium (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

28 June (Saturday) – Andromeda (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

30 June (Monday) – Audience (Speakeasy June listing at Don Powell’s website)

 

1 July (Tuesday) – Locomotive (Marmalade Skies website)

2 July (Wednesday) – Entire Sioux Nation (Marmalade Skies website)

3 July (Thursday) – Mighty Baby (Marmalade Skies website)

4 July (Friday) – Ambrose Slade (Marmalade Skies website)

5 July (Saturday) – Sam Apple Pie (Melody Maker)

8 July (Tuesday) – East of Eden (East of Eden website)

9 July – Arcadium (Marmalade Skies website)

10 July (Thursday) – Deep Purple (Melody Maker)

11 July (Friday) – Gypsy (Marmalade Skies website)

12 July (Saturday) – High Tide (Marmalade Skies website)

14 July (Monday) – Audience (Marmalade Skies website)

15 July (Tuesday) – Clouds (Marmalade Skies website)

16 July (Wednesday) – Glass Menagerie (Marmalade Skies website)

17 July (Thursday) – Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (Marmalade Skies website)

20 July (Sunday) – Ashton, Gardner & Dyke (Marmalade Skies website)

21 July – Shiva Jones and Quintessence (Time Out)

22 July – Jody Grind (Time Out)

23 July – Barclay James Harvest (Time Out)

24 July – Liverpool Scene (Time Out)

25 July – Gin (Marmalade Skies website)

26 July – The Majority (Marmalade Skies website)

28 July – The Spirit of John Morgan (Time Out)

29 July – The Eyes of Blue (Marmalade Skies website)

30 July – Procession (Marmalade Skies website)

31 July – White Trash (Marmalade Skies website)

 

4 August (Monday) – Hard Meat (John Warburg research)

5 August (Tuesday) – King Crimson (Marmalade Skies website)

6 August (Wednesday) – Bakerloo (John Warburg research)

12 August (Tuesday) – East of Eden (East of Eden website)

13 August (Wednesday) – Arcadium (John Warburg research)

14 August (Thursday) – Renaissance (Melody Maker)

16 August (Saturday) – Sam Apple Pie (Melody Maker and Time Out)

18 August (Monday) – Steamhammer (Time Out)

19 August (Tuesday) – Blossom Toes (Melody Maker and Time Out)

22 August (Friday) – Battered Ornaments (Time Out)

23 August (Saturday) – Audience (John Warburg research)

25 August (Monday) – Steve Miller’s Delivery (Time Out)

27 August (Wednesday) – East of Eden (East of Eden website)

Melody Maker lists The Wallace Collection on 27 August.

28 August (Thursday) – Atomic Rooster (Marmalade Skies website)

29 August (Friday) – Barclay James Harvest (Time Out)

 

2 September (Tuesday) – Titus Groan (Marmalade Skies website)

11 September (Thursday) – Iron Butterfly (Melody Maker and Time Out)

15 September (Monday) – The Spirit of John Morgan (Time Out)

16 September (Tuesday) – Gun (Time Out)

17 September (Wednesday) – Poet & The One Man Band (Time Out)

18 September (Thursday) – Timebox (Time Out)

19 September (Friday) – Village (Time Out)

22 September (Monday) – Juniors Eyes (Time Out)

23 September (Tuesday) – Eclection (Time Out)

24 September (Wednesday) – The Edgar Broughton Band (Time Out)

25 September (Thursday) – The Mike Cotton Sound with Lucas (Melody Maker and Time Out)

26 September (Friday) – Gypsy (Time Out)

27 September (Saturday) – Audience (Time Out)

29 September (Monday) – The Graham Bond Initiation and Stone The Crows (Time Out)

30 September (Tuesday) – Mighty Baby (Time Out)

 

7 October (Tuesday) – Mott The Hoople (Marmalade Skies website)

8 October (Wednesday) – The Graham Bond Initiation (Melody Maker)

13 October (Monday) – Freedom (Time Out)

14 October (Tuesday) – Zoot Money(Time Out)

16 October (Thursday) – Juicy Lucy (Time Out)

21 October (Tuesday) – Quintessance (Time Out)

22 October (Wednesday) – Writing on the Wall (Time Out)

23 October – Juicy Lucy (Marmalade Skies website)

Time Out lists Sam Gopal on 23 October.

24 October (Friday) – Arcadium (Time Out)

25 October (Saturday) – Cressida (Time Out)

27 October (Monday) – Skin Alley (Time Out)

28 October (Tuesday) – Delaney & Bonnie (Time Out)

29 October (Wednesday) – East of Eden (Time Out)

30 October (Thursday) – Jimmy McGriff (Time Out)

31 October (Friday) – Stone The Crows (Time Out)

 

6 November (Thursday) – Howlin’ Wolf and Junco Partners (Melody Maker)

12 November (Wednesday) – Mott The Hoople (Time Out)

13 November (Thursday) – Freddie King (John Warburg research)

17 November (Monday) – The Battered Ornaments (Time Out)

20 November (Thursday) – Gene Vincent & The Wild Angels (Time Out)

22 November (Saturday) – Freedom (Time Out)

24 November (Monday) – Titus Groan (Time Out)

25 November (Tuesday) – Glass Menagerie (Time Out)

26 November (Wednesday) – Hardin & York (Time Out)

27 November (Thursday) – Pete Brown & Piblokto (Time Out)

28 November (Friday) – Stone The Crows (Time Out)

Speakeasy Calendar December 1969
Speakeasy Calendar December 1969. Thanks to Helene for providing this

1 December (Monday) – Trees (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

2 December (Tuesday) – Daddy Longlegs (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

3 December (Wednesday) – Quatermass (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

4 December (Thursday) – The Graham Bond International (aka Initiation) (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

5 December (Friday) – The Mooche (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

6 December (Saturday) – Heavy Water (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

8 December (Monday) – Creepy John Thomas (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

9 December (Tuesday) – The Wild Angels (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

10 December (Wednesday) – Rory Young (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

This is probably Roy Young (ex-Rebel Rouser).

11 December (Thursday) – Eire Apparent (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

12 December (Friday) – Ashton, Gardner & Dyke (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

13 December (Saturday) – Napoleon (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

Napoleon is probably Bob Azzam’s band who changed name after moving to Sweden from Switzerland.

15 December (Monday) – Eclipse (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

16 December (Tuesday) – Murray Head (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

17 December (Wednesday) – Cressida (Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

18 December (Thursday) – Mott The Hoople (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

19 December (Friday) – Skin Alley (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

20 December (Saturday) – Man (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

22 December (Monday) – Business (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

23 December (Tuesday) – Grail (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

24 December (Wednesday) – Noir (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

26 December (Friday) – Sam Gopal (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

27 December (Saturday) – Good Earth (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

The Good Earth were led by future Mungo Jerry front man Ray Dorset.

29 December (Monday) – Delivery (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

30 December (Tuesday) – East of Eden (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

31 December (Wednesday) – Juicy Lucy (Time Out and Speakeasy calendar for December from Helene)

1970

8 January (Thursday) – David Bowie (Marmalade Skies website)

9 January (Friday) – Jody Grind (Time Out)

16 January (Friday) – Cochise (Time Out)

26 January (Monday) – The Groundhogs (Time Out)

27 January (Tuesday) – The Wild Angels (Time Out)

28 January (Wednesday) – Skin Alley (Time Out)

Marmalade Skies website has Badfinger on 28 January.

29 January (Thursday) – The Spirit of John Morgan (Time Out)

30 January (Friday) – Ashton, Gardner & Dyke (Time Out)

31 January (Saturday) – Imagination (Time Out)

 

9 February (Monday) – Heavy Jelly (Time Out)

12 February (Thursday) – Cressida (Time Out)

16 February (Monday) – Trees (Time Out)

17 February (Tuesday) – Man (Time Out)

18 February (Wednesday) – Hawkwind (Time Out)

19 February (Thursday) – Love (Melody Maker and Time Out)

20 February (Friday) – Badfinger (Marmalade Skies website)

23 February (Monday) – Grail (Time Out)

24 February (Tuesday) – Love (Melody Maker)

25 February (Wednesday) – Cochise (Time Out)

26 February (Thursday) – Matthews Southern Comfort (Time Out)

 

10 March (Tuesday) – Juicy Lucy (Time Out)

14 March (Saturday) – Free Little Rock (Time Out)

21 March (Saturday) – Alexander Patton (Time Out)

23 March (Monday) – Wishbone Ash (Melody Maker and Time Out)

24 March (Tuesday) – Graham Bond (Time Out)

25 March (Wednesday) – Silas (Time Out)

26 March (Thursday) – Sam Apple Pie (Time Out)

27 March (Friday) – One (Time Out)

28 March (Saturday) – Fire (Time Out)

30 March (Monday) – Pacific Drift (Time Out)

31 March (Tuesday) – May Blitz (Time Out)

6 April (Monday) – Cochise (Time Out)

Marmalade Skies website has Hawkwind on 6 April.

11 April (Saturday) – White Lighting (Melody Maker)

20 April (Monday) – Cochise (Time Out)

23 April (Thursday) – Flaming Youth (Marmalade Skies website)

Flaming Youth featured future Genesis drummer Phil Collins.

29 April (Wednesday) – Man (Time Out)

 

19 May (Tuesday) – Wishbone Ash (Time Out)

21 May (Thursday) – Gypsy (Time Out)

25 May (Monday) – Skin Alley (Time Out)

26 May (Tuesday) – Elton John (Time Out)

27 May (Wednesday) – Man (Time Out)

 

9 June (Tuesday) – Raven (Time Out)

10 June (Wednesday) – Wishbone Ash (Time Out)

16 June (Tuesday) – Cochise (Time Out)

25 June (Thursday) – Flaming Youth (Marmalade Skies website)

30 June (Tuesday) – Wishbone Ash (Melody Maker and Time Out)

 

2 July (Thursday) – Gentle Giant (Marmalade Skies website)

11 July (Saturday) – Supertramp (Time Out)

21 July (Tuesday) – Wishbone Ash (Time Out)

28 July (Tuesday) – Elton John (Time Out)

29 July (Wednesday) – Affinity (Marmalade Skies website)

30 July (Thursday) – Formerly Fat Sam (Time Out)

 

1 August (Saturday) – Crazy Mabel (Marmalade Skies website)

3 August (Monday) – Armada (Marmalade Skies website)

5 August (Wednesday) – Burnin’ Red Ivanhoe (Time Out)

6 August (Thursday) – Noir (Marmalade Skies website)

7 August (Friday) – Quiver (Marmalade Skies website)

8 August (Saturday) – Catapilla (Marmalade Skies website)

12 August (Wednesday) – Derek &The Dominoes (Time Out)

13 August (Thursday) – Head, Hands & Feet (Marmalade Skies website)

14 August (Friday) – Swegas (Marmalade Skies website)

18 August (Tuesday) – Cochise (Marmalade Skies website)

19 August (Wednesday) – Anno Domini (Marmalade Skies website)

20 August (Thursday) – Ashton, Gardner & Dyke (Marmalade Skies website)

21 August (Friday) – Czar (Bob Hodges’ gig diary)

22 August (Saturday) – The Dog That Bit People (Marmalade Skies website)

24 August (Monday) – Uriah Heap (Time Out)

25 August (Tuesday) – Bronco (Time Out)

26 August (Wednesday) – Terry Reid (Marmalade Skies website)

27 August (Thursday) – Steamhammer (Marmalade Skies website)

29 August (Saturday) – Aardvark (Marmalade Skies website)

31 August (Monday) – The World (Neil Innes’ band) (Time Out)

 

1 September (Tuesday) – Opal Butterfly (Marmalade Skies website)

2 September (Wednesday) – Bronco (Marmalade Skies website)

5 September (Saturday) – High Broom (Marmalade Skies website)

8 September (Tuesday) – Cressida (Melody Maker)

9 September (Wednesday) – Lindisfarne (Marmalade Skies website)

10 September (Thursday) – Gun (Marmalade Skies website)

11 September (Friday) – Aquila (Marmalade Skies website)

12 September (Saturday) – Czar (Bob Hodges’ gig diary)

14 September (Monday) – Granny’s New Intentions (Marmalade Skies website)

16 September (Wednesday) – Satisfaction (Marmalade Skies website)

17 September (Thursday) – The Nashville Teens (Marmalade Skies website)

18 September (Friday) – Dog That Big People (Marmalade Skies website)

19 September (Saturday) – Skin Alley (Marmalade Skies website)

21 September (Monday) – Warm Dust (Marmalade Skies website)

23 September (Wednesday) – Head, Hands & Feet (Marmalade Skies website)

24 September (Thursday) – Dada (Marmalade Skies website)

25 September (Friday) – Quiver (Time Out)

26 September (Saturday) – Arcadium (Marmalade Skies website)

28 September (Monday) – Gypsy (Time Out)

29 September (Tuesday) – Formerly Fat Harry (Marmalade Skies website)

30 September (Wednesday) – Everyone (Marmalade Skies website)

 

 

7 October (Wednesday) – Jack Bruce (Marmalade Skies website)

28 October (Wednesday) – Wishbone Ash (Marmalade Skies website)

 

4 December (Friday) – Czar (Bob Hodges’ gig diary)

12 December (Saturday) – Gentle Giant (Marmalade Skies website)

Thank you to Helene for the Speakeasy calendar and holiday card.

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