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(Listings From Marmalade Skies)

1967
Sept

23 Middle Earth: Debut of two-piece Tyrannosaurus Rex on bill headed by Denny Laine's Electric String Band, The Picadilly Line

24 Tiles Club: "John Peel's Perfumed Garden" - first of proposed weekly Sunday spot ("with supporting group"), but club closes down after meeting of creditors on Tuesday 26

30 Middle Earth: "Turn on to The Fairport Convention and Dreamland Express, plus Herbal Mixture and John Peel.

Oct

21 Middle Earth: Ginger Johnson's African Drum Band, Ultradelic Alchemists

Nov

10 Middle Earth: Soft Machine, Zeus, Sensory Armada

24 Middle Earth: The Pretty Things, Eyes Of Blue, Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dec

1 Middle Earth: Electric Prunes, Eclection, Spell, Sensory Armada

15 Middle Earth: Pink Floyd, Fusion Fluff

22 "Christmas On Earth Continues", Kensington Olympia: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Eric Burdon's Animals, Move, The Pink Floyd, Keith West & Tomorrow, Soft machine, Graham Bond Organisation, Sam Gopal, Paper Blitz Tissue. (The Who apparently didn't show up)

1968
May

13 Middle Earth: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Junior's Eyes, Beowolf

19 Middle Earth "Gandalf's Garden Benefit": Bill includes Tyrannosaurus Rex, David Bowie

June

23 Mothers, Birmingham: Tyrannosaurus Rex

Aug

11 8th National Blues Festival, Kempton Park Racecourse, Sunbury: Traffic, Spencer Davis, John Mayall, Fairport Convention, Chicken Shack, Jethro Tull, Dynaflow Blues, Tramline

31 to 1 Sept, Godshill festival, Isle Of White: ("The complete festival will be compared by John Peel") The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Jefferson Airplane, The Move, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Fairport Convention, Aynsley Dunbar, Retaliation, Pretty Things, Plastic Penny, Orange Bicycle, The Mirage, Blonde On Blonde

Sept

15 Mothers, Birmingham: Tyrannosaurus Rex ("make it to Mothers!")

Nov

23 Middle Earth presents at the Roundhouse: Juniors Eyes, Writing On The Wall, Arcadium, The Gun, Auriel, Sleepy ("introduced by John Peel)

Dec

14 Middle Earth presents at the Roundhouse: Principal Edward's Magic Theatre, Uriel, sitar master Pandit Trika, 3rd Year Band, Radha Krishna Temple

15 Mothers, Birmingham: The Nice (Peel also advertised for following weekend, with Ten Years After, etc)

1969
Jan

17 Royal Albert Hall: Georgie Fame, Ten Years After, Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre

Feb

Tyrannosaurus Rex tour, with Vytas Serelis (sitar), John Peel ("catalyst"). Bowie supports "with mime act about a boy's escape from the Chinese invasion of Tibet"
 * 15 Birmingham Town Hall
 * 16 Croydoon Fairfield Hall
 * 22 Manchester Free Trade Hall
 * 23 Bristol Colston Hall
 * 1 March Liverpool Philharmonic
 * 8 March Brighton Dome

Mar

9 Mothers, Birmingham: Spooky Tooth

23 Mothers, Birmingham: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

May

9 Bristol Colston Hall: Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Clouds

23 Mothers, Birmingham: John Fahey (June 7 Procol Harum, June 14 Deep Purple, Group Therapy)

June

28 Bath Festival Of Blues: Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, Nice, Chicken Shack, Jon Hiseman's Colesseum, Mick Abraham's Bloodwn Pig, Keef Hartley, Group Therapy, Liverpool Scene, Taste, Savoy Brown's Blues Band, Champion Jack Dupree, Clouds, Babylon, Principla Edward's Magic Theatre, Deep Blues Band, Just Before Dawn

July

2 "Pop Proms", Royal Albert Hall: Incredible String Band, Family (Fairport Convention)

September

26 Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshre: Fleetwood Mac, Family, East Of Eden, Edgar Broughton, Glass Menagerie, Spirit Of John Morgan