Gigography 1967

1967
April

29 Alexandra Palace, "14 Hour Technicolour Dream": Attended by Peel. Pink Floyd headlined the event

June

23 UFO Club, 10.30 pm - Dawn; "Liverpool Love Festival - a busload of Liverpool 8". Adrian Henri, The Scaffold, Brian Patten, Mike Evans, The Squares, The Trip, Andy Roberts, Graham Laydon. "Poetry and music of the Liverpool scene". Peel attended this event during his shore leave from Radio London. He mentions this on the Perfumed Garden of July 12, criticising the UFO audience for their lukewarm response to the performers. 

July

7 UFO Club, Denny Laine; Pretty Things. Mentions visit to the weekly club during previous week's shore leave on the Perfumed Garden of July 12, along with a visit to the Speakeasy in the company of Jeff Dexter; he met Jeff Beck.there, he says, and obtained a copy of Beck's new single to play on his shows.

10 Rhodes Centre, Bishop's Stortford. JP (on shore leave) hosted the "Radio London Night".

29 Alexandra Palace, "International Love-In": Pink Floyd, The Animals, Brian Auger Trinity with Julie Driscoll, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Creation, Tomorrow, Blossom Toes, The Nervous System, Apostolic Intervention, Sam Gopal Dream, Ginger Johnson

Aug

26-28 Woburn Abbey, "Festival Of The Flower Children": Peel among the DJs. Small Faces, Move, Eric Burdon, Jeff Beck, Denny Laine, Alan Price Set, Zoot Money, Dantalian's Chariot, Marmalade, Tomorrow, The Gass, Tangerine Peel, Tiles Big Band, The Dream

31 Speakeasy, London: Cream, Frank Zappa (see Cream page)

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

10 Saville Theatre, London: Cream (see artist page)

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

27 Middle Earth: The Nice, Eyes of Blues, Limousine, West Indian Steel Band

Nov

10 Middle Earth: Soft Machine, Zeus, Sensory Armada

17 Middle Earth: Fairport Convention, Crystal Ship, Jacob's Ladder Construction Co.

24 Middle Earth: The Pretty Things, Eyes Of Blue, Tyrannosaurus Rex (alternative listing has Geranium Pond as third on the bill )

Dec

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

15 Middle Earth: Pink Floyd, Fusion Fluff

20Roundhouse [Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organised by Circus Alpha Centauri] "Kaleidoscope of Word Music": Country Joe and the Fish, Pete Brown and the Poetry Band, The Liverpool Scene, Tom Pickard and the Living Mythology. John Peel as Compere.

21 Roundhouse [Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organised by Circus Alpha Centauri] Country Joe and the Fish, Incredible String Band, Al Stewart and the Piccadilly Line, Jansch Renbourn - The Pentangle. 

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