Gigography

THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

This page is intended as a foundation for listings of live music events with involvement from Peel, from working as a DJ, compere or announcer to gigs he attended and John Peel Roadshow events. Obviously, this is a fairly ambitious undertaking, but it is hoped that with as many sources as possible it will eventually be as comprehensive as it can be.

The format is likely to be adjusted as the list expands and separate pages may be created for different years.

The list below is still at a very preliminary stage and in the process of being sorted out. The next step will be to incorporate listings from the International Times page and elsewhere for the period up to the early 1970s and this will be soon.

Numbered links at the end of each listing are online references for the source of the information or give further details of the events themselves.

In some cases, advertising may have been inaccurate or scheduled events did not take place. For example, in late 1968 Peel suffered a serious case of jaundice and may not have been able to fulfilled all his bookings. If such information is known, this will be indicated.

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. On his return he mentioned it on the Perfumed Garden, criticising the UFO audience for their lukewarm response to the performers.

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

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

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

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

20 Roundhouse, "Kaleidoscope of Word Music": Pete Brown &amp; The Poetry Band, The Liverpool Scene, Tom Pickard &amp; The Living Mythology, with JP as compere

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)

1968
Jan

20 Middle Earth: Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Mar

9 Leeds University: Rave, Nice, Spencer Davis, Tony Rivers and the Castaways, The Chicken Shack, The Attack 

May

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

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

24 Aston University, Birmingham: Liverpool Scene (IT 31 article on with gig listings for band)

27 Portsmouth "Dance of Words" event at with poets, bands and JP (IT 31 "In the Sticks" section)

June

3 Royal Festival Hall: Tyrannosaurus Rex and Roy Harper, with Stefan Grossman and David Bowie supporting ("Vibrations by John Peel") IT 31 back cover ad

3 Middle Earth: King Ida's Watch Chain, The Battered Ornaments

17 City Memorial Hall, Sheffield: Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Liverpool Scene

23 Mothers, Birmingham: Tyrannosaurus Rex

29 Hyde Park free concert: Pink Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Roy Harper, Jethro Tull

July

17 Southport Pier: Traffic, Family, Spooky Tooth 

Aug

9 Roundhouse, "A Freak Show" in aid of community charities: Family, Action, Deviants, Eclection 

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

31 Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds: Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, "Guff" Putkowski  - appears to clash with event below

31 to 1 Sept: Isle Of White festival, Godshill ("The complete festival will be compered 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

1 Isle Of White festival continues

6-7 Roundhouse: Doors and Jefferson Airplane (JP not listed in ad but said to have compered this legendary event) 

7-8 First National Blues Convention at Conway Hall: Alexis Korner, Champion Jack Dupree, Davy Graham, Dynaflow Blues, Stefan Grossman & others. Recitals by John Peel, Paul Oliver, Albert McCathy & others  

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

Oct

18 Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry: Savoy Brown, Alexis Korner, Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments, Jo-Ann Kelly (IT 41, p.20)

22 Lanchester College, Coventry: Blues with Savoy Brown, Alexis Korner, Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments, John Peel, Jo-Ann Kelly – check against previous listings

Nov

2 London School of Economics: Chicken Shack, Blonde on Blonde, John Peel, Occasional Word Ensemble (IT 41, p.9, also listed in IT 43, p.19)

3 Mothers, Birmingham: Joe Cocker 

23 Middle Earth presents at the Roundhouse: Juniors Eyes, Writing On The Wall, Arcadium, The Gun, Auriel, Sleepy

24 Mothers, Birmingham: Jethro Tull 

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

22 Mothers, Birmingham: Ten Years After

24 Mothers, Birmingham: Family, Action

26 Mothers, Birmingham: Chicken Shack, Tea & Symphony

27 Middle Earth: Special Christmas show with John Peel

28 Middle Earth: Special Christmas show with John Peel

31 Mothers, Birmingham: Jethro Tull, Savoy Brown, Bakerloo Blues Line

1969
Jan

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

Feb

5 Bradford University: Fairport Convention, Bridget St. John, Principal Edward's Magic Theatre 

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

Mar

Tyrannosaurus Rex tour continues
 * 1 Liverpool Philharmonic
 * 8 Brighton Dome

2 Mothers, Birmingham: Chicken Shack 

9 Mothers, Birmingham: Spooky Tooth

20 West Ham College, E.15, Release Benefit (“Folk evening presented by John Peel”): Occasional Word Ensemble, Mike Hart, Dr. Strangely Strange &amp; Bridget St. John 

21 ICA: Principal Edwards Magic Theatre + lantern lecture by John Peel ("if he can find his way there") 

23 Mothers, Birmingham: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

24 Royal Festival Hall “Folk Meets Pop”: Fairport Convention, Pat Sky, Sallyangie, Al Stewart 

30 Mothers, Birmingham: Country Joe &amp; the Fish  

April

11 Lyceum “John Peel's Midnight Court”: Tyrannosaurus Rex – Peel’s name used but apparently he wasn’t there in person. Friday night gigs at Lyceum continued under the “Midnight Court” banner (JP name dropped) 

13 Mothers, Birmingham: Fleetwood Mac

20 Mothers, Birmingham: Blodwyn Pig, Doctor K

26 St. Pancras Town Hall: The Liverpool Scene  

27 Mothers, Birmingham: Pink Floyd (see also Mothers page)

May

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

12 Hornsey Town Hall "In the Cool of the Evening": Liverpool Scene, John Fahey and others 

23 Mothers, Birmingham: John Fahey

25 Roundhouse, benefit for Fairport Convention after their motorway crash IT 57, 1969-05-23, p.10

June

5 Royal Albert Hall: Richie Havens, Caravan, Eclection, The Poet &amp; The Man Band 

7 Mothers, Birmingham: Procol Harum

14 Mothers, Birmingham: Deep Purple, Group Therapy

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)

Aug

16 Beckenham Recreation Ground, Beckenham Arts Lab free concert: Juniors Eyes, Bridget St. John, John Peel, Amory Kane 

16 Beach House Gardens, Worthing, free concert: "The performers include Steamhammer, John Peel and the Entire Sioux Nation" – appears to clash with event above

Sept

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

Dec

19 Royal Albert Hall, charity concert for Shelter: Family, Graham Bond, Sam Apple Pie 


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