November 1970

SINGLES

BADFINGER-No Matter What/ Better Days (Apple) #5
BEE GEES-Lonely Days/ Man For All Seasons (Polydor) #33
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND-Apache Dropout/ Freedom (Harvest) #33
DREAM POLICE-I’ve Got No Choice/ What’s The Cure For Happiness? (Decca)
FOREVER MORE-Put Your Money On A Pony/ Yours (RCA)
MICK JAGGER-Memo From Turner/ Natural Magic (Decca) #32
KINKS-Apeman/ Rats (Pye) #5
LINDISFARNE-Clear White Light Part 2/ Knacker’s Yard Blues (Charisma)
RALPH McTELL-Spiral Staircase/ Terminus (Big T)
MR FOX-Little Woman/ Join Us In Our Game (Transatlantic)
THE NICE-Country Pie/ One Of those People (Charisma)
PRETTY THINGS-October 26/ Cold Stone (Harvest)
QUIET WORLD-Rest Comfortably/ Gemima (Pye)
RARE BIRD-What Do You Want To Know/ Hammerhead (Charisma)
STATUS QUO- In My Chair/ Gerdundula (Pye) #21
STRANGE FOX-Bring it On Home/ Time And Tide (Parlophone)
THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN-Wild Country/ Hollywood (Track)
TIN TIN-Come On Over Again/ Shana (Polydor)
TITUS GROAN-Open The Door/ Woman Of The World/ Liverpool (Dawn)
VELVET OPERA-She Keeps Giving Me These Feelings/ There’s A Hole In My Pocket (Spark)
THE WHO-Overture/ Christmas/ I’m Free/ See Me, Feel Me (Track EP)

ALBUMS

KEVIN AYERS-Shooting At The Moon (Harvest)
BADFINGER-No Dice (Apple)
SYD BARRETT-Barrett (Harvest)
BEE GEES-Two Years On (Polydor)
BEGGARS OPERA- Act One (Vertigo)
GRAHAM BOND- Holy Magick (Vertigo)
PETE BROWN & PIBLOKTO!-Thousands On A Raft (Harvest)
CLARK-HUTCHINSON-Retribution (Deram)
COLOSSEUM-Daughter Of Time (Vertigo) #23
DELIVERY-Fools Meeting (B&C)
FAMILY-Anyway (Reprise) #7
GENTLE GIANT- Gentle Giant (Vertigo)
HERON-Heron (Dawn)
HOLLIES-Confessions Of The Mind (Parlophone) #30
HUMAN BEAST-Vol 1 (Decca)
KILLING FLOOR- Out Of Uranus (Penny Farthing)
KINKS-Lola Versus Powerman And The Money-Go-Round (Pye)
McDONALD AND GILES-McDonald And Giles (Island)
THE MOVE-Looking On (Fly)
PATTO- Patto (Vertigo)
STEAMHAMMER- Mountains (B&C)
TITUS GROAN-Titus Groan (Dawn)
TREMELOES-Master (CBS)
T.REX-T. Rex (Fly) #13
WARHORSE-Warhorse (Vertigo)

HAPPENING!

Donovan signs up to play The Pied Piper in a new film version of the old fairy tale.
The Rolling Stones rule out the possibility of British concert appearances until the New Year.
Guitarist Ray Fenwick is added to the Hardin-York duo.
Peter Banks quits Blodwyn, only weeks after replacing Mick Abrahams. Reason given is ‘musical differences’.
Ex-Grapefruit guitarist Bob Wale joins Hard Meat.
Titus Groan, Comus and Forever More appear in the ‘X’ rated film “Permissive” which goes on general release this month.
BBC “Disco 2”-Dream Police, Genesis, Duncan Browne (14th), Fleetwood Mac, Curved Air (21st), Satisfaction, Trapeze (27th)
LWT ITV Kenny Everett’s “Ev”-Thunderclap Newman (7th), Colin Hare (21st)
Granada ITV “Lift Off”-The Move, Dream Police (21st)
German TV “Beat Club”-Colosseum, Fotheringay (28th)
BBC SESSIONS-Kevin Ayers (6th, Alan Black), Caravan (14th, Top Gear), Michael Chapman (2nd, Bob Harris), Colosseum (8th, John Peel’s Sunday Concert), Curved Air (17th, Mike Harding), Faces (29th, Sunday Concert), Fairport Convention (19th, Stuart Henry), Fat Mattress (2nd, Radio 1 Club), Fotheringay (21st, Folk On 1), Greatest Show On Earth (3rd, Mike Harding), Hawkwind (15th, John Peel Sunday Concert), McGuinness Flint (29th, DLT), Montanas (9th-13th, Jimmy Young), Onyx (30th-Dec 4th, Jimmy Young), Patto (10th, Mike Harding), Pentangle (12th, Stuart Henry), Pink Fairies (28th, Top Gear), Mick Softley (23rd, Bob Harris), Strawbs (7th, Folk On 1), Tremeloes (29th, Dave Lee Travis-30th-Dec 4th, Tony Brandon), T Rex (7th, Top Gear-16th, Bob Harris), Wishbone Ash (29th, Sunday Concert)

WATCHING!

London Lyceum-Warm Dust, East Of Eden (8th), Kevin Ayers, Rare Bird, Trees, Bridget St John (12th, in aid of LEPRA), Daddy Longlegs, Forever More, Jasper (13th), “Centipede” (huge jazz-rock ‘orchestra’ including members of King Crimson, Soft Machine, Blossom Toes, Patto, Zoot Money and Julie Driscoll-15th), Every Which Way, Sam Apple Pie, Freedom (22nd), Steamhammer, Amazing Blondel, Patto (29th)
Roundhouse-Soft Machine (8th), Head Hands & Feet, Quiver, Curved Air, Mott the Hoople (15th), Curved Air (22nd), Black Widow, Judas Jump, Trifle, Clear Blue Sky (29th)
Marquee- Alan Bown (2nd), Van Der Graaf Generator (3rd), East Of Eden (5th, 19th), Yellow (5th), Mucky Duck (7th), Dear Mr Tyme (9th), Jackson Heights (10th), Genesis (10th), Stone The Crows (11th), Trifle (12th), Autumn (13th), Custer’s Track (14th, 27th), Faces (20th), Ben (23rd), Room (23rd), Steamhammer (24th), Comus (25th), Titus Groan (25th), Dream Police (26th), Fat Mattress (27th), Stackridge (30th)
Sisters Club, London-Renaissance, Patto (6th), Black Widow (20th), Blonde On Blonde (21st), Edgar Broughton Band, Patto (26th), Warm Dust (28th)
Temple Club-Patto, Sam Apple Pie (14th), Bram Stoker (19th), Pete Brown & Piblokto! (20th), Hard Meat (21st), Skin Alley (26th), Warhorse (27th), Brinsley Schwarz (28th)
Aberystwyth University-Marmalade (13th)
Barking Fagins-Strawbs (27th)
Barnet Resurrection Club-Fat Mattress (24th), Faces, National Head Band (25th)
Barnstaple Queen’s Hall-Dr Strangely Strange (27th)
Bedford Corn Exchange-Al Stewart (6th)
Belfast Queen’s University-Pink Fairies, Noir, National Head Band (29th)
Bexley Black Prince-Groundhogs (29th)
Birmingham Kinetic Circus-Groundhogs (15th)
Mothers, Birmingham- Trapeze (1st, 20th), Hawkwind, Pink Fairies (8th), Blonde On Blonde (11th), Lindisfarne, Every Which Way (14th), National Head Band (18th), Black Widow (21st), Fairport Convention (22nd), Fotheringay (29th)
Birmingham, Oldhill Plaza-Ghost (27th)
Birmingham Town Hall-Jack Bruce (10th), Fotheringay (13th), Al Stewart (21st), Family (27th)
Birmingham University-Strawbs (13th)
Blackpool, Dead End Club-T2 (12th)
Bletchley Wilton Hall-Al Stewart (26th)
Blisworth Hotel-Hawkwind (29th)
Starlight Ballroom, Boston- Strawbs (7th), Lifetime, Dada (14th), Yes, Jan Dukes De Grey (28th)
Bournemouth Chelsea Village-Marmalade (20th)
Bournemouth Winter Gardens-Ten Years After (1st), Ginger Baker’s Airforce (4th), Deep Purple (6th), Family (21st), T Rex (27th)
Bradford St George’s Hall-Jack Bruce, Barclay James Harvest (16th)
Bradford Town Hall-Deep Purple (24th-cancelled as Jon Lord had a slipped disc in his back)
Bradford University-Tremeloes (6th), Every Which Way (7th), Juicy Lucy, Pretty Things (27th), Fotheringay, Strawbs (28th)
Big Apple, Brighton-Genesis (13th), Donovan (20th), Warm Dust (27th)
Brighton Dome-Al Stewart (20th), Family (28th)
University Of Sussex, Brighton-Van Der Graaf Generator (1st), Pete Brown & Piblokto, Spirogyra (14th)
Bristol Colston Hall-Fairport Convention (7th), T Rex (9th), Al Stewart (13th), Family (20th)
Bristol Old Granary-Argent (5th)
Bromley Tech College-Edgar Broughton Band (14th)
Burslem, George Hotel-Mighty Baby (15th)
Buxton Pavilion Gardens-Ginger Baker’s Airforce, Marmalade, Fat Mattress, Black Widow, Paladin, Strange Fox, Elias Hulk etc (6th)
Cambridge Corn Exchange-Yes (25th), Ginger Baker’s Airforce (26th)
Cambridge University-Skin Alley, Hawkwind, Cochise (27th)
Canterbury, Rutherford College-Fairport Convention, Genesis (13th)
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff-Family (19th)
Cardiff University-Freedom (21st), Pink Fairies, Noir, Dada, National Head Band (27th)
Chatham Town Hall-Colosseum, Audience (24th)
Cleethorpes Progressive Garden-Quintessence (8th), Ginger Baker’s Airforce (22nd)
Cleethorpes Winter Gardens-Stone The Crows, Wishbone, Stray, Mogul Thrash (30th)
Colchester, Essex University-Fairport Convention (20th), Juicy Lucy (28th)
Lanchester University, Coventry-Yes (20th), The Who (28th)
Coventry, Plough Club-Salamander (29th)
Fairfield Hall, Croydon-Pentangle (1st), Alan Bown (6th), Ginger Baker’s Airforce (8th), Trees (13th), Fairport Convention (15th), Curved Air (20th), Deep Purple (22nd), Amazing Blondel (27th)
Croydon Greyhound-East Of Eden (1st), Status Quo, T Rex (8th), Steamhammer (22nd), Faces (29th)
Dagenham Village Roundhouse-Quintessence (7th), Fleetwood Mac, Mandrake (14th), Fairport Convention (21st), T Rex (28th)
Doncaster Co-Op Hall-Pink Fairies (30th)
Dunstable Civic Hall-Ten Years After (2nd), Jack Bruce (12th), Curved Air (30th)
Ealing Tech College-Comus (27th)
Winter Gardens, Eastbourne-Van Der Graaf Generator (14th)
East Ham, Hounds Club-Arcadium (12th), Walrus (26th)
Edinburgh Caley Cinema-Jack Bruce (8th)
Egham Royal Holloway College-Strawbs (20th)
Epping Wake Arms-Faces (22nd), Freedom (28th), East Of Eden (29th)
Ewell Tech College-Pretty Things, Trees (14th)
Exeter University-Ginger Baker’s Airforce, Gentle Giant, Quatermass (14th), Uriah Heep, Writing On The Wall (20th)
Glasgow Green’s Playhouse-Family (13th)
Glasgow Maryland-Gentle Giant 27th)
Guildford Civic Hall-Audience (5th), T Rex (24th), Andwella (28th)
Guildford, Surrey University-Van Der Graaf Generator, Lindisfarne (21st), Dr Strangely Strange (29th)
Hampstead Country Club-Stray (3rd), Jody Grind (6th), Hawkwind (12th), Van Der Graaf Generator, Clear Blue Sky (20th), Mogul Thrash, Forever More (24th)
Harlow Aquarius-Audience (25th)
Hendon Tech College-Jody Grind, Walrus (28th)
High Wycombe, Nag’s Head-Satisfaction (27th)
Hitchin Hermitage Ballroom- Genesis (25th)
Hull City Hall-Quintessence (20th)
Hull University-Jack Bruce (7th), Deep Purple (20th-cancelled owing to Jon Lord’s injured back), Atomic Rooster (28th)
Kingston Polytechnic-Neil Innes’ The World (28th)
Kirklevington Country Club-Jackson Heights (14th), Strawbs (21st), Faces (27th), Gentle Giant (28th)
Lancaster University-Colosseum, Every Which Way, Anno Domini (27th)
Leeds Town Hall-Comus, Titus Groan, Heron, Demon Fuzz (16th)
Leeds University-Family (14th), The Who (21st), Colosseum, Patto (28th)
Leicester De Montfort Hall-Fairport Convention (8th)
Leicester University-Faces (28th)
Letchworth, The Leys-Genesis (30th)
Lewisham Concert Hall-Edgar Broughton Band (29th)
Leytonstone Red Lion-Mighty Baby (13th), Every Which Way (20th), Quintessence (27th)
Liverpool Mountford Hall-T Rex (4th)
Liverpool Polytechnic-Gracious (26th)
Liverpool Stadium- Edgar Broughton Band, Kevin Ayers & The Whole World, Third Ear Band, Formerly Fat Harry, Michael Chapman (28th)
Liverpool St George’s Hall-Ten Years After (3rd), Deep Purple (18th), Family (29th)
Liverpool Tech College-Supertramp, Stoics (20th), Spirit Of John Morgan, Demon Fuzz (27th)
Liverpool University-Jackson Heights, Dr Strangely Strange (13th), Clark-Hutchinson (28th)
London, Chelsea College- Hardin & York, Idle Race (21st)
London City University-Mighty Baby (20th)
Imperial College, London-Wishbone Ash, Brinsley Schwarz (7th), Donovan (10th), Caravan (14th), Cochise (21st, cancelled owing to group being arrested by French customs!), Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis (28th)
London, Queen Mary College-Fleetwood Mac, Shape Of The Rain (27th)
London, Royal Albert Hall-Family (30th)
London School of Economics-Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Mogul Thrash, Supertramp (28th)
London, Thames Polytechnic-Kevin Ayers, Pink Fairies, National Head Band, Screw, Noir, Dada (13th), Strawbs, Jackson Heights (27th)
London, Torrington-Alan Bown (29th)
University College, London-Fotheringay (7th), Balls (14th), Deep Purple, Mighty Baby (21st), Quintessence, Cochise (28th)
London, Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's- Delivery (19th)
Loughborough Corn Exchange-Comus, Titus Groan etc (19th)
Malvern Winter Gardens-Atomic Rooster (13th)
Manchester Bell Vue- Deep Purple (19th)
Manchester Free Trade Hall-Emerson Lake & Palmer (7th), Blodwyn (14th), Family (16th), Edgar Broughton Band (21st)
Manchester, Magic Circus- Van Der Graaf Generator (15th), Barclay James Harvest (22nd)
Manchester University-Matthews Southern Comfort, Dando Shaft (28th)
Margate Dreamland-Deep Purple (7th), Strawbs (14th), Ginger Baker’s Airforce (21st)
Middlesbrough Town Hall-Comus, Titus Groan etc (20th)
Nelson Imperial Hall-Fat Mattress (28th)
Newcastle City Hall-Jack Bruce (6th), Fotheringay (14th), Family (15th), Quintessence (29th)
Newcastle University-Strawbs (6th)
Mayfair, Newcastle-Curved Air (26th)
Northampton Copa Club-Ginger Baker’s Airforce (18th)
Northampton Town Hall-Comus, Titus Groan etc (24th)
Norwich Music Rooms-Comus, Titus Groan (13th)
Norwich St Andrew’s Hall-Al Stewart (19th)
Norwich, University of East Anglia-T2 (14th)
Nottingham Boat Club-Jackson Heights (22nd)
Nottingham Polytechnic-Fairport Convention (27th), Jackson Heights (28th)
Nottingham University-Al Stewart (7th)
Oxford Polytechnic-Yes (21st)
Oxford Town Hall-Fairport Convention (9th), T Rex (12th)
Plymouth Guild Hall-Ginger Baker’s Airforce (15th), Yes, Clark-Hutchinson (22nd), Fleetwood Mac, Medicine Head (29th)
Van Dykes, Plymouth-Titus Groan (7th), Quintessence (13th), Rare Bird (14th), Jack Bruce (27th). Dr Strangely Strange (28th)
Portsmouth Guild Hall-Family (23rd)
Portsmouth South Pier-Free (6th)
Potters Bar Farx-Stray (14th), Blodwyn (21st), Tear Gas (28th
Reading Memorial Hall-Atomic Rooster (27th)
Reading University-Soft Machine, High Tide (7th)
Reading Windrush-Writing On The Wall (19th, 24th), Steamhammer (26th)
Redcar Coatham Hotel-Strawbs (1st)
Redruth, Room At The Top-Storyteller (9th), Dr Strangely Strange (24th)
Romford King’s Head-Hardin-York (23rd), Supertramp (30th
Salford University-Curved Air, Genesis (6th)
City Hall, Sheffield-Family (24th)
Sheffield University-Balls (7th), Moody Blues (28th)
Shrewsbury Music Hall-Strawbs (30th)
Southall Farx-Jackson Heights (1st), Stray (22nd), Genesis (29th)
Southampton Guild Hall-Colosseum, Audience, Comus (26th)
Southampton University-Al Stewart (14th)
Southend Tech College-Yes (27th)
Sutton Coldfield Belfry-Fairweather (7th)
Swansea Top Rank-Fairweather (16th)
Swansea University-Third Ear Band, Bridget St John (27th
Twickenham Eel Pie Island-Quintessence (21st)
Twickenham Tech College-Groundhogs (28th)
Uxbridge Acid Palace-Bram Stoker (5th
Brunel College, Uxbridge-Argent, Genesis (7th), Fotheringay, Storyteller (27th)
Waltham Forest Tech College-Brian Auger, Terry Reid (13th)
Warrington Carlton Club-Ginger Baker’s Airforce (12th)
Warwick University-Al Stewart (8th), Skin Alley (30th)
Watford Tech College-Steamhammer (14th), Renaissance, Head Hands & Feet (28th)
Watford Town Hall-Strawbs (5th)
Welwyn Garden City Community Centre-Pretty Things (6th), Black Widow, Bram Stoker (15th), Lifetime (20th), Groundhogs, Trifle (27th)
Wembley Town Hall-Edgar Broughton Band (19th)
Westfield College-Mott the Hoople, Supertramp (27th)
Wollaston Nag’s Head-Little Free Rock (27th)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall-Deep Purple (23rd-cancelled owing to Jon Lord suffering a slipped disc)
Wood Green Fishmongers Arms-Writing On The Wall (17th), Stray, Teargas (24th)
Woolwich Polytechnic-Strawbs, Jackson Heights (27th)
Worcester College-Al Stewart (16th)
York University-Al Stewart (11th)

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