Last week I was watching Jenny Hval channel Yoko Ono via George Pringle to the bemusement of a three-quarters empty Festival Hall and it got me thinking…
The Pink Floyd were on their second single when they organised the elaborate Games For May event at the RFH. At that time they’d played club shows in London, Bath etc, to 200-odd people, and provincial ballrooms as a badly received segment of package tours. Even if we’re being generous and the show was a lightning rod for the putative counterculture, I find it unlikely that 2,500 heads would have showed up.
So, was anyone there? Was this mythical event half-empty? Was it in the Main Hall or the Purcell Room or what’s now the Clore Ballroom? Or was the Pink Floyd/counterculture’s ascent really so rapid that a band on their second single could have sold out such a prestigious venue?
I’m pretty sure mojoworking was there. He was a real asset and a central character for this blog, and efforts have been made to bring him back, to no avail. If you’re reading this, mojo, come back.
Well and truly seconded. Miss him, and Forks, Nigel, Chubby etc.
As he said, he was at every major London gig from ’67 to ’72 (whenever) and I really miss his authority and his humour and his CD collection dividers. COME BACK, MOJO!!
Was he at the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream ? That must have been amazing. If only one had a time machine…
I’m pretty certain he was. What was that Woody Allen film, where he appeared at great historical events? That’s Mojo.
Zelig. Great film.
Agree. Come back mojo. He’s bound to have been there.
As he is indeed Zelig, he almost certainly is already here at this auspicious (or is that suspicious – it’s so hard to tell these days) occasion.
ah – but if he could remember them, was he truly there?
Yup.
Ain’t Chubby (little loser) now Disapppointing Bob?
Where’s Crowther? That’s what I want to know. One post and then the italian for nowt.
And Forks flounced in offense, and that was even before Nessie returned….
I don’t think Forks flounced. He just wandered off. There’s a big Forks sized hole now 🙁
No. We hang out on twitter but he’s not come back here. I left quietly, also flounced, came back again (sigh).
COME BACK CHUBBY !
Yes PC did post once I recall. Another absent friend.
I went to the 40th anniversary concert
Robyn Hitchcock (Guitar, Vocals)
Terry Edwards (Keyboards, Sax, Brass)
Paul Noble (Guitar)
Kimberly Rew (Guitar)
Morris Windsor (Drums)
Special Guests:
Daniel ‘Woody’ Woodgate (Drums)
Graham Coxon (Guitar, vocals)
Isobel Campbell (Cello, Vocals) with Matthew Coleman (Guitar)
SET LIST
First half
Dawn (Tape recording)
Matilda Mother
Flaming
Scarecrow
Jugband Blues
See Emily Play
Bike (Woody from Madness)
Arnold Layne
A Candy and a Currant Bun (with Graham Coxon)
Pow R Toc H (with Graham Coxon)
Interstellar Overdrive ((with Graham Coxon)
Bubbles
Second half
Acoustic set with Isobel Campbell (Cello/Vocals) and Matthew Coleman (Guitar)
Terrapin
Love You
Late Night
Long Gone
If it’s in you
Dark Globe
Dominoes
Wined and dined (Coxon returned)
Reaction in G (Rest of the band returned)
Astronomy Domine
Lucifer Sam
See Emily Play (Encore)
I saw Hendrix, the Pink Floyd, and (apparently, possibly) The Move at the Marquee in ’67. One gig. All I can remember is being at the back and the terrible, astonishing noise. I’d never heard “loud” before. That’s very nearly the sum total of my Swinging London memories and one reason why we need Mojo back here. Ian pretends to have been about a bit, but, I dunno … Mojo was the fount of true experience.
No pretending, but I bow the knee to the mighty moje. After all, I didn’t even leave my island till ’72. Mojo had racked up several hundred gigs by then.
Hang on. Just remembered. I’ve had drinks in Stringfellows with the Jess Conrad of Jess Conrad fame. We were accompanied by a John Major look-alike. Beat that, mojo.
@martin-horsfield Jenny Hval: what’s your opinion? I can’t make my mind up and need someone else to tell me what to think.
Marmite.
@pencilsqueezer You mean Jenny Hval? If so, I agree. But …I simultaneously hate her music and love it. How can this be so?
Also if this was supposed to be on the sandwich thread I agree with that, also.
Yep I meant JH. I’m like you I waver between liking and being not fussed.
It all depends on my mood when hearing her.
Marmite the spreadable substance is of course harvested from the nether regions of Baal and should be avoided if one wants to keep one’s immortal soul vaguely unblemished.
I think I am more interested in her as a lyricist and video artist rather than the music itself, if that makes sense.
Video for ‘Innocence is Kinky’ is…intriguing. 🙂
Wrong about Marmite, though.
She is very interesting. Not terribly relaxing though.
I ate Marmite once. It gave me visions of a fiery pit inhabited by lost souls wailing and and gnashing the gums in their toothless maws.
Although I may have just dozed off when listening to The Fall now I come to think of it.
Have you considered Vegemite?