FORMERLYFATHARRY Latest Update: December 15, 2012 Copyright © 2004-2013 Ross Hannan and Corry Arnold. All Rights Reserved. The picture to the right contains a rare shot of Ken Spiker, Blind Ebbets Field and Formerly Fat Harry stalwart Phil Greenberg at the Jabberwock, Berkeley in 1966 (from the Campbell Coe Collection) |
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A Family Tree
One day a rather nifty Formerly Fat Harry family tree will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. In the interim, this draft will have to do.
Some
Art
Performance History
Date | Venue | Performers |
Early 1969 | Rehearsals | Fat Harry |
Spring 1969 | Rehearsals | Fat Harry |
Spring 1969 | Rehearsals | Formerly Fat Harry |
Summer 1969 | Rehearsals/Recording | Formerly Fat Harry |
25-Sep-69 | London | Wizz Jones and Formerly Fat Harry record Easy Rider |
Fall 1969 | Rehearsals | Formerly Fat Harry |
Fall 1969 | Unknown Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland | Formerly Fat Harry (six 45 minute sets on weekdays, 7 sets on weekends) |
14-Dec-69 | Country Club, Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park, London | Formerly Fat Harry, Brinsley Schwartz |
18-Jan-70 | Moulin Rouge Ainsdale, Southport | Formerly Fat Harry, Wasp, Van der Graff Generator (Southport Art Students Arts Ball - Theme Mad Dress) |
30-Jan-70 | The Temple Club, 33-37, Wardour Street, London | Formerly Fat Harry, Egg |
07-Mar-70 | The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London | Sour Milk Sea, Chris Spedding Band, Dr Strangely Strange, Formerly Fat Harry |
13-Mar-70 | The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London | Brian Auger, Formerly Fat Harry, Hawkwind (Atomic Sunrise Festival) |
30-Mar-70 | Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France | Trees, High Tide, Kevin Ayres and The Whole World featuring Lol Coxhill, Formerly Fat Harry, Bridgit St. John, Daddy Longlegs (joined by Edgar Broughton), Pink Floyd, Edgar Broughton Band (Music Evolution`70) |
31-Mar-70 | Taverne de l'Olympia, Paris, France | Kevin Ayres and The Whole World featuring Lol Coxhill, Formerly Fat Happy, Bridget St.John, Edgar Broughton Band] ("Pop 2") |
03-Apr-70 | Van Dyke's, Plymouth, Devon | Formerly Fat Harry |
24-Apr-70 | Country Club, Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park, London | Formerly Fat Harry, Spontaneous Music Ensemble |
26-Apr-70 | Priory Youth Centre, Petersfield Rd., Acton, W3 | Formerly Fat Harry, Rhythm Makers plus surprise attraction for folk fans (free show) |
08-May-70 | PJs, St Clement's Street, Truro, Cornwall | Formerly Fat Harry |
20-May-70 | The Fox, Denmark Hill, London | Formerly Fat Harry |
05-Jun-70 | The Fickle-Pickle Club, Southend, Essex | Formerly Fat Harry |
14-Jun-70 | Garage Club, Barnet, Hertfordshire | Pretty Things, Peter Green and Friens, Trees, Formerly Fat Harry, Quiver, Surprise Guest |
18-Jun-70 | Land liberated from the GLC opposite Arbour House, Arbour Square, Stepney, London | Comedy films, Edgar Broughton, Formerly Fat Harry, steel bands, reggae groups, inflatable’s and monumental works of art and the night will culminate with the burning of an effigy of the successful party leader atop the New Tower of Babel (All Night Festival on land liberated from the GLC opposite Arbour House, Arbour Square, where 25 squatting families ate preparing to fight a ruthless eviction) |
19-Jun-70 | Main Hall, Kingston Polytechnique, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey | Peter Green and Friends, Trees, Formerly Fat Harry, |
26-Jun-70 | Shepton Mallet, Somerset | Formerly Fat Harry, Pink Fairies (on a flatbed truck outside of the Bath Festival site) |
27-Jun-70 | Shepton Mallet, Somerset | Formerly Fat Harry, Joe Jammer, Keef Hartley, Maynard Ferguson, Coliseum, Fairport Convention, It's a Beautiful Day, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, John Mayall, Canned Heat, Pink Floyd (Bath Festival) |
30-Jun-70 | The Temple Club, Wardour Street, London | Formerly Fat Harry, Egg |
18-Jul-70 | Hyde Park, London | Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers & Robert Wyatt, Edgar Broughton Band, Formerly Fat Harrell Coxhill, Third Ear Band (Pink Floyd premiere ‘Atom Heart Mother’) |
26-Jul-70 | Ecclesden Common, Worthing, Sussex | Liverpool 8 Friendly Society Formerly Fat Harry, Roger Ruskin Spear, Mungo Jerry, Sonia (Sonja Kristina), Quiver, Noir, Pete Brown, Michael Chapman, Matthews Southern Comfort arrive but don't play (Phun City) |
00-08-70 | Eastwood, Southend on Sea | David Bowie, Michael Chapman Band, Edgar Broughton Band, David Bowie, Surly Bird, Roger Ruskin Spear, Formerly Fat Harry (Blackhill Benefit for Release) |
30-Aug-70 | Lyceum Ballroom, Strand, London | If, Clark-Hutchinson, Formerly Fat Harry |
31-Aug-70 | Charlton Park, Bishopsbourne, Nr Canterbury, Kent | Pink Floyd, Stoneground, The Faces, Mott The Hoople, Edgar Broughton, Formerly Fat Harry, Caravan, Silver Meter, Daddy Longlegs, General Waste-more-land, The Hog Farm, DJ Jeff Dexter (Medicine Ball Caravan) |
00-09-70 | River Thames, London | Formerly Fat Harry, Stoneground (on a boat) |
19-Sep-70 | Youth Centre, Haydon Place, Guildford | Formerly Fat Harry, Poppa Ben Hook, Frendz, Chrysanthemum |
29-Sep-70 | Speakeasy, Wardour Street, London | Formerly Fat Harry |
31-Oct-70 | University Of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex | Van der Graaf Generator, Formerly Fat Harry, Bridget St John, Trees, S.M.E., Sativa, Genesis, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band (A two-day festival benefit for the Students International Meditation Society – may have been the previous week) |
28-Nov-70 | Anfield Stadium, Liverpool | Edgar Broughton Band, Kevin Ayers & The Whole World, Third Ear Band, Formerly Fat Harry, Michael Chapman |
12-Dec-70 | Institute of Contemporary Arts, London | Edgar Broughton Band, Formerly Fat Harry |
17 December 1970 (TBC) | Friars, Aylesbury | Van der Graaf Generator, Formerly Fat Harry |
29-Jan-71 | Farx Club, Elm Court Youth Centre, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire | Viv Stanshall, Neil Innes & Friends, Formerly Fat Harry, Forevermore, Gringo, Crushed Butler (Radio Geronimo Benefit) |
30-Jan-71 | New Union Building, WhiteKnights, Reading University, Reading, Berkshire | Formerly Fat Harry, Jo-Ann Kelly |
01-Mar-71 | City University, London | Swegas, Formerly Fat Harry, Gentle Giant, others |
04-Mar-71 | St Georges Hall, Bradford | Edgar Broughton Band, Quintessence, Formerly Fat Harry (Bradford Festival) |
20-Mar-71 | The Temple Club, Wardour Street, London | Formerly Fat Harry, Dog That Bit People |
12-Apr-71 | Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn, Norfolk | Edgar Broughton Band, Formerly Fat Harry |
11-May-71 | Walsgrave, Coventry | Keef Hartley and Formerly Fat Harry |
12-Jun-71 | University Of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex | Roy Harper, Formerly Fat Harry, Noir, Red Head Yorke, Good Habit, McCloskeys Apocalypse, Portsmouth Symphonium, Thyme, John Altman's All stars. Street Theatre: Incubus, Theatre Spiel. Films: Death of Anthony. Agitprop. Industrial Relations Bill, Embryonic Movement ("Radical Arts Festival" and Benefit for Oz) |
13-Jun-71 | University Of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex | Roy Harper, Formerly Fat Harry, Noir, Red Head Yorke, Good Habit, McCloskeys Apocalypse, Portsmouth Symphonium, Thyme, John Altman's All stars. Street Theatre: Incubus, Theatre Spiel. Films: Death of Anthony. Agitprop. Industrial Relations Bill, Embryonic Movement ("Radical Arts Festival" and Benefit for Oz) |
04-Sep-71 | Hyde Park, London | Jack Bruce and Friends, King Crimson, Roy Harper, Formerly Fat Harry |
20-Oct-71 | Dorothy Ballroom, Cambridge | Velvet Underground, Formerly Fat Harry, Henry Cow |
00-11-71 | Album Released | |
12-Nov-71 | Thames Polytechnic, London | Gong, Kevin Ayers, Formerly Fat Harry, Hackensack |
20-Nov-71 | Rainbow Theatre, London | Bronco, Gypsy, Bridget St John, Mick Greenwood, Formerly Fat Harry etc (Benefit show to pay off debts of Glastonbury Fayre) |
27-Nov-71 | Strathclyde University, Glasgow | Edgar Broughton Band, Formerly Fat Harry, Hackensack |
28-Nov-71 | The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London | Humble Pie, Michael Chapman, Formerly Fat Harry, Jerusalem, Come To The Edge |
01-Dec-71 | No performances | Formerly Fat Harry |
30-Dec-71 | BBC Studios, London | Formerly Fat Harry (Sounds Of The 70s) |
26-Feb-72 | University College, London | Jackson Heights, Formerly Fat Harry |
Conference Centre, Brighton, Sussex | Edgar Broughton Band, Formerly Fat Harry, Michael Chapman Band, Pink Fairies (A Blackhill Enterprises performance cancelled by police after brief Pink Fairies and FFH sets due to skinheads, intent on engaging in rowdy behaviour, showing up) | |
Vanessa Redgrave's House, London | Formerly Fat Harry (benefit for US servicemen with Vanessa Redgrave and Mia Farrow) | |
Later shows in Switzerland | ||
University of Sterling | ||
Maybe 10-71 maybe 02-72 | Nags Head, Northampton | |
Likely 02-72 | Swansea |