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)

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