UFO Club
The UFO Club was a short-lived underground club in London from 1966-67 . It has served as a career launch pad for a number of well-known rock bands , including Pink Floyd , Soft Machine and Procol Harum .
history
The UFO Club was founded by John "Hoppy" Hopkins and Joe Boyd in the premises of an "Irish Dance" bar called the "Blarney Club". The address was 31 Tottenham Court Road and the entrance was by wide, downstairs stairs.
On Friday, December 23, 1966 , the club opened its doors for the first time. "UFO presents Night Tripper" was announced because the two operators could not decide between the names "UFO" and "Night Tripper". Finally, “UFO” caught on.
The UFO Club was a weekly event. It opened at 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and closed at 6 a.m. the following morning. In addition to live music, there were light shows, film screenings, dance performances, theatrical performances, psychedelic posters and underground publications such as the International Times .
Pink Floyd were considered the house band of the UFO Club and became known through it. But other bands also began their careers here: Soft Machine , Sam Gopal , Arthur Brown , Tomorrow and Procol Harum . The band UFO named themselves after this club.
The success of the UFO with the visitors was at the same time the decline for the club - the premises were too small to accommodate the increasing number of visitors. When Hopkins was jailed for drug possession in June 1967, the police created so much public pressure that the owner of the place eventually terminated the lease. The UFO Club moved to the Roundhouse for a short time , a few underground stations further north, but despite the full house, the significantly higher rent could not be covered. On September 29, 1967, the UFO Club opened for the last time.
UFO Club program
The program of the UFO Club, as it was announced on posters and in advertisements:
- Dec 23/30: Night Tripper under Gala Berkeley Cinema; Warhol movies; Soft machine ; The Pink Floyd ; Anger movies; Heating warm; IT god
- Jan 13: Pink Floyd; Marilyn Monroe movie; The Sun Trolley ; Technicolor strobe; Fiveacre slides; karate
- Jan 20: Pink Floyd; Anger movie
- Jan 27: AMM Music; Pink floyd; Five acre light; Flight of the Aerogenius Chpt 1; International Times; IT Girl Beauty Contest
- Feb 3: Soft Machine; Brown's Poetry; Flight of the Aerogenius Chpt 2; Bruce Connor Movies
- Feb 10: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ; Ginger Johnson ; Bank Dick WC Fields
- Feb 17: Soft Machine; Indian Music; Disney cartoons; Mark Boyle Feature Movie
- Feb 24: Pink Floyd; Brothers Grimm
- Mar 3: Soft Machine; Pink Floyd
- Mar 10: Pink Floyd
- Mar 17: St Patrick's day off
- Mar 24: Soft Machine
- Mar 31: Crazy World of Arthur Brown ; Pink Alberts; 'spot the fuzz contest'
- Apr 7: Soft Machine
- Apr 14: Arthur Brown; Social deviants ; Special: the fuzz
- Apr 21: Pink Floyd
- Apr 28: Tomorrow ; The Purple Gang
- (Apr 29/30: The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream at the Alexandra Palace )
- May 5: Soft Machine; Arthur Brown
- May 12: Graham Bond Organization ; Procol Harum
- May 19: Tomorrow; Arthur Brown; The People Show
- May 26: The Move
- Jun 2: Pink Floyd
- Jun 9: Procol Harum; The smoke
- Jun 10: Pink Floyd
- Jun 16: Crazy World of Arthur Brown; Soft machine; The People Blues Band 4.30am
- Jun 23: Liverpool Love Festival; The trip
- Jun 30: Tomorrow; The Knack ; Dead Sea Fruit
- Jul 7: Denny Laine ; Pretty Things
- Jul 14: Arthur Brown; Alexis Korner ; Victor Brox
- Jul 21: Tomorrow; Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
- Jul 28: Pink Floyd; CIA v UFO; Fairport Convention
- Aug 4: Eric Burdon ; Family
- Aug 11: Tomorrow
- Aug 18: Arthur Brown; Incredible string band
- Sep 1/2: UFO Festival: Pink Floyd; Soft machine; The Move ; Arthur Brown ; Tomorrow; Denny Laine
- Sep 8: Eric Burdon & The New Animals; Aynsley Dunbar
- Sep 15: Soft Machine; Family
- Sep 22: Dantalian's Chariot w Zoot Money & His Light Show; The Social Deviants; The Exploding Galaxy
- Sep 29: Jeff Beck ; Ten Years After ; Mark Boyle's New Sensual Laboratory; Contessa Veronica
Web links
- Hoppy's website (English)
- Joe Boyd's website (English)
- UFO Fan Club (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Joe Boyd: White Bicycles - Music in the 60s. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88897-491-5
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 6.1 " N , 0 ° 7 ′ 55.5" W.