Klooks Kleek

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Concert announcement at Klooks Kleek for Led Zeppelin

Klooks Kleek was an event space in the Railway Hotel, West Hampstead , North West London in the 1960s that still exists today. The club was named after an album by Kenny Clarke from 1956 ( Klook's Clique, Savoy Records 12006).

history

The founder Dick Jordan originally opened a jazz club here , where modern jazz was played every Wednesday from January 1961 . The large number of new groups playing rhythm and blues and blues at the time prompted him to hold a rhythm and blues night every Tuesday. The club did not have any special equipment for bands to perform, and there was even no stage. It was a bit like performing in your own living room. The club was part of the "Blues Circuit", a group of London bars that gave English blues bands the opportunity to perform (The Flamingo, 100 Club, The Crawdaddy and others). These bands included Zoot Money's Big Roll Band , Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Herbie Goins and the Nightimers, Geno Washington and the Ram-Jam Band, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers who recorded their debut album John Mayall Plays John Mayall there on December 7, 1964 , or The Graham Bond Organization . On November 15, 1966, Cream recorded their first live album here.

In April 1965, T-Bone Walker's first London concert also took place at Klooks Kleek . The club closed in December 1970, but later reopened under the name Moonlight Club , but then served a new music scene. Among other things, he was the “southernmost outpost of Northern Soul ”. Today no more live music is played, but DJs take care of the music program.

Recordings from the club

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tony Beacon London Live: From the Yardbirds to Pink Floyd to the Sex Pistols: The Inside Story of Live Bands in the Capital's Trail-Blazing Music Clubs 1999, p. 72
  2. ^ Poster of the opening event with the John West Group and Don Rendell
  3. ↑ a b Allan Ashton: Klooks Kleek
  4. ↑ vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com
  5. ↑ Tony Lennane Blues Unlimited (April 1965)