Concerts
& happenings
1970
January
Tuesday
20 - Prenteg Wales getting it together in an abandoned freezing school
Friday 30 - Aston
University Great Hall Birmingham
February
Saturday
14 - London
New Arts Lab
Sunday 15 - Norwich University
22 - Implosion Roundhouse London
also on the bill was David Bowie as Hype his new band with Mick Ronson & Tony Visconti
+ The Groundhogs & Caravan
25 - Keele University
7 - Southampton University
10 - University of Warwick
12 - Roundhouse London
? - Norwich University
April
Wednesday 1 - 6th french excursion via Ostend
Thursday 2 - ORTF Pop Club Paris
Friday 3 & 4 - Open Circus Paris
Saturday 11 - American
Centre Paris
May
Saturday
8 - American Centre Paris
Bachdenkel with Mike McVay and unidentified blonde
Sunday 9 - Peronne
Saturday 15 - Orleans
Thursday 21 > 23 - Revolutionary Popcorn
American
Centre Paris
24 - Pop Club Radio ORTF Paris
28 - Fac Dauphine Paris
June
1 - Began recording Lemmings
The Slightest Distance / 1000 Pages / Strangerstill
Saturday 6 &7 La Colline Lyon
octavio segui, ed, colin & mike peven ( who sketched the page)
8 - recording Lemmings
Donna / Long Time Living / Translation / Equals
12 - amps blow up taking speakers with them
Saturday 13 - Batmitzva
Party Pavillon d'Armenonville Paris
(The Green Velvet Trousers Gig)
15 - recording Lemmings Studio Charcot
Appointment / Strangerstill
Friday 19 - American Center
Saturday 20 - St Symphorien Reims Le Cerisae
Sunday 21 - Pavillon d'Armenonville Paris
Monday 22 - Recording session for Jean Besnard
Tuesday 23 > 29 - Lemmings sessions
Come All Ye Faceless
(irate neighbour throws shoe at Colin)
move sessions to studio de la Gaité
The Settlement Song
150 hours studio time so far
sell remaing equipment
July
Tue 7 - back to England
Tue - 15 back to Paris
record vocals
230 hours studio time so far
in the end recording Lemmings cost 119,000 francs
Broke and Back to England
August
15 - begin mixing Lemmings