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
Overdubs
An Appointment With The Master/The Settlement Song
150 hours studio time so far
sell remaining equipment
July
Tue 7 - back to England
Tue - 14 back to Paris
Wed - record vocals
Strangerstill/Appointnebt/Donna
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