1971 Tour Dates
The 1971 dates come from Ernie Garside’s handwritten calendars, along with various recordings from the era.
January
1/4 Birmingham – Opposite Lock
1/14 London – 100 Club
1/21 London – Grosvenor House, rehearsal 5:30 – 7:30, show 10 pm
1/23 Manchester Sports Guild
Setlist per Lost Tapes CD:
Groove
Early Hours
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Wack Wack
Spinning Wheel
Airegin
Eli’s Comin’
Ballad for Max
El Dopa
Go East, Young Man
MacArthur Park
1/28 Wellingborough – British Rail Sports & Social Club
1/31 Ilford, rehearsal 7 pm
February
2/4 Torrington 8 to 11 pm, rehearsal 6 pm
2/7 Coventry – Lanchester Festival
2/8 CBS (possible meeting for Alive & Well)
2/11 Stevenage – Locarno Ballroom 7:30 to 1
2/12 Reading
2/13 Croughton-Heyford 8 to 12
2/15 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/16 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/17 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/18 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/19 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/20 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/21 Off
2/22 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/23 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/24 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/25 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/26 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/27 London – Ronnie Scotts
2/28 Southport – Floral Hall
March
3/1 Lansdowne Studios, 7 to 10 (Possibly the recording sessions for Alive & Well in London)
3/2 Trident Arts Int – Commonwealth Institute
3/3 Middlesbrough – Sycamore 8 pm
3/4 Sheffield
3/6 Manchester – Manchester Sports Guild
3/7 Nottingham 8:30 to 12
3/8 Fletch, 8 to 12
3/15 Dublin, Ireland
3/16 Dublin, Ireland
3/23 Southhampton, 8:30 to 11:30
3/25 London – 100 Club, rehearsal 5:30
3/28 Ipswich – First Floor Club, 28 Thicket St, 7:30 to 11:30
3/31 Birmingham – Opposite Lock (crossed out, possibly canceled?)
April
4/2 Weymouth -Pavilion, 9 to 1:30
4/5 BBC -Playhouse -rehearse 5 to 8, record 8:30 to 10
4/7 Lancaster, 8:30 to 11:30
4/8 (Travel Schedule?) Minster 3pm, Dover 9 pm; arrive Zeebrugge 1:30 am
4/9 thru 4/25 Germany
4/26 Return via Zeebrugge 6 pm
4/29 London – 100 Club
4/30 Basildon Arts Centre, 8 to 11.
May
5/1 York – Central Hall, 7:30 to 11
5/2 Ilford
5/3 Lansdowne Studio 2 to 5, 6:15 to 10:15 (possibly recording sessions for Alive & Well)
5/5 Abbotsfield
5/6 Torrington
5/7 Birmingham – La Dolce Vita
5/17 Blackburn – Cavendish Club
5/18 Lansdowne Studio (6:30 to 10:30 recording)
5/20 Lansdowne Studio – (10 to 1 -overdub)
5/21 Lansdowne Studio – (10 to 1-overdub)
5/23 Isleworth – Osterley Motel, 8 to 11
5/25 Lansdowne Studio – (10 to 1 – overdub)
5/26 Lansdowne Studio – (10 am to noon, full band)
5/28 M. Murphy – Manchester Sports Guild (meeting?)
June
6/1 Chicago – Albert Hall (Ernie attending concert?)
6/4 Berlin, Germany (MF solo)
6/5 Gothenberg, Sweden
6/7 Lansdowne Studio (recording sessions 6 to midnight) while MF in Berlin, Germany
6/8 Berlin, Germany (MF solo)
6/10 Wellingborough – British Rail Sports & Social Club
6/11 London – 100 Club, rehearsal 5:30
6/12 BBC – Camden, 2:30 to 6 pm
6/13 London- Harrow School (possibly EG personal business)
6/14 Lansdowne Studio (MF records 7 to 9)
July
7/9 Woodbridge, Suffolk – Bentwater Air Base (8 to 10:30 pm)
7/10 Lakenheath 8 to 10:30
7/11 Osterley – BBC 5 pm rehearsal, 8 to 9:30 pm
7/17 Manchester – Manchester Sports Guild
7/18 Nottingham
7/20 Southampton
7/22 London – 100 Club
7/23 CBS – N. Bond St. Guitar, Conga, P., Drums, Ernie G.
7/24 Croughton – Heyford (7:30 to 1 am)
7/26 Jerry 3:30 to 6:30, full band + guitar + L.A.
August
8/1 Blackpool
8/5 & 8/6 Travel to Italy
8/7 to 8/14 Italy
8/19 London – 100 Club
8/29 or 30 (calendar is unclear) Greenwich 7:30 start, 2 x 45 min.
September
9/12 ‘Willie Started’
9/13 Rehearsal 1:30 pm
9/14 Zurich, Switzerland
9/15 Zurich, Switzerland
9/16 Venice, Italy
9/20 Milan, Italy
9/27 Taunton Odeon, 8 pm
9/30 London – 100 Club
October10/4 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/5 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/6 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/7 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/8 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/9 Wolverhampton, England
10/10 Off?
10/11 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/12 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
10/13 Ronnie Scott’s London, England
(First American tour after disbanding the original big band)
10/14 Travel to US
10/15 Town Hall, New York Poster
10/16 Pineview Acres Pottsville, PA
10/17 Famous Ballroom Baltimore, MD
Set I
Blue Birdland
Take the A Train
Eli’s Comin
Two for Tea
Bridge Over Troubled Water
El Dopa
Blue Birdland
Set II
Airegin
Fire & Rain
Italian Suite
MacArthur Park
Blue Birdland
The Big Dicker
10/18 Fredonia College Fredonia, NY
10/19 Mid-Towers Hotel Rochester, NY
10/20 Mid-Towers Hotel Rochester, NY
10/21 Frigate Club Harrisburg, PA
10/22 Frigate Club Harrisburg, PA
10/23 Juniata College Huntington, PA
10/24 Off?
10/25 Off
10/26 Brandi’s Wharf Philadelphia, PA
10/27 Brandi’s Wharf Philadelphia, PA
10/28 Brandi’s Wharf Philadelphia, PA
10/29 Brandi’s Wharf Philadelphia, PA
Blue Birdland
Living in the Past
Round Midnight
Spinning Wheel
The Serpent
Move Over
Hey Jude
Blue Birdland
Ole (unaccompanied)
Peanut Vendor (faked excerpt)
Stony End
Blue Birdland
10/30 Brandi’s Wharf Philadelphia, PA Photo 1
10/31 Brandi’s Wharf Philadelphia, PA Photo 2 Photo 3
November
11/1 Langley High School McLean, VA
11/2 Harmar House Cheswick, PA Ad
11/3 Harmar House Cheswick, PA
11/4 Harmar House Cheswick, PA
11/5 Harmar House Cheswick, PA
11/6 Buffalo, NY
11/7 Off?
11/8 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/9 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/10 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/11 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/12 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/13 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/14 Paul’s Mall Boston, MA
11/15 Off/Travel?
11/16 Barney Google’s Richfield, OH
11/17 Barney Google’s Richfield, OH
11/18 Barney Google’s Richfield, OH
11/19 West Chester State College, West Chester, PA (per opening announcement in 3/24/72 recording)
11/20 Pushnick’s Lebanon, PA
11/21 Philadelphia Academy of Music Philadelphia, PA
11/22 Washington, D.C.
11/23 Meriden, CN (cancelled)
11/24 Nothing listed
11/25 Nothing listed
11/26 Nothing listed (End of Tour per EG’s calendar)
11/27 Off?
11/28 Off?
11/29 Off?
11/30 Off?
December
12/1 Off?
12/2 100 Club London, England
12/3 Off?
12/4 Off?
12/5 Osterley, London, England
12/6 Off?
12/7 Southampton, England
12/8 Off?
12/9 Off?
12/10 Off?
12/11 Off?
12/12 Off?
12/13 CBC Toronto, Canada (travel day?)
12/14 CBC Toronto, Canada
Take the A Train
MacArthur Park
Interview
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Hey Jude
Country Road
Blue Birdland
Eli’s Comin’ (Per EG calendar)
12/15 Off?
12/16 Lansdowne Studios, London England – possibly the sessions for MF Horn 2
12/17 Lansdowne Studios, London England
12/18 Manchester Sports Guild – Manchester, England
12/19 Commodore Banqueting Rooms – Nottingham, England Advertisement
12/20 Coventry
12/21 – 12/28 Off?
12/29 Rehearsal
12/30 British Rail Sports & Social Club, Wellingborough, Northants, UK
12/30/71 London, England Lansdowne Studios
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