gigs archive : 1960s

1963-10-02 Wednesday
Arts Du Language Biennale de Paris
Paris : Musée Municipal d'Art Moderne
daevid allen, John Esam poetry readings

1966-04-05 Tuesday
Full Moon

1966-04-10 Sunday
Gong Power Vision
Deya de Mallorca
Octave Doctors reveal the entire Gong myth and past and future history to daevid allen in one transmission. NB: full moon was 05/04 - 5 days earlier… on the day: Moon opposite Jupiter, trine Mars and Sun (in conjunction), square Mercury and Saturn (also in conjunction) …Venus more or less hanging out on its own.

Spring 1966
Residu: 2
Trigram Press
148 King's Cross Road
London WC1, England
Daniel Richter, editor
Contributions by William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, Anslem Hollo, Ruth Krauss; drawings by Jean-Jacques Lebel; poem and collage by Om (Eric) de Haulleville; manifesto by Sheldon Cholst; The Mongol Review (John Esam, editor; text and an illustustration by daevid allen, 2 poems by Gilli Smyth, plus other authors).  The Remarkable Story of the Pot Head Pixies O Yes  (first public appearance). Residu 2

1967-01-28 Saturday
London : Roundhouse
Soft Machine, The Electric Poets (daevid allen, Gilli Smyth, Robert Wyatt)

1967-02-04 Saturday
London : Roundhouse
Soft Machine

1967-02-17 Friday
Love Festival
London : UFO Club
Soft Machine

1967-02-18 Saturday
Chelmsford : Corn Exchange
Soft Machine, The Mooche

1967-02-22 Wednesday
London : Roundhouse
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Soft Machine

1967-03-01 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-03-03 Friday
London : UFO Club
Soft Machine, AMM

1967-03-05 Sunday
Reading : Padworth Hall
Soft Machine

1967-03-08 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-03-15 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-03-22 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-03-24 Friday
London : UFO
Soft Machine

1967-03-29 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-04-05 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-04-07 Friday
London : UFO Club
Soft Machine

1967-04-12 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-04-13 Thursday
London : Middle Earth
Soft Machine

1967-04-15 Saturday
London : Roundhouse
Soft Machine, The Block, Sam Gopal

1967-04-19 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-04-22 Saturday
London : Roundhouse
Soft Machine, The Creation, Sam Gopal

1967-04-26 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-04-29 Saturday
The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream
London : Alexandra Palace
Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Move,
Pretty Things, Graham Bond, more

1967-05-03 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-05-05 Friday
London : UFO Club
Soft Machine
Crazy World of Arthur Brown

1967-05-06 Saturday
Canterbury : Technical College
Graham Bond Organisation
Soft Machine
Wilde Flowers

1967-05-10 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-05-17 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-05-24 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-05-31 Wednesday
London : Speakeasy
Soft Machine

1967-06-16 Friday
London : UFO Club
Soft Machine, Crazy World of Arthur Brown

1967-08-24 Thursday
Dover
daevid refused entry to UK
(1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act)

1967-08-25 Friday
Boulogne : Maid of Kent
daevid allen arrives in France

1967-09-14 Thursday
The Switch Doctor
BBC Third Programme
daevid allen tape collage broadcast 10:25pm

1967-11-17 Friday
La Fenëtre Rose
Paris : Palais des Sports
Soft Machine, Cat Stevens,
Tomorrow, Spencer Davis Group, Zoot Money, Dantalion's Chariot

1967-11-18 Saturday
La Fenëtre Rose
Paris : Palais des Sports
Soft Machine, Cat Stevens,
Tomorrow, Spencer Davis Group,
Zoot Money, Dantalion's Chariot

1967-11-19 Sunday
Full Moon Fantastickal
Paris : American Centre
daevid allen, Gilli Smyth,
Mike Chapman, Etienne O'Leary, Mark Boyle

1967-12-22 Friday
London Olympia
All Night Christmas Dream Party
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Eric Burdon & The Animals
The Who
The Move
Pink Floyd
Graham Bond Organisation
The Soft Machine
Sam Gopal Dream
Paper Blitz Tissue
John Peel
Jeffrey Shaw & The Plastic Circus
Keith West and Tomorrow
plus many star guest artists
dancing, light show, movie theatre, 
fun fair, paddling pool

1968-01-?? to 1968-03-??
Paris : La Vieille Grille
Sunday night residency(?)
Magick Theatre : daevid, Gilli "& Gong"


1968-09-??
Stockholm (or Malmö?) : Moderna Museum
psychedelic weekend
daevid allen, John Esam (poetry reading)

1969-10-27 Monday
Actuel Festival (5 days : 24th-28th)
Amougies, Belgium
Gong (first gig), Pink Floyd,
Captain Beefheart, Caravan,
Soft Machine, MC Frank Zappa, more
television news + documentary film links
French Wikipedia

1969-12 - 1970-01 
Nyons, France : Café Montaulieu