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Birmingham University Guild

Raoul De La Bedoyere played an integral role in Events Committee at the Guild. Here Raoul provides a brilliant and fascinating personal insight to life at the Guild from 1978 /79. The natural beginning to my story is the collapse of the Events Committee at the end of the 1978, at the end of my fresher.… Read More »Birmingham University Guild

The Swan

One of Birmingham’s most notorious pubs, The Swan, Yardley. 17 September 1967 – The Penny Peep Show (with Martin Barre on guitar) with Jigsaw 7 October 1967 – Yellow Rainbow and Chances Avenue 10 December 1967 – The Penny Peep Show and Magazine

Penthouse

Any more info on this venue? 2 September 1967 – Band of Joy at the Penthouse with Delroy Good Good Band 7 October 1967 – Human Instinct and The Penny Peep Show 13 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham on drums) 28 January 1967 – The Way of Life (with John Bonham… Read More »Penthouse

Holly Bush

Pub in Quinton 10 July 1967 – Wages of Sin 7 August 1967 – Yellow Rainbow (formely Wages of Sin) 4 September 1967 – Yellow Rainbow (formely Wages of Sin) 2 October 1967 – Yellow Rainbow (shortly after this Cat Stevens picked them up as his backing band, renamed them Zeus)