List of bands that played at Dagenham Roundhouse
Introduction Between the years 1969 and 1975, many acts performed at the Dagenham Roundhouse venue, which was also known as the ''Village Blues Club''. Act  Date  Support band(s) and notes Blodwyn Pig Killing Floor & Yellow Dog. Opening Night – membership 1s (5p) and entry 7s6d (37.5p) Led Zeppelin Reflection & The Further Terry Reid Sam Apple Pie Taste (with Rory Gallagher) Steamhammer Spooky Tooth Savoy Brown Chicken Shack SWAWRB  Fairport Convention Cancelled Due To Accident Eclection The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation Jethro Tull The Further Spooky Tooth The Groundhogs Caravan Brian Auger and the Trinity Family SWAWRB. (Some sources incorrectly suggest Friday 4 July) Sam Apple Pie  Reflection  Edgar Broughton Band Blossom Toes Imagination Bakerloo Liverpool Scene Closed for the Isle of Wight Festival Sam Apple Pie Edgar Broughton Band Clouds King Crimson originally billed? Renaissance Key Savoy Brown Circus King Crimson Howlin' Wolf Bent Cement  Family were scheduled, but it is believed that this gig was cancelled as Family played again on Tuesday 18 November Graham Bond Soft Machine Keith Tippett Group, SWAWRB  Family Taste Edgar Broughton Band Principal Edwards Magic Theatre Liverpool Scene Deep Purple Closed for Christmas Stone the Crows  Tyrannosaurus Rex SWAWRB Hard Meat Imagination. (Some sources suggest this was headlined by Colosseum) Steamhammer Wildmouth Pentangle Edgar Broughton Band Morning Heavy Jelly Key Gracious! Morning Family Stackridge Sam Apple Pie Mr. Charlie Fairport Convention Surly Bird Blodwyn Pig Valhalla Deep Purple Rat Taste (with Rory Gallagher) Sour Milk Sea Tyrannosaurus Rex Mandragon Procol Harum Rat Black Widow Judy Blue Eyes Humble Pie My Cake Deep Purple Ipsissimus Mott the Hoople Killing Floor Savoy Brown SWAWRB High Tide Tupelo Free Wet Paint Taste (with Rory Gallagher) Gnidrolog If Growth Edgar Broughton Band Ben Fairport Convention Uncle John's Gut Stone the Crows Sweet Blindness Writing On the Wall Grizelda Sam Apple Pie Custers Track Derek and the Dominos Supertramp Quintessence National Head Band Black Widow Principal Edwards Yes Nosher Brown Closed for the Isle of Wight Festival Free Storm Tyrannosaurus Rex Bram Stoker Blodwyn Pig Howl Family Mythica The Tony Williams Lifetime (Jack Bruce) Aardvark Savoy Brown Tear Gas Mott the Hoople Nosher Brown Hardin & York Surly Bird. (Some sources suggest Taste headlined but this may be based solely on a poster) Bram Stoker Nick Pickett. The Edgar Broughton Band were due to headline but were stuck in Germany due to "passport hassles". Quintessence HowlFleetwood Mac Mandrake Fairport Convention Old Mick Tyrannosaurus Rex Nick Pickett Stone the Crows Rocking Chair Pink Floyd Quintessence Zoe Family Elton John Siege Stud Brewer's Droop Colosseum Karakorum Skid Row Evolution The Groundhogs Agapus (Replaced Camelot) Gary Wright Premonition Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Yes Kripple Vision Curved Air Sweet Thunder Skid Row Renia Terry Reid Black Widow Quintessence Elton John was billed, but this was cancelled on medical advice "due to the pressure of sustained work" Family Nick Pickett Mott the Hoople Collusion Edgar Broughton Band Rocksana Osibisa 9:30 Fly Fairport Convention Help Yourself East of Eden Galloping Eyes Atomic Rooster Zoo Funkadelic National Head Band Argent Patto (Originally Smooth Bitch but they cancelled) Skid Row Gypsy and Sweet Thunder (Billed as 'Whitsun Festival') Climax Chicago Blues Band Daddy Longlegs Uriah HeepUK Tour. Supported by Hot Cottage Stray Gnome Sweet Gnome Wishbone Ash Razz Medicine Head Audience The Groundhogs Renia Rory Gallagher Gollum Sam Apple Pie Nimbo Black Widow T2 Fairport Convention I.E. The Grease Band Third World War Fleetwood Mac  Climax Chicago Blues Band Quiver Uriah Heep Open Road Curved Air Jerusalem Mott the Hoople Titanic Wishbone Ash Hot Cottage T2 Jackal. Originally scheduled to be Vinegar Joe Quintessence Beggars Opera The Velvet Underground Vinegar Joe Black Widow Collusion Audience Ferry Nazareth Guff Heads Hands & Feet (with Albert Lee) Morgan. (Slade's site claim they played here that night, but there are no other references to this.) Patto Carol Grimes Uncle Dog Redbone One Hand Clapping Sam Apple Pie Osibisa Universe Uriah Heep Bullet – The Xmas Party – rescheduled for 29 March 1972 due to power cut The Groundhogs Grannie. The Genesis Archive suggests that Genesis played this night, but all the evidence is to the contrary. Rory Gallagher Gravy Train Mott the Hoople 25 Views Of WorthingThe Sutherland Brothers BandHawkwind Cancelled UFO Byzantium Stray Pink Fairies Tranquillity. Some sources suggest Slade headlined, possibly because it appears on Don Powell's site, but as Slade were in Scotland both the day before and the day after, it seems unlikely. Deep Purple Spontaneous Combustion Wishbone Ash Cat Iron Hawkwind Ragidy Andy Slade Jackal Heads Hands & Feet Junkyard Angel Edgar Broughton Hawkwind, Steve Peregrin Took, Swastika Uriah HeepRescheduled from 18 December 1971 Status Quo Cathedral Quintessence John St Field Fairport Convention Fruupp Good Habit Capability Brown Stray Jonesy Barclay James Harvest Cancelled Dr. John Holy Roller Brinsley Schwarz Refugee Argent Spreadeagle Hawkwind Magic Muscle Osibisa Trapeze. Trapeze played first on a stage at the back of the venue. Osibisa then used the main stage at the front of the venue Climax Chicago Blues Band Malaka Status Quo Malaka Rory Gallagher Byzantium Sam Apple Pie Renia Stackridge Incredible Hog Atomic Rooster Slowhand Vinegar Joe Biggles Man String Driven Thing Quintessence Coloured Coat Uriah Heep Jake Holmes Fruupp Shame. Skid Row had just split up, so their appearance was cancelled. However, Brush Shiels (from Skid Row) appeared as a guest with Fruupp. Hawkwind Magic Muscle Pink Fairies Jonesy Electric Light Orchestra Rat Roy Wood's Wizzard Shamelady Status Quo Incredible Hog Argent Kite Arthur Browns Kingdom Come Biggles East of Eden Refugee. There is some doubt over this gig. Stray Succubus Fusion Orchestra Alias Budgie Zoe (may have been Cargo) Snake Eye Rat Nazareth Necromandus Pink Fairies Springhill Osibisa Mike Maran Budgie Shamelady (may have been Cargo) Stackridge Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra & Gordon Haskell Stray Slowhand Genesis Darien Spirit Nazareth Fat Grapple Status Quo Steel Peach Focus Slowhand Vinegar Joe Rusty Butler Home Refugee Silverhead Snow Leopard Man Finbow Fruupp Springhill Pink Fairies Albert Thin Lizzy Incredible Hog Electric Light Orchestra Ro Ro Stray Ro Ro Stealers Wheel Innomina Pheris ? JSD Band  Ellis Pussy Glencoe Slowhand Nazareth Robin Trower Silverhead Rainbow Railway Arthur Brown Albert Medicine Head Pussy Pink Fairies Fang Marsha Hunt's 22 Rimmington Stealers Wheel Regeneration Greenslade Refugee ? Thin Lizzy Argus Man John St. Field Stray Guff Jack the Lad Springhill Silverhead Shamelady Darryl Ways Wolf Pussy Sam Apple Pie Mantra Average White Band James Hogg Closed for Bank Holiday  Pink Fairies All Things New (Was scheduled to be Nazareth) Chicken Shack Fusion Medicine Head Steel Peach Edgar Broughton Band Budlipp Springer FaustHenry Cow Greenslade Piggy Man  Deke Leonard's Iceberg, Vyvyan Morris and John St Field. Stray Contraband  Skin Alley Posters / Melody Maker ads are unclear on this night. Nektar Manfred Mann's Earth Band Regeneration Silverhead Vineyard Glencoe Bitter Harvest Geordie Sensational Alex Harvey Band Beckett Golden Earring Moonstone Greenslade Vineyard Pink Fairies Piggy Cockney Rebel Fancy Gypsy Super Vole Stray Vineyard Fruupp Magill or Mcgill ? ? Barclay James HarvestSupport act: Regeneration. Set included: Summer Soldier; Medicine Man; She Said; One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out; Galadriel; After The Day; Crazy (Over You); Mocking Bird; Dark Now My Sky Wild Turkey Mother Sun Can Babe Ruth Nektar Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Wooden Lion. There is some doubt over this gig, as it does not appear on the official SAHB list, and SAHB were in Scotland both the day before and the day after. Snafu Guff Cockney Rebel Fusion Orchestra All Things New Queen Nutz Thin Lizzy Panache Manfred Mann's Earth Band Janus Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance Rab Noakes Greenslade Gravy Train Stray Pandemonium Mantra Refugee Cancelled Snafu Poser Horslips Dizzy Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) Paisley Blodwyn Pig Budlipp Springer The Groundhogs Vineyard Alquin Regeneration Barclay James Harvest Rare Bird. Incorrectly recorded in the source as 6/8.Possibly a US source? Silverhead Scum of the Earth Magma Babe Ruth Mike Storey Cockney Rebel Be Bop Deluxe Nektar A Band Called O Sutherland Brothers & Quiver Slowhand Snafu Greep Strider Percy Budgie Regeneration Edgar Broughton Band Cathedral Stray Janus Man Al Matthews Sam Apple Pie  National Flag (may have been Helter Skelter) Greenslade Million Dollar Band Heavy Metal Kids Nutz Yellow Bird Gong Vandella CanU.K. Tour; unissued recording; set list;Gomorrha  Budgie Earthrise Osibisa Clemen Pull Manfred Mann's Earth Band Jackie Lynton's Grande Thin Lizzy Janus Fruupp David McWilliams JSD Band Million Dollar Band Nektar John St. Field Ace Asylum Stray Janus The Groundhogs Regeneration Greenslade Sorrel Heavy Metal Kids Asylum Ace Earthrise Nutz Gasworks Lindisfarne Clemen Pull Snafu Cruiser Dog Soldier Cancelled Edgar Broughton Band Still Life A Band Called O All Things New Budgie Lee Kosmin Band Sutherland Brothers & Quiver Clemen Pull Fruupp Double Sausage Band Dr. Feelgood Slippery Sam.There is some doubt over this gig, as it does not appear on the official Dr Feelgood list, and the Naughty Rhythms Tour, with Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers and Kokomo as support, finished the previous day. Stray Regeneration The Groundhogs Panache & Good Thinking Alvin Lee & Company Janus Osibisa Clemen Pull Nutz Oasis Jackie Lynton's Grande Krakatoa Rory Gallagher Roland Snafu Badge Budgie Borzoi Hatfield and the North Superchild Kokomo Lee Kosmin Band Heavy Metal Kids Sorrel Sassafras Stonehenge Barclay James Harvest Charity show – Barclay James Harvest was billed but did not appear Thin Lizzy Good Thinking Dr. Feelgood Grandma Moses A Band Called O Necromancer Closed Curved Air cancelled Stray Oasis Kursaal Flyers Juggler Mama Bear Wally & Pardon Me Sir were originally scheduled Nutz Krakatoa Snafu Razorbacks Judas Priest Benefit Motörhead Cock Sparrow Closed for Bank Holiday  Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers Stirling Gonzalez Dennis Connolly Band UFO Clemen Pull Babe Ruth Easy Pink Fairies Pardon Me Sir Be Bop Deluxe Necromancer Zzebra A Band Called O Steve Walker Band Sassafras Mean Streak Thin Lizzy Handbag Sailor Easy. The final night at the Village. The poster appeared with the following text on it: "We regret that due to objections from the G.L.C. the club will be closed after this Saturday because of complaints from local residents regarding the noise. We hope the club will be ready to re-open very shortly. Please watch MM for full details of re-opening. If you would like to help with a petition please write to the Roundhouse." The venue eventually reopened nearly 37 years later. Stray Del Bromhams's Blues Devils / Steve Kelly (Reunion I). The Big Blues Jam (Jon Amor/Pete Gage/Mark Barrett/Dave Doherty & Friends) Jon Amor (Reunion II). The Pink Torpedoes (Pete Gage/Paul Hartshorn/Pete Lowrey/Dave Raeburn) Steve Kelly (Reunion III). Stray Blues Devils / Del Bromham (Reunion IV) Son of Man & the All Stars Band The band featured George Jones (Son of Micky Jones) along with Bob Richards on drums who were both with MAN and they were joined by several members of SASSAFRAS (Reunion V) Martin Turner plays the music of Wishbone Ash Steve Kelly (Reunion VI) Dr. Feelgood Del Bromham. (Reunion X) This marks the return of the Village Blues Club to its original home. Stray Ken Pustelnik's Groundhogs. (Reunion XI)  Son of Man with special guest Alan "Tweke" Lewis The Green Ray and Rostock. (Reunion XII)  Atomic Rooster featuring Pete French and Steve Bolton Landmarq. (Reunion XIII) 50th Anniversary Martin Turner plays the music of Wishbone Ash(Reunion XIIII). Cancelled due to COVID-19.Much of the information above otherwise unreferenced is collated from published pictures of posters, tickets etc.In addition to the above, the bands below played but no dates can be confirmed:Elder KindredWalrus (c.1971)The bands below are rumoured to have played, but no evidence can be found:Don CherryLeo Sayer (possibly 6 July 1974)10CC
References
External links *  Village Blues Club at Dagenham Roundhouse Nostalgia Group