LIVE GIG DATES
JOHN'S CHILDREN |
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| 1967 | |
| MAY | 10. Nurnberg |
| 11. Dusseldorf | |
| 12. Ludwigshafen | |
TYRANNOSAURUS REX |
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| 1968 | |
| MAY | 22. The Scottish Tour starts in Inverness |
| 23. Motherwell | |
| 24. Dundee | |
| 25. Glasgow | |
| 26. The Scottish Tour ends at Edinburgh | |
| JUNE | 3. Royal Festival Hall, London |
| 23. Birmingham | |
| JULY | 6. Woburn Abbey Festival, with Family, Donovan, and
The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Previously Unpublished Photographs from this Gig will be included in Steve Took's Biography 'A Trip Through Ladbroke Grove' when it is published in 2008. For More Information on all things Took visit www.Steve-Took.co.uk |
| 9. London Hyde Park | |
| AUGUST | 10. London |
| 22. Manchester (with David Bowie as support) | |
| OCTOBER | 2. This Tyrannosaurus Rex Tour starts at the Red Lion in Leytonstone, Essex |
| 1969 | |
| JANUARY | 13. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London |
| FEBRUARY | 13. Birmingham Town Hall |
| 16. Fairfield Hall, Croydon | |
| 22. Free Trade Hall, Manchester | |
| 23. Colston Hall, Bristol | |
| MARCH | 1. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool |
| 8. The Dome, Brighton | |
| MAY | 25. London |
| AUGUST | 9 - 11. The 'Jazz & Blues Festival' Festival in Sunbury (on the site of the Kempton Race course). This Festival Evolved into the Massive 'Reading Festival' and then the 'Reading/Leeds Festival. Again, previously Unpublished Photographs from this Gig will be included in Steve Took's Biography 'A Trip Through Ladbroke Grove' when it is published in 2008. For More Information on all things Took visit www.Steve-Took.co.uk |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex embark on Their Debut American Tour. Steve Took has already been sacked from the duo but was forced to go on the tour after a threat by the management to charge him a significant amount of money if he didn't! |
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| SEPTEMBER | 16. Cafe Au Go-Go, New York |
| Listing of the other Gigs to be added when we have time! | |
| NOVEMBER | 21. Free Trade Hall, Manchester. First Tyrannosaurus Rex Gig to feature Mickey Finn. |
| 22. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall | |
| 23. City Hall, Newcastle | |
| 30. Mothers, Birmingham | |
| DECEMBER | 27. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 1970 | |
| FEBRUARY | 8. Tree Club, Bridgend, Wales |
| 13. Lyceum, London | |
| 18. Dome, Brighton | |
| APRIL | 21. London Roundhouse with the Pretty Things |
| MAY | 9. Imperial College, London. |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex's Second Tour of America. The First with Mickey Finn. | |
| JULY | 4. Bedford |
| 19. London | |
| AUGUST | 28. Dudley Castle Festival |
T-REX |
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| OCTOBER | 9. The First Tour billed as as T.Rex opens at the Albert Hall in Nottingham. The prices for tickets were pegged at Ten Shillings (£0.50) |
| 10. King George's Hall, Blackburn | |
| 14. Birmingham Town Hall | |
| 15. Sheffield City Hall | |
| 20. Guildhall, Southampton | |
| 29. Civic Hall, Dunstable | |
| 30. City Hall, Hull | |
| 31. Imperial College, London | |
| NOVEMBER | 4. Mountford Hall, Liverpool |
| 9. Colston Hall, Bristol | |
| 11. Oxford Town Hall | |
| 24. Guildford Civic Hall | |
| 27. Bournemouth Winter Gardens | |
| 28. At the Roundhouse, Dagenham, the audience is first introduced to Steve Currie on bass guitar | |
| DECEMBER | 3. Glasgow Green's Playhouse |
| 4. Second night in Glasgow | |
| 7. Hardrock, Manchester | |
| 11. Welwyn Garden City | |
| 12. Cardiff Capitol Theatre | |
| 16. Birmingham Odeon | |
| 18. Devizes, Wiltshire | |
| 19. Big Apple Concert Hall, Status Quo are the support band | |
| 20. Dome, Brighton | |
| 21. London Alexandra Palace | |
| 1971 | |
| JANUARY | 2. T. Rex at Sheffield City Hall |
| 3. Guildhall, Prerton | |
| 4. St George's Hall, Bradford | |
| 17. New Theatre, Oxford | |
| 14. Empire, Liverpool | |
| 15. Stoke on Trent, Nottinghamshire | |
| 16. King's Hall in Aberystwyth, Wales | |
| 21. Gaumont, Southampton | |
| 25. Lyceum London | |
| FEBRUARY | 4. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 13. North East London Arts Festival | |
| 14. University of Essex | |
| 15. Civic Hall, Guildford | |
| 16. Town Hall, Birmingham | |
| 17. Dundee University Scotland | |
| 20. Nottingham University | |
| MARCH | 1. T.Rex start three-date tour of Ireland in Cork. |
| 2. Belfast | |
| 3. Final Irish date in Dublin | |
| 13. Lancaster University | |
| 20. Winter Gardens complex, Weston-Super-Mare | |
| APRIL | The band spend the month in America |
| MAY | 9. T. Rex begin UK tour at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth |
| 11. Portsmouth Guildhall | |
| 14. Albert Hall, Nottingham | |
| 16. Free Trade Hall, Manchester | |
| 17. City Hall, Sheffield | |
| 19. Civic Hall, Wolverhampton | |
| 20. City Hall, Newcastle | |
| 21. Green's Playhouse, Glasgow | |
| 23. Fairfield Hall, Croydon | |
| 24. Colston Hall, Bristol | |
| 25. De Montford Hall, Leicester | |
| 27. St George's Hall, Bradford | |
| 28. End of first leg of tour at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall | |
| JULY | 3. Second leg of tour kicks off at the Odeon, Birmingham |
| 4. Gliderdome, Boston Starlight, Lincolnshire | |
| 9. Lewisham Odeon, London | |
| 17. The Pavilion, Bath | |
| OCTOBER | 8. Rotterdam,Holland |
| 9. Amsterdam,Holland | |
| 19. T. Rex start a seventeen-date “Electric Warrior” tour of the UK at Portsmouth Guildhall | |
| 20. ABC Theatre, Plymouth | |
| 21. Capitol, Cardiff | |
| 23. City Hall, Sheffield | |
| 24. Fairfield Hall, Croydon | |
| 25. St George's Hall, Bradford | |
| 27. The Dome, Brighton | |
| 29. Green's Playhouse, Glasgow | |
| 30. University of Edinburgh | |
| 31. City Hall, Newcastle | |
| NOVEMBER | 4. ABC, Stockton, Cleveland |
| 5. Town Hall, Birmingham | |
| 6. Free Trade Hall, Birmingham | |
| 8. De Montfort Hall, Leicester | |
| 9. ABC, Lincoln | |
| 10. ABC, Wigan | |
| 11. Final appearance of this tour at Liverpool Stadium | |
| DECEMBER | T. Rex travel to America for start of three-week tour with Alice Cooper |
| 1972 | |
| JANUARY | 15. Starlight Club in Boston, Lincs, as a warm-up for the first major European tour |
| 28. European tour begins in Oslo, Norway | |
| 29. Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 30. Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 31. Hamburg, Germany | |
| FEBRUARY | 1. Munster, Germany ends the European tour |
| 11. T. Rex begin tour of America appearing in Seattle, followed by dates in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Cleveland | |
| 27. American tour finishes at Carnegie Hall, New York | |
| MARCH | 18. T. Rex appear at the Empire Pool Wembley for afternoon and evening shows filmed by Ringo Starr |
| JUNE | 9. Short summer tour starts at the Odeon, Birmingham |
| 10. Capital Theatre, Cardiff | |
| 16. Belle Vue, Manchester | |
| 24. City Hall, Newcastle | |
| AUGUST | 30. Start of a French tour |
| SEPTEMBER | 4. The French touch ends |
| 7. Pierre Fondes Arena, Montreal | |
| 14. Academy of Music, New York | |
| NOVEMBER | 28. T. Rex appear in Tokyo at start of mini tour of Far East and Australasia |
| DECEMBER | 22. Edmonton Sundown, London, the first of three Christmas specials |
| 23. Two performances at the Sundown, Brixton, London,
the last time the four-piece T. Rex appear in England and it will be over
a year before Marc Bolan gigs in England again
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| 1973 | |
| FEBRUARY | 13. A new European tour begins at the Sportpasst in Berlin, Germany |
| 16. Gruguhaile, Essen, Germany | |
| 17. Marten un Blomen, Hamburg | |
| 18. Measehalle, Nuremberg | |
| 19. Vienna, Austria | |
| 20. Stidhalle, Offenbach, Frankfurt | |
| 22. Sporthalle Belle Vue, Saarbrocken | |
| 23. Deutschen Museum, Munich | |
| 24. Koln | |
| 25. VFR-Sporthalle, Mannheim | |
| MARCH | 12. Olympia, Paris |
| 15. Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 17. Aarhus, Germany | |
| 19. Oslo, Norway | |
| 20. Gothenburg, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 22. Odense, Denmark | |
| 24. Brussels, Belgium | |
| JULY | 20. Six-week tour of America opens at Milwaukee Arena and the bill is shared with Three Dog Night. Other cities covered included Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Ohio, St. Petersburg, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, Davenport, Iowa, Nassau, New Haven and New York. The tour ends in Winnipeg, Canada. |
| OCTOBER | T. Rex tour Japan, appearing in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima and Fukuoka |
| NOVEMBER | 3. Four-date tour of Australia kicks off at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney |
| 6. Apollo Stadium, Adelaide | |
| 7. Festival Hall, Melbourne | |
| 10. Tour finishes in Brisbane at the Festival Hall | |
| 1974 | |
| JANUARY | 21. First tour in England for over a year and a half when they appear at Newcastle City Hall at the start of the Truck Off tour |
| 22. Glasgow Apollo | |
| 24. City Hall, Sheffield | |
| 26. City Hall, Manchester | |
| 27. De Montfort Hall, Leicester | |
| 28. Odeon, Birmingham | |
| SEPTEMBER | 26. Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania |
| 28. Johnstown, Pennsylvania | |
| OCTOBER | 2. Joint in the Woods, Parsippany, New Jersey USA
Marc is taken ill so the gigs are cancelled for the rest of the month |
| NOVEMBER | 19. Roberts Stadium, Evansville, Indiana, USA |
| 11. Agora Club, Cleveland, Ohio, USA | |
| 15. Trenton War Memorial Theatre, Trenton, New Jersey, USA | |
| 16. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York, USA | |
| 17. American tour ends at the St Morte Hotel, New York, USA. | |
| 1975 | |
| JULY | 12. A new line-up of T-Rex begins a series of warm-up gigs, before the first Major UK Tour for over 18 months. This starts at the Palace Lido, Douglas, on the Isle of Man |
| 23. Tiffany's, Great Yarmouth | |
| 25. Pier Pavilion, Hastings | |
| 26. Lees Cliffe Hall Folkestone | |
| 1976 | |
| FEBRUARY | 5. The Futuristic Dragon tour begins at Chatham Central Hall |
| 6. St. Albans City Hall | |
| 7. Lees Cliffe Hall, Folkestone | |
| 8. Cliffes Pavilion, Southend | |
| 12. Floral Hall, Southport | |
| 13. Palace Theatre, Newark | |
| 14. Grand Pavilion, Withernsea | |
| 15. Empire Theatre, Sunderland | |
| 18. Lyceum, London | |
| 19. Queensway Dunstable | |
| 20. Winter Gardens, Bournemouth | |
| 23. Town Hall, Birmingham | |
| 24. Free Trade Hall, Manchester | |
| 28. Winter Gardens, Brighton | |
| MARCH | 1. Apollo, Glasgow |
| 3. Municipal Hall, Falkirk | |
| 4. Civic Centre, Motherwell | |
| 6. Grand Hall, Kilmarnock | |
| DECEMBER | 19. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London This is a Charity Gig |
| 1977 | |
| FEBRUARY | A Low Key French tour which includes a Gig in Nantes. |
| MARCH | 10. The Dandy in the Underworld Tour begins at Newcastle City Hall with 'The Damned' as support |
| 11. Manchester Apollo | |
| 12. Glasgow Apollo | |
| 13. Victoria Hall, Hanley | |
| 14. Colston Hall, Bristol | |
| 17. Odeon, Birmingham | |
| 18. Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London | |
| 19. Pavilion, West Runton | |
| 20. Locarno, Portsmouth | |
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