The Liverpool Scene - The amazing adventures of... - 2009 (Psychedelic Proto-Art Poetry Rock {UK})

The Liverpool Scene foi uma banda de poesia que incluía Adrian Henri, Andy Roberts, Mike Evans, Mike Hart, Percy Jones e Brian Dodson. A banda surgiu do sucesso de "The amazing new Liverpool scene", um LP da CBS com Henri e McGough lendo seus trabalhos, com acompanhamento do guitarrista Roberts. O DJ de Liverpool, John Peel, que então trabalhava na estação de rádio pirata Radio London, pegou o LP e o apresentou em seu influente programa noturno "Perfumed garden". Após o fechamento da Rádio Londres, Peel visitou Liverpool e conheceu a banda. Como consequência, a banda apareceu em sessões de seus programas Top Gear e Night Ride da BBC, e em 1968 ele produziu seu primeiro LP. Quatro LPs foram lançados com a poesia de Henri em destaque.

Apesar do apoio de Peel, os álbuns alcançaram pouco sucesso, embora a banda tenha se tornado popular no circuito universitário e universitário do Reino Unido. Suas apresentações públicas incluíram uma turnê em 1969, quando abriram para a Led Zeppelin. A banda também fez uma turnê pelos Estados Unidos, mas não atraiu muitos elogios da crítica e do público norte-americanos. Henri foi descrito na performance como "saltando estrondosamente e correndo risco para o público e outros artistas, o palco vibrando fora do ritmo abaixo dele". Mike Hart tornou-se membro da National Head Band, que incluía Lee Kerslake (Toe Fat, Uriah Heep).

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The Liverpool Scene was a poetry band, which included Adrian Henri, Andy Roberts, Mike Evans, Mike Hart, Percy Jones and Brian Dodson. The band grew out of the success of "The incredible new Liverpool scene", a CBS LP featuring Henri and McGough reading their work, with accompaniment by the guitarist Roberts. Liverpool DJ John Peel, who was then working on the pirate radio station Radio London, picked up on the LP and featured it on his influential late-night "Perfumed garden" show. After Radio London closed down, Peel visited Liverpool and met the band. As a consequence, the band was featured in session on his BBC Top Gear and Night Ride shows, and in 1968 he produced their first LP. Four LPs were issued with Henri's poetry heavily featured.

Despite Peel's support the albums achieved little success, although the band did become popular on the UK university and college circuit. Its public performances included a 1969 tour when they opened for Led Zeppelin. The band also toured the US but did not attract much acclaim from US critics and audiences. Henri was described in performance as "bouncing thunderously and at risk to audience and fellow performers, the stage vibrating out of rhythm beneath him". Mike Hart became a member of National Head Band, which included Lee Kerslake (Toe Fat, Uriah Heep).

Membros

Adrian Henri - vocal

Andy Roberts - vocal, guitarra,

acordeão, gaita, assobios

Mike Hart - vocal, guitarra

Percy Jones - baixo, gaita

Mike Evans - saxofones

tenor e alto, vocal

Brian Dodson

- bateria

CD 01

01. Love is

02. Batpoem

03. Son, son

04. Tramcar to

Frankenstein

05. The woo woo

06. Burdock River run

07. Happy burial blues

08. Universes

09. I'm just

a simple boy

10. Baby

11. Percy

Parslow's hamster farm

12. Bomb commercials

13. Elsie Straws saga

14. Wildwest

15. Colours

16. Gliders, parks

17. Love story

CD 02

01. The entry of

Christ into Liverpool

02. We'll all be spacemen

before we die

03. Human tapeworm

04. The morning the

sky went away 

05. Mental astronaut

06. See the conkering

heroine come

07. Winter poem

08. Come into

the perfumed

garden, Maud

09. The raven

10. The only thing

it needed was you

11. I've got these

Fleetwood Mac Chicken

Shack John Mayall

can't fail blues

12. 64

13. Night song

14. G.B.S. blues

15. Made in U.S.A.

16. Rainbow

poem

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The Liverpool Scene - Batpoem - 1969

The Liverpool Scene - Winterpoem - 1969

The Liverpool Scene - We'll all be spacemen before we die - 1969