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This week, I have been researching one of the sets of photos that will be in the Barry Plummer book – Master of Images. It was labelled ‘Roundhouse’ but, as you will hear, that wasn’t as straightforward a venue as I thought it was going to be.
Once I get it all sorted out, I was delighted to discover that there is a crowd recording of the concert available over at:
https://forgotten-yesterdays.com/downloads.asp?ftype=1&qsectionid=2&qdownloadid=37
After I told the story about what I found out, Mark and I compared notes on this early outing for songs from The Yes Album. It’s a fascinating concert to listen to and we both spotted some great features.
- How many Roundhouses were there?
- Which one is this?
- How does Steve Howe fit into his new-ish band role?
Please do add your own comments below.
The ‘other’ Roundhouse at Chalk Farm:
Poster for the Dagenham Roundhouse Yes concert:
Here is a comment from Clive Ayer:
I grew up a couple of miles away from The Roundhouse, Dagenham. I believe it is still there. A lot of major bands played there early in their careers, including Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. On the centenary of its opening, just after lockdown, The Boomtown Rats, among others, played a free celebration concert, along with a few other artists. This was held down the road in Parslows Park. It was surprisingly good. The Roundhouse itself stopped hosting gigs many years ago.
As for the red and white poster for the Yes gig seen here, I did try to buy it but was outbid by an extremely determined collector.
With regard to Mark’s comments regarding Iron Maiden (a band local to the area), they released an EP in 1979, before they had a record deal, called The Soundhouse Tapes. I used to work with their singer’s girlfriend and regularly saw them at a different local pub. She brought a stack of them into work for anyone to help themselves to, but I didn’t bother as I wasn’t much of a fan. It’s now worth a fortune. One copy could pay for a handful of Yes Roundhouse posters! I think that’s what he was thinking about when he mentioned the Roundhouse and Iron Maiden.
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3 replies on “The Roundhouse(s) story – 728”
I used to go to the Chalk Farm Roundhouse a lot in the 70s.
Sunday nights there were a regular pilgrimage. Usually a three act bill, doors open late afternoon, open seating on the raked floor. First band on 6ish. If you wanted a first taste of veggie food and other attractions then it was quite the place. You could arrive sober, spend no virtually money and leave replete and high as a kite without breaking a single law!
In my early days it was the likes of Greenslade, Budgie, Pat Travers, UFO, Van Der Graaf Generator and Hawkwind who would headline and the mighty Man, of course, who I saw there a bunch of times. By 77/78 those headliners were the likes of The Stranglers, The Buzzcocks, Heavy Metal Kids.
it also hosted diverse events like London Jazz Festival and Edward Fox in TS Eliot’s The Family Reuinon.
For rock bands it was like a career staging post between being Marquee headliners and playing the theatres like New Victoria Theatre and Hammersmith Odeon. For middle bill bands and openers it could be an amazing showcase.
The basic shell of the Roundhouse today is the exact same building as that venue with a modern extension inc bar / restaurant which has expended the capacity of the venue itself which is all standing these days for the most part though it can be set up for all seated too.
The Dagenham venue was a good room but never as important as the Chark Farm venue.
Congratulations to Doug Curran for becoming a new producer of the podcast! I’m not sure what that actually entails, but I’m confident that the podcast will beneft from his expertise.
Thank you, Ray!