Bonzos:
Scaffold:
Standard performance (see Forum Theatre, below)
Quote: A long strong black pudding up your Free Trade Hall
Stage effects:
Smoke, lights, about 150ft long, 18-inch diameter inflatable tubes that unfurled
across the the stalls from the back of the stage to the back of the
auditorium. Things that fell from the roofspace. All the normal Bonzo props.
There wasn't much crossover between the two bands, although I think the Bonzos provided music for the Scaffold songs. Basically either one band or the other was performing, though in a single show, not as main artist and support.
Live show, small theatre, Songs & poetry. Particularly memorable for McGough/Gorman doing many of the P.C. Plod poems. (McGough reading, Gorman miming and reciting the P.C. Plod spoken parts). The songs were mainly their recorded works but unaccompanied. (I think The Masked Poet appeared.)
One of the finest concerts I've ever attended. Supposed to start at 20:30 it started about an hour late. Then it didn't stop until about midnight. The performances ran into one another throughout the show, a constant stream of remarkably different styles. I mainly remember the unique way Mike McGear got the audience to sit on the floor so everybody could see the show, (the venue was very crowded), and an insane version of The Humanoid Boogie with the entire cast (about 15) on stage and all the props! (The Masked Poet was definitely present.)
Sitting down the Grimms way.
Introduced as a rehersal for the next number.