Artist	Song
Quintessence	Notting Hill Gate
Hapshash & The Coloured Coat	The Wall
High Tide	Futilists Lament
Pink Faries	Say You Love Me
Man	Daughter Of the Fireplace
Global Villiage Trucking Company	You're a Floozy Madam Karma (But I Love Your Lowdown Ways)
Sutherland Brothers & Quiver	Dream Kid
Brinsley Schwartz	Funk Angel
Help Yourself	Street Songs
Mighty Baby	Egyptian Tomb
Hawkwind	Be Yourself
Come To The Edge	Xingu
Henry Cow	Groningen Again
Edgar Broughton Band	Out Demons Out

Comment:

Towards the end of Michael Moorcock's novel "The Condition Of Muzak", his hero, Jerry Cornelius, returns to his native Ladbroke Grove in London and has a chance to play out his rock star fantasies at a gig beneath the Westway.

This provides the author with an opportunity to reminisce about the free Saturday concerts which briefly, in the early 1970s, added to the area's ambiance of laissez-faire bohemianism and he lists some of the bands who played (tracks 4,7,8,10,11,12,13).

Here they are together with some fellow-travellers who would have been there in spirit if not actually the flesh.

It's a snapshot of a scene that's tended to be overlooked in accounts of the post-psychedelic, pre-punk period. Not quite prog, definitely not glam, it was if anything, the closest Britain came to providing a home-grown equivalent of the San Francisco vibe: loose, stoned jams, a healthy respect for early rock & roll, a soupcon of laid-back country-rock but with an edge of street politics as exemplified by the Fairies and in a more extreme, intellectually rigorous form, H Cow.

The majority of the acts were signed to Liberty / United Artists and like many of the great labels it was the reflection of one man's strong & singular tastes; in this case, label manager Andrew Lauder, a young West Coast freak.

The moment didn't last long but many of the musicians went on to become key players in the Pub Rock movement that was an important tributary of Punk.

Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove are now among the most sought-after & expensive areas of London so the chance of history repeating itself in this particular locale are less than zero.

Remember it this way.

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