Marmalade Skies is a wonderfully obsessive archive of flyers, gigs, happenings and everything else connected with British psychedelia, 1966-70. Did you know that The Bee Gees played in Lewisham in 1967 at a charity show in aid of the Hither Green train disaster fund (40 died on 5th November 1967)or that Pink Floyd played Woolwich Poly the following year? Most interesting sounding was an event at The Albany Institute, Deptford in June 1967 featuring 'Films, Strange Sounds plus Psychedelic Poetry!', with artists incuding Michael Chapman, Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth.
I will also have to check out some of the forgotten psychedelicists like East of Eden, who played in New Cross at the South East London College of Further Education in 1969, and Focal Point, a band signed to The Beatles Apple Records who lived for a while in East Dulwich.
The Most Popular Man in New Cross’ - Rediscovering boxer-wrestler Jack Wannop and his pugilistic pals - Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm
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*Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm*
As a wrestler Jack Wannop had a remarkable impact on pioneering and
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