Boat Club Acts

Here are the bands you may have seen at the Boat Club:

• .. and you will know us by the trail of dead
• A Band Called O
• A II Z
• A Silver Mount Zion
• A Universal History Of Infamy
• Ace Keffords Rock Star
• Action
• Action Time
• Add N To (X)
• Agnes Strange
• Airport Girl
• Al Stewart
• Alan Bown Set
• Alex Harvey Soul Band
• Alexis Korner and Blues Inc.
• Alkatraz (featuring Stu Halliday, Will Yousalt & Jim Davis ex Neutrons)
• Andreas Hofner & The Atlantic
• Andy Roberts & Everyone
• Apocalypse Hoboken
• Armada (Wednesday residency at the Marquee. Vocals from Elmer Gantry, ex Gantry’s Velvet Opera & Hair at
• Art Failure
• Arthur Coynes Jazz Band
• Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – also known as Ashton (recorded Resurrection Shuffle)
• Average White Band
• Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
  • featuring Victor Brox
• Azel
• Babe Ruth
• Backdoor
• Baker Street Ltd
• Bakerloo
• Bakerloo Blues Line
• Banco
• Band of Joy
• Band Of Mental Breakdown
• Barclay James Harvest
• Bastille
• Bearsuit
• Beckett
• Bees Make Honey (London pub rock group, signed to EMI in 1973)
• Bensch
• Berlin
• Billy Campbell & The Nightsparrows
• Birthday Pavement
• Black Cat Bones
• Black Sabbath
• Black Widow
• Blazer Blazer (featuring Simon Fox, ex Be Bop Deluxe)
• Blitz (ex Budgie)
• Blodwyn pig (formed by Mick Abrahams, ex Jethro Tull in 1969)
• Blond On Blond
• Blue Monks
• Blue Rhubarb Tree
• Blues and Roots
  • featuring Vic Johnson
• Blues What Am!
• Bluesville! Oh Yeah
• Bob Wallace & His Jazzmen
• Bob Wilson with guest clarinettist/organist Sandy Brown
• Bow Wow Wow
• Brad Buchanan’s Three Bob Bop changes it’s name to the Fifteen Pence Bop – decimilasation!
• Brain Child
• Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts
• Brewers Droop
• Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express
• Brigitte St John
• Brinsley Schwartz
• Broken Home
• Bronco
• Brush teaturing Ben Shield (ex Skid Row), John Wilson (ex Taste) & Adrian Fisher (ex Free)
• Bubblegum
• Budgie
• Bullit
• Buster James Band
• Byzantium
• Campbell Brothers & Mighty Sparrow
• Capability Brown
• Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
• Captain Cooks Dog (ex Centaurius)
• CarIs Fables
• Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede
• Carl King & The Projection
• Casino
• Cat Iron
• CC Dog
• Centaurius
• Chain
• Champion (ex members of Wings)
• Champion Jack Dupree (US blues pianist & singer) &
• Charlie
• Charlie Brown (DJ)
• Chevy
• Chicago Climax Band
• Chicken Shack
• Chip Ballinger & The 78’s
• Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds
• Christine Perfect (ex Chicken Shack)
• Cindy Starr & The Mopeds
• Cinerama
• Cisco
• Clambake
• Clancy
• Classic Nouveux (ex X-Ray Spex)
• Cliff Ballinger & The 78’s
• Climax Blues Band
• Clockwork Toys
• Cloks (was Matarka)
• Clouds
• Cochise
• Cock-A-Hoops
• Cold Lady River
• Colin Staples Blues Band & Dave Turner
• Colin Staples Staple Diet
• Colosseum Il featuring Gary Moore & Jon Hiseman
• Colours Of Love
• Comsat Angels
• Cops ‘n’ Robbers
• Cornelius Jones & The Cat
• Cottonwood
• Count Prince Miller
• Crawdaddies
• Crawler (were Back Street Crawler)
• Crazy Caran & The Rhythm Rockers
• Cream on film
• Creeper Lagoon
• Dagaband
• Dangerous Girls
• Danny Moss & Jeannie Lamb
• Danta
• Dantalions Chariot
• Dark Star
• Darryl Ways Wolfe (ex Curved Air)
• Dave Lewis Band
• Dave Turner
• David Kitt
• Dawn Trader
• Decoy Big Band
• Dedicated Men Jug Band
• Dedringer
• Deep Joy
• Deep Purple
• Def Leppard
• Denny’s Soul Session
• Desperate Dan including AI Gascoigne
• Diamond Head
• Dictionary of Soul
• Dire Straits
• Dirty Tricks
• Don Covay
• Dungeon Daze
• Duster Bennett
  • & Steel Cradle
• Early Bird
• Earthquake
• East Of Eden
• Easy
• Ebony Blush
• Echoboy
• Eclection
• Eddie Thornton
• Edgar Broughton Band (psychedelic blues)
• Elko (heavy three piece)
• Ellis featuring Steve Ellis & Zoot Money
• Ellison’s Hugline
• Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
• Emery Chase
  • & Circus
• ENON
• Eric Bell Band
• Errol Daniels & The Garments
• Esperranto (8 piece group, had LP Danse Macabre, classical rock, violin, cello guitars… musicians from around the world)
• Ethel The Frog
• Evan Dando
• Ex Directory
• Eyewitness
• Fairport Convention
• Falling Leaves
• Fischer-Z
• Fist
• Flatbackers
• Flett
• Flying Aus
• Flying Fortress
• Flying Hat Band
• Frankie Sparo
• Freddie King
  • & Killing Floor
  • & Steamhammer
• Freedom
• Freez
• Frupp
• Fusion Orchestra featuring Jill Saward
• Gaffa
• Gale Fury & The Tempests
• Garnett Mimms
• Gary Farr & The T-Bones
• Gary Holton & The Villains
• Gary Holton Band
• Gary Moore Band
• Genesis (with full show including Moog synthesiser)
• Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band
• George Hatcher Band (ex Aliman Brothers Band & Marshall Tucker Band)
• Gigaflow (Northern Finalists in Melody Maker group contest)
• Giggles
• Ginty
• Girl
• Girls Against Boys
• Girlschool
• GKFA
• Glencoe
• Glenroy Oakley & The Oracles
• Glider
• Global Village Trucking Co.
• Gloryland Band
• Godfrey’s Grit and Soul Band
• Good Habit
• Good Time Band
• Gordon Rowley and Friends (ex Nutz)
• Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
• Grace
• Graham Bond Organisation
• Grand Hotel
• Grapevine
• Graphite
• Gravy Train
• Greeco (runner up in 1973 Melody Maker group contest)
• Greensleeper
• Grind
• Groop Dogdrill
• Groundhogs
• Gryphon
• Gwadir
• Gygapo
• Gypsy
• Hackensack
• Hadrians Mushroom (ex King Crimson)
• Half Man Half Biscuit
• Halfbreed
• Hannah (country rock). Featuring Mick Stewart, Paul McCallum, Mike Fudge, Joe Gillingham & Chris Hunt.
• Hard Meat
• Hardin & York
• Harlem John’s Re-Shuffle
• Harlem Speakeasy
• Head Waiter (featuring Doug Ferguson, ex Camel)
• Heartbreakers (ex New York Dolls Jerry Nolan & Johnny
• Heavy Jelly – Jackie Lomax
• Heavy Metal Kids
• Hellraisers
• Hellride
• Herbie Goins & The Nightimers
• Hobo
• Holly & The Italians
• Honour bass player Mike Stocks
• Hot Property
• Houndog
• Howl
• Howlin Wolf
• Humphrey Lyttleton and his band
• Hustler
• Ice
• If
• Imaginations
• Impressions
• Iron Maiden
• J Mascis & The Fog
• J.I.B.M. & S.
• Jack Archer plus The Apex Jazz Band.
• Jack The Lad (featuring Rod Clements & other founder members of Lindisfarne, also Mitch Mitchell – Jimi Hendrix’s drummer)
• Jameson Raid
• Janet & The Icebergs
• January
• Javelin
• JB White & The Funky Fever
• Jeff Beck
• Jell Beck Group featuring Rod Stewart
• Jell Conley Roadshow plus Conley Go-Go Dancers
• Jellybread
• Jenny Haan’s Lion
• Jerutshta
• Jethro Tull
• Jim Crow
• Jimmy Cliff
  • & The New Generation
• Jimmy James & The Vagabonds
• Jimmy Powell & The 5 Dimensions
• Jimmy Witherspoon
• JJ Bender
  • & The SOS
• Jobe St. Day
• Jody Grynd
• John Bender
• John Darnborough Band (ex Blodwyn Pig)
• John Evans Big Soul Band
• John Evans Smash
• John Grimaldis Cheap Flights (ex Argent)
• John L Watson
• John Lee Hooker
• John Lee Hooker & The Groundhogs
• John Macintyre Collection
• John Mayall’s Blues Breakers
  • featuring Eric Clapton
• John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
• John Peel with guest artist
• Johnny Domino
• Joie/Dead Blonde Girlfriend
• Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum
• Jonesy (John & Trevor Jones, Plug Thomas, Jimmy Kaleth & Alan Brown. Respective lead, bass, drums, mellotron & electric trumpet.
• Journey Within
• Judas Priest
• Juicy Lucy
• Jukes Blues Big RoIl Band
• July
• Junco Partners
• Juniors Eyes
• Keef Hartley
• Keith Christmas
• Keith ReIf (ex Yardbirds) Renaissance
• Kelleys Eye (ex Flett & Wheels)
• Khan (featuring Steve Hillage, Eric Peachy and Kick Heningham, Nick Greenwood, ex Crazy World Of Arthur Brown)
• Kilburn & The High Roads (featured Ian Dury on vocals)
• Killing Joke
• King Biscuit
• King Crimson
• Kleptomania
• Kopapendulum
• Kraan
• Krazy Kat (ex members of Capability Brown)
• Kulkulkan
• Kyro
• Le Gay
• Leargo
• Led Zeppelin
• Lee Bromham (ex lead guitar with Stray)
• Lee Farden
• Lefthand Drive
• Lefty
• Lemmy’s Motorhead (ex Hawkwind)
• Lew Lewis
• Life Without Mother
• Lightning Raiders (featuring ex members of Pink Fairies & The Alex Harvey Band)
• Limelight
• Lincoln
• Lion featuring Pete Boot (ex Budgie)
• Lionheart
• Little Axe
• Little Baby May
• Little Bob Storey (French)
• Liverpool Scene
• Lone Star
  • & Angel Street
• Long John Baldry
• Lorna
• Lou Prinze & The Bedrock
• Lun (including ex member of Judas Priest)
• Machine
• Mackenna Mendelson’s Mainline
• Mad Dog Blues Band (Ex John MayalI)
• Magic
• Magnum
• Make Up
• Man
• Man…Or Astroman
• Mandys Movement
• Mankind
• Mark Eitzel
• Mark Mulcahy
• Marseille
• Mary Timony
• Matarka
• Matthews Southern Comfort
• Max & The Bluestars
• McGuinness Flint
• Mclusky
• Meal Ticket
• Medicine Head
  • with Tiny Davis
• Memphis Band (Chuck Berrys British group)
• Metro
• Mick Abrahams Band
• Mighty Baby
• Miss Black America
• Mister Big
• Mistress
• Modey Lemon
• Moldy Peaches
• Money
• More
• Mosaic Sunset
• Motorhead
• Muddy Waters Blues Band featuring Otis Spann
• Mudhoney
• Nasty Pop
• National Bandit
• Nazareth
• Ned Ludd (local)
• Neutrons (featuring Will Vousalt & Phill Ryan founder members of Man)
• Next
• Next Band
• Nightwing
• No Dice
• No Sweat
• Noel Reddings Fat Mattress
• Nutz
• Odins Storm
• Odysseus
• One Inch Of Rock
• One Night Only
• One Step Beyond
• Orange Juice
• Orphan
• Outward Band
• Overdrive
• P Brothers
• Palomino
• Pandoras Box
• Paralex
• Paris
• Pat Travers
• Paul Perry Set
• Peace & Love
• Pete & Billy Campbell & The Mighty Sparrows
• Peter B’s Looners
• Peter Green Band
• Peter Londons Rock and Soul Orchestra
• Peter Soul Jones
• Phonograph
• Pilgrim
• Pink Fairies
• Plummet Airlines
• Possessed
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
• Psychedelic
• Q.YL.
• Quartz
• Quicksand
• Quintessence
• Quo Vardis
• R.D.R.
• Race Against Time
• Racing Cars
• Radiator (ex Air Force, Snafu & Lindisfarne)
• Radio Stars
• Raid
• Rainmaker
• Ram Jam Band
• Rapids Big Roll Band
• Rare Bird
• Rave On
• Raven
• Ray Crane’s Waitin’ Blues Band, blues shouts by Tony Jackson
• Ray Phillips Band plus Ludwig Wolf
• Ray Sugar Dixon
• Raymond Froggatt Band
• Remember This
• Renaissance featuring Annie Haslam
• Reynolds
• Rick Grech Band (ex Blind Faith, Family, KGB)
• Ricky Storm & The Houndogs
• Rik & Jenny Johnson and the Nightimers
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Express
• Rock Island Line
• Rock Of All Ages
• Rockhouse Band
• Rockin Pneumonia (50s)
• Rocks Off Revival
• Rod Stewart
• Rod Stewart with the Shotgun Express
• Rodger
• Ronnie Jones and The Blue Jays
• Root & Jenny Jackson Peace Corps with Victor Brox
• Root and Jenny Jackson
• Rory Gallagher & Taste
• Roy Harper
• Ruben & The Vets
• Rudi
• S.F.
• Salt
• Sam & Dave Show
• Sam Apple Pie
• Samantha Jane
• Sandgate
• Saracen
• Sarraband
• Sassafras
• Sassafras with Terry Bennett
• Satis
• Savoy Brown Blues Band
• Savoy Grand
• Saxon
• Sea-Change
• Secondhand Band
• Section 25
• Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• SF2
• Shades
• Shakin’ Stevens & The Sunsets
• Shanghai
• Sheerwater
• Sheffields
• Shell Invaders
• Shirley McDonald, Sandy Roberts & Everybody
• Shotgun Express
• Silverhead
• Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
• Simple Minds
• Sis Reaction
• Six Across
• Six By Seven
• Skid Row (with Gary Moore, Eric Clapton, Peter Green)
• Skin Alley
• Sky
• Sleater Kinney
• Sledgehammer
• Slender Loris
• Slowbone
• Snake Eye
• Soho Jets
• Solar Plexus
• Solid State Radio
• Solution
• Some Chicken
• Son Of A Bitch (ex John Verity Band)
• Sons and Lovers
• Sorahan
• Soul Brothers
• Soul Committee
• Sounds Incorporated
• Southbank Blues
• Spaceheads
• Sparta
• Spencer Davis
• Spirit of John Morgan
• Spooky Tooth
• Spoonful
• Spud
• Stackridge
• Stanley Barnes, Derek Holloway
• Staple Diet featuring Colin Staples
• State Express
• Stax Finger Pop Band
• Steamhammer
• Steve Gibbons Band
• Stone Fox
• Stone The Crows
• Stone Wall Jackson
• Stonehenge
• Stormsville Shakers
• Strange Mist
• Stray
• Stress
• Stretch (Elmer Gantry vocals, ex Fleetwood Mac; Hiroshi Kato guitar; Paul Kirby guitar; Jim Russell drums, ex Curved Air)
• Strider
• Strife
• String Driven Thing
• Suburban Studs
• Sugar Gordon
• Sugar Robinson backed by Lawless Breed
• Suicide & Bandana
• Sundance
• Supercharge
• Superchunk
• Superdude (ex Odysseus & Stone Pony)
• Supersuckers
• Supertramp
• Supreme Sound
• Swearing At Motorists
• Sweet Soul Bedrock
• T D Backus & The Powerhouse
• T2
• Tatum
• Taurus
• Ten Years After
• The Alchemysts
• The Amazon Blades
• The Artwoods
• The Associates
• The Ataris
• The Band of Joy with Robert A Plant
• The Bays
• The Bedrocks (Obladi)
• The Black Heart Procession
• The Bluebottles
• The Bob Wilson Jazz Band
  • and Dilly
  • with Sandy Brown (clarinet, bass clarinet & organ)
  • with Tony Jackson
  • with Tony Jackson and Cecile
  • with Tony Jackson and Cecile, John Spooner on drums
• The Boys
• The Brian Auger Trinity
• The Brian Auger Trinity with Julie Driscoll
• The Butterflies Of Love
• The Buzz Band
• The Byron (ex Uriah Heep)
• The Calgary Stampede
• The Campbell Bros.
• The Captive Eight
• The Captives
• The Catheters
• The Chemistry Experiment
• The Cherry Blossom Clinic
• The Chessmen
• The Chicago Hush Band
• The Clayton Hayes
• The Coasters
• The Cock-A-Hoops
• The Cramps
• The Crawdaddies
• The Crew
• The Dance Band
• The Datsuns
• The Dawnbreakers
• The Dead Kennedys
• The Decoy Soul Show
• The Detroit Soul Band
• The E.F. Band
• The Ebonites
• The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
• The Entertainers
• The Expressos
• The F**king Champs
• The Faint
• The Fall
• The Family
• The Fantastic Johnny C
• The Fantastics
• The Firestones
• The Flying Axe Band
• The Freeholders
• The Gary Moore Band. The Skid Row line up with a new bassist
• The Gass
• The Groundhogs
• The Group With No Name
• The Heavy Metal Rockers
• The High Tones
• The Hipster Image
• The Honeydrippers
• The Hoodoos
• The Hormones
• The Houseshakers
• The Ignition
• The Influx
• The Jaffa Band
• The John Evans Band
• The John Evans Smash
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• The Litter
• The Locomotive
• The Magoos
• The Maze
• The Members
• The Memphis Express
• The Midnight Train
• The Mike Cotton Sound
• The Mike Stuart Span
• The Milton James Band
• The Minor Portion Roll Band
• The Mojos
• The Motion
• The Move
• The Murder City Devils
• The Next Band
• The O Band
• The Paradise Tree
• The Peaceful Souls
• The Penny Peep Show
• The Peppermint Circus
• The Pirates
• The Precinct
• The Pretenders
• The Professionals
• The Psychedelic Lights
• The Rainy Day Women
• The Ray Crane Jazz Band
  • with Tony Jackson
• The Raynes
• The Red Onions
• The Rhythm and Blues Messengers
• The Richard Hallam Blues Band
  • & Tony Jackson with Danny Moss (tenor sax) – from Humphrey Lyttletons Band
  • with Tony Jackson
  • featuring Ralph Lang (piano)
  • with Bruce Turner
  • with Danny Moss
  • with Dilly & Tony Jackson
  • with Mel Thorpe (tenor sax) & Tony Jackson
  • with Ray Crane and Archie Semple
  • with Ray Crane
• The Riverside House Band
• The Rock ‘n’ Roll Giants
• The Rumble Band
• The Scorpions
• The Scorpions, plus Aaron
• The Screen
• The Set featuring Paul Williams
• The Sex Pistols
• The Shaftesbury Theatre. Also featuring Sammy Rimming, ex Ken Colyer, Graham Gregory & Dave Usher)
• The Sharrons
• The Shevelles
• The Sisyn
• The Somethin’ Wise Group
• The Soul Committee
• The Soul Express
• The Soul Syndicate
• The Spectres (featuring Glen Matlock ex Sex Pistols & Danny Kurstow)
• The State Express
• The Stax Men
• The Strawbs
• The Swinging Bob Wilson Band with Tony Jackson’s R&B
• The Taste
• The Terrible Trio – Titch, Pol & Bob
• The Third of Nine
• The Tiny Davis A Go Go Show
• The Toby Jug Band
• The Toyshop
• The Tropical Boot Co.
• The Turbines
• The Uptown Band
• The Vandals
• The Village Green Soul Show
• The Warlocks
• The Wolves Of Greece
• The X-Rays
• The Young Ones (tirst time)
• Thunders + Richard Hell ex Television)
• Tiger T Brown & Soul Stars
• Tim Rose
• Tim Rose with Aynsley Dunbar and Victor Brox
• Tir Na Nog
• Titch, Fol & Bob.
• To-day
• Toggery 5
• Tony Gregory
• Tony Knight’s Chessmen
• Tony McPhees Terraplane
• Trampus
• Trans AM
• Trapeze (Birmingham band, successful in the USA, featured Glen Hughes – bass – later of Deep Purple)
• Treacle
• Trespass
• Triad Soul Caravan featuring Lloyd Williams and King James
• Twice On Sunday (seven piece Teddy Boy Group)
• Twinkie
• Tygers Of Pan Tang
• Tyla Gang
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• U.F.O.
• U.K. Decay
• U2
• UFO plus Edge
• Ultravox
• Unicorn
• UPP
• Urchin
• Valkyrie
• Van der Graaf Generator
• Vapour Trails (Kiki Dees backing band)
• Vardis
• Vesousias
• Victor Brox Blues Train
• Village Green Soul Show
• Virginia Wolfe
• Von Bondies
• Voyager
• Wailing Cocks
• Wally
• Warhorse & Hardware
• Warlord (East Midlands band)
• Weapon (unconfirmed)
• Wellington Kitch Jump Band
• Wheels
• Whiskey Mac
• Whitespirit
• Wild Angels
• Wild Horses
• Wild Turkey (first appearance. Featuring Glenn Cornick, ex Jethro Tull
• William Bell
• Winkies
• Wishbone Ash
• Witchfynde
• Wolves!
• Woman
• Woman featuring Ray Phillips (ex Budgie)
• Woody Kern
• Writing On The Wall
• Wynder K. Frog
• Yakkerty Yak
• Young Marble Giants
• Zabrinski
• Zacariah
• Zela
• Zen Guerrilla
• Zipper
• Zoot Money and his Big Roll Band