The following gig list was compiled from several sources including advertisements in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Geoff Docherty’s book (A Promoter’s Tale) and various band gig diaries.
1969
January 1969
| Date | Bands: – | ||
| Fri | 10/01/69 | Paul Williams Set | Sect |
| Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers | |||
| Thu | 16/01/69 | Junco Partners | Traction |
| Peter’s People | |||
| Thu | 30/01/69 | Love Affair | Sir Percy and the Riot Squad |
| Sect | Downtown Faction |
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February 1969
| Fri | 21/02/69 | Gregg Burman Soul Band | Alan Price |
| Screaming Jay Hawkins | Bedrocks | ||
| Steam Coffin |
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April 1969
| Thu | 03/04/69 | Amen Corner |
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May 1969
| Fri | 16/05/69 | Doc K’s Blues Band | Fleetwood Mac |
| Thu | 22/05/69 | Tremeloes | Mr Poobah’s Chicago Line |
| Steam Coffin | Clockwork Orange | ||
| Fri | 30/05/69 | Bob and Earl | Root and Jenny Jackson |
| Junco Partners | Sect |
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June 1969
| Fri | 06/06/69 | Phase 4 | Vanity Fair |
| Easy Beats | |||
| Thu | 12/06/69 | Marmalade | Sneeze |
| Animal Farm | |||
| Fri | 13/06/69 | Pleasure Machine | Love Affair |
| This Years Girl | Barracuda Band | ||
| Hi Life Band | |||
| Fri | 20/06/69 | Jimmy James and the Vagabonds | Jano Thomas |
| Junco Partners | Traction |
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July 1969
| Fri | 11/07/69 | Steam Coffin | Glass Menagerie |
| Herd | Sect | ||
| Fri | 18/07/69 | Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band |
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August 1969
| Fri | 15/08/69 | Doc K’s Blues Band | Gun |
| Deep Purple |
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September 1969
| Wed | 03/09/69 | Sect | Mr Poobah’s Chicago Line |
| Country Fair | |||
| Fri | 12/09/69 | Family | Idle Race |
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October 1969
| Fri | 24/10/69 | Jigsaw | Fresh |
| Manfred Mann | |||
| Wed | 29/10/69 | Jimmy James and the Vagabonds | Alan Bown Set |
| Dandelion | This Years Girl | ||
| Ben E King |
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November 1969
| Thu | 20/11/69 | Move | Mr Poobah’s Chicago Line |
| Pleasure Machine | Sneeze |
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December 1969
| Thu | 04/12/69 | Fresh water | Muesli |
| Sweet Wine | Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation | ||
| Gin House | |||
| Fri | 05/12/69 | West One | |
| Tue | 23/12/69 | Junco Partners | Sneeze |
| Good Lovin’ Band | Love Affair |
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1970
January 1970
| Tue | 06/01/70 | Axtree Junction | Mass Action |
| Junco Partners | Spyda | ||
| Fri | 09/01/70 | White Trash | Windmill |
| Sneeze | Sect | ||
| Tue | 13/01/70 | Sneeze | Peoples Mass |
| Good Lovin’ Band | Traction | ||
| Thu | 22/01/70 | Fat Mattress | Sprit of John Morgan |
| Man | Clockwork Orange | ||
| Tue | 27/01/70 | Junco Partners | Gorilla |
| Sect | Spyda |
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February 1970
| Tue | 03/02/70 | Envelope | Sect |
| Mass Action | Blondie | ||
| Tue | 10/02/70 | Sect | Traction |
| White Summer | Brethren | ||
| Fri | 13/02/70 | Spyda | Sneeze |
| Vanity Fair | Junco Partners | ||
| Tue | 17/02/70 | Junco Partners | Gorilla |
| Raw Spirit | Juice | ||
| Tue | 24/02/70 | Good Lovin’ Band | Morning Glory |
| Sneeze | Animal Farm | ||
| Fri | 27/02/70 | Raw Spirit | Crazy World of Arthur Brown |
| Doc K’s Blues Band | Georgia Quintet |
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March 1970
| Tue | 03/03/70 | Steam Coffin | Georgia Quintet |
| Merlin | Mr Shortie | ||
| Thu | 19/03/70 | Free | Juicy Lucy |
| Junco | Raw Spirit | ||
| Thu | 26/03/70 | Alan Price | |
| Tue | 31/03/70 | Brethren | Spyda |
| Blondie | Samova |
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April 1970
| Wed | 08/04/70 | Sneeze | Dogg |
| Sect | Juice | ||
| Thu | 09/04/70 | Atomic Rooster | Taste |
| Dogg | |||
| Wed | 15/04/70 | Mr Shortie | Traction |
| Hot Ice | Fathead | ||
| Thu | 16/04/70 | Brethren | Yes |
| Graham Bond Organisation | |||
| Thu | 23/04/70 | Good Lovin’ Band | |
| Thu | 30/04/70 | Junco Partners | Government |
| Edgar Broughton Band | Terry Reid |
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May 1970
| Thu | 07/05/70 | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Sect |
| Spyda | |||
| Wed | 13/05/70 | Georgia Quintet | Gollum |
| Tough Childhood | Pleasure Machine | ||
| Fri | 15/05/70 | Raw Spirit | Colloseum |
| Juice | |||
| Fri | 22/05/70 | Radha Krishna Temple | Black Widow |
| Friends | |||
| Fri | 29/05/70 | Yellow | Savoy Brown Soul Band |
| Juicy Lucy |
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June 1970
| Thu | 04/06/70 | Mr Shortie | Dogg |
| Sect | Georgia Quintet | ||
| Fri | 12/06/70 | Quintessence | Dogg |
| Edgar Broughton Band | |||
| Fri | 19/06/70E | Terry Reid’s Fantasia | Fat Mattress |
| Juice | |||
| Fri | 26/06/70 | Rare Bird | Hard Meat |
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July 1970
| Wed | 01/07/70 | Brethren | Yellow Fever |
| Raw Spirit | Juice | ||
| Fri | 03/07/70 | Roy Harper | Pretty Things |
| Brinsley Schwartz | |||
| Wed | 08/07/70 | Junco Partners | Sneeze |
| Saratoga | Gollum | ||
| Fri | 10/07/70 | Chicken Shack | Matthews Southern Comfort |
| Man | |||
| Wed | 15/07/70 | Blondie | Spyda |
| Juice | Fathead | ||
| Fri | 17/07/70 | Lord Sutch | If |
| Blondie | |||
| Tue | 21/07/70 | Georgia Quintet | Dogg |
| Brethren | |||
| Thu | 23/07/70 | Yellow | Van Der Graaf Generator |
| Atomic Rooster | |||
| Fri | 24/07/70 | Sneeze | |
| Tue | 31/07/70 | Sect | Traction |
| Fri | DATE | Deep Purple | Daddy Long Legs |
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August 1970
| Tue | 04/08/7/70 | Brethren | Tough Childhood |
| Saratoga | |||
| Fri | 07/08/70 | Derek and the Dominos | Writing on the Wall |
| Tue | 11/08/70 | Grapevine | White Summer |
| Juice | |||
| Fri | 14/08/70 | Humble Pie | |
| Tue | 18/08/70 | Raw Spirit | Guild Band |
| Steam Coffin | |||
| Fri | 21/08/70 | Quintessence | Mott the Hoople |
| Supertramp | |||
| Tue | 25/08/70 | Sneeze | Maiden Law |
| Fri | 28/08/70 | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Principle Edwards Magic Theatre |
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September 1970
| Wed | 02/09/70 | Blondie | Sneeze |
| Fri | 11/09/70 | Blodwyn Pig |
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October 1970
| Fri | 02/10/70 | Keef Hartley | Strawbs |
| Pink Fairies | |||
| Fri | 09/10/70 | Fleetwood Mac | Gypsy |
| Fri | 23/10/70 | Black Sabbath | Audience |
| Fri | 30/10/70 | Ten Years After | Medicine Head |
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November 1970
| Wed | 04/11/70 | Sect | Raw Spirit |
| Steam Coffin | |||
| Thu | 19/11/70 | Chicken Shack | Traction |
| Yellow | |||
| Thu | 26/11/70 | Curved Air |
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December 1970
| Tue | 15/12/70 | The Who | |
| Tue | 22/12/70 | Spyda | Yellow |
| Edgar Broughton Band | |||
| Wed | 13/12/70 | Spiral Highway | Raw Spirit |
| Lindisfarne |
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1971
January 1971
| Fri | 01/01/71 | Groundhogs | Medicine Head |
| Quintessence | |||
| Fri | 08/01/71 | Sect | Arrival |
| Fri | 15/01/71 | Third Ear Band | Chicken Shack |
| Tue | 19/01/71 | Steam Coffin | Juice |
| Insight | |||
| Tue | 26/01/71 | Spyda | Saratoga |
| Yellow |
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February 1971
| Tue | 02/02/71 | Sect | Gunslinger |
| Tough Childhood | BAND4 | ||
| Fri | 05/02/71 | Family | Dada |
| Wed | 10/02/71 | Yellow | Speed |
| Raw Spirit | |||
| Thu | 18/02/71 | Tyrannosaurus Rex | If |
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March 1971
| Tue | 02/03/71 | Saratoga | Insight |
| Sect | |||
| Tue | 16/03/71 | Yellow | Micawber |
| Half Breed | |||
| Thu | 18/03/71 | Led Zeppelin | |
| Tue | 23/03/71 | Sect | Spyda |
| Tough Childhood | |||
| Fri | 26/03/71 | Mott the Hoople | Medicine Head |
| Tue | 30/03/71 | Georgia Quintet | Street Band |
| Jasper Hart Band |
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April 1971
| Fri | 02/04/71 | John Miles Set | |
| Tue | 06/04/71 | Steam Coffin | Maiden Law |
| Traction | |||
| Thu | 08/04/71 | Stray | Hardin and York |
| Skid Row | |||
| Tue | 13/04/71 | Spyda | Tough Childhood |
| White Summer | |||
| Tue | 24/02/71 | Blondie | Fact |
| Speed | |||
| Fri | 30/04/71 | Quintessence | Stone the Crows |
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May 1971
| Tues | 04/05/71 | Maiden Law | Scallywag |
| Quincey | |||
| Tue | 11/05/71 | Sect | Raw Spirit |
| Traction | |||
| Fri | 14/05/71 | Kevin Ayers | Buddy Miles Express |
| Fri | 21/05/71 | Stud | Hardin and York |
| Gin House | |||
| Fri | 28/05/71 | Faces | Reuben James |
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June 1971
| Fri | 18/06/71 | Mick Abrahams Band | Curved Air |
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July 1971
| Fri | 02/07/71 | Chicken Shack | Stone the Crows |
| Thu | 08/07/71 | Sect | |
| Fri | 09/07/71 | Groundhogs | Head, Hands and Feet |
| Thu | 15/07/71 | Gin House | |
| Fri | 16/07/71 | Wishbone Ash | Brinsley Shcwartz |
| Fri | 23/07/71 | Colosseum | Osibisa |
| Fri | 30/07/71 | Rory Gallagher | James Gang |
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August 1971
| Fri | 06/08/71 | Curved Air | Albequeque |
| Medicine Head | Ricotti | ||
| Fri | 13/08/71 | Mott the Hoople | Gin House |
| Fri | 20/08/71 | Quintessence | East of Eden |
| Fri | 27/08/71 | Faces | Bell and Arc |
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September 1971
| Thu | 16/09/71 | Gin House | Scallywag |
| Fri | 17/09/71 | Curved Air |
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October 1971
| Fri | 08/10/71 | Quiver | Wishbone Ash |
| Fri | 22/10/71 | East of Eden | Quintessence |
| Fri | 29/10/71 | Stone one the Crows | Quincey |
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November 1971
| Thu | 18/11/71 | Edgar Broughton Band | Stray |
| Thu | 25/11/71 | Spyda |
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December 1971
| Thu | 02/12/71 | Sect | Raw Spirit |
| Patch | Jasper Hart Band | ||
| Fri | 03/12/71 | Happy Medium | Tomorrows World |
| Sun | 26/12/71 | Juicy Lucy | Fat Grapple |
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1972
January 1972
| Fri | 07/01/72 | Nazareth | Rory Gallagher |
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February 1972
| Thu | 03/02/72 | Jimmy and Vella | Cat Mother and the All-Night News Boys |
| Jimi plays Berkeley (Hendrix film) | |||
| Thu | 24/02/72 | Price and Fame | Fat Grapple |
| Brass Alley |
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March 1972
| Fri | 03/03/72 | Quintessence | Fogg |
| Medicine Head | |||
| Thu | 09/03/72 | Fat Grapple | Procol Harum |
| Thu | 23/03/72 | Chicken Shack | Groundhogs |
| Brass Alley | Sherpa | ||
| Fri | 24/03/72 | David Bowie | Armada |
| Patch | |||
| Thu | 30/03/72 | Slade |
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April 1972
| Sun | 04/02/72 | Stray | Glencoe |
| Fri | 07/04/72 | Freedom | Edgar Broughton Band |
| Wed | 19/04/72 | Beckett | Brass Alley |
| East of Eden | Duster Bennett |
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May 1972
| Fri | 05/05/72 | Steeleye Span | Amazing Blondell |
| Head, Hands and Feet | |||
| Fri | 12/05/72 | Vinegar Joe | |
| Fri | 19/05/72 | If | Genesis |
| Fri | 26/05/72 | Mark Ashton | Gypsy |
| Morgan | |||
| Sun | 28/05/72 | Patto | Mick Abraham’s Band |
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June 1972
| Fri | 02/06/72 | Hookfoot | Flash |
| Quiver | |||
| Fri | 09/06/72 | Sha Na Na | Ashton, Gardner and Dyke |
| Fri | 16/06/72 | Argent | Sutherland Brothers |
| Fri | 23/06/72 | Family | Audience |
| Fri | 30/06/71 | Truth | Stone the Crows |
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July 1972
| Fri | 07/07/72 | Stray | Third Ear Band |
| Fri | 14/07/72 | Atomic Rooster | Akido |
| Fri | 21/07/72 | Alexis and the Flying Hat Band | |
| Fri | 28/07/72 | Mott the Hoople | Beckett |
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August 1972
| Fri | 04/08/72 | Sam Apple Pie | F F & Z |
| Hackensack | |||
| Fri | 11/08/72 | Brinsley Schwartz | Amazing Blondell |
| Fogg | |||
| Fri | 18/08/72 | Vinegar Joe | Brass Alley |
| Chicken Shack | |||
| Fri | 25/08/72 | Glencoe | Curved Air |
| Sun | 27/08/72 | Beggar’s Opera | Sandgate |
| UFO |
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September 1972
| Tue | 05/09/72 | Free | Smith, Perkins and Smith |
| Fri | 22/09/72 | Juicy Lucy | Toefat |
| Bullfrog | |||
| Fri | 29/09/72 | Chicken Shack | Fat Grapple |
| Hackensack |
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October 1972
| Fri | 06/10/72 | John Kay Band | Steppenwolf |
| Sandgate | |||
| Fri | 20/10/72 | Free | Beckett |
| Fri | 27/10/72 | Quiver | Nazareth |
| Greeny |
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November 1972
| Fri | 03/11/72 | Babe Ruth | Argent |
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Decemeber 1972
| Fri | 08/12/72 | Velvet Underground | Geordie |
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