Soft Machine Live at UFO in 1967

Soft Machine, UFO Club, London, 2nd June 1967. 'Poem for Hoppy' by Daevid Allen. Flim & Lightshow Projections: Mark Boyle & Joan Hills. P&C Boyle Family Archive.

This has apparently just been discovered. Someone who has the right connections has just sent me it. It's not on YouTube so here it is. Anyone who's a fan seen this before?

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• ufo
• 1967

[paisleybabee]

Is that Syd playing with them?

[mlucifersam]

nope!!!!

[leroysquab]

Awesome, thanks for sharing this! Big props to the Boyle family too!

[yuvalkeshet]

can anyone take the effort to write down this speech?

[Loridans1]

Absolutely fabulous stuff! Ridiculous, pretentious & unlistenable, but such f- - - ing genuine psychedeiica!

[tomthefunky]

@pataphysician71: Bath Spa College? Wow, so you can relax, get a massage and foot rub, and learn stuff at the same time! (just kidding)

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I read Ronnie Lane of the Faces married Mike McInnerney's wife. Or was it the other way around? And I'm pretty sure it was Mike who turned Townshend on to Baba.

[LAMBOFGOD690]

GO PROB ROCK



[pataphysician71]

@alexlancer11 For those interested in the details, this film is from June 2, 1967. Hoppy had been tried the previous day. The show was written up in International Times 15. It mentions that Jimi Hendrix, Chas Chandler, Pete Townshend, Eric Burdon and some of the Yardbirds were there. Also on the bill that night was Hydrogen Jukebox, which featured Glen Sweeney, later of Third Ear Band. The review of the show notes: "It is a pity that with all this happening the Pink Floyd had to play like bums."

[pataphysician71]

@tomthefunky Mike McInnerney did graphics work for the London Free School before becoming the arts editor of International Times in 1967. His wedding that summer was a big "flower power" event in a London park - well covered in the press. He also designed the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream poster. He later became a follower of Meher Baba - the same guru that Pete Townshend followed - which might explain the Tommy connection. The last I heard he was lecturing at Bath Spa College.

[alexlancer11]

@pataphysician71 Nice observation I can't believe that I did not realize it before LOL This actually the show where Joe Boyd said he noticed the change in Syd. Also it was suposed to have been one of those shows where Syd kind of just stood there on stage , but who knows what really happend.

[mobyboy]

I wish I could be there - but I havent been born

[bobvidpix]

@tomthefunky I was still in high school when i first went there - the people i met were the ones running the event: Americans Jack Moore and Jim Haynes - who were among those who started the UFO and underground newspaper International Times, along with John 'Hoppy' Hopkins - they also began the Arts Lab and other pioneering events/centers in 60's London