67 Varieties

A former London music hall didn’t know what had hit it in the summer of 1967.

Jim Irvin

LAUNCHED AFTER the UFO Club was forced to vacate its original locale beneath the Blarney in Tottenham Court Road, and based initially in Covent Garden from August 1967, Middle Earth became London’s prime destination for underground thrills accompanied by liquid lights. At its peak it was hosting big bills three nights a week headlined by the likes of Soft Machine, Traffic, Blossom Toes, Tim Buckley, Jefferson Airplane and Captain Beefheart, all of whom are found in a new Cherry Red 3-CD boxcalled Middle Earth: The Soundtrack Of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969 ★★★★. Says teenaged attendee Jon Newey today: “It was special, a different world entirely to the usual band-plus-audience format of the nearby Marquee, Flamingo and 100 Club and the stale and increasingly violent Mod scene.” Originally sited in…

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