Dear Diary - Moody Blues - from A Threshold of a Dream 1971
Listen to it on You Tube below.......
Dear diary, what a day it's been.
Dear
diary, it's been just like a dream.
Woke up late. Wasn't where I should have
been.
For goodness sake what's happening to me.
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.
It was cold outside my door.
So many people by the
score.
Rushing around so senselessly.
They don't notice there's people
like me.
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.
They don't know what
they're playing.
They've no way of knowing what the game is.
Still they
carry on doing what they can.
Outside me, yours truly, dear
diary.
It's over. Will tomorrow be the same?
I know that they're
really not to blame.
If they wern't so blind then surely they'd
see.
There's a much better way for them to be.
Inside me, yours truly,
dear diary.
...
Somebody exploded an H-bomb today.
But it wasn't
anyone I knew.
....................................
Trev's Diary 1971 - A prologue
1971 and 1981 strangely were the only years I kept a full diary all the way through. In 1971 I was just getting started
Dear Diary on the Coventry music scene and in 1981 I'd recently moved to Teesside and so in a sense there was a similar process going on.I was 18 when I first venture to the Coventry Arts Umbrella, autumn 69 and over the next year was at first helping Al Docker with the band nights, doing the door and the rounds with him, meeting musicians and developing contacts and later organising the bands myself when his band Tsar took off. I'd also been helping out at the Walsgrave at Pete Waterman's Walsgrave gig, as well as writing songs and doing my first poetry gigs.
During the first part of 1971 I was based in Coventry around the Umbrella and city centre area and the diary reflects some of the venues, bands and issues of the time. By April I was organising a Music Marathon with Lyndie for the Umbrella. When our enormous efforts were thwarted by the local authority, the focused moved to Birmingham for the summer spent in a communal house rented by the Vocalist of Birmingham band Ascension.
Here I met Steve Brimstone and John Hadley who got me started on guitar and for the first time I began p[utting music to my lyrics and even singing (maybe not the best word for it!). By autumn we were back in the Coventry area out at Shilton in a cottage that used to be rented by Ron Lawrence of April (later bassist with Sniff and the Tears), so there are changes of perspective. The entries are not highly personal - more reflective of the scene at the time as I encountered it. The ground work that led to the creation of Hobo was being dug at this time.
What follows below are edits from the diary that are relevant to the music scene. I wasn't sure if I should use this but Broadgate Gnome thought it might provide a good social document of the times. I'm not sure if they will still think so but here goes. Obviously this site is being created in dialogue now with others who were on the scene. It's good to have feedback and support!
Marc Bolan at the Lanch
On the 19th March 1971 Marc Bolan’s T Rex made their one and only appearance in Coventry in the Student’s Union Sports Hall at the Lanchester Polytechnic (now known as Coventry University). T Rex performed in Coventry just a month after the release of the chart topping single ‘Hot Love’ and, within the space of a year, would be playing sell-out gigs at the Empire Pool (Wembley Arena).
As a student of the Lanch in the the early 1980’s I passed the venue every day on my walk to college but, at the time, did not realise that T Rex had graced the stage of the Union building. Fast forward thirty years, and as a life-long fan of Marc Bolan (I first saw T Rex live when I was in primary school!) and the organiser of the annual Marc Bolan Birmingham Convention, I have been asked to write an article for the programme for the forthcoming 20th Century Boy musical to be performed at the Belgrade Theatre this September.
However, to date I have not been able to find any information about T Rex’s only performance in Coventry. If you went to the concert and would like to share your memories of the gig, or have a ticket stub, poster or photos from the concert then I would love to hear from you. I can be contacted via email [email protected] or by phone on 01327 876399.
Trev, I notice you went to the concert. Would you like to share your memories of the gig?
From the site I see that a group called National Head Band were the support group to T Rex. Does anyone know if this was a local band? If so, has anyone got contact details for any of the members of the band?
Kind regards
Michael Green
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