1965-00-00 London, Green Man Folkclub, on Blackheath Hill
1965-00-00 Addlestone, UK, The Dukes Head, The Addlestones Folk Club
1965-00-00 Luton, Folkclub
1965-00-00 London, UK, Bunjies
1965-00-00 Portsmouth, UK, Star Inn, Polytech Folk Club (with Art Garfunkel)
1965-00-00 ?Talbot, John Isherwood Folk Club
1965-00-00 Devon
1965-00-00 Manchester Packhorse
1965-00-00 Widness, Geoff Speed’s Folk Club
1965-00-00 Bickleigh, UK, Fisherman’s Cot
1965-00-00 Grimsby, UK, Grimsby Folk Club
1965-00-00 Stoutport, UK, local folk club
1965-00-00 Sidley, The New Inn’s Folk Club (possibly August??)
1965-00-00 Cambridge Folk Club
1965-00-00 Yeovil, Halfmoon Hotel, Yeovil Folk Club
1965-00-00 London, Bunjies
1965-00-00 London, Heath Street, The Three Horseshoes
1965-00-00 Addlestone, Dukes Head Folk Club
1965-00-00 Bickleigh, Fisherman’s Cot
1965-00-00 Portsmouth, Starr Inn / Polytechnic Folk Club
1965-00-00 Portsmouth Talbot / John Isherwood’s Folk Club
1965-00-00 Portsmouth – Oddfellows Hall (Kinston Road) UK
1965-00-00 Isleworth, Borough Road College
1965-00-00 Coggeshall (near Essex) played here often in a pub
1965-01-00 Chelmsford (see here) Folk Club
1965-01-21 BBC Five to Ten Session:
– A most peculiar man
– Bleecker Street
1965-01-22 London, Scots Hoose, Cambridge Circus
1965-07-00 Exeter, UK, El Zamba Café*)
1965-07-00 Exeter, UK, The Clock Tower Cafe*)
1965-07-00 Exeter, UK, King’s Arms*)
1965-07-00 Exmouth, UK*)
1965-07-00 Sidmouth, UK*)
1965-07-00 Budleigh, UK*)
1965-07-00 Tiverton, UK*)
1965-07-00 Exeter, UK, Jolly Porter Pub*)
1965-01-16 London, The Student Prince
1965-01-17 Brentwood, The Railway Inn, The Brentwood Folk Club (confirmed)
1965-01-18 London The Roundhouse
1965-01-23 London, The Student Prince
1965-01-25 London The Roundhouse
1965-01-26 London, unknown venue
1965-01-29 London, UK, The City Temple Hall
1965-03-12 High Wycombe, Folk Club
1965-06-13 Brentwood, The Railway Inn, The Brentwood Folk Club (confirmed)
Songs performed:
Old Blue, What Did You Learn at School Today, George Crumpet, Daddy’s Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow, Leaves That Are Green, You Can Tell The World, Bingo, Children, Go Where I Send Thee, Man of Constant Sorrow, Autumn to May, The Sound of Silence
[1] July 1st, 1965 – first performance at The Trap Door with Art Garfunkel
[2] July 22, 1965 – his third performance at The Trap Door. One day before the “Ready Steady, Go”
[3] There is one another in between July 1st and July 22nd, 1965 with Jackson C Frank
1965-06-24 The Tapdoor, Chesham, Botley House
1965-07-00 Exeter, Jolly Porter Folk Club
Paul Simon – vocal, guitar
Songs played:
01 He was my brother
02 Leaves that are green
03 Sparrow
04 The Northern Line
05 Wednesday morning 3 am
06 On the side of a hill
07 A church is burning
08 Bleeker Street
09 I am a rock
10 Kathy’s song
11 A most peculiar man
12 Flowers never bend with the rainfall
13 The sound of silence
14 April came she will
15 Patterns
1965-07-23 ITV TV, ”Ready Steady Go “ ”I Am A Rock”” “
1965-07-17 Leicester, Leicester White Swan
1965-07-17 Redhill, Redhill Folk Club
1965-07-17 Romford (??)Market Place/ Shawell, The White Swan
1965-07-00 Swansea. Swansea University
1965-07-00 Exeter Newhayse House / St. Thomas district of Exeter
1965-07-17 Redhill, Folk Club
1965-07-17 Leicester,, White Swan
1965-07-25 London, St Anne’s Church, Soho. (with Art Garfunkel and Jackson C. Frank)
1965-07-27 BBC Studio London (?)
with Art Garfunkel
– Sparrow
1965-07-29 Highgate Village, Gatehouse
1965-07-29 London, Trapdoor
1965-07-31 Cambridge Folk Festival
The first Cambridge Folk Festival sold one thousand four hundred tickets and almost broke even. Squeezed in as a late addition to the bill was a young Paul Simon who had just released I Am A Rock.
This from the book “Thirty Years of the Cambridge Folk Festival, quoting original Director Ken Woollard:
“Paul Simon had been booked for the Cambridge Folk Club for £10. His record company, CBS, had just brought out his first single, I Am A Rock. CBS desperately wanted him to play the festival. But we were full up, totally full up and we couldn’t pay him, even though they only wanted a minimal amount of money. So they paid for a page of advertising in the programme which made up some of his fee. And he appeared as a guest artist.”
Paul Simon played a half hour set on the main stage at the beginning of the evening session on Saturday 31 July 1965, billed as Paul Simons*) Some dates mentioned are possibly not gigs where too Paul Simon had been invited. He live in and around Exeter , sang songs in various pubs to pay for his beer. The names are mentioned in a series of letters written to ‘This Is Exeter’ in late 2008.
The 1st Cambridge Folk Festival as advertised in Melody Maker. Paul Simon’s name was spelled wrong….
1965-08-21 London, Soho, Les Cousins
1965-08-24 Norwic, Jacquard Folk Club / Mischief Tavern
1965-08-25 Barking, UK, Red Lion, Berkynge Folk Club
1965-08-30 Bexhill-on-Sea, De La War Pavilion, Folk Music Festival
(advertised in Melody Maker August 28th 1965)
with: Shirley Collins, Ian Russell, Rob Edwards and Ralph Hay
– 1965 early September, unknown location, live audience
with Art Garfunkel
I am a rock
Sparrow / Flower lady
talk about Tom Wilson
Somewhere they can’t find me
talking about folk rock, singing parody of “Like a rolling stone”
1965-09-01 Romford, White Swan
1965-09-08 ???, Minor Bird Folk Club
1965-09-09 Warrington, Warrington Lion
1965-09-10 Chester, The Tuning Fork
1965-09-11 Bebington, The Kings Arms
1965-09-12 Birkenhead, Central Hotel
1965-09-13 Widness Howff
1965-09-14 Liverpool, Cross Keys Hotel
1965-09-15 Birkenhead, Central Hotel
1965-09-16 Granada TV
1965-09-16 Liverpool, Postoffice Technicians
1965-09-17 Hull, Waterson’s Club
1965-09-21 Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage
1965-09-30 Addlestone, UK, Dukes Head (advertised in Melody Maker 25 Sep 1965)
1965-10-00 Great Shelford, Private party performance Douglas Family,
together with early Pink Floyd ‘The Jokers Wild’ Paul sang: ‘Where have all the flowers gone’ and together with PF also ‘Johnny B Goode’?
1965-10-18 BBC TV, Stramash!
1965-10-00 Birmingham, UK, Jug O’ Punch
According to Harvey Andrews Paul turned up on the wrong date having been booked the week before and failed to arrive….Ian Campbell told him he’d never make it as a professional if he couldn’t keep his diary in order!’ Paul played a short floor spot as an apology:
A most peculiar man – The sound of silence – A church is burning – He was my brother
1965-10-22 Hampstead, UK, Three Horseshoes
Advertised in Melody Maker 23 Oct 1965 as ‘The Tinkers with Paul Simon’
1965-10-27 London, UK, Leduce (adervtised in Melody Maker 23 Oct 1965)
Comtemporary Folk. Paul Simon & Guests October 27th, 8 pm,. Opening Londons only Contemporary Folk Club ‘Leduce’. 22, D’Arblay St.1. GER 5096 (off Wardour St.)
1965-11-00 NCRV-Radio Holland, Wie waagt die zingt
According to Cobi Schreijer, Paul Simon was present at a couple of weekly shows.
1965-12-01 Haarlem, Holland, De Waag
Paul Simon sang here on a December evening 1965 for 17 people in the club of Cobi Schreijer.
Paul Simon also gave some masterclasses here
1965-12-03 The Trapdoor, Chasham Botley House
1965-12-05 London – Les Cousins- Paul Simon’s Farewell Party.
this party was also attended by Jackson C. Frank who had his own Farewell Party only two months earlier.
To be confirmed:
1965-12-23 London Les Cousins
A farewell concert for Jackson C. Frank who was leaving for the US? Possibly Paul Simon attending?
Portsmouth. Once at a pub, The Talbot, by Fratton Station , and once at a small hall ( Masons Hall ) in North End’ (was it in 1964?)
Paul Simon - 'Time it was...it was' 