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 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
1965-01-00 Chelmsford (see here) Folk Club
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)
Song played:
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
1965-01-18 London The Roundhouse
1965-01-21 recording sessions for BBC’s “Five to Ten” broadcasts:
– A most peculiar man
– Bleecker Street
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
1965-03-08 BBC Five To Ten: He Was My Brother
1965-03-09 BBC Five To Ten: A Church Is Burning
1965-03-10 BBC Five To Ten: On The Side Of A Hill
1965-03-11 BBC Five To Ten: Sparrow
1965-03-12 High Wycombe, Folk Club
1965-05-01 BBC Five To Ten: The Sound Of Silnce
1965-05-08 BBC Five To Ten: I Am A Rock
1965-05-15 BBC Five To Ten: A Most Peculiar Man
1965-05-22 BBC Five To Ten: Bleeker Street
1965-06-
13 Brentwood, The Railway Inn, The Brentwood Folk Club (confirmed)
[1] July 1st, 1965 – first performance at The Trap Door with Art Garfunkel
1965-07-13 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
[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
1965-07-23 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 Bristol, TWW TV Studio
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel performed in a music show called “Discs a-Go-G0” for TWW network (Television Wales and the West) (source: Graham Wood)
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
1965-07-19 BBC Five To Ten
1965-07-20 BBC Five To Ten
1965-07-21 BBC Five To Ten
1965-07-22 BBC Five To Ten
1965-07-25 London, St Anne’s Church, Soho. (with Art Garfunkel and Jackson C. Frank)
1965-07-26 Highgate Village, Gate House
1965-07-27 BBC Studio London (?)
with Art Garfunkel
– Sparrow
1965-07-29 Highgate Village, Gatehouse
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….
1965-08-05 BBC ” Rolf Harris” Show with guests Simon & Garfunkel from America
1965-08-20 Catford Railway Tavern, which is in Catford, Catford Rd, London SE6 4RE
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 Warrington, Minor Bird Folk Club, Red 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
1965-09-30 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, Waaggebouw
Paul Simon sang here on the evening of December 1st 1965 for 17 people in the folkclub of Cobi Schreijer.
Paul Simon also gave some masterclasses here
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' 
My name is melanie and I used to hang out with a guy called graham wood who was involved with the folk club scene in london in 1965. paul simon and art were in town then and I joined them on many occasions including Ready steady go and the cambridge folk festival. please let me know if Graham wood can be contacted.
Thanks
Hello Melanie, I only know that Graham Wood used to run a folk club ‘ the pub “Mother Hubbard” in Buckhurst Hill where there was a marvellous folk club run by Graham Wood’.
I remember Graham and the Mother Hubbard. We used to go there every week and after we would go to someone’s house and more often than not Graham would show his film Creature from the Black Lagoon – forwards, backwards, slow motion, speeded up. Every which way. They were great days.
http://www.tomharrisonmusic.com/2017/08/08/bookends-paul-simon/
Graham’s reaction to Paul’s lack of appreciation for his promotional work as his manager.. in Peter Amie’s Carlin’s biography.
I understand the former site the Mother Hubbard, is a block of apartments now.
Hi, thank you for your input. I helped peter Ames Carlin a little bit with the English period of Paul Simon in England. I am not English, but I had some very reliable info and addresses he has used for the book. Peter Ames Carlin came up with the name of Graham Wood. The name of Wood was unknown to me, and I remember that Peter was in search of his whereabouts. I also asked around but with no result. And I think Robert Hilburn, who wrote the authorised biography some years later, also did not get in contact. Glad you now send us this information from ‘first hand’.
I see this is a very old post but I was searching for a rough date when Paul Simon played at the Mother Hubbard. I don’t know Graham Wood but I believe a girl called Christine Harris was also involved and she put up Paul in her house.
Hello Marilyn, thank you for your commet. Unfortunately I have no exact dat for Paul Simon’s performance at Mother Hubbard. There was a recent interview with Graham Wood about the period when he managed Paul, but no dates were given. But as soon as we have them they will be published here.
Hi, did you used to live in Higham Park?
Hi there! If you are referring to Melanie. I used to live in Highbury. Near Finsbury Park. The name Bob Berry sounds familiar, were you in the crowd with Graham Wood etc. at the Cambridge Folk festival? When Paul performed there. Did you drive us to Cambridge? I wonder if anyone has photographs of that first ever festival?
Melanie Ezekiel( Milhuisen).
1965-09-01 Romford, Black Swan
If I remember correctly, the Romford Folk Club was at the White (not Black) Swan on the Market Place. I spent a lot of my misspent youth there – happy days …
Nick
what was I thinking…Black Sheep? Thank you, I made a correction.
I have a programme for paul at high wycombe town hall
on 3/12/65
Paul was booked for a concert at High Wycombe Town Hall by Julia Irons and the club committee following a couple of bookings at the Folk Club which at the Time was running twice weekly at The Coach And Horses pub on London Road. Paul initially turned up as an unknown one Sunday asking to do a floor spot. Needless to say he brought the house down. The pub is no longer there a victim of progress and the club moved several times after that ending up down the road at The Nags Head. Pretty much all the greats appeared at the High Wycombe club. I still have his Paul Simon Song Book album as well as the album he produced for his friend Jackson C Franks. I was at The Trap Door club in Chesham the night before his solo appearance on Ready Steady Go. We never saw him in Folk Clubs after that. I sometimes wonder how Paul feels about his time in England during that time.
Thank you for sharing your memories on Paul’s appearances at HWTH. I think Paul has very fine memories abut his time in England. Thanks, Rob
More info on the ‘Barn’ in Exeter gig at http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/1960s.php (near the end on the right). Includes a photo.
Yes, what a nice story. The tape was actioned on Ebay in the ’90s and is now lying on a shelf in Japan. From time to time mire info about his stay in the UK surfaces on the internet. Paul was very active singing and making a living.
I was at the barn and have a copy of the gig
The gig on the 8th September at the Minor Bird folk club may well have been in Warrington, and it might have been at the Lion: see http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=69375
There is a post from someone who was there (and not very impressed!)
The Lion folk club was on Wednesdays, so the entry for the 9th is possibly wrong as that was a Thursday!
I go to a folk club at the Church Inn in Prestwich. Legend has it that Paul Simon played there in 1965, possibly when the club was known as the Bamboo club. Sadly when the pub changed hands the new landlord is alleged to have thrown out all the evidence. I’m trying to find out if this is true in order to win my free pint form the current landlord, it would be great to know if he did actually play
I hope you win your pint today and will let us know what you have found out. There’s always a bit of trouble with the names of the folk clubs for me, as they were mostly part of or located in a hotelof local inn. But with the UK-readers I hope to get it rigth. Thanks for your info, much appreciated.
Well, no success yet. I have found out that in 1965 the folk club at The Church Inn was called ‘The Village Folk Club’ and it ran on a Thursday night at time, and the room it was in was called The Bamboo Room. There was an advert in each week’s issue of the local paper, but none list Paul Simon as a guest. However Granada TV is in Manchester, so it may have been possible that after the TV show Paul went the four miles up the road to The Church? I’ll see what I can dig up about that appearance.
However, I did find reference to a Sunday night gig in Manchester by Paul that I guess would have been late 1965 (due to the refernces to his first solo album?) at the ‘Manchester Sports Guild Folk Club’ – see some posts here: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=36465
1965.11.13 Gig in Denmark at Club Paramount “Fjordvilla”
http://www.rockensdanmarkskort.dk/historie/paul-simon-i-club-paramount-på-fjordvilla
In the list above at 1965-09-11 the venue he was at in Bebington was The Kings Arms, which had a folk club upstairs. It was were I first saw him perform. Also the next day at the Central Hotel in Birkenhead. Been a fan ever since.
Dear Frank, thank you for comment. Must have been wonderful indeed to have ssen him play in those ” Early Days ” (I still think it still is a treat to go to a Paul Simon performance). Do you know if there were any reviews or advertisements for the gigs? How did the audience respond to his songs? There were a lot anti-Paul because he was not part of the ‘ Folk Tradition ‘.
I was at the Kings Arms show too. Spoke to PS before he started, had him show me how to play the ´Rockˋ hammer-ons. He blew the audience away with the songs and the stories to each one. Unforgettable. Saw him in Birkenhead a few days later. Same again, he was memorable.
Hello tony, thanks for sharing your thoughts and memories. The King’s Arms in Bebington and Birkenhead in the Liverpool-area? All those King’s Arms-clubs, sometimes very confusing for a non-UK-er.
Saw him play mid sixties in Windsor pub in Pescod St to a handful of people. The pub is no longer there or am I dreaming.. Never liked the link with Garfunkle still play what I think is his best album “Paul Simon Songbook”
You are not dreaming. I was there, too. Wasn’t it the Windsor Folk Club? It was in a miniscule room above the pub and we went down during the interval. I agree with you about the Paul Simon Songbook and still have the record somewhere. As far as I know the pub is no longer there.
Watching the making of Gracelands Just read your comment about his appearance in Windsor thanks for putting my mind at rest It’s amazing you were there to .
I was at Paul Simon’s booking in 1965 at The Windsor Folk Club, which was held upstairs in the old coachhouse of The Star and Garter Pub in Peascod Street, Windsor. Access to the room was up an outside staircase and it wasn’t very big inside. There was a small wooden stage and everyone sat on chairs. Art Garfunkel was there too. Opposite the ‘Star’ was a Radio Rentals showroom with all the tvs in the window and, during the interval, Paul and Art went across the road and spent the interval watching television.
The Windsor Folk Club was particularly good and had many artists who have become very well known. Jo-Anne Kelly with her husband also played the Star. I particularly remember a stonking version of Crossroads. When the Star & Garter closed, the folk club moved to the pigeon loft of The Swan in Mill Road, Clewer. Jimmy Page lived at Mill House at the end of the road, but I don’t remember him coming to the folk club. Among people who performed were Shirley and Dolly Collins (Dolly’s pipe organ was a pig to get in), June Tabor, The Strawbs with Rick Wakeman, who lived not too far away and sometimes just came for the evening. Ralph Mctell was also a regular and always came to our after show jams at Dave Law’s rented bungalow in Winkfield. We all went in Martin’s people carrier (probably a transit with seats)
There was also the Blues Club at The Star & Garter and we were lucky to see the Rolling Stones when they were just starting out. Windsor was on the ‘West London’ circuit and we got the bands (The Yardbirds
Long John Baldry, Georgie Fame, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rolling Stones, T Bones, Gino Washington, The Others, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, John Lee Hooker etc,) that were doing The Marquee Flamingo, Crawdaddy (Station Hotel) Richmond, Eel Pie Island etc. When The Star & Garter closed, the music transferred to The Ricky Tick at Clewer and The Thames Hotel.
Although the Star & Garter was a very old (16th C ?) coaching inn, in the earlier part of the 20th C it had become renowned for its connection with the sport of boxing and the walls were covered with posters and photographs of the boxers who had fought there, some very famous names from 20s & 30s I often wonder what happened to all the memorabilia.
Brilliant times,brilliant memories, but all gone.
Hi I used to run the folk club at Windsor, I took it over from Dave Edmunds, we used to work on Stingray and Thunderbirds.Dave left for Canada and in 67 I left for Toronto Canada too.
I booked Paul Simon for twenty pounds. I also ran The Maidenhead club too.
Hello Peter, thank you foryour comment. Is there more to share, like dates and impressions how it was? That would be great. Thanks, Rob [moderator]
Hi Andy! I don’t use WordPress often, so not sure if I can post photos. I’m on Facebook. As Peter Hitchcock. Have to tell you about one person that is featured in my film that I thought of is from England and is a Windsor girl, Charlotte Cornwall actress/singer used to sing regularly at Windsor ‘Star & Garter’ pub upstairs. (She was a half sister to the Writer John Le Car and was a singer / actress who went on to star in TV Shows and Film. I remember her singing and playing was lovely ‘It’s all over now baby blue’ is one song I remember to this day!
I used to make silk screen posters and put them around town. And one add every week in the newspaper. Lights where borrowed from APFilms /Thunderbirds, where I worked. Had coloured gels too!
In 2017 I was speaking at the ‘Thunderbirds Convention’ in Maidenhead.
We traveled from Toronto where we now reside and stopped off to see Windsor Castle.
I looked down Peascod Street towards the Star and Garter. Great memories (I read here it has been torn to down). : (
Great to see people talk about Windsor Folk club and allowing me to tell you my little story. Cheers!
Peter Hitchcock
Canada
Hello Peter, just reading your comment, I’m afraid I don’t remember Charlitte at all. When was she there? I lived in Eton Wick and used to walk along the river to get to Windsor (didn’t have money for the Blue Bus too) andI went to the Star for the folk club (then it transferred to The Swan at Clewer) and the Blues Club too. Still got membership card for that ! I see you worked at The Anderson’s – I worked at Laser Associates, who were in the unit next door in Sterling Road on Slough Trading Estate; remember all the sticky stuff from Mars up the road, covered everything, cars, the lot ? I used to get a lift into Slough occasionally at day’s end, from a guy in SFX, don’t think it was you. Any names to jog my memory ?
Very interested to see your response to Ora, Peter. Amazing we’re all still alive. Do you remember him dropping his guitar? I also wonder if Paul follows this thread and if he remembers? Let us know if you do Paul! We’d all be thrilled.
Have now mastered the Bert Jansch song I mentioned in a previous post and will be recording it tomorrow at the age of 73 – October Song originally by the Incredible String Band.
Not sure if this response from you Hugh is current, or from a much earlier age. Anyway, it came through today, so that’s current enough.
I did see your posts re Windsor Folk Club at The Star and Garter and no, it wasn’t me your 16 y.o. self took down the arches, ‘though I knew them well, down Goswell Hill. Should be ISB’s ‘First Girl I Loved’, or maybe it wasn’t !!!
I arrived embarrassingly late for the Paul Simon gig and so missed the guitar-fall, which I was later told happened at the start, but I was put in my place, by shouting out a request for a song he’d already played.
I’ve seen a couple of your very entertaining solos and I think you have mastered the Bert Jansch (Jansch or Yansch ?), a pretty tricky style, I would say.
And I.S.B., wonderful Onion album, which I still have and play from time to time. Little Cloud and The Hedgehog’s Song for me. Oh, for such an uncomplicated age to return.
Regards, Jennie.
Hi Jenny – yes it is current but I was asking Peter who just posted that he used to run the club if he remembered the guitar drop. You told me previously that you didn’t. Great that you’ve seen some of my recent Facebook posts. Aiming to become a rock star before I die 🤣.
Absolutely Hugh ….
Live your dreams, but hurry up !!!
Regards,
Jennie
p.s. I don’t remember Peter, did he transfer to The Swan in Clewer ? Although that was a couple of years later.
I presume you’re on Facebook if you’ve seen me play guitar. We should become friends. Send me a request if you like.
Very rarely on fb Hugh, but next time I’ll put a request in.
Suppose it had better be before you’re too famous!!
Not dreaming because I saw Paul Simon on the same occasion in the small folk club above the Star and Garter pub in Windsor in 1965, as Jennie says below, when he was touring over here. I was with a girl who I had met for the first time the week before, and we sat in the front row smoking Peter Stuyvesant to look cool. We had no interest in him and no idea who he was. A funny little man got on the stage and his guitar strap came undone as he put it on, and his guitar fell to the floor with a resounding crash. To his credit he was unfazed and sang pretty much the whole of the Paul Simon songbook. I thought he was quite good, but only found out about him much later. The girl and I went off into the night under the railway arches – I was just 16.
Was that girl you Jennie, or maybe you Ora?
No it wasn’t me ! I sat about halfway back at the end if the row. In the interval, I went down Peascod Streett to the Matador coffee bar and at the end of the show, I got the Blue Bus home. It was the Windsor Folk Club, before it moved to The Swan pub in Clewer.
Jennie, do you remember him dropping his guitar?
No, Hugh. I got there late and had to sneak in, that’s why I was sitting at rhe end of the row.
Then I made the big mistake, called out for him to do A Simple Desultory Philippic.
“I’ve done that already” was the terse and ultimate put down. Kept my mouth shut after that !
Don’t remember that I’m afraid. However I am amazed to connect with people 55 years after the event! Looked for you on Facebook but couldn’t find you. You can find me easily enough if you want to connect. I’m still pursuing my musical education now I have more time. Did Highway 61 and Clarksdale last June and am working my way through some Bert Jansch songs on my guitar. One mastered so far.
Paul must have felt awful when his guitar fell. Sweet sixteen!?!
No, Tony, you are not dreaming ! It was at The Star and Garter in Peascod Street, upstairs
in the old coach house and it was called The Windsor Folk and Blues Club. I can’t remember the date, but I’ve got a feeling it was a Tuesday or Wednesday. The Star closed down and, what then became The Windsor Folk Club moved to The White Swan at Clewer, where we had the old pigeon loft, just up the road from Jimmy Page’s house, but he never came!!
Paul did the gig with Art. I got there late and had to crawl in, because it had already started. Everyone was sitting on hard upright chairs and I had a seat in the middle at the end of a row. No hiding place and a very red face. Chairs were unusual, because when bands (like The Rolling Stones) played there, it was a standing free for all. I requested one of the songs from the songbook and got a very short reply “I’ve already done that one ! ” Put me in my place. There was always an interval, so people could go down to the pub for a beer and a fag. I always went to The Matador coffee bar right at the bottom of Peascod Street. When I went out, Paul and Art were standing on the other side of the street, watching the tellies in Radio Rentals window. That’s a sight I shall never forget. No-one bothered them.
Yes and I was there too and have already commented on it in a previous post. Paul came on stage and his guitar strap came loose and his guitar fell to the stage with a resounding bang. Art may have been there but he didn’t play – it was all the Paul Simon songbook.
I did not see him play at Exeter in 1965, but was really pleased to get hold of the reel to reel recording of this performance done in a Barn behide a house in Cowick Lane Exeter, its 1 hour long and includes the unpublished song “The Northern Line” (London underground Station. I have just given a full copy of this tape to the The Guys that are touring as “The Simon and Garfunkel Story” great show as well. Bob
I was at that performance and would be fascinated to see that film. Is it up on site anywhere?
It is an audio recording.
At the Bexhill-on-Sea festival on August 30th 1965, one of the other performers was Ralph McTell, who was then 19 years old, and still using his original name of Ralph May. [Not Ralph Hay as on your website]. Ralph tells the story of how the audience was very small and there was insufficient money to pay him. This was mainly because Paul Simon insisted on being paid his agreed fee.
In lieu of payment, the festival promoter gave Ralph his own copy of the Robert Johnson LP, King Of The Delta Blues Singers. Ralph was immensely influenced by the LP, his first exposure to the great 1930s blues singer, and still treasures the record to this day.
Great to find that Barn Folk night with Paul Simon mentioned. I’ve long wondered what happened to the recording that night. Yes, I was there playing my guitar ( poorly) in front of such a wonderful guest. Be happy to have contact with anyone else who “was there” too. I think it was Tim Mason’s barn. Regular Friday night venue for us fledgling folkies
Dave Dyer
Hello Dave, but to what barn gig are you referring now? The Exeter one?
Hi Dave, yes it was in a Barn at Newhayes House which belonged to the Mason family. I was not there myself, not born until 1957. The barn is long gone as is Newhayes House. I still have a copy of the tape recording on CD. Paul Simon was offered the original but turned it down,, copyright threats as well.. I will get it up on youtube one day. Pics on bbc PHOP website
Hello Bob, Do you know who has the right to the Exeter pictures?
I bought the 3 pictures with the tape recording. They were sold on ebay some time ago to a bloke in Japan. I have got negatives here, but can’t remember who took them. They have been printed a few times in Newspapers & Record Collector, so i guess copyright is lost now. Its easy to copy things from the net. Why did you ask ?.
Hi
Belated follow up to your message. Any chance of a copy of your CD copy? As I said before I might be on that recording somewhere unless it has been hugely edited.
Dave
I saw Paul Simon in the Folk Club upstairs in The Pack Horse, Bridge Street (off Deansgate) Manchester around 1965 ish. Does anybody else reading this know any thing about this gig? I cannot find anybody else who was there. My friend whom I was with died some years ago. Another singer was on that night, an American (I think) lady, she sang Americana trad folk songs such as Mr Frog would a courtin’ ride etc. Does anybody know who she was?
Hello Peter, couldthat have been Judy Collins. I remember reading that she ws in the UK in 1965. But I am not sure. Can you remember more about Paul’s gig?
or maybe Joan Baez?
I should have checked my site better myself…I wrote about it here: https://roboud56.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/1965-folk-clubs-appearances-continued/
Going back to 1965 and Paul’s time in London. Does anyone have or know of a tape or video that’s available. Looking for recordings of Ready, Steady Go! on July 23rd. 1965, I would love to see the show and spot myself slow dancing when I was 22! Also the (first ever)Cambridge Folk festival on August 30th. Any Info would be so appreciated. I did share some of my memories of that summer with Peter Ames Carlin, for his book “Homeward Bound.” Great that he acknowledged all of us who helped him write it and told the story well.
Melanie
When Graham Wood opened his folk club at the Bald Hind, in Chigwell, I went to meet him to ask if I could play there and I became a resident. My first gig was reported in the Loughton Gazette by the late Peter Haining who later told me that when I played my spot, the bar downstairs suddenly filled up. However bad I might have been, I was able to meet some great names in folk music: Shirley Collins, Davy Graham, Paul Simon, Rory McEwen; Wally Whyton, Red Sullivan, Long John Baldry, Gerry Lockran and many others, all booked by Graham in Chigwell and later in the Mother Hubbard in Loughton. When Paul Simon played there, all the aspiring guitar players gathered round him whilst he showed us how to play Davy Graham’s “Anjie”. At one point I rolled Paul and cigarette and he was fascinated to see that as I closed the lid on my “machine” a cigarette popped out of the slot in the lid. I’m in my late seventies now but I have never forgotten those great musicians and those silly, little memories of my one and only meeting with Paul Simon! I have never forgotten Graham either – he gave me a start and he ran one of the great folk clubs I think, because he was able to get such great acts to play.
Who remembers which pub had the Chelmsford Folk Club. Saw PS there several times
Hello Andrew, I found this http://trevor.hornsby.free.fr/MEMORY_LANE/White_Hart_folk_club_Chelmsford.html