The City Hall , Newcastle Upon Tyne
Monday 4th December 1967
Chas Chandler later told the story of the show: “Jimi had this guitar shaped like an arrow, known as a Flying V. It was one of those nights when everything was going wrong. No matter what happened, an amp was breaking down, there was crackling coming over, and at one point, half way through the act, he was getting so uptight because the world was falling down around him out on stage. He took his guitar and threw it at the amp, and this is where the good luck comes into it – the guitar went into the amp and stuck. It was just like an enormous arrow sticking out of this amplifier. The audience thought it was part of the act, the amp just went ‘rmmmmm’, and from that minute nothing else went wrong. It was just one of those little magic seconds. It just altered the balance of the act and he went on to just tear the place apart.”
Noel Redding said "During the show, one guy jumped twenty feet from the balcony to the stage only to be lobbed off by a roadie wielding a mike stand".
It was later claimed by Andy Fairweather Lowe (who was performing with
Amen Corner), that someone was taking cine footage of Hendrix in the
dressing room. This footage has never become available.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album Axis Bold as Love was released in
the UK three days before the show on 1st December.
The band stayed at the Station Hotel in Newcastle.
Possible songs are Sgt. Pepper's, Fire, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Purple
Haze and Wild Thing all of which were played one week earlier at the
Blackpool Opera House , a show that was filmed by the BBC. An alternative
possible set list would be Foxy Lady, Fire, Hey Joe, The Burning of the
Midnight Lamp, Spanish Castle Magic, The Wind Cries Mary and Purple Haze
which were all played at the tour's opening night at the Royal Albert Hall
in London.
For your 15 shillings admission you were treated to a two-part show with the
first half headlined by The Move & the second half by Jimi Hendrix, the
running order & set times for the evening show being as follows :-
| Outer Limits 8 minutes Eire Apparent 8 minutes Pink Floyd 17 minutes The Move 30 minutes Interval The Nice 12 minutes Amen Corner 15 minutes Jimi Hendrix 40 minutes |
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The sixteen date tour had started on 14th November at the Royal Albert Hall
in London and ended on 12th December at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow.
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Photographs from Matinee Show
Photographs from Evening Show
Official Tour Programme
Memories
Lemmy remembers spending the entire tour high on acid along with the rest
of the road crew. LSD was not illegal at the time, there weren't any laws
against it until the end of 1967.
The Venue
Newcastle City Hall , City Road , Newcastle Upon Tyne
See page about City Hall gig on 21st April for venue information.