Soft Machine- UFO Club London - June 2, 1967
Activist & friend - John (hoppy) Hopkins had been arrested on trumpet up charges & this performance by Daevid Allen aimed to hit back at the hypocrisies of the British establishment.
Duration : 3:49
Film & Light-Show Projections : Mark Boyle & Joan Hills (P&C Boyle family archives)

"This rare footage of the first Soft Machine lineup shot at the UFO Club in London during the swinging sixties shows an early example of performance poetry by an experimental psychedelic rock band."


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