Prog Rock

[teamsaint]

It's a great shame there appears to be no recorded record of The Orkestra - formed at the CPGB-oganised Festival of the Left (if I remember the title correctly - maybe should check!) at Ally Pally in the summer of '77, by the teaming up of Henry Cow and the Mike Westbrook Brass Band. The experiment was short-lived; three years on however it would lead to Lindsay Cooper and Georgie Born joining the Westbrooks' project The Cortège - one of the great jazz frescoes of all time, up there with Carla Bley's Escalator at the very least, I would claim.

Wiki has it as the Moving Left Review, S-A. It has one gig at the Roundhouse, and one at Regents Park.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wiki has it as the Moving Left Review, S-A. It has one gig at the Roundhouse, and one at Regents Park.

That would be it: the Roundhouse one. Thanks TS.

[teamsaint]

That would be it: the Roundhouse one. Thanks TS.

That must have been a great gig . I’ve never been to the Roundhouse, something I ought to put right.

[Serial_Apologist]

That must have been a great gig . I’ve never been to the Roundhouse, something I ought to put right.

I went there in 1967, for a big political event organised by RD Laing and David Cooper*, when it was still a dusty unreconstituted railway shed, and again in 2006 for a jazz session that was part of the BBC Electric proms, so-called, hosted by Jez Nelson and featuring Dave Okumu, Tom Arthurs, John Taylor, John Surman, Hugh Hopper and Seb Rochford in various impromptu combinations - by which time the place had been spruced up and the blackened brickwork burnished back to its original golden glory.

*The Dialectics of Liberation Congress