The Early Gigs: Dates
Carlo kept a detailed log of all his early gigs and how much he was paid, recorded in an invoice book from May 1961. He was paid in old English pounds and shillings. You can see from the amount of gigs and travelling that The Savages must have been one of the hardest working bands on the circuit at the time. Venues are unknown but if anyone knows, please email.

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1960-1 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968

Key to bands Carlo performed with: 
Screaming Lord Sutch - Cyril Davies All Stars - The Rolling Stones - 
Long John Baldry & Hoochie Coochie Men - Buddy Britten & The Regents - Others

* See notes below

1961

Month Date Venue Earnings May  5 Reading £3 10s 6 Edmonton £3 10s 7 Ruislip £3 12 Epsom £3 15 Slough £3 18 Chingford £3 20 Loughborough £3 22 Wisbech £3 10s 26 Wealdstone*  £3 10s 27 Romford £3 June 1 Banbury** £3 10s 2 Tamworth £3 10s 3 Stratford-On-Avon £3 10s 5-16 Tour of Scotland*** £50 17 Bletchley £3 10s 20 Waltham Cross £3 23 Chingford £3 24 Stevenage £3 10s 27 Motherwell £3 30 Allda £3 July 1 Kirkconnel**** £3 3 Ayre £3 4-6 Portseaton £9 7 Adrossan £3 8 Boston £3 10s 14 Yeadon £3 15 Leeds £3 22 Staines £3 10s 26 Purley £3 10s 28 Winchester £3 10s 29 Southampton £4 Aug 5 Oxford £3 10s 6 Manchester***** £3 7 Manchester £3 19 Hull £4 21 Slough £4 22 Toton £3 23 High Wycombe £3 10s 25 Winchester £3 10s 26 Deal £4 27 Southall £3 Sept 2 Peckham £4 4 Reading £4 9 Basingstoke £4 15 Maidenhead £3 10s 16 Newark £4 22 Kew £3 23 Crewe £4 26 Lincoln £4 29 Hemel Hempstead £3 10s 30 Putney £4 Oct 2 Hull £4 3 Brighton £3 10s 6 Trowbridge £3 10s 7 Chippenham £4 8 Southall £3 9 Salisbury £3 10s 10 Toton £3 10s 13 Gosport £3 14 Crawley £3 15 Littlehampton £3 16 Portsmouth £3 19 Farnham £2 10s 20 Borehamwood £3 10s 27 Kew £2 15s 28 Bury St. Edmunds £2 15s 30 Chichester £2 15s 31 Wallington £2 15s Nov 2 Camberley £2 15s 3 Kendal £3 10s 4 Windsor £3 10 Guildford £3 70s 11 Chippenham £3 70s 15 High Wycombe £2 17s 17 Borehamwood £3 70s 18 Winchester £3 70s 24 Sheffield £3 25 Sheffield £3 26 Sheffield £3 29 Purley £2 17s Dec 2 Wisbech £3 70s 9 Cheltenham £3 10s 16 Putney £3 10s 20 Doncaster £3 10s 22 Leyton £3 23 Weymouth £3 24 Southall £3 29 Southall £3 10s

Poster above: Wisbech, 22nd May 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne)   Poster above: Tamworth, 2nd June 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne)   Poster above: Stevenage, 24th June 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne)   Poster above: Waltham, 20th July 1961  (courtesy Ken Payne)

* Ken Payne, bassist: "I think that the very first job we did with Andy Wren on piano and Roger Mingay on guitar as the Savages was in Harrow where the Cliff Bennet and The Rebel Rousers use to play".
** Ken Payne, bassist: "In Banbury we had the wally get up on stage and kick a hole in my amplifier".
*** Ken Payne, bassist: "The first tour that we went on was the Scotland tour and the agent had set up this "story" that Sutch was eloping to Gretna Green. Well, the girl that he "eloped" with was actually my sister! Anyway, it got the publicity that we were looking for. We started in Peterhead and the place that Sutch had booked us into was such a dive that for fun we started a pillow fight and as a result of that Sutch broke his arm (but he still did the shows). 
**** In Kirkconnel, we had the wally get up on stage and kick a hole in my amplifier again, except that we were wearing our orange shirts on Orange Day and we were in a very catholic village (we needed a police escort out of there in the end). Anyway, this bloke got up on the stage and went towards Carlo, who just picked up his ride cymbal and smacked this guy on the forehead. Naturally his head opened up and there was blood everywhere so that started a riot and we had to get out of there". 
***** Ken Payne, bassist: "I remember in Manchester where we played at the Southern Sporting Club and the Yew Tree Inn (Wythenshawe), the most memorable things for me were some of the conversations that I had with Carlo (it was here that he told me that when you are using somebody else's toilet you need to put paper down on the seat to protect your bum)."

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Poster above: Oxford, 5th August 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne)		Poster above: Hull, 19th August 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne) Poster above: Bletchley, 19th August 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne)
Poster above: Yeadon, 14th July 1961 (courtesy Ken Payne)