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.

Click on a year for details.
1961 - 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

 

1963

Month Date Venue Earnings
Jan 1 Wealdstone £1
2 Piccadilly Jazz Club £1
3 Marquee* £8
4 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £2
8 Wealdstone £1 10s
9 Piccadilly Jazz Club 13s
10 Marquee* £11
11 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £2
15 Wealdstone £1 10s
14 Flamingo Jazz Club**
16 Piccadilly Jazz Club 13s
17 Marquee £12 10s
18 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £2
19 Flamingo Jazz Club**
21 Flamingo Jazz Club**
22 Wealdstone £2 10s
24 Marquee £11
25 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £1 10s
31 Marquee £13
Feb 1 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £1 50s
5 Wealdstone £1 50s
7 Marquee £12
8 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £2 10s
12 Wealdstone £2
14 Marquee £13
15 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £2 50s
19 Wealdstone £2
20 Regent Sound, Denmark St. ********** ?
21 Marquee £14
22 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £1 10s
26 Wealdstone £1 10s
27 Pye recording session*** £7
28 Marquee £13 10s
Mar 1 Top Ten club, Carnaby St £2 50s
7 Marquee £13
5 Wealdstone £1
12 Wealdstone £1
14 Marquee £10
16 Wandsworth £4
17 Redcar £4
19 Wealdstone £1
20 Nottingham £4
21 Marquee £10
26 Wealdstone £1 15s
28 Marquee £10
29 Golders Green £3 10s
Apr 2 Wealdstone £2 50s
3 Kensington £4 15s
4 Marquee £10
5 Guildford £4
6 Stoke £4
7 Coventry £4
9 Wealdstone £2
11 Marquee £10
13 Slough £4
16 Wealdstone £2
18 Marquee £10
19 Golders Green £3 10s
20 Middlesbrough £4
23 Maida Vale****
23 Wealdstone £3 50s
25 Marquee £10
26 Windsor, Ricky Tick
27 Manchester
28 Grays £25 total for last 3 gigs
29 Regents Park £5
30 Wealdstone (blank entry)
May 2 Marquee "
3 Guildford "
4 Wandsworth "
7 Wealdstone "
9 Marquee £15
10 Windsor, Ricky Tick (blank entry)
11 Birslem, Stoke "
14 Wealdstone "
16 Marquee £15
17 Croydon (blank entry)
18 Wandsworth "
20 Wealdstone "
22 Bristol TV***** £9 50s
23 Marquee £15
24 Windsor (blank entry)
25-26 Middlesbrough "
28 Wealdstone "
30 Teddington TV****** £10 10s
31 Golders Green (blank entry)
Jun 1 Camberley "
2 Brighton "
4 Wealdstone "
6 Marquee £15
7 Saltburn on Sea (blank entry)
8 Wandsworth "
9 Manchester "
11 Wealdstone "
13 Marquee £15
14 Guildford (blank entry)
15 Thaxted "
16 Birmingham TV******* £10
18 Wealdstone (blank entry)
19 Leeds "
20 Marquee £20
21 Golders Green (blank entry)
22 Middlesbrough "
23 Eel Pie Island "
25 Wealdstone "
27 Marquee £20
28 Windsor, Ricky Tick (blank entry)
29 Reading "
30 Eel Pie Island "
Jul 2 Saturday Club******** £7
2 Wealdstone (blank entry)
4 Marquee £20
5 Guildford (blank entry)
6 Birslem, Manchester "
7 Coventry "
8 Teddington TV****** £12 10s
9 Wealdstone (blank entry)
11 Marquee £20
12 Windsor, Ricky Tick (blank entry)
13 Reading "
14 Eel Pie Island "
15 Teddington TV****** £12 10s
16 Wealdstone (blank entry)
18 Marquee £20
19 Macclesfield (blank entry)
20 Middlesbrough "
21 Eel Pie Island "
22 Teddington TV****** £12 10s
23 Wealdstone (blank entry)
25 Marquee £20
26 Guildford (blank entry)
27 High Wycombe "
28 Eel Pie Island £20
29 Teddington TV****** £12 10s
Aug 16 Windsor, Ricky Tick £5
17 Bletchley £5
18 'Beat Boat', 
London-Margate*********		 £5
20 Swindon £5
22 Woodbridge £5
23 Tarpoley £5
24 Oxford £5
26 Bath £5
27 Wallington £5
28 Carpenders Park £5
30 Llanelly £5
31 Swansea £5
Sept 1 Southall £5
2 Cambridge £5
3 Waltham Cross £5
4 Barnet £5
6 Gravesend £5
7 Romford £5
8 Kingston £5
12 Stafford £5
13 Nuneaton £5
14 Birmingham £5
15 Hayes £5
18 Frome £5
19 Kidderminster £5
20 Haresfield £5
21 Bletchley £5
22 Newbury £5
23 St. Helens £5
24 Middlesbrough £5
25 Newcastle £5
27 Kirkaldy £5
28 Loughborough £5
Oct 3 Loughton £5
4 Wolverhampton £5
5 Redhill £5
10 Plymouth £5
11 Stratford on Avon £5
12 Putney £5
13 Peckham £5
15 Cambourne £5
16 Bristol £5
18 Looe £5
19 Torquay £5
20 Winsford £5
21 Cheadle Hulme £5
22 Wellington £5
24 Stoke £5
25 Maryport £5
26 Coventry £5
27 Manchester £5
29 Altrincham £5
28 Tamworth***********
30 Sheffield £5
31 Liverpool £5
Nov 1 Westcliffe £5
2 Maidstone £5
3 Chatham £5
4 Dalston £5
6 Doncaster £5
8 Hereford £5
9 Stoke On Trent £5
10 Belfast £5
11 Warrington £5
12 Northwich £5
14 Luton £5
15 Windsor, Ricky Tick £5
16 Guildford £5
18 Bloxwich, Birmingham £5
19 Brighton £5
21 Hackney Wick £5
22 St Ives £5
23 Margate £5
25 Elsmere Port £5
26 Waltham Cross £5
29 Manchester £5
30 Scunthorpe £5
Dec 1 Crewe £5
2 Manchester £5
3 Tonbridge Wells £5
5 Cheltenham £5
6 Gravesend £5
7 Sutton-In-Ashfield £5
13 Nuneaton £5
20 Tamworth************
21 Swadlincote £5
22 Sheffield £5
27 Buckingham £5
28 Northwich £5
29 Warrington £5
31 Morecambe £5

 

Above: Ad from 'Jazz News', Jan 1963

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above: Poster for 26th Aug, Bath gig

 

 

Above: Ticket for 19th Oct, Torquay gig

 

Above: Tamworth Herald, Dec 21st

*Carlo officially did this gig with Cyril Davies All Stars but also deputised as drummer with The Stones, who were the interval band
** According to some sources, Carlo played this gig with The Stones but he did not list it in his payments book
*** Country Line Special/Chicago Calling single
**** Audition for BBC radio 
***** 'The 6.25 Show', BBC
****** 'Hullabaloo' show, ITV
******* 'Thank Your Lucky Stars'
******** 'Saturday Club' radio show on BBC. Was broadcast 5 days later on 6th July 1963 and presented by Brian Matthews. The band played numbers that were "typical of what we were doing at club gigs, but in shortened versions", according to Keith Scott in a letter to this website, "as the attention span of the average Saturday Club listener was short and sharp, especially through their portable trannies". A rare home-taped recording of this radio programme reveals the Saturday Club numbers as:
- See See Rider, guest vocals Long John Baldry
- Chicago Calling
- Country Line Special
- Roberta, guest vocals Long John Baldry
- Roll 'em Pete
********* The boat was the MV Royal Sovereign
********** Recording with Casey Jones & The Savages, demo of single 'One Way Ticket'. See discography for more info.
*********** The October Tamworth gig was not listed in Carlo's book for some reason, but a record of it exists here and in Tamworth Herald 01/11/63  newspaper cutting which says: "FANTASTIC - that was the runaway verdict of a poll taken on Monday night after Screaming Lord Sutch had brought the house down at Tamworth's Assembly Rooms... The Savages consists of Paul Redman on piano - he played with one hand because he had hurt his shoulder two days earlier - Ricky Fensen on bass, drummer Carlo Savage - the group was named after him - and lead guitar Stuart 'Daffodil' Taylor." (Stuart Taylor left the Savages in Dec 1963 to join The Tornados). 
 ************ Carlo didn't make this gig. The Savages broke down on the M1 and were replaced by local group The Three Spirits.   

 

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