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

 

1964

Month Date Venue Earnings
Jan 1 Manchester £5
4 Derby £5
5 Kingston £5
6 Glasgow £5
8 Stourbridge £5
9 Swindon £5
11 Hinckley £5
14 Wednesbury £5
15 Wakefield £5
18 Runcorn £5
19 Coventry £5
20 Sutton-In-Ashfield £5
21 Southport £5
22 Birmingham £5
24 Ashford £5
25 Stockport £5
26 Olympia Ballrooom, Cromer £5
27 Widnes £5
28 Sheffield £5
29 Willenhall £5
30 Stafford £5
31 Birmingham £5
Feb 1 Loughborough £5
2 Birmingham £5
5 Great Yarmouth £5
7 Bridgnorth £5
8 Tunbridge Wells £5
10 Manchester £5
11 Sheffield £5
12 Wigan £5
13 Iron Door club, Liverpool £5
14 Dunstable £5
15 Rotherham £5
16 Manchester £5
17 Bloxwich, Walsall £5
18 Recording session* £7
19 Derby £5
21 Huddersfield £5
22 Bath £5
23 Coventry £5
24 Eltham £5
25 Lowestoft £5
27 Mundford £5
29 Hastings** £5
Mar 1 Edmonton £5
4 Barrow-In-Furness £5
6 West Wickham £5
7 Margate £5
8 Hampstead £5
10 Harrow £5
12 Luton £5
13 Leo's Cavern club, Windsor £5
14 Stroud £5
15 Manchester £5
16 Wellington £5
19 Salisbury £5
20 St Ives £5
21 Stoke-On-Trent £5
22 Chertsey £5
24 Wallington £5
25 Bristol £5
28 Redhill £5
Apr 2 Sheffield £5
3 Morecambe £5
4 Manchester £5
5 Rochdale £5
10 Nuneaton £5
11 Greenwich £5
12 Bedford £5
13 Bath £5
23 Cardigan £5
24 Milford Haven £5
25 Market Harborough £5
26 Camberley £5
28 Uttoxter £5
30 Hopkinstown  £5
May 1 Shoreditch £5
2 Oxford £5
June 25 Marquee
Jul 2 Marquee
16 Marquee*** £45 total from Baldry gigs
Aug-Oct Buddy Britten & The Regents**** £45+ £48+ £52 = £145 

 

Above: Handbill from Apr 13th, 1964

 

Above: Feb 13th, 1964

 

Above: Mar 13th, 1964

At the end of the Buddy Britten entry, Carlo wrote: 
"Oct 64 - Jan 65. P.A.Y.E. 13 weeks. Strang's Garage, Watford Road, Harrow." Did he work at this place during this time?

* Single She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man / Bye Bye Baby with producer Joe Meek
** Ray King, guitarist: "When I played with Carlo and Lord Sutch, the line-up was Freddie 'Fingers' Lee on piano, Danny on bass, myself on guitar. There was a young  sax-player too, on a couple of gigs, I only remember him as being called "Toots". Freddie sounded more like Jerry Lee Lewis than Jerry himself - he was terrific! In Hastings, the Pier Ballroom, Dave set the stage curtains alight! Happy days."
*** Carlo did not list the Hoochie Coochie Men gigs in detail. He only wrote 'June 25th - July 19th with Long John Baldry'. Exact dates are taken from the Marquee website, but there may well have been more around the UK.
**** Gigs were not listed in detail

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