The Liverpool Scene 1966/1970 "cabaret rock" band

The Liverpool Scene

The Liverpool Scene was a poetry band, which included Adrian Henri, Andy Roberts, Mike Evans, Mike Hart, Percy Jones and Brian Dodson. It grew out of the success of The Incredible New Liverpool Scene, a CBS LP featuring Henri and McGough reading their work, with accompaniment by the guitarist Roberts. Liverpool DJ John Peel, who was then working on the pirate radio station Radio London, picked up on the LP and featured it on his influential late-night Perfumed Garden show. After Radio London closed down, Peel visited Liverpool and met the band; as a consequence, they were featured in session on his BBC Top Gear and Night Ride shows, and in 1968 he produced their first LP. Four LPs were issued with Henri's poetry heavily featured.
Despite Peel's support the albums achieved little success, although the band did become popular on the UK university and college circuit. Their public performances included a 1969 tour when they opened for Led Zeppelin; they also toured the USA but did not attract much acclaim from US critics and audiences. Henri was described in performance as "bouncing thunderously and at risk to audience and fellow performers, the stage vibrating out of rhythm beneath him."
The albums were:

The Incredible New Liverpool Scene (CBS 1967)
Amazing Adventures of (RCA 1968)
Bread on the night (RCA 1969)
St. Adrian & Co., Broadway and 3rd (RCA 1970)
Heirloon (RCA 1971)
Recollections (Charisma 1972)

There were at least 3 "best of" albums and a single Love Is/Woo-Woo.

Gruppo multi media di teatro e satira in musica , i Liverpool Scene raccolgono a partire dal 1966 musicisti e poeti liverpooliani (fra gli altri Mike McGear, fratello di Paul McCartney) intorno al poeta Adrian Henri e al chitarrista Andy Roberts. Dopo un primo album su CBS, i Liverpool Scene registrano quattro dischi per la RCA, affermandosi come esponenti di quel movimento di "cabaret rock" che comprende anche la Bonzo Band, gli Scaffold e, più avanti, i Grimms. I loro brani più celebri (i titoli spiegano abbastanza) sono The Woo Woo, I've Got These Fleetwood Mac Chicken, Shack, John Mayall Can't Fail The Blues è la famosa L'ingresso di Gesù Cristo a Liverpool ( The Entry of Christ Into Loverpool). Nei primi '70 il gruppo si scioglie. Nel 1972 Roberts forma i Plainsong, con l'ex Fairport Ian Matthews; incide poi alcuni dischi come solista. Più avanti parteciperà al progetto Grimms, con ex componenti dei Bonzo e degli Scaffold.