| JOHN'S
CHILDREN |
| 1967 |
| MAY |
10. Nurnberg |
| 11. Dusseldorf |
| 12. Ludwigshafen |
| TYRANNOSAURUS
REX |
| 1968 |
| MAY |
22. Inverness — start of a Scotland tour |
| 23. Motherwell |
| 24. Dundee |
| 25. Glasgow |
| 26. Tour finishes in Edinburgh |
| JUNE |
3. Royal Festival Hall |
| 23. Birmingham |
| JULY |
6. Woburn Abbey Festival, with Donovan, Family and
the Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 9. London Hyde Park |
| AUGUST |
10. London |
| 22. Manchester (with David Bowie as a support act) |
| OCTOBER |
2. Tyrannosaurus Rex tour starts at the Red Lion
in Leytonstone, Essex |
| 1969 |
| JANUARY |
13. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London |
| FEBRUARY |
13. Birmingham Town Hall |
| 16. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 22. Free Trade Hall, Manchester |
| 23. Colston Hall, Bristol |
| MARCH |
1. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool |
| 8. Dome, Brighton |
| MAY |
25. London |
| AUGUST |
9 - 11. Festival in Kempten |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex embark on first American tour |
| SEPTEMBER |
16. Cafe Au Go-Go, New York |
| NOVEMBER |
21. First Tyrannosaurus Rex live gig with the introduction
of Mickey Finn at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester |
| 22. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall |
| 23. City Hall, Newcastle |
| 30. Mothers, Birmingham |
| DECEMBER |
27. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 1970 |
| FEBRUARY |
8. Tree Club, Bridgend, Wales |
| 13. Lyceum, London |
| 18. Dome, Brighton |
| APRIL |
21. London Roundhouse alongside the Pretty Things |
| MAY |
9. Imperial College, London. |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex travel to America for second tour |
| JULY |
4. Bedford |
| 19. London |
| AUGUST |
28. Dudley Festival |
| OCTOBER |
9. First tour as T.Rex opens at the Albert Hall in
Nottingham (prices for tickets are pegged at 19S (50p)) |
| 10. King George's Hall, Blackburn |
| 14. Birmingham Town Hall |
| 15. Sheffield City Hall |
| 20. Guildhall, Southampton |
| 29. Civic Hall, Dunstable |
| 30. City Hall, Hull |
| 31. Imperial College, London |
| NOVEMBER |
4. Mountford Hall, Liverpool |
| 9. Colston Hall, Bristol |
| 11. Oxford Town Hall |
| 24. Guildford Civic Hall |
| 27. Bournemouth Winter Gardens |
| 28. At the Roundhouse, Dagenham, the audience is
first introduced to Steve Currie on bass guitar |
| DECEMBER |
3. Glasgow Green's Playhouse |
| 4. Second night in Glasgow |
| 7. Hardrock, Manchester |
| 11. Welwyn Garden City |
| 12. Cardiff Capitol Theatre |
| 16. Birmingham Odeon |
| 18. Devizes, Wiltshire |
| 19. Big Apple Concert Hall, Status Quo are the support
band |
| 20. Dome, Brighton |
| 21. London Alexandra Palace |
| 1971 |
| JANUARY |
2. T. Rex at Sheffield City Hall |
| 3. Guildhall, Prerton |
| 4. St George's Hall, Bradford |
| 17. New Theatre, Oxford |
| 14. Empire, Liverpool |
| 15. Stoke on Trent, Nottinghamshire |
| 16. King's Hall in Aberystwyth, Wales |
| 21. Gaumont, Southampton |
| 25. Lyceum London |
| FEBRUARY |
4. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 13. North East London Arts Festival |
| 14. University of Essex |
| 15. Civic Hall, Guildford |
| 16. Town Hall, Birmingham |
| 17. Dundee University Scotland |
| 20. Nottingham University |
| MARCH |
1. T.Rex start three-date tour of Ireland in Cork. |
| 2. Belfast |
| 3. Final Irish date in Dublin |
| 13. Lancaster University |
| 20. Winter Gardens complex, Weston-Super-Mare |
| APRIL |
The band spend the month in America |
| MAY |
9. T. Rex begin UK tour at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth |
| 11. Portsmouth Guildhall |
| 14. Albert Hall, Nottingham |
| 16. Free Trade Hall, Manchester |
| 17. City Hall, Sheffield |
| 19. Civic Hall, Wolverhampton |
| 20. City Hall, Newcastle |
| 21. Green's Playhouse, Glasgow |
| 23. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 24. Colston Hall, Bristol |
| 25. De Montford Hall, Leicester |
| 27. St George's Hall, Bradford |
| 28. End of first leg of tour at Liverpool's Philharmonic
Hall |
| JULY |
3. Second leg of tour kicks off at the Odeon, Birmingham |
| 4. Gliderdome, Boston Starlight, Lincolnshire |
| 9. Lewisham Odeon, London |
| 17. The Pavilion, Bath |
| OCTOBER |
8. Rotterdam,Holland |
| 9. Amsterdam,Holland |
| 19. T. Rex start a seventeen-date “Electric Warrior”
tour of the UK at Portsmouth Guildhall |
| 20. ABC Theatre, Plymouth |
| 21. Capitol, Cardiff |
| 23. City Hall, Sheffield |
| 24. Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
| 25. St George's Hall, Bradford |
| 27. The Dome, Brighton |
| 29. Green's Playhouse, Glasgow |
| 30. University of Edinburgh |
| 31. City Hall, Newcastle |
| NOVEMBER |
4. ABC, Stockton, Cleveland |
| 5. Town Hall, Birmingham |
| 6. Free Trade Hall, Birmingham |
| 8. De Montfort Hall, Leicester |
| 9. ABC, Lincoln |
| 10. ABC, Wigan |
| 11. Final appearance of this tour at Liverpool Stadium |
| DECEMBER |
T. Rex travel to America for start of three-week
tour with Alice Cooper |
| 1972 |
| JANUARY |
15. Starlight Club in Boston, Lincs, as a warm-up
for the first major European tour |
| 28. European tour begins in Oslo, Norway |
| 29. Stockholm, Sweden |
| 30. Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 31. Hamburg, Germany |
| FEBRUARY |
1. Munster, Germany ends the European tour |
| 11. T. Rex begin tour of America appearing in Seattle,
followed by dates in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia
and Cleveland |
| 27. American tour finishes at Carnegie Hall, New
York |
| MARCH |
18. T. Rex appear at the Empire Pool Wembley for
afternoon and evening shows filmed by Ringo Starr |
| JUNE |
9. Short summer tour starts at the Odeon, Birmingham |
| 10. Capital Theatre, Cardiff |
| 16. Belle Vue, Manchester |
| 24. City Hall, Newcastle |
| AUGUST |
30. Start of a French tour |
| SEPTEMBER |
4. The French touch ends |
| 7. Pierre Fondes Arena, Montreal |
| 14. Academy of Music, New York |
| NOVEMBER |
28. T. Rex appear in Tokyo at start of mini tour
of Far East and Australasia |
| DECEMBER |
22. Edmonton Sundown, London, the first of three
Christmas specials |
23. Two performances at the Sundown, Brixton, London,
the last time the four-piece T. Rex appear in England and it will be over
a year before Marc Bolan gigs in England again
|
| 1973 |
| FEBRUARY |
13. A new European tour begins at the Sportpasst
in Berlin, Germany |
| 16. Gruguhaile, Essen, Germany |
| 17. Marten un Blomen, Hamburg |
| 18. Measehalle, Nuremberg |
| 19. Vienna, Austria |
| 20. Stidhalle, Offenbach, Frankfurt |
| 22. Sporthalle Belle Vue, Saarbrocken |
| 23. Deutschen Museum, Munich |
| 24. Koln |
| 25. VFR-Sporthalle, Mannheim |
| MARCH |
12. Olympia, Paris |
| 15. Stockholm, Sweden |
| 17. Aarhus, Germany |
| 19. Oslo, Norway |
| 20. Gothenburg, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 22. Odense, Denmark |
| 24. Brussels, Belgium |
| JULY |
20. Six-week tour of America opens at Milwaukee Arena
and the bill is shared with Three Dog Night. Other cities covered included
Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Ohio, St. Petersburg, Chicago, Memphis,
Detroit, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, Davenport, Iowa, Nassau, New Haven
and New York. The tour ends in Winnipeg, Canada. |
| OCTOBER |
T. Rex tour Japan, appearing in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya,
Hiroshima and Fukuoka |
| NOVEMBER |
3. Four-date tour of Australia kicks off at the Hordern
Pavilion in Sydney |
| 6. Apollo Stadium, Adelaide |
| 7. Festival Hall, Melbourne |
| 10. Tour finishes in Brisbane at the Festival Hall |
| 1974 |
| JANUARY |
21. First tour in England for over a year and a half
when they appear at Newcastle City Hall at the start of the Truck Off tour |
| 22. Glasgow Apollo |
| 24. City Hall, Sheffield |
| 26. City Hall, Manchester |
| 27. De Montfort Hall, Leicester |
| 28. Odeon, Birmingham |
| SEPTEMBER |
26. Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania |
| 28. Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
| OCTOBER |
2. Joint in the Woods, Parsippany, New Jersey USA
Bolan is taken ill and venues cancelled for the remainder of the month |
| NOVEMBER |
19. Roberts Stadium, Evansville, Indiana, USA |
| 11. Agora Club, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| 15. Trenton War Memorial Theatre, Trenton, New Jersey,
USA |
| 16. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York, USA |
| 17. American circuit comes to an end at the St Morte
Hotel, New York, USA. |
| 1975 |
| JULY |
12. A new line-up starts a small series of warm-up
gigs, prior to embarking on the first major British tour for over eighteen
months, at the Palace Lido, Douglas, on the Isle of Man |
| 23. Tiffany's, Great Yarmouth |
| 25. Pier Pavilion, Hastings |
| 26. Lees Cliffe Hall Folkestone |
| 1976 |
| FEBRUARY |
5. Futuristic Dragon tour begins at Chatham Central
Hall |
| 6. St. Albans City Hall |
| 7. Lees Cliffe Hall, Folkestone |
| 8. Cliffes Pavilion, Southend |
| 12. Floral Hall, Southport |
| 13. Palace Theatre, Newark |
| 14. Grand Pavilion, Withernsea |
| 15. Empire Theatre, Sunderland |
| 18. Lyceum, London |
| 19. Queensway Dunstable |
| 20. Winter Gardens, Bournemouth |
| 23. Town Hall, Birmingham |
| 24. Free Trade Hall, Manchester |
| 28. Winter Gardens, New Brighton |
| MARCH |
1. Apollo, Glasgow |
| 3. Municipal Hall, Falkirk |
| 4. Civic Centre, Motherwell |
| 6. Grand Hall, Kilmarnock |
| DECEMBER |
19. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London — a charity
performance |
| 1977 |
| FEBRUARY |
Low-key Frech tour including dates in |
| MARCH |
10. Dandy in the Underworld tour begins at Newcastle
City Hall (punk band the Damned are support) |
| 11. Manchester Apollo |
| 12. Glasgow Apollo |
| 13. Victoria Hall, Hanley |
| 14. Colston Hall, Bristol |
| 17. Odeon, Birmingham |
| 18. Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London |
| 19. Pavilion, West Runton |
| 20. Locarno, Portsmouth |
