During the autumn, winter and spring months of 1969 and 70, as a burgeoning 'freak' and underground music fan, I was going to a lot of gigs in the Blackpool, Preston, Lancaster, Manchester area.
One band I saw a lot on my travels around then was Urban Gorilla - also variously known as The Stark Electric Blues Band, very briefly Lanchester County (an unofficial name soon replaced with Urbane Gorilla - note the spelling - it was meant to be part of a joke, but it got a lot of people confused) and finally Urban Gorilla.
I saw them regularly in the Great Hall at Lancaster University and further afield including an amazing gig at the Pleasure Beach Casino on Wednesday 1st April 1970 where they supported the fast rising Black Sabbath and local heroes, Grisby Dyke - that night was also my first encounter with Stackwaddy but that's another story!
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