RONNIE WATHEN - GILLI SMYTH - LADY JUNE - DAEVID ALLEN

1978-??-?? - Deya, SP
Poetry reading

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1978-??-?? - Deya, SP - french restaurant - aud (93m) (2cd)

RONNIE WATHEN: Ronnie Wathen, Phil Shepherd
GILLI SMYTH: Gilli Smyth, Daevid Allen
LADY JUNE: Lady June, Patrick Meadows, Stephanie Shepard, Phil Shepherd
DAEVID ALLEN: Daevid Allen, Phil Shepherd + others unknown

Disc 1:

RONNIE WATHEN:
1) pipes & drum (5:57) *
2) flute & drum, with some thoughts about birds & poetry (4:09) **
3) ? (0:48)
4) pipes & drum (2:25)
5) Tourist Poems (1:03)
6) pipes & drum (1:13)
7) Deya Poem (0:58)
8) pipes & drum (1:42)
9) Love Poems (5:40)
GILLI SMYTH:
10) Fire (0:58) *
11) The Sea (2:15) ***
12) from The Book Of Taliesin (1:35)
13) I Am Your Fantasy (2:11) $
14) Why Are You Not Your Boss? (1:17)
15) OK Man, This Is Your World (4:36) =
Unknown Artist:
16) I'm Glad I'm Not Too Decent (4:02) +
17) I'm Happy To Be Happy (1:10)
18) Mine Eyes? (5:10) ?

Disc 2:

1) Mine Eyes? cont. (2.53)
2) Lipstick On The Nipples (0:39)
LADY JUNE:
3) I Think I'm Getting Too Fat (2.22)
4) Fishlong (3:22)
5) Elastic Ice (4:43)
6) Circles (3:06) ?
7) In-Famous - Loving (4:09) ?
8) Anne Onymouse - Today I Saw 2 Rainbows (1:38) @
9) Missing Person (2:26)
DAEVID ALLEN:
10) Daevid bores the restaurant (2:37)
11) When (1:36) !
12) Oh, Its Not Easy (2:32)
13) Ern Malley... Daevid gets heckled (2:31)
14) Crocodile Nonsense Poem (3:50) :
15) Hush (0:15) ;
16) San Francisco Goes... mainly heckling (7:54) ??

* [Cuts in].
** [Cuts in]. "Theme From Hashish To Ashes" quoted.
*** With Daevid  Allen on glissando.
$ Introduced as "Dream Poem". With Daevid  Allen on glissando.
= Performed live over Gong's backing tape.
+ [Cut at 0:05 after a bit of Daevid Allen's tape collage with "It's The Time Of Your Life"].
? [Cut].
? "...Pat Meadows is going to play guitar, Stephanie's playing flute and Phil Shepherd on rhythm...".
? "The tune was made by Gerry Fitzgerald and myself. Gerry is a very very good guitarist who lives in London".
@ [Cut at 1:36 on Lady June speaking].
! Aka "Life Policy" and "Change The Subject".
: [Cut]. Aka "Bellyful Of Tellyphone".
; [Start and end cut].
?? [Cuts at 0:40, 1:07, 1:57, 2:14, 3:07, 3:28, 3:49, 5:19, 5:20, 6:07, 6:44, 7:05, 7.28, 7:41].

Source: "A Tape I traded ... thanks nadir_53 ... no further lineage known".
[Deya French Restaurant 1978]. Shared as torrent on Dime by Gilberto.
No SBE's - True lossless source.
Allen says: "I went to America just before Christmas for the first time" and "The danger predicted for San Francisco is the end of Summer when San Francisco will no longer exist". This might change the date to 1979.
Calyx website states this French restaurant recording was made available on cassette.