Esmeralda's was a music venue hosted in Bletchley Youth Centre in the late sixties to mid seventies. Usually held every alternate Sunday. If you read the list of bands below you will see many rock groups of the era, some that went on to become household names. See also the ticket pages.
Esmeralda's Gig List
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1970
31st May Steamhammer £50 Warm Dust £50
7th June Marsupliami £25 Gracious £25 Mirrors £25
14th June May Blitz £50 Cressida £40
21st June If £40 Trees £40
28th June Satisfaction £60 Man £40
11th October Argent £? Rocking Chair £?
1st November Writing On The Wall £50 Tir Na Nog £13
6th December Curved Air, Pacific Drift
20th December High Tide, Clark Huchinson, Man, Bram Stoker
1971
10th January Blonde On Blonde, Trader Horne
7th March Freedom, Mother Tuckers Rubber Duck
4th April Lancaster, Egg
2nd May Wild Turkey, Home, Hot Cottage
6th June Cochise Gothic Horizon (replaced Tiny Clanger)
4th July Chicken Shack Good Habit (replaced Hot Cottage)
27th June Free Concert Edgar Broughton Band, Vinegar Joe, Wild Turkey, Hot Cottage, Little Women, Tea and Sympathy, Home, Cigarette and Burning Boots, Lol Coxhill, Skinny Cat, Stone House, Renia.
3rd October Audience, Crusade, Curtiss Muldoon.
17th October Wild Turkey, Morgam, Renia
7th November Good Habit, Skinny Cat, Spring Offensive
21st November Stackridge, Home
5th December Dando Shaft, Ginger, Hot Cottage
19th December Man, Hackensack
26th December Morgan, Tea and Sympathy, Clear Blue Sky, Hot Cottage, Kloten
1972
15th January Stray, Pahana
30th January Stud, Barabas
13th February Stackridge, B.B. Blunder, Unicorn
15th February Jimmy McCulloch Band
27th February Flash, Gnidrolog, Kloten
12th March Pretty Things, Sunshaine
26th March Man, Writing On The Wall
2nd April Hackensack, Gnidrolog, Fragment, Steve Peregrine Took
9th April Morgan, Spreadeagle
23rd April Status Quo, Snake Eye
7th May Gypsy, Danta
21st May Genesis, Capability Brown
4th June Gnidrolog, Melaka, Tram
1st October Stackridge, Rap
15th October Mick Abrahams Band, Trees
5th November Man, Quicksand
6th November Gnidrolog, Nancy ??
1973
7th January Arthur Brown, Gnidrolog
14th January The Sharks, Nancy
4th February Nazareth, Saturnalia
14th February Blackfoot Sue
18th February Capability Brown, Darien's Spirit
4th March Kala, Fat Grapple
11th March Turkey Buzzard, Milkwood (Charity Concert)
18th March Super Sister, Camel
8th April The Flying Saucers
6th May Raw Material
13th May Duck De Luxe
3rd June Fruup
10th June The Flying Saucers
16th September Jack The Lad, Milton
23rd September Fruup, Public Foot the Roman
7th October Wild Turkey, Ange
21st October Quicksand, Writing on the Wall
4th November Naktar, Moonhead
18th November Deke Leonards Iceberg, Roger Ruskin Spear
9th December Back Door, Avalon
17th December Ellis, Highway
26th December Help Yourself, Quicksand, Milton, Nancy
1974
6th January Gong, Global Village Trucking Company
20th January Trapeze, A Million People
3rd February Gonzales
17th February Jan Dukes De Gray, Eclection
3rd March Flying Saucers
24th March Ange, Oxo Witney