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Maybe Someday, 1973

February 1973

17^th: University, Southampton.

Set list from Paul Bryant:

Cousin Caterpillar
Log Cabin Home in the Sky
Dumb Kate
Raga
Circus Girl
At the Lighthouse Dance
Second Fiddle
Cold Days of February
Elite Syncopations (Scott Joplin)
Maker of Islands
Saturday Maybe
Tear the Silk
Medley: Douglas Traherne Harding/You Get Brighter/Dust be Diamonds/White Bird/Ducks on a Pond/Sleepers Awake

18^th: Bristol University.

21^st: Stirling University.

22^nd: Warwick University.

23^rd: Bolton College of Technology.

25^th: Playhouse, Nottingham.

March 1973

1^st: Sussex University, Brighton.

2^nd: Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge.

3^rd: Kingston Polytechnic.

5^th: Oxford Polytechnic.

7^th: Swansea University.

9^th: Leicester University.

10^th: Brunel University, Uxbridge.

17^th: Royal Festival Hall, London.

20^th: State Theatre, Dublin. (Live bootleg available?)

21^st: Savoy Theatre, Limerick.

22^nd: Pavilion Theatre, Dublin.

23^rd: Savoy Theatre, Cork.

April 1973

12th: Old Town Theater, Los Gatos California.

15th: Old Town Theater, Los Gatos California. (2 shows)

22^nd: Philharmonic Hall, New York.

29^th: Tampa, Florida.

Also in April but dates unknown:

Los Angeles Troubador; Monroe Community Center, Rochester, New York; Boston.

I saw the ISB in (I think April or May of 1972 or 1973) in Los Angeles at UCLA in what was probably a small lecture hall or theater within the university. I wasn't much of a fan then. My friend, who took me with him, was. He'd somehow heard about what was an unadvertised appearance, several hours before it took place. The only song I remember was their signature crowd-pleasing tune, Black Jack Davy. I curse myself to think of it now, but most of my interest was directed to a tall, lithe, but well endowed blonde shaking a tambourine in her tight sweater. Alas.

May 1973

12^th: North West University, Cahn Auditorium, Chicago.

25th: Palau de la Musica, Barcelona.

Set list:

Cousin Caterpillar
Antoine
Old Buccaneer
Everything's Fine Right Now
Piano Solo
Turquoise Blue
My Father Was a Lighthouse Keeper
At the Lighthouse Dance
Circus Girl
Log Cabin Home in the Sky / Sleepers Awake
Instrumental / Saturday Maybe
Black Jack Davy

Also in May 1973 but exact dates unknown:

Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco; Riverboat, Toronto (two gigs); Miami Beach Auditorium (with Jackson Browne)

August 1973

1^st: London Music Festival, Alexandra Palace (with Steeleye Span)

10^th: Durham University.

11^th: Newcastle City Hall.

12^th: Civic Hall, Barnsley.

September 1973

4^th: Empire, Glasgow (with Brinsley Schwarz).

October 1973

11^th: City Hall, Newcastle.

12^th: Odeon, Leicester.

13^th: Civic Hall, Barnsley.

14^th: Civic Theatre, Darlington.

The Incredible String Band played the second half of the evening. The first half was played by McGuinness Flint.

16^th: Capitol Theatre, Cardiff.

17^th: Dome, Brighton.

18^th: Guildhall, Southampton.

19^th: Town Hall, Birmingham.

20^th: Civic Hall, Barrow-in-Furness.

22^nd: Fairfield Hall, Croydon.

23^rd: Colston Hall, Bristol.

25^th: City Hall, Glasgow.

27^th: Usher Hall, Edinburgh.

29^th: Music Hall, Aberdeen.

30^th: Caird Hall, Dundee.

31^st: Guildhall, Preston.

November 1973

1^st: City Hall, Sheffield.

2^nd: City Hall, Hull.

3^rd: City Hall, St Albans.

4^th: Civic Theatre, Gravesend.

5^th: Free Trade Hall, Manchester.

6^th: Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge.

8^th: Civic Hall, Guildford.

9^th: York University.

11^th: Playhouse, Nottingham.

12^th: Rainbow, London.

13^th: Princes Hall, Aldershot.

14^th: Playhouse Theatre, Harlow.

15^th: Congress Theatre, Eastborne.

16^th: Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa.

18^th: Royal Court, Liverpool.

20^th: New Theatre, Oxford.