Today

13
May

1964: The Yardbirds play a private daytime party for Lord Ted Willis in Chiselhurst then play an evening gig at the Bromel Club at the Bromley Court Hotel in Bromley, Kent
1966: John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers have a gig at Town Hall, Oxford and Ginger Baker sits in – on the drive back to London, Ginger proposes forming a band to EC
1974: EC films the “Eyesight To The Blind” sequence for Tommy: The Movie at St. Andrew’s Church in Henderson Road, Eastney, Portsmouth with Pete Townshend and John Entwhistle
1980: EC’s UK Tour supporting “Just One Night” stops at the Hippodrome in Bristol
1983: EC’s UK / European Tour stops at the Cornwall Coliseum in Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall
1992: First of two consecutive nights at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois during EC’s US Tour
2009: EC’s Ireland / UK Tour stops at the Liverpool Echo Arena in Liverpool
2013: EC’s 50th Anniversary Tour stops at the LG Arena at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham
2019: EC opens a three-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall