Welcome to the Friars Aylesbury website

Monday March 9th 1969

friars aylesbury phase one - new friarage hall, walton street, aylesbury

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

related friars history (click on date)

Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come Thursday December 23rd 1971 plus surprise appearance Monday June 1st 2009

Atomic Rooster (Carl Palmer) Monday September 15th 1969 Emerson Lake and Palmer Friars Watford Thursday September 24th 1970

John Stevens Away (John Stevens and Trevor Watts of SME) Saturday October 16th 1976

setlist

band line up

Skin Alley

Arthur Brown Drachen Theaker Sean Nicholas Carl Palmer

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

was a collective of anything from two to two dozen performers!

gig poster and flyer (click to enlarge flyer)

ticket

memories

odds and trivia

what happened?

The God of Hellfire is still touring and made a surprise appearance at the 40th anniversary gig on June 1st 2009. Drachen Theaker died in 1992. Carl Palmer went on to be one third of one of the UK's biggest ever rock bands, ELP.

official web presence

Arthur Brown official website

sound and vision

Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Nightmare

SME - Ten Minutes

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