Category: News
Official Caravan News
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July 1968
Ian Ralfini and his partner Martin Wyatt attend a Caravan concert at the Beehive Club and offer them a publishing deal. Caravan have to leave their rented house in Whitstable, due to complaints from their neighbours. Eventually they find another rehearsal place, a church hall in nearby Graveney. Unable to find another place to live,…
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28 June 1968 London, Middle Earth [supporting Fairport Convention, also Chris McGregor Sextet]
London, Middle Earth [supporting Fairport Convention, also Chris McGregor Sextet] They perform “badly”, according to Pye Hastings, but enough people are impressed to generate a buzz about them, as a result of which Caravan are contacted by several labels (including Witchseason), and Ian Ralfini of Robbins Music. Ex-singer and aspiring producer Tony Cox expresses interest…
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June 1968
Contacts with people from the underground paper International Times lead to Caravan’s first London appearance
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May 1968
A demo tape is recorded, with minimal equipment, and passed on to Island Records, the label of such acts as Traffic; contacts with other labels including the Beatles’ own Apple Records.
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06 April 1968 Canterbury, Beehive Club [debut
Canterbury, Beehive Club [debut performance] A review in the Kentish Gazette mention that the band played “three sets of original compositions, Soft Machine numbers and Hugh Hopper songs”
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January 1968
Caravan is formed : Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair, David Sinclair and Richard Coughlan.