The Liverpool Scene

In the early 60s. There was great excitement about the music that was going on, what we had heard had happened in America—poetry and jazz. But then, all the poetry and jazz I'd heard seemed to be a battle between the jazz and the words. On the other hand, music expects lyrics. So it seemed logical to (a) work with what was to hand (the Beat groups) and (b) work in an idiom that was word-friendly rather than word-antipathetic. Pop music is a vehicle for words.

Adrian Henri, interviewed in The Argotist magazine, 1996

Discography

The Amazing Adventures of...

Released 1968
UK: RCA SF 7995

Released 1968
US: RCA Victor LSP-4189

Side One

1 Tramcar to Frankenstein (Evans & Roberts)
2 The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
3 Gliders, Parks (Hart) 4 Burdock River Run (Roberts)
5 The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
6 Universe (Band)

Side Two

1 Bat Poem (Henri & Roberts)
2 The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
3 Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm (Roberts)
4 Happy Burial Blues (Cockrill, Evans & Roberts)
5 Palms (Hart)
6 The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
7 Love Story (Henri & Roberts)

Bread On The Night

Released 1969
RCA SF 8057

Side One

1 The day we danced at the Dole (Evans)
2 The Raven (Roberts)
3 GBS Blues (Evans)
4 The entry of Christ into Liverpool (Band)
5 64 (Roberts)

Side Two

1 Come into the perfumed garden Maud (Henri)
2 See the conkering heroine comes (Henri & Roberts)
3 Winter Poem (Henri & Jones)
4 I've got those Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, John Mayall can't fail blues (Henri)

ST. ADRIAN CO., Broadway and 3rd

Released Early 1970
RCA SF 8100

Side One

1 Made in the USA (Henri & Evans)

Side Two

1 Human Tapeworm (Roberts)
2 Night Song (Henri, Roberts)
3 Bomb Commercials (Henri)
4 Colours (Evans)
5 Baby (Henri, Roberts)

Heirloon

Released Late 1970
RCA SF 8134, 1970

Side One

1 Love Is
2 Gunner from Daker
3 The Morning The Sky Went Away
4 Moon King
5 Im Just A Simple Boy
6 The Woo-Woo
7 Mental Astronaut

Side Two

1 Tramcar To Frankenstein
2 The Little Car
3 The Boathouse
4 Wildwest

The Liverpool Scene Featuring Adrian Henri & Andy Roberts

Released 1970
Polydor – 2310 055

Side One

1 Made in the USA (Henri & Evans)

Side Two

2 I've Got Those Fleetwood Mac Shicken Shack John Mayell Can't Fail Blues (Henri)

3 Creepy John (Koerner)

4 Moths And Lizards In Detroit (Roberts)

5 G.B.S. Blues (Evans)

Recollections

Released 1972
Charisma – CS. 3

Side One

1 The Woo Woo (Henri, Roberts, Dodson, Evans, Jones)
2 The Day We Danced At The Dole (Evans)
3 Bat Poem (Henri, Roberts)
4 64 (A. Roberts)
5 Colours (Evans)
6 I've Got Those Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, John Mayall, Can't Fail Blues (Henri)

Side Two

1 Love Is (Henri, Roberts, Dodson, Evans, Jones)
2 The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool (Henri, Roberts, Dodson, Evans, Jones)
3 Love Story (Henri, Roberts)

The Amazing Adventures Of...

Released 2009
Esoteric Recordings – ECLEC 22138

CD One

1 Love Is
2 Batpoem
3 Son, Son
4 Tramcar To Frankenstein
5 The Woo Woo
6 Burdock River Run
7 Happy Burial Blues
8 Universes
9 I'm Just A Simple Boy
10 Baby
11 Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm
12 Bomb Commercials
13 Elsie Straws Saga
14 Wildwest
15 Colours
16 Gliders, Parks
17 Love Story

CD Two

1 The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool
2 We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die
3 Human Tapeworm
4 The Morning The Sky Went Away
5 Mental Astronaut
6 See The Conkering Heroine Come
7 Winter Poem
8 Come Into The Perfumed Garden, Maud
9 The Raven
10 The Only Thing It Needed Was You
11 I've Got These Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can't Fail Blues
12 64
13 Night Song
14 G.B.S. Blues
15 Made In U.S.A.
16 Rainbow Poem