Pye Hastings (guitars, vocals) / Geoff Richardson (viola,, violin, flute, guitar) / Jan Schelhaas (keyboards) / Mike Wedgewood (bass, congas, vocals) / Richard Coughlan (drums)
I’ve always had a soft spot for Caravan. I like their brand of melodic prog rock and I still have a ‘Best of…‘ LP which gets regular play even today.
At the time I had a cassette of their current album ‘Cunning Stunts‘ (think about it…) and loved the opener, ‘The Show of Our Lives‘ so I was really hoping that they would play it, which they duly did. In fact, they opened the set with it – result!
Karl Dallas, writing for Melody Maker, said of their set: “Refusing to try to out-rock Climax [Blues Band], Caravan began with a slow, reflective number ‘The Show of Our Lives’ from their new album, with Mike Wedgewood starting by singing virtually unaccompanied, and the song ending with taped church bells echoing the lyric. The sort of number, in short, which is fine at the start of a concept album, but which is dangerous fodder when you are playing for the uncommitted. Two songs from what is perhaps their most successful album so far, ‘For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night’ followed, and by now it was clear that this was going to be one of the great successes of the day.”
And they were just that, in spite of being billed in the middle of the Sunday pretty close to teatime (3:45).
Setlist: The Show of Our Lives; Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss; The Dabsong Conshirtoe; The Love in Your Eye / To Catch Me a Brother / Subsultus / Debouchement / Tilbury Kecks
Here’s what the official programme had to say about them… 
Gigs'n'Stuff 
We spoke about the Floral Hall in connection with Budgie/Judas Priest. I saw Caravan at the Floral Hall (was with Steve and Gary Toal). Did you not go to that gig in Scarborough? They were brilliant and I have always loved For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night. We have a pub nearby called The Dog – it always makes me think of The Dog, The Dog, It’s At It Again, from that album.
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No, I don’t think that I was there, Andy.
I too really like Caravan and I think that I would remember if I had been to that one.
What a pity! 😪
Roger 🤟
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