The Amen diaries - 1972

1972

January

15th "13th Hour" coffee bar, St Matthew's, Wolverhamton
16th "13th Hour" coffee bar, St Matthew's, Wolverhamton
29th Coffee bar, Birkbeck chapel, Sidcup without Richard (Colin & Kevin on vocals)

February

19th "Youth Contact", Henry St Hall, Ross-on-Wye

March

5th Arborfield Parish church and afterwards with Vic Jacobsen
18th Crusaders at Wantage Baptist
24th Faringdon Corn Hall coffee bar
26th Romsey Baptist and afterwards (with Kevin, Marg and Hazel)

April

Around this time Herb finds an old, beat-up Fender Strat, renovates it and sprays it white. Two guitars!

1st Youth for Christ, Eastleigh
9th North Leigh, Windmill Gospel hall and afterwards at Memorial Hall
15th Tower Road Gospel hall, Liphook
29th British Legion Hall, Saffron Waldon

May

6th Youth for Christ, Museum Theatre, Bristol
14th Maidenhead Youth Centre
20th Salisbury "City Challenge" rally, Town Hall with Tony Stone

June

3rd Barbeque, Waterton House, Cirencester
10th Summer Sounderama '73, Eldon Road, Eastbourne
17th "The Tomb", Brunswick Road Baptist, Gloucester

July

1st Winterslow Barbeque in the Barn
8th Indoor Barbeque (raining), Cumnor, Nr Oxford
15th Godalming Jesus Festival with "The Clearways" and "Something Else Entirely"
16th Eastleigh, After church meeting, Town Hall
22nd Basingstoke Festival for Jesus with Raleigh MacKenzie, "His Way", Andrew Culverwell, "New Creation", Gerald Coates etc
23rd St Aldate youth service, Oxford

"Something Elso Entirely" (as opposed to the Pythonesque "Something Completely Different") was another Christian Rock Band led by David Oliver later to become an elder at Basingstoke Community Church

September

23rd Romsey Barbeque
30th Salisbury Festival of Light, Jesus Festival, Market Hall with "Corpus Cristi", Raleigh and "His Way"

"His Way" was a worship group based at Basingstoke Community Church. Herb and Martin were also involved in this project.

October

Herb and Martin give Richard notice that they intend to leave to concentrate on "His Way".

1st Sunday Youth Club, Women's League hall, Carterton Nr Witney
3rd Barbeque, Shoreditch Teacher training college, Egham with Randy Stonehill
8th Reading Prison
9th Ock Fair, Abingdon Baptist
10th Ock Fair, Abingdon Baptist
13/14th Night Life, all night youth convention, Kings Rd Baptist, Reading with Cliff & Char, and "New Wine"
21st Festival of Light Jesus rally, Hoglands Park, Southamption with Randy Stonehill, "Breath", Vic Ramsey and Tony Stone Herb & Martin give notice
21st Youth rally, New Farm chapel, Arlesford
27th Pollington Borstall, Nr Goole
28th Youth rally, Standering Hall, St James church, Selby
29th Morning services, St John the Baptist, Pollington

November

18th "Youth Contact", Ross Youth Centre, Ross-on-Wye
19th "Youth Contact", Henry St Hall, Ross-on-Wye

December

3rd King Edwards mixed boarding school, Witley, Nr Godalming
9th Christmas Coffee evening, Shirley Baptist, Southampton