SMALL FACES,King Mojo Festival 1968 Concert Poster

	£		206
	$		273

Item Description: THE SMALL FACES, Mega Rare Original Concert Poster for the King Mojo Festival held at Queens Hall, Leeds on Whit Monday, June, 1968.  

I am selling the poster on behalf of a client who can atest to its history. This is the actual poster taken from Peter Stringfellows DJ booth on the night. It is NOT a repro, reprint, bootleg, copy etc. The poster measures 20 inches by 30 inches and exhibits some damage along the edges and has been folded at some point.  

THE SMALL FACES: The name is synonymous with the Mod Movement and Mod Music, and so too it is with the infamous King Mojo Club - for who knows - without The Mojo there very well may not have been The Small Faces as we know them. The Small Faces were first brought to the attention of Maurice King, a local London nightclub owner, by the singer, Elkie Brooks. She recommended them to Maurice after seeing them play, noticing frontman Steve Marriott's powerful and unique voice. Equally as impressed with Marriott and the rest of the band, King began to act as their manager finding them gigs in London, and before too long, in the rest of the country. The Small Faces first out-of-London gig was booked in Sheffield, the industrial north of the UK. The venue was a small Working Man's Club, north-east of the city centre and frequented by coal miners, steel workers and manual labours, along with their own brand of Sheffield hard drinking, hard living Teddy Boys. The Small Faces were out of place, to say the least. Met by a band of young men, with slicked hair styles, sta-pressed trousers, three button blazers and button down checked shirts, the audience were not impressed. The Small Faces managed to get Jimmy Reed's 'Baby What You Want Me Do' and got part way into James Brown's classic, 'Please, Please, Please' before they were dragged from the stage by the clubs management. Paid off and kicked out, The Small Faces despondently left the Working Mans club and wandered only a few steps down onto Pitsmoor Road. Here they followed a group of likely looking young mods and ravers to what at first appeared to be a house. Instead, this was The King Mojo Club. With nothing to loose, the band walked in and offered to play for nothing. The club's owner, and legend in his own right, Peter Stringfellow insisted he paid them. The Small Faces finally took the stage and history was made. Steve Marriott described the night... 'Our stuff wasn't right for them. We were paid off after three numbers. We walked through the streets feeling utterly brought down. Then we came to the entrance of a club that looked bright and with it. We could see lots of young people going in. On the spur of the moment we went in and told the owners we would play for nothing. They agreed. We played for all we were worth, taking courage from the fact that the audience were mainly teenagers. All mods in fact. Well we went a bomb. The audience raved like mad and kept yelling for more.' The Small Faces' lasting relationship with The King Mojo Club had begun. (with thanks to http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk) 

Other acts on the bill include Tamla Motown artist Edwin Starr and The Starliners, The Herd, Alan Bown, Amboy Dukes etc 

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