UFO Club

ABOUT

UFO was an all-night psychedelic club that ran on Friday nights from December 1966 in the Blarney Club, an Irish dance hall in a basement below the Berkeley Cinema on Tottenham Court Road. John 'Hoppy' Hopkins and Joe Boyd started it; it moved to the Roundhouse in summer 1967 and closed by October. The Tottenham Court Road block was demolished in the mid-1970s.

SIGNIFICANCE

Pink Floyd were the house band when UFO opened on 23 December 1966. They played there on 13 January 1967, when Peter Whitehead filmed them, and on 27 January 1967 Granada TV filmed them there for 'Scene Special'.

MUSIC & CHARACTER

SOURCES

Details compiled from public sources. Run this venue? Get in touch to confirm or correct the listing.

1. https://archive.pinkfloyd.com/history/timeline_1967 (official website)Supports: Pink Floyd played UFO on 13 January 1967 (filmed by Peter Whitehead) and were filmed there on 27 January 1967 for Granada TV's 'Scene Special', broadcast 7 March 1967.
2. https://collection.britishcouncil.org/document/ufo/6495b28e49951dc1fb897fe1?dateOfCreation%5B0%5D=1967&pos=197 (official website)Supports: John 'Hoppy' Hopkins and Joe Boyd opened UFO on 23 December 1966 in the Blarney Club, an Irish dance hall on Tottenham Court Road, with Pink Floyd as house band.
3. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/aladdin-soho-the-swinging-sixties-streets-that-shaped-a-young-david-bowie-8532121.html (news article)Supports: UFO ran in a basement below the Berkeley Cinema.
4. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/15/john-hoppy-hopkins (news article)Supports: After Hopkins was jailed in June 1967 the club lost its way and closed by October 1967.