University of Errors began out of an impromptu jam session at Komotion Studio in San Francisco at the end of September of 1998. Daevid Allen, the founder of The Soft Machine in 1966 and Gong in 1969 was at the end of a solo tour and staying in SF for a few days before flying home to Austraila. A jam was arranged with some friends and recorded. Listening back at the end of the night Daevid looked up and said: "Can I come back tomorrow and put some lyrics over some of this?". He did and then flew out that night and forgot about it. Michael and Pat and Jay took the tapes and spent some time mixing and sent the results to Daevid a few months later.
Michael received an e-mail from Daevid: "This is a band, we have to do this live. We will be University of Errors." or something like that happened. The band's first album "Money Doesn't Make it' was those original recordings made out of the jam at Komotion and was released in June of 1999 by Innerspace Records.At the end of the 2003 Tour this line up recorded an entire CD of their versions of the earliest songs of The Soft Machine from when Daevid was a member of that band 1966-67.
Here & Now first came together at the Watchfield Free Festival in 1975... The line-up featured Steffe Sharpstrings (gtr) Twink (synthis), Keith Tha Missile (bass) and Kif Kif le Batteur (drums) their first ever show was in the form of a free-floating, anarchical 6-hour jam in front of 15,000 people.
After record producer Mike Howlett spotted them at a typically anarchic gig in Notting Hill's Tabernacle and recommended them to Gong's Daevid Allen, the legendary Planet Gong was formed. It was a deadly combination, leaving behind a 250,000 selling album. 'Live Floating Anarchy '77'- and a legend which lives on to this day. Here & Now went their own way, becoming, along with the legendary Hawkwind, the musical focus of the annual Stonehenge Free Festivals, and were one of the UK's largest (if unsung) live drawing bands, but totally ignored by the rock industry mainstream.
Having broke up in 1992, H&N reformed for the new millenium and now feature original members Keith and Steffe, with Joie (keys/synths) and Merv (drums) from Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles.
Stand by for a night of merriment, magic and amusement as Daevid Allen, University of Errors and Here & Now descend on Camden Town.