John Fiddlers 'Medicine Head', 21 November | Event in Gravesend | AllEvents

John Fiddlers 'Medicine Head'

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Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

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Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm (GMT)

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Crete Hall Rd, Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom

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John Fiddlers 'Medicine Head'
John Fddlers Medicine Head are coming to Leos on Friday 21st November!!!!

Medicine Head began life in 1968 when the founding core duo of singer and guitarist John Fiddler and harmonica player Peter Hope-Evans began performing in the Midlands. They quickly came to the attention of John Peel and – at the insistence of John Lennon – the DJ ended up signing the band to his own Dandelion Records. Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend were also early cheerleaders. Peel declared the band’s debut 1968 single ‘His Guiding Hand’ to be one of the classics of all time – and a copy featured in his legendary Record Box.


Medicine Head released three albums via Dandelion Records, with Hope-Evans leaving and returning to the fold during that time. The first album, 1970’s ‘New Bottles, Old Medicine’ featured ‘His Guiding Hand’ and was recorded in a two-hour session and Medicine Head toured with the DJ at many of Peel’s shows. The band followed that with the single ‘(And The) Pictures In The Sky’ and then a second album in 1971, ‘Heavy On The Drum’; produced by the Yardbirds’ Keith Relf. After their 1972 album, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ [yes, before Pink Floyd), the band signed to Polydor.


Medicine Head then released ‘One & One Is One’, the single charted at No.3 in the charts and the album of the same name garnered them more fans. The following album ‘Thru’ A Five’ gave them more hits with “Rising Sun” and ‘Slip and Slide’. Soon after that the band became a duo again, releasing the fittingly titled album ‘Two Man Band’ in 1976. The following year, Peter Hope-Evans left for the final time, although John Fiddler (with Peter’s blessing), has continued to work, and to release records as Medicine Head – 2011’s ‘Fiddlersophical’ was the last before ‘Warriors of Love’. Now he has a new album Heartwork which has been gaining glowing reviews in the music press in the UK and beyond

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John Fiddlers 'Medicine Head', 21 November | Event in Gravesend | AllEvents
John Fiddlers 'Medicine Head'
Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm