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Brand X
20 February 1976
The Nashville Rooms - London, England

Total time - 69:49

1. Born Ugly                                           7.23
2. Tales Of Ancient Mysteries           9.02
3. Intro Jam > Running On Three           9.22
4. Why Should I Lend You Mine                         6.12
5. Smacks Of Euphoric Hysteria                       11.34
6. Kugelblitz           11.18
7. Introductions by Robin > Nuclear Burn        8.55
8. Unknown                                                        6.05


Phil Collins: Drums
John Goodsall: Guitar
Percy Jones: Bass
Robin Lumley: Keyboards
Andrew Ward: Percussion   

Can you believe it!  Andy Ward from Camel on percussion!!!  Sweet!

The Nashville is also known as The Nashville Rooms

The excerpt below is taken from "ANDY WARD - The Life And Times"
Original interview published in CANTERBURY NACHRICHTEN

C.N.You played with Brand X at this time?

A.W.I first met Phil Collins while we were recording "Moonmadness", 
at Basing Street Studios.  Genesis were downstairs in the larger studio putting the finishing touches to "Lamb Lies Down", and I needed to borrow a drumkey.  So we got chatting and Phil was a very friendly guy.  We met a couple more times after that, exchanged phone numbers and that sort of thing.  Then Gabriel did his famous split from Genesis and I did a major interview with Chris Welch in the Melody Maker, and the subject of Genesis 
came up, and he ended up using that as the headline "Andy Ward says Genesis will survive without Gabriel", which was kind of odd, you know, as if I knew!  
It turned out that Phil really was a strong singer, and the rest is history, as they say.  But at the time it really pleased him, so the next time I saw him he was really chuffed, "Hey thanks for the name check", because it was really positive publicity at a time when they needed it.

C.N.I remember the timber of the press at that time was that Genesis 
were sunk without Gabriel.

A.W.Anyway, soon after he phoned me and asked me if I would like to play percussion with his jazz rock band, Brand X, at a gig in London?  I said "I'd love to".  I was very excited by this, so I went along and rehearsed with them.  I found them quite something to follow, not knowing the tunes, and there were a lot of time changes, very demanding.  I picked up on a few things, good enough to do the gig, but I was quite nervous about it.   
Anyway, the next day came, and it was the gig at a place called The Nashville in London.  It had a tiny little stage, with the five of us crammed on.  
I was set up directly behind Phil Collins on another little platform.  We started playing and everything was going swimmingly well for twenty minutes or so, but during the fourth number, I was playing tambourine with my right hand, and occasionally hitting the cymbals with it, and catching them with my left hand to choke the sound.  I did a particularly spirited one of these and 
failed to catch the cymbal with my left hand.  The result was the cymbal crashed directly onto Phil's left shoulder which I'd imagine was quite painful. 
 It was just the most awful moment, and he gave me a very cold look that froze me to the floor.  We carried on playing, but I felt pretty shaken, and was being very careful.  But low and behold it happened again!  
This time I missed Phil but demolished half his drum kit, and this time the band had to stop playing altogether while things were put right.  The rest of the band thought it very funny and made a thing of it during the announcements.  I was never asked to play with them again.  But they were a great band, and it was a fun evening except for those two incidents.