Heavy Jelly

The complexities encircling this intriguing UK progressive group belie its short life expectancy. The name ‘Large Jelly’ first made an appearance within a fictitious critique, run past due in 1968 in the London entries magazine, PERIODS. Interest was in a way that two brands, Island Information and Mind, released singles bearing the name. Isle’s Large Jelly was the rock-band Neglect Bifferty in disguise, although their lone one, ‘I Keep Performing THE SAME KIND OF Song’, achieved an increased profile when it had been placed on a favorite budget-priced sampler, Fine Enough TO CONSUME. The Head launch, in the springtime of 1969, ‘Period Out (The Very long Wait)’, presented John Morshead (acoustic guitar/vocals), Alex Dmochowski (bass) – both through the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation – drummer Carlo Small and a person dubbed Rocky. When this solitary proved well-known, the label’s controlling movie director, John Curd, authorized the Large Jelly, name and Morshead and Dmochowski instigated a full-time line-up. Preliminary album sessions presented Chris Real wood and Jim Capaldi from Visitors, but they had been latter changed by ex-Animals drummer Barry Jenkins and vocalist Jackie Lomax. Further upheavals adopted, the projected recording was shelved and the ultimate blow arrived when Lomax approved a solo documenting deal.