Medicine Head Unplugged, founder member, John Fiddler solo, live at The Marr’s Bar, Worcester

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm UTC+01:00

12 Pierpoint Street, WR1 1TA Worcester, United Kingdom | Worcester

The Marrs Bar
Publisher/HostThe Marrs Bar
Medicine Head Unplugged, founder member, John Fiddler solo, live at The Marr\u2019s Bar, Worcester
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Legendary 70’s blues rock band–Medicine Head founder member, singer-songwriter John Fiddler solo – Marrs Bar, Worcester, Friday 26th September 2025.
Telling the stories, playing the songs, the co-founder of iconic blues rock band Medicine Head hosts intimate solo sets at venues in the UK
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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