Stop Press!!! As of March 22nd 2008 I have a myspace page. Check it out at myspace.com/adamnicke - and feel free to drop me a line!

10th March 2007 - I've added 266 photographs of Brigitte Bardot in all her sixties glory! I could be wrong but I think this is the largest gallery of Bardot photos anywhere on the internet!

I've added a 100+ photos of Edie Sedgwick and 60+ photos of Francois Hardy today (6th March 2007)

Check out Page 21 as this site will now be showing classic film clips of your favourite bands performing their greatest hits!!! There'll also be a lot more to come, groovsters!

There are some seriously good 'new' psychedelic and garage bands you people really need to check out. I love The Lords of Altamont Some other bands worth checking out are Colour Haze, Vibravoid, Liquid Visions, Lamp of the Universe (who don't appear to have a website), Baby Woodrose, Liquid Sound Company (again, without a website), and finally, The Dead Flowers.

For those of you more into sixties style powerpop (ala The Yardbirds, Creation, etc) you can check out The Prime Movers Myspace site here. Even Merseybeat raises its head with The Fore here

So, this site is dedicated to that brief period in the sixties when London was swinging, when Carnaby Street wasn't the dump it is today, and when being a hippie didn't mean you necessarily had to reek of patchouli oil and sit around in a muddy field all day!

A popular aspect of this site is the selection of photographs I have showing the grooviest in sixties women. I'll point out now that the entrance to their galleries is on page 19. On the rest of the pages you will find not just ephemera from that period (in the form of concert posters), but a history of the Psychedelic poster and the key players in the field (never let it be said this site is anything less that informative!)

Unfortunately, most of the posters are American but I still think the capture the mood of the time. (I don't wish to offend any American readers but I think the influx of US bands from '68 onwards killed off the UK scene that flourished from Mid-'66 to the end of '67). If anyone has any UK posters from the time that they'd like me to put on the site, then email me.

Keen eyed readers will notice that the background to the aforementioned pages features images from Carnaby Street in the sixties. I've also included a page that gives a brief history of Carnaby Street, together with the a few original images from the time. Even though it wasn't in Carnaby Street (and I haven't used it as background anywhere, either), I've also included a picture of The Beatles' Apple Boutique. As with the concert posters, if you have any pictures of the shops from London in the sixties and you'd like them shown, then please email me. I'm particularly interested in any images you might have of Biba.

There's also such things as a history of US garage bands (and an 18 image gallery), as well as a history of the club scene in London, circa 1967, lurking within these pages. As if that wasn't enough, I now have almost 250 images of the absolute grooviest in sixties babes. Hey, perhaps I ought to rename the site 'Poppets and Posters' ... nah, just a thought in a moment of madness!

Here's what's here: many free sixties galleries and artcicles on the Swinging London scene of 1966 and 1967, freakbeat, mod and psych in the Groovy Times' Sixties chat room, Sixties babes, the history of Carnaby Street, Garage Bands, Psychedelic nightlife, London nightclubs of 1967, New York in the sixties, Greenwich Village in the sixties, San Francisco in the sixties, Haight Ashbury. Photographs include: Brigitte Bardot galleries, Jane Birkin galleries, Patti Boyd galleries, Samantha Juste galleries, Soledad Miranda galleries, Peggy Moffitt galleries, Nico galleries, Anita Pallenberg galleries, Michelle Phillips galleries, Sharon Tate galleries, Penelope Tree galleries, Twiggy galleries; period photographs of Trecamp, I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet, Kleptomania, Lord John, Apple Boutique; Blues Magoos, Chocolate Watchband, Question Mark and the Mysterians, The Seeds, The Sonics, Shadows of Knight, Standells, Electric Prunes. Also bits and pieces on Pink Floyd, Roundhouse, Middle Earth, UFO Club, Keith West, Tomorrow, Xmas on Earth, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Byrds, The Beatles... Phew!

So here's a breakdown of what's on this site::

Page 1....This page.

Page 2....01 - 20 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 3....21 - 40 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 4....41 - 60 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 5....61 - 80 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 6....81 - 100 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 7....101 - 120 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 8....121 - 140 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 9....141 - 160 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 10....161 - 180 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 11....181 - 200 thumbnail pictures of sixties psychedelic posters.

Page 12....A History of the Psychedelic Poster

Page 13....Class of '66 - US Garage Bands Part I - A Lenny Kaye article on US Garage bands (with 19 images).

Page 14....Class of '66 - US Garage Bands Part II - A large Charles Lamey article on US Garage bands ( with 14 images).

Page 15....A History of Swingin' London & Carnaby Street in the Sixties (with original images!)

Page 16....The Happening Scenes across the world - part I - Nightlife of Swingin' London, 1967 (with original images!)

Page 17....The Happening Scenes across the world - part II - The New York Scene in the 60's (with original images!)

Page 18....The Happening Scenes across the world - part III - California in the Sixties (with original images!)

Page 19.....Index to page upon page of image galleries of the Grooviest Chicks of the Sixties (over 230 pictures!)

Page 20 .... (The 'guestbook' page) there is a little bit about me, some great links (no links to other psychedelic art sites, but some psychedelic UK mail order record shops and the choicest links to the very best sixties sites I've found on the net). There's also the chance to sign my guest book AND a dozen cool books you can download (including Venus in Furs and The Doors of Perception).

Page 21 .... Links to film clips of classic performances (what you've all been waiting for, I'm sure!)

Page 22 .... Learning to talk like Kieth Richards - a Hipster's Lexicography!

 
Now, on with the show!