| Main Performers | White Trash,
Colin Scott,
P P Arnold,
Georgie Fame,
Mama Cass - vocals |
| Orchestra or Band | The Jimmy McGriff Quartet |
| Performance Notes | The evening was to raise money for Biafra '69 based at 64 Chelsea Square, London, which supported the break-away state of Biafra. This event formed part of a week of events to campaign for Biafra. Events simultaneously occurred in Trafalgar Square and John Lennon and Yoko Ono put their support behind the campaign, screening some of their films on outdoor screens.
Biafra, formally Biafar Kingdom and later Eastern Nigeria and later Republic of Biafra, was a state which sought independence from Nigeria that existed from the 30 of May 1967 to January 1970. It took its name from the Bight of Biafra, the Atlantic bay to its south. The inhabitants were mostly the Igbo people who led the secession due to economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions among the various peoples of Nigeria. The secession of the Biafran region was the primary cause of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. After two-and-a-half years of war, during which over three million Biafran civilians died from starvation occasioned by the total blockade of the region by the Nigerian government. Biafran forces under the motto of "No-victor, No-vanquished" surrendered to the Nigerian Federal Military Government (FMG), and Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria. |