APPEARANCES

2012

Book Reading @ Mono in
Glasgow (Scotland)
+ live performance
of Nirvana songs
with members of
The Hidden Masters
and the Trembling Bells
January 2012  

Felizpop La Corunna (Spain) Psychedelic Festival
with Andy (Shindig) Morten
on drums and
Keith (The Collector) Smart
on Guitar.

2011

Friday, April 29, approx. 6 p.m.
Stories Books & Cafe
1716 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Patrick on Air at KUSF 04-20-11
Patrick and DJ Nobody @ KUSF 4/20/11

Patrick Returning to LA after Bay Area Book Tour
Amtrak Station ::: Oakland, CA ::: April 17, 2011

Friday, April 15, 4-7 p.m.
Borders Santa Rosa
2825 Santa Rosa Blvd.
Santa Rosa, CA 95407

Sat., April 16, 2-4 p.m.
Book Reading and Signing
Borders ::: Stonestown Galleria ::: San Francisco, CA 94132

Thurs., April 14, 12:30-1:30
Book Reading and Signing
Alexander Book Company ::: 50 2nd St ::: San Francisco, CA 94105

Thurs., April 7, 7-9 p.m.
Book Reading and Signing
Borders Hollywood ::: 1501 Vine St ::: Hollywood, CA 90028

Thursday, March 31 7-9 p.m.
Book Reading and Signing
Pages ::: 904 Manhattan Ave ::: Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Saturday, March 26, 6-8 p.m.
Book Reading and Signing
The Last Bookstore ::: 400 S Main St ::: Los Angeles, CA 90013

Saturday, March 19, 11-1 p.m.
Book Reading and Signing
Borders Costa Mesa – South Coast Plaza
3333 Bear St ::: Costa Mesa CA 92626

Saturday, March 12, 1-3 p.m.
Book Signing
Chevalier’s Books ::: 126 N Larchmont Blvd ::: Los Angeles CA 90004

"In early July 2008 as I started to write some songs about my life and times in 1960's London and beyond, something happened which I would describe as 'crystal karma vision.' I was remembering in great detail those 'psychedelic days' of forty years before when I navigated my way on a voyage of music, freedom, adventure and self discovery.

The past had no distance and I was living it all over again. Thrills and pills, rhythm and blues, the legendary Ealing Club, Island Records, Chris Blackwell, Nirvana in Tin Pan Alley, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Guy Stevens, Mickie Most, Paris with Salvador Dali, Rio De Janeiro with Jimmy Cliff, the Star Club in Hamburg, Stockholm, Belgium, Tangiers and the 'happenings.'

When I stopped writing four months later I had a book. I had been there and lived to tell the story. Today so many years on, people fantasize and wonder about those crazy days and often ask me "What were the 'sixties' like? It must have been a crazy time! I wish I had been there." Well my story is for you and it is also for those who were there and did not make it to the other side. Have a good trip."

Patrick Campbell-Lyons was part of the West London music scene from the early 1960s playing in several bands. He was the vocalist and a founding member of a locally-popular R&B band Second Thoughts, whose lineups included future record producer Chris Thomas, Thunderclap Newman, founder/drummer Speedy Keen and two future members of prog-rock band Jade Warrior (Jon Field and Tony Duhig). Second Thoughts split up in late 1965 and after a year of living in Sweden, Campbell-Lyons returned to London in late 1966.

In early 1967 he formed Nirvana with Greek musician Alex Spyropolous. The duo (augmented in the studio and live by a floating line-up of session musicians) created a series of critically-acclaimed baroque, orchestrated albums before disbanding in the early 1970s.

Campbell-Lyons then pursued a career in the muisic business as an A&R executive and producer -- while continuing to occasionally record solo albums including Me & My Friend, The Electric Plough, and The Hero I Might Have Been.
Posted by Chevalier's Books at

American Book-Signing Tour 2010

Eric Belleti, Editor of Music Connections (L.A.) ::: Virginia and Brian Pollack, Owners of Caffe Etc in Hollywood where Patrick did a reading and book signing ::: Patrick Campbell-Lyons

On April 29, Caffe Etc. in Hollywood, CA, hosted a book signing for Psychedelic Days.

http://www.caffeetc.com/psychedelic.html