In his autobiography, Are You Experienced?, Noel Redding describes Birdland as " ... a basement club off Jermyn Street." His memory served him well. Now horne to the Gaslight gentlemen's club, all that is visible at street level, is the doorway.

Mitch Mitchell:

"I went down to this little basement strip club in Soho and there was Jimi with a Fender Stratocaster upside-down with a kind of Humphrey Bogart raincoat on, with his wild hair, and Noel Redding, who had been playing with Jimi I think for a couple of days, who I found out later was a guitarist, really, playing bass. I think there was a keyboard player, if memory serves me right."