Middle Earth (formerly 'Electric Garden Club') was an influential hippie/psychedelic club in London, UK in the mid-to-late 1960s, started in a large cellar at 43 King Street, in Covent Garden.
Groups that played there included Pink Floyd, The Who, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Fairport Convention and Jefferson Airplane, Eric Burdon and Captain Beefheart. The Byrds also played here twice with Gram Parsons. The main groups playing on a regular basis were Soft Machine, Tomorrow, Sam Gopal's Dream, Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took, Social Deviants, and the Graham Bond Organization who was a constant visitor/performer.
John Peel was a disc jockey at the club on Saturday Nights until mid-1968 when it was closed down. Subsequently, the club's owner, Paul Waldman, and its manager, David Howson, founded a record label called Middle Earth Records in 1969 in association with Chess Records. The releases were manufactured and distributed by Pye. The label released only five album titles before it was closed in 1970, all of them now highly collectible.