In a newspaper advertisement for this club night their saxophonist Ron Caines suggested "if it's raining, don't forget your plastic dog coats", which inspired their title.
Al and Terry left East of Eden but continued the club nights, choosing to promote local bands.
Now Plastic Dog had an entertainments agency licence, developed a graphics studio and set up offices at 77 Park Street.
In 1971 Plastic Dog invested a lot of money into organising the “Midsummer Merrymaking" festival at Pleasure Acre, Portbury, Portishead scheduled for July 30.
[3] Communication with the local council resulted in a late switch of venues, the company lacked the time or funding to promote this change and on top of this bad weather made the festival unworkable.
[2] Early in 1977 Plastic Dog (Park Street Associates) was sold to Derek Barker and Adrian Squires at Rainbow Entertainments who were based at Queen Square, Bristol.