Welcome to another posting of a series of gig listings for 1960s bands. None of these lists is exhaustive and my idea is to add to them in the comments section below over time. They are here for future researchers to draw on. I have also added a few interesting bits of information and will add images in time.
I’d like to encourage band members to get in touch to share memories, or for anyone to send corrections/clarifications to my email: Warchive@aol.com
Equally important, if you attended any of the gigs below or played in the support band, please do leave your memories below in the comments section for future historians to use. If you know of any missing gigs, please add them too, if possible, with the sources.
Billy Cox – lead vocals
Howard Werth – guitar/vocals
Tony Crisp – Hammond organ
Trevor Williams – bass
Keith Gemmell – tenor saxophone
Mel Chambers – baritone sax
Dave O’Brien – drums
1 November 1967 – Pink Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London (Melody Maker)
17 November 1967 – Pink Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Horatio Soul Square Deals (Melody Maker)
15 December 1967 – London Hotel, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
23 December 1967 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)
26 December 1967 – Penny Farthing Club, Southend, Essex (Essex Chronicle)
31 December 1967 – Frank Freeman’s, Kidderminster, Worcestershire (Kidderminster Times & Stourport News)
1968
5 January 1968 – Steering Wheel, Weymouth, Dorset (Dorset Evening Echo)
28 January 1968 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)
29 January 1968 – Penny Farthing Club, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
29 January 1968 – Kettering Working Men’s Club, Kettering, Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)
10 February 1968 – Middleton Ballroom, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
12 February 1968 – Penny Farthing Club, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
17 February 1968 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)
16 March 1968 – Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, Warwickshire with Stacey’s Circle (Rugby Advertiser/Leicester Mercury)
23 March 1968 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)
12 April 1968 – Steering Wheel, Weymouth, Dorset (Dorset Evening Echo)
13 April 1968 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset with The Breakthru (Bournemouth Evening Echo)
11 May 1968 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)
13 May 1968 – Penny Farthing Club, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
18 May 1968 – Memorial Hall, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire with The Surrealist Adventure (Cambridge News)
25 May 1968 – Drill Hall, Melton Mowbray with The Dawn Breakers (Grantham Journal)
15 June 1968 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)
27 July 1968 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk with The Nice (Eastern Evening News)
5 August 1968 – Penny Farthing, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
24 August 1968 – Gari Ballroom, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with The Bohemians (Yarmouth Mercury)
31 August 1968 – Tin Hat, Kettering, Northamptonshire with Darrell Jackson and The Broadway Crowd (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)
12 September 1968 – Penny Farthing, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
21 September 1968 – Town Hall, Downham Market, Norfolk with Grannies Elastic (Lynn News)
5 October 1968 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)
18 October 1968 – Birdcage, Harlow, Herts with Felice Taylor (Melody Maker)
21 October 1968 – Penny Farthing, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
9 November 1968 – Weymouth Pavilion, Weymouth, Dorset with The Groovy Kind (Dorset Evening Echo/Western Gazette)
23 November 1968 – High Wycombe Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks with The Trees (Bucks Free Press)
14 December 1968 – St Albans City Hall, St Albans, Hertfordshire with The Big Stampede (Welwyn Times)
28 December 1968 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)
1969
11 January 1969 – Club La Bamba, Tundbridge Wells, Kent (Kent & Sussex Courier)
Not long after the band split up and Gemmell, Werth and Williams formed Audience
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Hi there, bit of a blast from the past ! My name is Bill Cox, lead singer of The Lloyd Alexander Real Estate !
Hi Bill
Great single played it to death during the 80s mod revival, were you from Southend? Bob
No I was from Harold Hill ! Long time ago now !
I am sure I used to watch you as the Blue Dukes and as Lloyd Alexander Real Estate in the mid 1960s at Wickford Youth Club. You were the best band by far at the time.
I saw The Lloyd Alexander Real Estate in the mid ’60’s at The Cambridge, Edmonton. Saw them two or three times at this venue and I believe they had a different name the first time I saw them, can you confirm this please.
Lloyd Alexander Blues Band, before that The Blue Dukes !
I used to see them at the Cambridge Edmonton was a great night fantastic music had a special sound as i remember