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The Gass’ gigs 1966-1970

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An early version of The Gass with lead guitarist Stuart Cowell who had played with The Rockhouse Band and would go on to Jon (Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush Gazette and Post)

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.

Bobby Tench – bass, vocals (b. Trinidad)

Godfrey McLean – drums, vocals (b. Guyana)

Frank Clark – keyboards (b. Guyana)

Errol McLean – bass, congas (b. Guyana)

Humphrey Okoh – alto saxophone (b. Nigeria)

Ian Thomas – tenor saxophone (b. England)

 

The Gass was formed in May 1965 by the McLean brothers and Tench who soon recruited the remaining three members. 

According to an excellent article in the Westminster & Pimlico News from 12 August 1966 (page 7), the McLean brothers arrived in England from Guyana in 1962 having played in a number of bands together and separately, notably The Jokers. In London, Godfrey McLean played The Music Men and The Raymond Bouche group simultaneously. 

The brothers formed The Senators in mid-1965 with Trinidadian  Bobby Tench. The band became The Creators and then The Gass. 

Okoh had previously played with The African Messengers among other groups. Ian Thomas came from South Norwood.

The band’s debut single, “One of These Days” c/w “I Don’t Know Why” was released on Parlophone on 8 October 1965. 

1966

14 January 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Lee Dorsey (Melody Maker)

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14 January 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Patti LaBelle & The Bluebells (Melody Maker)

15 January 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Peter B’s Looners (Melody Maker)

21 January 1966 – Galaxy Club, Town Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

22-23 January 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Rockhouse Band (Melody Maker)

29 January 1966 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with The Rockhouse Band and The Scots of St James (Luton News)

 

13 February 1966 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette) Says they are resident band at Scotch of St James

14 February 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham with The Dawnbreakers (Down at the Boat book)

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25 February 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

27 February 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

 

4 March 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Shevells (Melody Maker)

5 March 1966 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/) Billed as Gas

6 March 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

10 March 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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11 March 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

12 March 1966 – Haymarket Lounge, Basingstoke, Hampshire (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

13 March 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

18 March 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire with Mark Barry (Aldershot News)

 

7 April 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London with Martha & The Vandellas (Melody Maker)

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17 April 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

22 April 1966 – Ricky Tick, Harvest Moon, Guildford, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

 

5 May 1966 – Tofts, Folkestone, Kent (Melody Maker)

Lead guitarist Stuart Cowell, who had been playing with The Blues Movement (and before that The Rockhouse Band) joined in mid-May

22 May 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

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27 May 1966 – Ilford Town Hall, Ilford, east London with The Clayton Squares

The Gass’ second single, recorded prior to Cowell joining, is released on Parlophone on 27 May 1966. The single combines “The New Breed” with “In The City”. 

Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush Gazette and Post from June 1966. This relates to the image at the top of the page

3 June 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

The Kensington News and West London Times has a great story on the Gass in its 3 June issue with some details on the individual members.

5 June 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

12 June 1966 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham News)

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13 June 1966 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey (Aldershot News/Camberley News) Says straight from the Flamingo, Soho

20 June 1966 – Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts (website: http://www.coda-uk.co.uk/60’s_music_scene.htm)

25 June 1966 – Unknown venue, Cromford, Derbyshire (Poster)

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2 July 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News) Says straight from the Flamingo, Soho

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8 July 1966 – Market Hall, St Albans, Herts (Welwyn Advertiser)

15 July 1966 – Beaconsfield Youth Club, Beaconsfield, Bucks with J J Jackson (Bucks Free Press)

21 July 1966 – Concorde, Basset Hotel, Southampton, Hants (Southern Evening Echo)

22 July 1966 – Coles Oak House, Dedham, Essex (Fabulous 208)

23 July 1966 – Burleseque, Leicester (Fabulous 208)

26 July 1966 – Pendulum Club, Greenford, northwest London (Fabulous 208)

30 July 1966 – Stamford Arms Hotel, Stamford, Lincolnshire (Fabulous 208)

31 July 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

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5 August 1966 – Market Hall, St Albans, Herts (Welwyn Advertiser)

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6 August 1966 – Marlborough Hall, Halifax, West Yorkshire (Halifax Evening Courier & Guardian)

6 August 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Melody Maker) This seems unlikely with above gig

7 August 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Melody Maker)

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12 August 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

The Westminster & Pimlico News has a great article on Godfrey McLean and Gass in its 12 August issue, page 7. The paper says that the band was playing six and seven nights at the Scotch of St James around this time

15 August 1966 – Majestic, Reading, Berkshire (Bracknell News)

Around mid-late August Stuart Cowell left (to form Jon) and Alan Roskams came in from The Mark Leeman Five. Also, Lol Coxhill took over from Ian Thomas after joining from Tony Knight’s Chessmen

21 August 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald/Melody Maker)

22 August 1966 – Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts (see website above)

25 August 1966– Ricky Tick, Stoke Hotel, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

27 August 1966 – Penthouse, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

29 August 1966 – Ricky Tick, Harpenden Public Hall, Harpenden, Hertfordshire (Poster)

 

2 September 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

3 September 1966 – Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, Herts with The Minor Portions (website: http://www.coda-uk.co.uk/60’s_music_scene.htm)

8 September 1966 – Thorngate Ballroom, Gosport, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

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9 September 1966 – Market Hall, St Albans, Herts (Welwyn Advertiser)

Record Mirror’s 10 September issue notes that Alan Roskams has joined from The Mark Leeman Five

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12 September 1966 – Disc Club, Colchester, Essex (Essex County Standard)

13 September 1966 – High Wycombe Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

17 September 1966 – The Scene Club, Cardiff, Wales (Poster)

19 September 1966 – Rainbow Rooms, Nottingham with Jimmy Payne Sound (Nottingham Evening Post)

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24 September 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

25 September 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

26 September 1966 – Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts (see website above)

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30 September 1966 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester with The Shotgun Express, Mozzletoff, The Jigsaw, Makin Sound and Inside Outfit (Leicester Mercury)

 

1 October 1966 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent with The Powerhouse Six (East Kent Times)

6 October 1966 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

10 October 1966 – High Wycombe Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

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14 October 1966 – Hastings Pier, Hastings, East Sussex with Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and The Shotgun Express (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website/Hastings & St Leonards Observer/Maidstone Gazette)

15 October 1966 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire

17 October 1966 – Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks with Paterson’s People (Bucks Advertiser)

21 October 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

22 October 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with The Sound Syndicate (Nottingham Evening Post)

29 October 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald/Melody Maker)

 

1 November 1966 – Cellar Club, County Arms, Blaby, Leicestershire with Larry (Leicester Mercury)

5 November 1966 – Afan Lido, Port Talbot, Wales with Something Else (Port Talbot Guardian)

12 November 1966 – All Nighter Club, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Jerry Lee Lewis and The Amboy Dukes (Melody Maker)

15 November 1966 – Ricky Tick, Bedford Ricky Tick, Bedford, Bedfordshire (Melody Maker)

16 November 1966 – Platform One Discotheque, Newport, Wales (South Wales Argus)

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18 November 1966 – Pingles Hall, Nuneaton, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

19 November 1966 – Smethwick Baths, Smethwick, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

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20 November 1966 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

24 November 1966 – St George’s Hall, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

 

6 December 1966 – High Wycombe Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

9 December 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London with Fleur De Lys (Melody Maker)

18 December 1966 – Wooden Bridge Hotel, Guildford, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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13 December 1966 – Swansea College of Technology, Ritz Club, Skewen, south Wales with The Idle Hands (South Wales Evening Post)

21 December 1966 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

23 December 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Mantimes (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

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23 December 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker)

24 December 1966 – New Spot, Gosport, Hampshire with Mark Leeman Five (Portsmouth News) Billed as featuring Roscoe

24 December 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London with The Penny Blacks (Melody Maker)

26 December 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

31 December 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

1967

1 January 1967 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire with Timebox (Evening Sentinel)

14 January 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (David Else’s research)

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15 January 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

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22 January 1967 – The Basement Discotheque, Burton Buildings, Pontypridd, Wales (Glamorgan County Times)

29 January 1967 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Laymen (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

 

8 February 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

9 February 1967 – Manhole, Redhill, Surrey (Crawley Advertiser)

17 February 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with support (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

18 February 1967 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts (Hertfordshire Express)

26 February 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

 

2 March 1967 – Tiger’s Head, Downham, London (South East London Mercury)

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5 March 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

10 March 1967 – George Inn, Wilby, Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

12 March 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

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18 March 1967 – The Riley-Smith, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire with Making Time (Tadcaster News)

19 March 1967 – New Locarno Ballroom, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (The Star)

Having signed to CBS, The Gass’ third single, “Dream Baby” c/w “Jitterbug Sid” is released on 23 March 1967. 

25 March 1967 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent with The Web with J L Watson (Melody Maker)

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Kingston & Malden Borough News‘ 31 March 1967 issue, page 7 (see above) has a great photo of the band

4 April 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

7 April 1967 – Candelight Club, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

8 April 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (David Else’s research)

11 April 1967 – York Tavern, Bridgend, Wales (Fabulous 208)

12 April 1967 – Glenmore Jazz Club, Swansea, Wales (Fabulous 208)

The Kensington News & West London Times, 14 April 1967 issue, has a story on the band

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There’s a great article and pic in Record Mirror, 15 April 1967, page 10

16 April 1967 – The Basement Discotheque, Burton Buildings, Pontypridd, Wales (Glamorgan County Times)

22 April 1967 – Matlock Bath Pavilion, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire with John Smith Affair (Derby Evening Telegraph/Nottingham Evening Post)

22 April 1967 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Fabulous 208)

26 April 1967 – Blue Fez Club (is this the Purple Fez, Devonport?), Plymouth, Devon (Fabulous 208)

29 April 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London with The Shevelles (Melody Maker)

 

5 May 1967 – St Birinus Youth Club, St Birinus School, Didcot, Berkshire (North Berks Herald)

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6 May 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with Pesky Gee (Melody Maker)

6 May 1967 – Maple Ballroom, Northampton with The Gospel (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

19 May 1967 – Bridge Hotel, Oxford (Fabulous 208)

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20 May 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Fabulous 208)

21 May 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

22 May 1967 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

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26 May 1967 – Koo Koo Byrd, Cardiff, Wales (Glamorgan County Times)

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27 May 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with supporting groups (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

27 May 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker) Billed as Gass Band

28 May 1967 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Fabulous 208/Melody Maker)

 

2 June 1967 – Gaiety Ballroom, Grimsby, Humberside with Family (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

10 June 1967 – Town Hall, Seaton, Devon (Fabulous 208)

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11 June 1967 – Swan, Yardley, West Midlands with Ronnie Jones & The Q-Set (Birmingham Evening Mail)

17 June 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (David Else’s research)

18 June 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

22 June 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

24 June 1967 – Evington Boys’ Club, Leicester, Leicestershire with Sissy (Fabulous 208/Leicester Mercury)

25 June 1967 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

28 June 1967 – “Pop Afloat” British Rail, Portsmouth Harbour (Fabulous 208)

30 June 1967 – Lanchester College, Coventry, West Midlands with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and From The Sun (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

 

1 July 1967 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Voyd (Cambridgeshire Times)

2 July 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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7 July 1967 – Grand Ballroom, Coalville, Leicester with Manfred Mann and Kraters Moon (Leicester Mercury)

8 July 1967 – Tin Hat, Kettering, Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

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8 July 1967 – Iron Curtain Club, Small Heath, West Midlands with The Traction and The Power (Birmingham Evening Mail)

15 July 1967 – Town Hall, Clacton, Essex with New York Public Library and Status One (Essex County Standard)

16 July 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

22 July 1967 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Melody Maker)

23 July 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

28 July 1967 – Cesar’s, Bedford, Bedfordshire with The Niteshades or Nite Train (Bedfordshire Times)

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29 July 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Fraternity and The Army (Melody Maker)

30 July 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

31 July 1967 – Staffordshire Yeoman, Stafford (Stafford Newsletter) Says the band are back from Germany

 

3 August 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

6 August 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

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11 August 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Craig King Midnight Train (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

12 August 1967 – Maidstone Corn Exchange, Maidstone, Kent with The T-Pots (Maidstone Gazette)

13 August 1967 – Union Rowing Club, Trent Bridge, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

21 August 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

27 August 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

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30 August 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

According to Melody Maker, Alan Roskams left around now to join Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers

2 September 1967 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Melody Maker)

7 September 1967 – Thorngate Ballroom, Gosport, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

8 September 1967 – “Big C”, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

9 September 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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13 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

15 September 1967 – Guild Hall, Brecon, Wales (Fabulous 208)

16 September 1967 – Town Hall, Oxford (Fabulous 208)

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20 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

22 September 1967 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

29 September 1967 – The Parlour, North End, Hampshire with The Coconut Mushroom (Portsmouth News)

 

1 October 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

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7 October 1967 – Pink Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Mr Hip Soul Band and Lloyd Alexander Blues Band (Melody Maker)

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9 October 1967 – Foseco Sports & Social Club, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Tamworth Herald)

14 October 1967 – Burton’s, Uxbridge, northwest London (Melody Maker)

20 October 1967 – Fiesta Hall, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser) They appear to have replaced The House of Orange

21 October 1967 – Blue Lagoon, Newquay, Cornwall with The Vigilantes (Cornish Guardian)

22 October 1967 – Khyber Club, Taunton, Somerset with The System (Somerset County Gazette)

23 October 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

28 October 1967 – The Tin Hat, Kettering, Northamptonshire with The Trax (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

 

2 November 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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8 November 1967 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

10 November 1967 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

11 November 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

20 November 1967 – The Parlour, North End, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

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24 November 1967 – George Inn, Wilby, Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

 

9 December 1967 – Smethwick Baths, Smethwick, West Midlands with Skin Deep (Birmingham Evening Mail)

10 December 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

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21 December 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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24 December 1967 – Rendevous Club, Margate, Kent with The Candy Choir (East Kent Times & Mail)

Photo: Kevin Reynolds

26 December 1967 – Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, Warwickshire with Trip To The Sun and Psychotic Reaction (Rugby Advertiser)

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29 December 1967 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

1968

5 January 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

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6 January 1968 – Brave New World, Southsea, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

11 January 1968 – Carnaby Club, Red House Hotel, Coventry, West Midlands (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

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31 January 1968 – Night Prowler Club, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with Somthin Else (Eastern Evening News/Yarmouth Mercury)

 

4 February 1968 – Corn Exchange, Maidstone, Kent with Garefield Tate (Maidstone Gazette)

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10 February 1968 – Burton Leander Social Club, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire (Burton Daily Mail)

22 February 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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23 February 1968 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

 

2 March 1968 – Evington Club, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

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9 March 1968 – Witchdoctor, Catford, southeast London (South East London Mercury/Melody Maker)

9 March 1968 – The New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1 (Melody Maker)

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16 March 1968 – Braintree Institute, Braintree, Essex with The Roulettes (Essex County Standard)

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22 March 1968 – Drill Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (Stratford upon Avon Herald)

27 March 1968 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournmouth Evening Echo)

 

11 April 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London with Carl Douglas (& The Big Stampede) (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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17 May 1968 – The Scene Discotheque Club, Marine Arcade, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

24 May 1968 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

 

13 June 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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14 June 1968 – Bedford Corn Exchange, Bedford with John Williams & The Spell (Bedfordshire Times)

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15 June 1968 – Peterborough Old Showground, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire with Jethro Tull (Cambridgeshire Times)

28 June 1968 – Mistrale Club, Beckenham, south London with George Paul Jefferson (Beckenham & Penge Advertiser)

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12 July 1968 – The Ship, Weybridge, Surrey (Woking Herald)

18 July 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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20 July 1968 – Elms Court, Botley, Oxford with Bernard Reich (Oxford Mail)

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27 July 1968 – Savoy, Catford, London (Melody Maker)

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2 August 1968 – Hastings Beat Festival, Hastings, East Sussex with ten other groups (Hastings & St Leonards Observer)

23 August 1968 – Bournemouth Pavilion, Bournemouth, Dorset with Amboy Dukes and Fusion (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

25 August 1968 – Union Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

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7 September 1968 – Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, Lincolnshire with The Ides of March/Idle Rich (Grantham Journal/Leicester Mercury)

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14 September 1968 – Subscription Rooms, Stroud, Gloucestershire with The Jamm (Stroud News) Played Bag O’Nails and Rasputins just before this

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15 September 1968 – Riverside Club, Cricketers, Chertsey, Surrey (Woking Herald)

28 September 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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12 October 1968 – Elms Court, Botley, Oxford with Climax Farm (Oxford Mail)

13 October 1968 – Lion Hotel, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

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22 October 1968 – Cheltenham Spa Lounge and Ballroom, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Gloucester Citizen)

 

21 November 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

29 November 1968 – Scene Disco Club, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (Yarmouth Mercury)

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9 December 1968 – Colfe’s Grammar School, Lee, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

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18 December 1968 – Students’ Christmas Dance, Isle of Ely College, Wisbech, Cambridgeshrie with The Shevelles and Tuesday’s Outcome (Cambridgeshire Times)

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21 December 1968 – Stage Club, Oxford (Oxford Mail)

28 December 1968 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with The Impi (Eastern Evening News)

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1969

During this year, guitarist and violinist Michael Piggott joined from Junior’s Conquest

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28 June 1969 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

1970

9 April 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

27 April 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker) Starts Monday for one week

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29 May 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

30 May 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, Central London (Melody Maker)

 

3 June 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

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19 June 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

20 June 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

24 June 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London with Genesis (Melody Maker)

 

3 July 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

4 July 1970 – Ronnie Scott’s, Frith Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

 

16 August 1970 – Torrington, North Finchley, London with Hate (Melody Maker)

 

13 September 1970 – Torrington, North Finchley, London (Melody Maker)

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Ferris Wheel’s gigs 1967-1969

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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.

Diane Ferraz – lead vocals

Michael Liston (aka Snow) – keyboards/guitar/lead vocals

Keith Field – guitar

Dave Sweetnam-Ford – saxophone/lead vocals

George Sweetnam-Ford – keyboards

Barry Reeves – drums

1967

22 April 1967 – Bluesville ’67, St Thomas’ Hall, Brentwood, Essex (Brentwood Review & Romford Recorder) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

27 April 1967 – RAF Leuchars, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

28 April 1967 – Palladium, Greenock, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

29 April 1967 – Community Centre, Auchinleck, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

30 April 1967 – Top 10 Club, Dundee, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

 

5 May 1967 – Slipper, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire (Nottingham Evening Post) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

20 May 1967 – Bluesville ’67, St Thomas Hall, Brentwood, Essex (Brentwood Review and Romford Recorder) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

20 May 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker) Billed as formerly Diane Ferraz and The Checkmates

24 May 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

30 May 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

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31 May 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset with The J J Preston Group (Bournemouth Evening Echo) Billed as Diane Ferris & The Ferris Wheel (formerly The Checkmates)

 

1 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

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3 June 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Symbols and The All Night Workers (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/) Billed as Diane Ferraz with The Checkmates 

4 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

10 June 1967 – RAF Coningsby, Lincoln (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

11 June 1967 – Dolphin Hotel, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

12 June 1967 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, London (Melody Maker) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

14-15 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, London (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The New Checkmates

15 June 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

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18 June 1967– Britannia Theatre, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, The Nite People and Neil Diamond (North Norfolk News) Billed as Ferris Wheels

21 June 1967 – Hatchetts Playground, Piccadilly, central London (Evening Standard)

29 June 1967 – Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

30 June 1967 – Town Hall, Alloa, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

 

1 July 1967 – Town Hall, Kilmarnock, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates (Birmingham Evening Mail also has the band playing at the Co-op, Rainbow Suite, Birmingham with The Peasant Sec on this day but this seems very unlikely).

2 July 1967 – Palais, Dundee, Scotland (Fabulous 208) Billed as Diane Ferraz & The Checkmates

The band started to use the Ferris Wheel name from this point

2 July 1967 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with The Original Checkmates and The Raynes (Crewe Chronicle) Billed as featuring Diane Ferraz

3 July 1967 – Adam & Eve Club, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

4 July 1967 – Savoy Hotel, Strand, London (Fabulous 208)

6 July 1967 – Hatchetts Playground, Piccadilly, central London (Evening Standard)

7 July 1967 – Clouds, Derby, Derbyshire (Fabulous 208)

8 July 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

8 July 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Melody Maker)

9 July 1967 – Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (Fabulous 208)

According to Michael Snow’s website and blog, the band’s debut as Ferris Wheel took place at the Bag O’Nails club in August 1967 but earlier dates suggest this wasn’t the case.

Fabulous 208 notes that the group went to south of France in mid-July

1 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

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2 August 1967 – Big Beat Cruise, Solent, South Parade Pier, Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier Head with The Wrong Direction (Portsmouth News)

3 August 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

4 August 1967 – “Big C”, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

5 August 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London with The Electric Circus and Chunks Jump Band (Melody Maker) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

6 August 1967 – John’s Children’s Club, Leatherhead, Surrey (Fabulous 208) This is The Bluesette Club

7 August 1967 – Wheels Discotheque, Reading, Berkshire (Fabulous 208)

8 August 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

11 August 1967 – Solihull Civic Hall, Solihull, West Midlands with Idle Race and The Brand (Birmingham Evening Mail)

12 August 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, London (Fabulous 208)

12 August 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Fabulous 208)

13 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

14 August 1967 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

19 August 1967 – RAF Coningsby, Lincoln (Fabulous 208)

20 August 1967 – Dolphin Hotel, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Fabulous 208)

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22 August 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

24 August 1967 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

25 August 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

26 August 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with The Shevelles (Melody Maker)

26 August 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

27 August 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Fabulous 208)

28 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous)

30 August 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

31 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

 

1 September 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire (Fabulous 208)

2 September 1967 – Rainbow Suite, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail/Fabulous 208)

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3 September 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

4 September 1967 – Bamboo Club, Stockport, Greater Manchester (Fabulous 208)

8 September 1967 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

9 September 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with James and Bobby Purify and Big Maybelle and The Senate (Lincolnshire Standard)

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13 September 1967 – Big Beat Cruise, Solent, South Parade Pier, Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier Head with The Blackout (Portsmouth News)

15 September 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Basildon, Essex (Fabulous 208)

16 September 1967 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

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16 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London with Mike Stuart Span and The Workshop (Melody Maker)

19 September 1967 – Fishmonger’s Arms, Wood Green, London (Fabulous 208)

20 September 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

21 September 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

22 September 1967 – G Ranch, Maidstone, Kent (Fabulous 208)

23 September 1967 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Fabulous 208/Melody Maker)

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24 September 1967 – Foseco Sports and Social Club, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Fabulous 208/Tamworth Herald)

 

2 October 1967 – Bluesville ’67 Clubs, Manor House Ballroom, Ipswich, Suffolk (Ipswich Evening Star)

6 October 1967 – Boulevard Club, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

7 October 1967 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

8 October 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

9 October 1967 – St Matthew’s Baths Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

10 October 1967 – Queen Mary Social Club, Ocean Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire (Fabulous 208)

11 October 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

13 October 1967 – Oak Leaf Hotel, South Bank, Middlesbrough with Mike Stevens & The Shevelles (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

14 October 1967 – Club A Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear (Fabulous 208)

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15 October 1967 – Civic Centre, Corby with Geno Washington & His Ram Jam Band and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (Fabulous 208/Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

16 October 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

25 October 1967 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Echo) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

26 October 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Bristol (Fabulous 208)

27 October 1967 – Beaconsfield Youth Club, Beaconsfield, Bucks (Bucks Free Press) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

28 October 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with The Original Drifters, The Soul Survivors and The Purple Barrier (Lincolnshire Standard)

 

2 November 1967 – Clouds, Derby, Derbyshire (Derby Evening Telegraph)

2 November 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

3 November 1967 – Beaconsfield Youth Centre, Beaconsfield, Bucks (Fabulous 208)

3 November 1967 – Bluesville, Manor House, London (Melody Maker)

4 November 1967 – Disco Blue, Ryde, Isle of Wight (Fabulous 208)

6 November 1967 – St Matthew’s Baths Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

7 November 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Melody Maker)

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10 November 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

11 November 1967 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent with The Dyaks (East Kent Times & Mail)

14 November 1967 – Fishmonger’s Arms, Wood Green, London (Melody Maker)

17 November 1967 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

19 November 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

22 November 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Fabulous 208)

23 November 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, London (Fabulous 208)

24 November 1967 – “Big C”, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

25 November 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Traffic and Six Across (Lincolnshire Standard)

26 November 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, London (Melody Maker)

 

1 December 1967 – G Range, Maidstone, Kent (Fabulous 208)

2 December 1967 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Fabulous 208)

4 December 1967 – St Matthew’s Baths Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

6 December 1967 – Big Beat ’67 concert, Royal Albert Hall, London with Joe Tex, Alan Price Set, Steve Hammond and Jan Kimbell (Melody Maker) Disc &  Music Echo says that this was cancelled

8 December 1967 – Burton Constable Hall, Hull, Humberside with The Amboy Dukes, Joe E Young & The Toniks, Roger Bloom’s Hammer, Gospel Garden and The Mandrakes (Scarborough Evening News)

9 December 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, London with Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede and Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers (Melody Maker)

9 December 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

19 December 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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23 December 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Six Across, The Rubber Band and Ray Bones (Lincolnshire Standard)

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29 December 1967 – Foseco Sports & Social Club, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Tamworth Herald)

1968

9 January 1968 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

11 January 1968 – Hatchetts, Piccadilly, London (Poster at Jonathan Marks’ website: https://imgur.com/a/sWtBd#0)

12 January 1968 – Beaconsfield Youth Club, Beaconsfield, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

14 January 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

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15 January 1968 – Bluesville ’68 Club, St Matthew’s Baths, Ipswich, Suffolk (Ipswich Evening Star)

19 January 1968 – Big C Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hamphshire (Aldershot News) Billed as Diane Ferraz and The Ferris Wheel

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26 January 1968 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

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2 February 1968 – Clockwork Orange, Chester, Cheshire with Phil Ryan & The Scorpions (Crewe Chronicle) Billed as featuring Diane Ferraz

2 February 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

4 February 1968 – Alex Disco, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Salisbury and Winchester Journal)

6 February 1968 – Public Hall, Witham, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

8 February 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

9 February 1968 – North West Leicestershire Technical College Students Union Dance, The Grand, Coalville, Leicestershire with Magazine (Leicester Mercury)

11 February 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

 

3 March 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

4 March 1968 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday) Billed as with Diane Ferraz

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10 March 1968 – Cat-Balou Club, Grantham, Lincolnshire (Melody Maker/Grantham Journal)

11 March 1968 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts with The Bakersville Blues Band (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)

12 March 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

14 March 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

17 March 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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24 March 1968 – Frolicking Kneecap Discotheque, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph/Leicester Mercury) Marmalade did not appear

 

4 April 1968 – Quay Club, Exeter, Devon (Express & Echo)

5 April 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

6 April 1968 – Evington Club, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

17 April 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

18 April 1968 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey (Camberley News & Bagshot Observer)

25 April 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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25 May 1968 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Barrier (Cambridgeshire Times)

30 May 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

 

1 June 1968 – Brave New World, Eastney, Hampshire (website: http://michaelcooper.org.uk/C/birdcage.htm) Billed as Diane Ferraz and The Ferrez Wheel

22 June 1968 – Hervines Park, Amersham, Bucks with The Rebel Rousers (Buckinghamshire Advertiser)

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29 June 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

30 June 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

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5 July 1968 – Park Hall Hotel, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with Delroy Good Good Band and Spangles Maldoon (Express & Star)

6 July 1968 – The College, Digby Avenue, Nottingham with The Redhouse Blues Band (Nottingham Evening Post)

7 July 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

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8 July 1968 – Bluesville ’68, Manor Ballroom, Ipswich, Suffolk (Ipswich Evening Star)

10 July 1968 – Summerhill House Hotel, Kingswinford, West Midlands (Express & Star)

According to Michael Snow’s book Mersey Me! A Liverpool Lad on the Loose in the Swingin’ ‘60s, Diane Ferraz left on the eve of a month’s residency at the Voom Voom club in St-Tropez that summer (most likely around now). She was exhausted from European tours. They undertook the French dates without a female singer and briefly added singer Marsha Hunt on their return to London

19 July 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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20 July 1968 – Grand Pavilion, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire with Shock Treatment (Derbyshire Times)

21 July 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel) Billed as Marsha Hunt with Ferris Wheel

22 July 1968 – Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes with Happy Magazine and Glass Showband (Grimsby Daily Telegraph)

25 July 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

 

1 September 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

7 September 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire with Blossom Toes (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

24 September 1968 – Rasputin’s, Oxford Street, central London (Time Out)

28 September 1968 – Coventry College of Education, Coventry (Fabulous 208)

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29 September 1968 – Beat Centre Discotheque Club, Co-Op Hall, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

30 September 1968 – Manor House, Ipswich, Suffolk (Fabulous 208)

 

2 October 1968 – Kew Boathouse, Kew, west London (Fabulous 208)

3 October 1968 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, central London (Fabulous 208)

5 October 1968 – Royal Lido Ballroom, Prestatyn, Wales with Technicolour Dream (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

9 October 1968 – Rasputin’s, Oxford Street, central London (Time Out)

Singer Linda Lewis joins from White Rabbit around mid-October 1968. As she lived in Hampstead, it’s possible her first gig was there. Around the same time Barry Reeves was replaced by Dennis Elliott on drums

10 October 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

14 October 1968 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

19 October 1968 – Victoria Ballroom, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (Derbyshire Times)

19 October 1968 – Twisted Wheel, Manchester (Fabulous 208)

27 October 1968 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent with Nepenthe (Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham Evening Post)

 

1 November 1968 – College of Education, Leicester (Fabulous 208)

2 November 1968 – Bin Lid, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

3 November 1968 – Surrey Rooms, Oval, south London (Melody Maker)

10 November 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

16 November 1968 – College Hall, Farnborough Technical College Students’ Union, Farnborough, Hampshire with The Gods (Aldershot News)

16 November 1968 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Poster)

22 November 1968 – Rag Ball, Avery Hill College, Eltham, southeast London with Ace Kefford, Jigsaw Band and Keith Sine (South East London Mercury)

23 November 1968 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Sons and Lovers (Lincolnshire Standard)

24 November 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London with Nepenthe (Melody Maker)

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1 December 1968 – Union Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post) Billed as Ferris Wheel featuring Linda Lewis

5 December 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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27 December 1968 – Bridge Place Country Club, near Canterbury, Kent (Folkestone & Hythe District Herald)

29 December 1968 – Yorkshire Grey Ballroom, Eltham, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

1969

2 January 1969 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

In early 1969, Keith Field left and was succeeded by Terry Edmunds

8 February 1969 – The Barn Ballroom, Little Bardfield Hall, Little Bardfield, Essex (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)

20 February 1969 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

21 February 1969 – Bay Hotel, Sunderland (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

 

6 April 1969 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, London (Melody Maker)

13 April 1969 – John D’Milton’s Discotheque, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

 

10 May 1969 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with Kiss (Julie Fielder book: What Flo Said Next)

23 May 1969 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Windsor, Slough & Eton Express)

 

15 June 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, west London (gig poster on website: http://www.donpowellofficial.com/)

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10 August 1969 – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London with The Misunderstood, Reflection and Andromeda (Melody Maker)

20 August 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

24 August 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, west London (Time Out)

27 August 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

 

7 September 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, Kensington, west London (Kensington Post)

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14 September 1969 – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, north London with Edgar Broughton, Grail and Daddy Long Legs (Melody Maker)

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27 September 1969 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

30 October 1969 – Rasputin’s, Oxford Street, London (Time Out)

 

21 December 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

24 December 1969 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, London (Time Out)

27 December 1969 – Bridge Place Country Club, Canterbury, Kent (Folkestone & Hythe District Herald)

28 December 1969 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Time Out)

According to Michael Snow’s blog (https://michaelsnowpresents.wordpress.com), they went to Geneva to play at the Black Bird club in December 1969 and, judging by newspaper clippings, were still playing there in the first week of January 1970, due to popular demand.

1970

17 January 1970 – Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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Animals’ gigs 1963-1966

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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.

Fabulous 208 Magazine, 1965. Photo may be subject to copyright

THE ANIMALS:

Eric Burdon (lead vocals)

Alan Price (keyboards/vocals)

Hilton Valentine (lead guitar)

Chas Chandler (bass)

John Steele (drums)

1963

15 December 1963 – Ricky Tick, Olympia Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire (David Else’s research) This is possibly The Animals’ first southern gig

21 December 1963 – Star Hotel, Croydon, Surrey (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon)

1964

10 January 1964 – Ricky Tick, Guildford Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

12 January 1964 – Ricky Tick, Olympia Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire (David Else’s research)

 

The Animals started playing regularly on Wednesdays at the Cellar Club

5 February 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

8 February 1964 – Ricky Tick, Pearce Hall, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Bucks Free Press)

12 February 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

19 February 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

23 February 1964 – Ricky Tick, Olympia Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire with Manfred Mann (Bucks Free Press)

26 February 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

 

4 March 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

8 March 1964 – Ricky Tick, Olympia Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire (David Else’s research)

11 March 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

18 March 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

30 March 1964 – Night Scene Club, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)

 

1 April 1964 – Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kingston & Malden Borough News)

8 April 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

15 April 1964 – Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kingston & Malden Borough News)

22 April 1964 – Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kingston & Malden Borough News)

30 April 1964 – (Jazz) Cellar Club, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey (Kim Chester’s research)

 

2 May 1964 – Continental Dancing Club, Edmonton, Middlesex (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

9 May 1964 – Astoria, Finsbury Park, London with Chuck Berry, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Kingsize Taylor & The Dominoes (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

21 May 1964 – ABC Croydon, Croydon, Surrey with Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon)

25 May 1964 – Granada, Greenwich, London with Chuck Berry, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Carl Perkins and Kingsize Taylor (Kentish Mercury)

30 May 1964 – Continental Dancing Club, Edmonton, Middlesex (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

 

6 June 1964 – Club Noreik, Tottenham, London with John Lee Hooker (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

11 June 1964 – Brighton Dome, Brighton, Sussex with The Yardbirds and The T-Bones (Evening Argus)

17 June 1964 – Farnborough Town Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire with The Ace-Boaters (Aldershot News)

27 June 1964 – Public Hall, Heacham, Norfolk with The Delcounts (Lynn News)

28 June 1964 – Cromer Olympia, Cromer, Norfolk with Ricky Lee & The Hucklebucks (North Norfolk News)

29 June 1964 – Bath Pavilion, Bath with support (Western Scene)

 

1 July 1964 – Bristol Corn Exchange, Bristol (Western Scene)

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3 July 1964 – Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, southwest London with The Demons and The Trojans (Streatham News)

4 July 1964 – Wilton Hall, Bletchley, Bucks with The Skyways (Bletchley District Gazette)

19 July 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

20 July 1964 – Manor House, St Matthew’s Baths, Ipswich, Suffolk (Beat Monthly)

24 July 1964 – Attic Club, Hounslow, Middlesex with Steve Marriott’s Moments (Kingston & Malden Borough News)

25 July 1964 – Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire (Beat Monthly)

26 July 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

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30 July 1964 – Assembly Hall, Worthing, West Sussex with The Zabres (Worthing Gazette)

31 July 1964 – Palace, Maryport (Beat Monthly)

 

1 August 1964 – Pavilion, Buxton (Beat Monthly)

2 August 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

Courtesy from Lois Valvona

3 August 1964 – Commodore Theatre, Ryde, Isle of Wight with Freddy Earle, The Diplomats, Brian Howard & The Silhouttes, Mark Wynter,  The Cherokees and Barry St John (Lois Valvona’s programme)

Programme from Lois Valvona

5 August 1964 – Cellar, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey with The Plebs (Harrow Weekly Post/David Else research)

7 August 1964 – Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (Beat Monthly)

9 August 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

12 August 1964 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

15 August 1964 – Imperial Ballroom, Nelson, Lancashire (Steve Chapples research: www.lankybeat.com)

16 August 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

17 August 1964 – Clacton Town Hall, Clacton, Essex with The Spencer Davis Group (Essex County Standard)

18 August 1964 – Aylesbury Bluesville, Borough Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks (Bucks Advertiser)

20-21 August 1964 – Gigs in Ireland (Beat Monthly)

22 August 1964 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Downsiders and Johnny Kaye & The Kossacks (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

23 August 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

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27 August 1964 – Le Disque, Peckham, southeast London (Clapham Advertiser)

28 August 1964 –  Gig in Morecambe, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

29 August 1964 – Theatre Royal, Tyldsley (Beat Monthly)

30 August 1964 –  North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

31 August 1964 –  Tour of Scotland (Beat Monthly)

 

1-5 September 1964 – Tour of Scotland (Beat Monthly)

6 September 1964 – North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire (Beat Monthly)

10 September 1964 – Cavern, Manchester (Beat Monthly)

 

20 October 1964 – Royal Edmonton, Edmonton, Middlesex with Carl Perkins, The Nashville Teens, The Quotations, Tommy Tucker, Elkie Brooks and Ray Cameron (Leyton and Leytonstone Guardian)

25 October 1964 – Gig in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear (Beat Instrumental)

26 October 1964 – Gig in Birmingham (Beat Instrumental)

27 October 1964 – Gig in Stockton-on-Tees (Beat Instrumental)

28 October 1964 – Gig in Edinburgh, Scotland (Beat Instrumental)

29 October 1964 – Gig in Dumfries, Scotland (Beat Instrumental)

30 October 1964 – Gig in Stockton-on-Tees (Beat Instrumental)

31 October 1964 – Gig in Bradford (Beat Instrumental)

 

1 November 1964 – Gig in Coventry (Beat Instrumental)

2 November 1964 – Gig in Kilburn, northwest London (Beat Instrumental)

3 November 1964 – Gig in Guildford, Surrey (Beat Instrumental)

4 November 1964 – Fairfield Hall, Croydon, Surrey with The Nashville Teens, Carl Perkins, Elkie Brooks, Tommy Tucker, The Quotations and Ray Cameron (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon)

5 November 1964 – Gig in Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Beat Instrumental)

6 November 1964 – Gig in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (Beat Instrumental)

7 November 1964 – Gig in Derby (Beat Instrumental)

8 November 1964 – Gig in Portsmouth, Hants (Beat Instrumental)

9 November 1964 – Gig in Rochester, Kent (Beat Instrumental)

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10 November 1964 – Odeon, Lewisham, southeast London with Carl Perkins, The Nashville Teens, Tommy Tucker, Elkie Brooks, The Quotations and Ray Cameron (South East London Mercury)

11 November 1964 – Gig in Cardiff, south Wales (Beat Instrumental)

12 November 1964 – Gig in Bristol (Beat Instrumental)

13 November 1964 – Gig in Waterford (Republic of Ireland?) (Beat Instrumental)

14 November 1964 – Gig in Manchester (Beat Instrumental)

15 November 1964 – Gig in Bournemouth, Dorset (Beat Instrumental)

20-21 November 1964 – Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex with The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, The Migil Five, The Miami Show Band, Susan Maughan, Lorne Lesley, Julia Rogers, Gene Vincent and The Hustlers (Clapham Advertiser)

21 November 1964 – Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Dawn & The Dee-Jays (Lincolnshire Standard)

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23 November 1964 – Bluesville, Ipswich, Suffolk (Essex County Standard)

24 November 1964 – Aylesbury Bluesville, Borough Assembly Hall, Market Square, Aylesbury, Bucks (Bucks Advertiser)

1965

6 January 1965 – Bristol Corn Exchange, Bristol (Western Scene)

7 January 1965 – Ricky Tick, Olympia Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire with The Stormsville Shakers (David Else’s research)

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8 January 1965 – Hillside Ballroom, Hereford (Gloucester Citizen)

11 January 1965 – Bath Pavilion, Bath with support (Western Scene)

14 January 1965 – Pier Pavilion, Worthing, West Sussex with The Herd (Worthing Herald/Worthing Gazette)

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16 January 1965 – Royal Hotel, Lowestoft, Suffolk with The Deacons (Eastern Evening News)

 

13 February 1965 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with The Stormsville Shakers (Essex Chronicle)

14 February 1965 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, Kent (Melody Maker)

21 February 1965 – Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, Kent (Melody Maker)

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25 February 1965 – Liberal Hall, Yeovil, Somerset with Group Four with Steve Law (Western Gazette)

 

6 March 1965 – Winter Gardens, Weston Super Mare, Somerset with Ken Birch Band (Weston Mercury)

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7 March 1965 – Silver Beat Club, Stephenson Place, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

19 March 1965 – Big Beat Nite Out, Fairfield Hall, Croydon, Surrey with The Kinks, The Pretty Things, The Caravelles, Dodie West and Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon)

21 March 1965 – Southall Community Centre, Southall, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

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22 March 1965 – Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham with The Kinks, The Pretty Things, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs and Dodie West (Birmingham Evening Mail)

24 March 1965 – Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, Kent (Melody Maker)

25 March 1965 – Locarno, Swindon, Wiltshire with The Sole Savages (Swindon Evening Advertiser)

26 March 1965 – Gig in Southsea, Hants (Beat Instrumental)

27 March 1965 – Gig in London (Beat Instrumental)

 

3 April 1965 – Technical College, Westminster, central London (Beat Instrumental)

4 April 1965 – Pigalle, central London (Beat Instrumental)

7 April 1965 – Bristol Corn Exchange, Bristol with The Fanatics (Western Scene)

10 April 1965 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Cascades and The Amazons (Cambridgeshire Times)

11 April 1965 – NME Concert, Wembley, west London with many others (Beat Instrumental)

17 April 1965 – Galaxy Club, St Joseph’s Hall, Basingstoke, Hants with The Troggs (Southern Echo)

24 April 1965 – Gig in Rawenstall (Beat Instrumental)

25 April 1965 – Ritz Ballroom, King’s Heath, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

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25 April 1965 – Plaza Ballroom, Handsworth, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

27 April 1965 – St Joseph’s Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire with The Troggs (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

28-30 April 1965 – Tour of Sweden (Beat Instrumental)

 

10 May 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Walthamstow Guardian)

14 May 1965 – Marconi Basildon Locarno, Basildon, Essex with The Soul Agents and The Felders Orioles (Poster)

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16 May 1965 – Whitehall, East Grinstead, West Sussex with The Pitmen (Sussex Evening Express)

 

29 June 1965 – St Joseph’s Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

 

5 July 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

17 July 1965 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Apex Group and The Yensons Trolls (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

18 July 1965 – Palace Theatre, Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex with The Lively Set and The Flowerpots (Essex Chronicle)

20 July 1965 – High Wycombe Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

21 July 1965 – Orchid Ballroom, Purley, Surrey (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon)

25 July 1965 – Winter Gardens, Morecambe, Lancashire (Beat Instrumental)

26 July 1965 – Top Rank, Doncaster (Beat Instrumental)

27 July 1965 – Tyne Tees TV (Beat Instrumental)

28 July 1965 – Scottish TV (Beat Instrumental)

29 July 1965 – Town Hall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire (Beat Instrumental)

30 July 1965 – Festival Jazz, Cleethorpes (Beat Instrumental)

31 July 1965 – Pavilion Gardens, Buxton (Beat Instrumental)

 

1 August 1965 – Oasis, Manchester (Beat Instrumental)

2 August 1965 – Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, Wales (Beat Instrumental)

4 August 1965 – Top Rank, Hanley, Staffordshire (Beat Instrumental)

5 August 1965 – Palace Ballroom (most likely Douglas), Isle of Man (Beat Instrumental)

6 August 1965 – Floral Hall, Morecambe, Southport (more likely Southport) (Beat Instrumental)

7 August 1965 – Spa Ballroom, Bridlington (Beat Instrumental)

8 August 1965 – Red Skeleton TV show and Richmond Festival, Richmond upon Thames, west London (Beat Instrumental)

9 August 1965 – Bath Pavilion, Bath (Western Scene)

11 August 1965 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Beat Instrumental)

12 August 1965 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent with Don Riddell and Four Plus Two (East Kent Times)

13 August 1965 – Manor House, north London (Beat Instrumental)

14 August 1965 – Astoria Ballroom, Rawtenstall (Beat Instrumental)

15 August 1965 – ABC Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (Beat Instrumental)

18 August 1965 – Gig in Redruth, Cornwall (Beat Instrumental)

19 August 1965 – Civic Hall, Barnstaple, Devon (Beat Instrumental)

20 August 1965 – Plymouth Forum, Plymouth, Devon with three beat groups (Herald Express)

21 August 1965 – Civic Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Beat Instrumental)

22 August 1965 – Princess Theatre, Torquay, Devon with Billie Davis and Platform Six and supporting acts (Herald Express)

23 August 1965 – Savoy Ballroom, Southsea, Hants (Beat Instrumental)

25 August 1965 – Floral Hall, Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk (Beat Instrumental)

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30 August 1965 – Town Hall, Clacton, Essex (Essex County Standard)

 

25 September 1965 – Group leaves for the United States for an American tour (Beat Instrumental)

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22 October 1965 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

26 October 1965 – 5 O’Clock Club (Beat Instrumental)

27 October 1965 – Disc A Go Go (Beat Instrumental)

28 October 1965 – Crawley Civic Centre, Crawley, West Sussex (Beat Instrumental)

30 October 1965 – Easybeat (Beat Instrumental)

31 October 1965 – Southall Community Centre, Southall, west London (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

3 November 1965 – Saturday Club (Beat Instrumental)

5 November 1965 – Joe Loss’s Pop Show (Beat Instrumental)

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7 November 1965 – Odeon Colchester, Colchester, Essex with The Small Faces, Tommy Quickly, The Soul Mates, The Rustics and Beryl Marsden and The Crewcats (Essex Chronicle)

10 November 1965 – Cracker Jack (Beat Instrumental)

11 November 1965 – Tour of Poland (Beat Instrumental)

24 November 1965 – Stevenage Mecca, Locarno, Stevenage, Herts (website: http://www.coda-uk.co.uk/60’s_music_scene.htm) Looks like first UK gig back in the country

26 November 1965 – Ready Steady Go (Beat Instrumental)

27 November 1965 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts with Dave and The Strollers (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)

30 November 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

 

2 December 1965 – Gig in Kidderminster, Worcestershire (Beat Instrumental)

3 December 1965 – Starlite, Greenford, west London (Beat Instrumental)

4 December 1965 – Polytechnic, Regent Street, central London (Beat Instrumental)

6-11 December 1965 – Tour of Spain (Beat Instrumental)

17 December 1965 – Ready Steady Go (Beat Instrumental/Boyfriend magazine)

18 December 1965 – London College Dance, Seymour Hall, central London (Beat Instrumental/Boyfriend magazine)

1966

22 January 1966 – Bangor University, Bangor, Wales (Boyfriend magazine)

 

13 February 1966 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

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17 February 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker) Opening night

28 February 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Beat Instrumental)

 

2 March 1966 – Bristol University, Bristol (Beat Instrumental)

4 March 1966 – Leicester University, Leicester (Beat Instrumental)

5 March 1966 – Birmingham University, Birmingham (Beat Instrumental) This date may be incorrect

6 March 1966 – University of Aston Rag Ball, Bingley Hall, Aston, West Midlands with Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy Fury & The Gamblers and Craig (Birmingham Evening Mail) Barry Jenkins was on drums by now

Fabulous 208 Magazine, 1966. Photo may be subject to copyright

15 March 1966 – Gig in Paris, France (Beat Instrumental)

18 March 1966 – Exeter University, Exeter, Devon (Beat Instrumental)

19 March 1966 – Nottingham University, Nottingham (Beat Instrumental)

20 March 1966 – Top Ten Club, Belle Vue, Manchester (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

24 March 1966 – Hilton Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, central London (Beat Instrumental)

26 March 1966 – Central School of Arts, central London (Beat Instrumental)

1968

22 December 1968 – City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear with The Animals, Grapefruit, Happy Magazine, Barry St John, Long John Baldy, Kim Davis & The Beginning, Noble Forde and The Tempo Set (Newcastle Evening Chronicle)

This was the original Animals reunion gig/Geno Washington was billed but cancelled

Reunion gig in Newcastle, 1968. Photo may be subject to copyright

Many thanks to Rolf Hannet in Germany for helping with some of the Beat Instrumental and Beat Monthly gigs

Copyright © Nick Warburton.  All Rights Reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced or transmitted in any from or by any means, without prior permission from the author.

Categories: California, Los Angeles, Rondo, Sherman Oaks

The Ugly Z on Rondo

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Ugly Z Rondo 45 Down To My Very Last Tear

The Ugly Z are a mystery band to me. There are plenty of names on the labels, but it may be that none of them belong to the band’s members.

“Down to My Very Last Tear” has a cool twelve-string guitar opening and a good band performance full of harmony singing. It was credited to the Ugly Z and Steve Fazio Jr.

Chris Crocket wrote “Kathy’s Back” which is similar to the flip in sound and almost as catchy.

Rick Lawrence, Stuart Richard produced the record, with Richard also arranging both sides.

It was released on Rondo 9158 in June, 1965, as shown from the Alco delta numbers: ∆57098 / ∆57098-X. Rondo had its address at 15101 Magnolia Blvd in Sherman Oaks, CA, and also published the songs through Rondo BMI.

Steve Fazio would show up about a year later as a talent scout for Valiant Records and producer Al Kavelin. Steve Fazio, Jr. also wrote “All Because Of You” recorded by Guiseppi Apollo with the Revels & the Mapes Sisters on Impact 12-IMX, published by Anthony Music.

Info on Steve Fazio’s connection with the West Coast Branch from the West Coast Fog site.

Ugly Z Rondo 45 Kathy's Back

Categories: England, London

Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers’ gigs 1965-1969

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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.

HERBIE GOINS & THE NIGHT-TIMERS:

 Herbie Goins – lead vocals

John McLaughlin – lead guitar

Mick Eve – tenor saxophone

Harry Beckett – trumpet

Nigel Stanger – Hammond organ/saxophone

Dave Price – bass

Bill Stevens – drums

1965

23 March 1965 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book) This might have been before the link-up with The Night-Timers who were working with Ronnie Jones

 

21 April 1965 – Orford Cellar, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

25 April 1965 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (Melody Maker)

 

8 May 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/) Says straight from the Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London

16 May 1965 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

29 May 1965 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

 

2 June 1965 – Le Disque A Go Go, Bournemouth, Dorset (website: https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/)

7 June 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Leyton, Leytonstone and Waltham Forest Guardian) Billed as The Night-timers

11 June 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with support (NME) Billed as The Night-timers with Herbie Goins

13 June 1965 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with Kim & The Kinetics (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

20 June 1965 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey (Aldershot News)

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27 June 1965 – Galaxy Club, Woburn Park Hotel, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

 

1 July 1965 – Bowes Lyon Youth Centre, Stevenage, Herts with The Bumps In The Night (Hertfordshire Express)

4 July 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

10 July 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with Gary L Thompson & The Sidewinders (NME)

23 July 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

 

6 August 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

7 August 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with Group Survival (NME) Billed as The Night-timers with Herbie Goins

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8 August 1965 – Galaxy Club, Woburn Park Hotel, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

28 August 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London (NME) Billed as The Night-timers with Herbie Goins

Sometime in late August/early September 1965, Nigel Stanger returned to Newcastle upon Tyne and worked with Alan Price. Former member Dave Morse returned on Hammond organ

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4 September 1965 – Zambesi Club, Hounslow, west London (Middlesex Chronicle)

12 September 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

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16 September 1965 – Ritz Club, Skewen, Wales with The Kingpins and The Iveys (Port Talbot Guardian)

17 September 1965 – Archer Hall, Billericay, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)

18 September 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London (Melody Maker)

24 September 1965 – Orford Cellar, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

 

8 October 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

13 October 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Rick ‘N’ Beckers (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

16 October 1965 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with Loomers Ltd (Essex Chronicle)

24 October 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

 

3 November 1965 – Farnbrough Town Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

12 November 1965 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

13 November 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

14 November 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Worrying Kind (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

21 November 1965 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

28 November 1965 – Ricky Ticky, Plaza, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

 

5 December 1965 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey (Aldershot News)

9 December 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

11 December 1965 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

15 December 1965 – Le Disque A Go Go, Bournemouth, Dorset (website: https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/)

24 December 1965 – King Mojo Club, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with Tony Knight’s Chessmen (Melody Maker)

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26 December 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Pontiac, southwest London (Melody Maker)

1966

1 January 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

5 January 1966 – Farnborough Town Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

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8 January 1966 – House of Aden, Witham Hall, Essex with Elkie Brooks, The Marionettes and Ray Ford and The Statesiders (Essex County Standard)

20 January 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

22 January 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

30 January 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (The Star)

 

4 February 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

5 February 1966 – Winter Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire with Elkie Brooks, The Marionettes and Phase II (Brackley Advertiser) Is this possible with the gig below?

5 February 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

13 February 1966 – Ricky Ticky, Plaza, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

18 February 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London with Dakota Station (Melody Maker)

19 February 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and The Blueberries (The Star)

26 February 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

Dave Morse departed on the eve of a Swiss tour and former member Nigel Stanger recommended his friend Mike Carr

March 1966 – Hazyland Club, Hazy Osterveld, Zurich, Switzerland (one month) (Mike Carr recollections)

19 March 1966 – Mod Place, Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol with Elkie Brooks, The Marionettes and The Reasons (Western Scene) Is this possible with Swiss dates above

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1 April 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Melody Maker)

4 April 1966 – Penthouse, Birmingham, West Midlands with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Birmingham Evening Mail)

9 April 1966 – Jigsaw, Manchester with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Graham Bond Organisation (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

10 April 1966 – Plaza Ballroom, Handsworth West Midlands with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (Birmingham Evening Mail)

15 April 1966 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

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16 April 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnbrough, Hampshire with Screaming J Hawkins (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

18 April 1966 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey with support (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

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23 April 1966 – Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Plain & Fancy and The Tykes (Lincolnshire Standard)

30 April 1966 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Score (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

 

2 May 1966 – Esquire, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (The Star)

3 May 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

4 May 1966 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Score (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

8 May 1966 – Blue Moon, Hayes, Middlesex (Melody Maker)

15 May 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London with The Seventh Sun (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

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27 May 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnbrough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News) David Else also has the band playing at the Camberley Ricky Tick at the Cambridge Hotel on this date with The Blues Syndicate

Photo: John Treais

28 May 1966 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

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Around late May/early June John McLaughlin left and first Mick Barker and then John Smith came in on guitar (Ed: would welcome any insights from readers)

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4 June 1966 – Zambesi, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

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10 June 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

12 June 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

15 June 1966 – Orford Cellar, Norwich (Eastern Evening News)

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17 June 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with Mood Indigo (Melody Maker)

19 June 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

24 June 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with support (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

29 June 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London with Nocturnal (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

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2 July 1966 – Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, Hertfordshire (Welwyn Times)

11 July 1966 – Majestic, Reading, Berkshire (Bracknell News)

July/August 1966 – Papagayos, St-Tropez, France with Steampacket (Mike Carr recollections)

 

7 September 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London with The Charge (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

9 September 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

10 September 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald/Melody Maker)

11 September 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with The Jimmy Brown Sound (Nottingham Evening Post)

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12 September 1966 – Queens Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail/Express & Star)

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14 September 1966 – Scene Club, Cardiff, Wales (Western Daily Press)

19 September 1966 – Locarno Ballroom, Bristol (Evening Post)

19 September 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

25 September 1966 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

25 September 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

29 September 1966 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, west London (London Life) This may be 30 September

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30 September 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Washington DCs (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

Sometime in early October, Speedy Acquaye joined on congas from Georgie Fame’s Blue Flames, having appeared on the sessions for “Number One in Your Heart” earlier in the year

1 October 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with Broodly-Hoo (Nottingham Evening Post)

2 October 1966 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

8 October 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

15 October 1966 – The New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, E1, London (Melody Maker)

16 October 1966 – Dereham Tavern Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Sullivan James (North Norfolk News)

22 October 1966 – The Location, Woolwich, southeast London with The Images (Melody Maker)

23 October 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

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26 October 1966 – Elbow Room, Aston, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

27 October 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

28 October 1966 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

29 October 1966 – Plebians, Halifax, West Yorkshire (Halifax Evening Courier & Guardian)

31 October 1966 – The Village, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

 

2 November 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Coloured Raisins (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

5 November 1966 – The Union, Manchester University with Cock-A-Hoops and All Soul Band (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

9 November 1966 – Harpenden Town Hall, Harpenden, Hertfordshire (Melody Maker)

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11 November 1966 – Top Spot, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with The Blues Generation (Gloucester Citizen)

13 November 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham with Sonny Childe & The TNT (Nottingham Evening Post)

14 November 1966 – Stafford College of Art, Stafford, Staffordshire with Powerhouse (Express & Star)

17 November 1966 – Blaises, Queen’s Gate, Kensington (Tatler)

18 November 1966 – South Bank Jazz Club, Grimsby, Humberside (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

24 November 1966 – Concorde, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

27 November 1966 – Dereham Tavern Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Marvin Lois Enterprise (North Norfolk News)

 

2 December 1966 – Dancing Slipper Ballroom, West Bridgeford, Nottingham with The Tribe (Nottingham Evening Post)

3 December 1966 – Burlesque, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

3 December 1966 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

4 December 1966 – Douglas House, Lancaster Gate, west London with Freddie Mack & The Mack Sound (Melody Maker)

4 December 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

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9 December 1966 – Carousel Club, Farnborough, Hampshire (Camberley News)

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10 December 1966 – Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, southwest London with The Merseybeats (Balham & Tooting News and Mercury)

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11 December 1966 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with Phil Ryan & The Scorpions (Chester Chronicle)

14 December 1966 – Stourbridge Town Hall, Stourbridge, West Midlands with The Satin Dolls (Poster)

15 December 1966 – London College of Fashion, John Princess Street, London (Melody Maker)

16 December 1966 – Wimbledon Palais, southwest Wimbledon, London (Mitcham News & Mercury)

18 December 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London (Melody Maker)

23 December 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Satin Dolls and The Situation (Melody Maker)

29 December 1966 – Speakeasy, central London (Disc & Music Echo)

30 December 1966 – Chislehurst Caves, Chislehurst, southeast London (Melody Maker)

31 December 1966 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Disc & Music Echo)

1967

1 January 1967 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham with The Satin Dolls (Nottingham Evening Post)

3 January 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

5 January 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Coventry, West Midlands with The Silverstone Set (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

6 January 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Wynder K Frog (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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7 January 1967 – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London with Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, The Creation, The Artwoods and St Louis Union (Melody Maker)

11 January 1967 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with John Bryan Fraternity (website: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

13 January 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Satin Dolls and The All Night Workers (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

15 January 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent with Satin Dolls (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

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20 January 1967 – Mod Ball, Pavilion Ballroom, Weymouth, Dorset with Teak and Smokey and The Nite People (Western Gazette)

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21 January 1967 – Starlight Room, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with The Satin Dolls, Timebox with Richard Henry, Triads and Ray Bones (Spalding Standard)

26 January 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Jimmy Cliff & The Shakedown Sound (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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27 January 1967 – Top Spot Ballroom, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with The Knak (Gloucester Citizen)

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28 January 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

28 January 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

 

1 February 1967 – Elbow Room, Aston, West Midlands (Fabulous 208)

2 February 1967 – Bowes-Lyon-House, Stevenage, West Midlands (Fabulous 208)

4 February 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London with The Avalons and The Mack Sound (Melody Maker)

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5 February 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

6 February 1967 – Queen’s Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

7-8 February 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

9 February 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Satin Dolls and The In Crowd (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

10 February 1967 – Hereford College (presumably Hereford but could be Oxford college) (Fabulous 208) They may have played the Stage Club on this date too (Cherwell)

11 February 1967 – Durham University, Durham, County Durham (Fabulous 208)

14 February 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, west London (Fabulous 208)

14 February 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

16 February 1967 – Cadenas Club, Stoke Hotel, Guildford with The Jeremiah Thing (David Else’s research)

17 February 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, West London (David Else’s research)

18 February 1967 – Ricky Tick, Thames Hotel, Windsor, Berkshire (David Else’s research)

19 February 1967 – Saville Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London with Chuck Berry and The Canadians (Fabulous 208)

21 February 1967 – Pavilion, Bournemouth Colleges Student’s Union, Landsdowne, Dorset with The Palmer James Group (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

23 February 1967– Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The In Crowd (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

24 February 1967 – Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales with The Yardbirds (Fabulous 208)

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25 February 1967 – Matlock Bath Pavilion, Matlock, Derbyshire with John L Watson and The Web (Derby Evening Telegraph)

According to the Guardian Journal’s 18 March issue, page 5, Mike Carr departed in early March. His replacement was Jamaican musician Junior Kerr.

Kerr came in via backing singers and dancers Cassie and Candy (aka The Satin Dolls) who were part of the Ready Steady Go dancing troupe. They joined around in late 1966 (Ed: would welcome any reader insights)

4 March 1967 – Royal Lido Ballroom, Prestatyn, Wales with The Raynes (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

16 March 1967 – Locarno, Derby (Fabulous 208)

17 March 1967 – Queen’s Rink, West Hartlepool, County Durham (Fabulous 208)

18 March 1967 – Sheffield University, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Fabulous 208)

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19 March 1967 – Cosmo Ballroom, Carlisle, Cumbria with 22nd Street People (Cumberland News/Fabulous 208)

22 March 1967 – College of Tech, Nottingham with Unit 4 Plus 2 (Fabulous 208)

23 March 1967 – Palace Hotel, Southport, Lancashire (Fabulous 208)

24 March 1967 – Top Ten, Manchester with Candy Choir (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

24 March 1967 – Bluesville, Manor House, London (Melody Maker)

25 March 1967 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Legay (Cambridgeshire Times)

26 March 1967 – Belle Vue, Greater Manchester (Fabulous 208)

9 April 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

14 April 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

16 April 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

18 April 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset with The Bossmen (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

23 April 1967 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

26 April 1967 – Bromel Club, Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, Kent (Melody Maker)

28 April 1967 – Steering Wheel Club, Dorchester, Dorset with Adge Cutler & The Wurzels and The Gordon Riots (Western Gazette)

29 April 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with The Executive (Melody Maker)

30 April 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent with Satin Dolls (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

Sometime around this period, Linda Lewis also sang with the group briefly having worked with The Q-Set in late 1966. She didn’t stay long and cut a solo single for Polydor that summer. She would reunite though with Kerr soon after in White Rabbit

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6 May 1967 ­– Shoreline Club, Bognor Regis, West Sussex with The In Crowd (Dave Allen research)

9 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London with The Satin Dolls (Melody Maker)

12 May 1967 – Drokiweeny, Manchester with The Satin Dolls (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

12 May 1967 – Tabernacle, Stockport, Greater Manchester with The Satin Dolls (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

12 May 1967 – Mr Smith’s, Manchester with The Satin Dolls (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

16 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London with The Web (Melody Maker)

23 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Melody Maker)

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27 May 1967 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

27 May 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, London (Geoff Williams’ research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

29 May 1967 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post) Is this possible with the gig below?

29 May 1967 – Supreme Eastern Esplanade, Ramsgate, Kent with The Satin Dolls and Len Marshall Sound (Melody Maker/East Kent Times & Mail)

30 May 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, London (Melody Maker/Record Mirror)

 

2 June 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London with The Satin Dolls (Melody Maker)

This large gap in June suggests they may have been overseas

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30 June 1967 – Koo Koo Byrd, Cardiff, Wales (Glamorgan County Times)

 

1 July 1967 – Supreme Eastern Esplanade, Ramsgate, Kent (East Kent Times & Mail)

8 July 1967 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

10 July 1967 – Queen’s Ballroom, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

29 July 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London with The Fraternity and The Army (Melody Maker)

I would welcome any further insights from readers but I believe that in late July/early August, the group headed to Italy for a short tour. John Smith and Bill Stevens left on the eve of the tour and former Pack/Flowers of Wisdom members Andy Rickell and Terry Stannard joined. Stannard had recently worked with Freddie Mack.

The tour was a disaster and all of the equipment was stolen. Most of the group returned home and Junior Kerr, Andy Rickell and Terry Stannard formed White Rabbit with former member Linda Lewis

A new formation was formed on Goins’ return:

Herbie Goins – lead vocals

Alan Roskams – guitar (ex-Gass)

Mick Eve – tenor saxophone

Harry Beckett – trumpet

Speedy Acquaye – congas

John Carroll – Hammond organ

Dave Price – bass

Ian Hague – drums (ex-Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds/The Nice)

+ Satin Dolls backing singers/dancers Cassie and Candy 

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19 August 1967 – Wellington Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Midnight Times (North Norfolk News)

20 August 1967 – Beachcomber, Nottingham with Satin Dolls (Nottingham Evening Post)

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25 August 1967 – Steering Wheel, Dorchester, Dorset with The Cellar Rats (Dorset Evening Echo)

26 August 1967 – Floral Hall, Southport, Lancashire with The Maraccas (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle/Formby Times)

27 August 1967 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Bluecaps (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

30 August 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, London (Melody Maker)

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2 September 1967 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire with Mike Stuart’s Span (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

3 September 1967 – Starlite, Greenford, northwest London (Melody Maker)

6 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

8 September 1967 – 5D, Leicester with The Worrying Kynde (Leicester Mercury)

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9 September 1967 – Pink Flamingo, Soho, central London with The Paper Blitz Tissue and Geranium Pond (Melody Maker)

10 September 1967 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News)

11 September 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

12 September 1967 – Blaises, Imperial Hotel, Queen’s Gate, west London (Melody Maker)

13 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

20 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

22 September 1967 – 5D, Leicester with The Wild Flowers (Leicester Mercury)

27 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

30 September 1967 – Glastonbury Town Hall, Glastonbury, Somerset with The Safety Catch (Somerset County Gazette)

 

3 October 1967 – Bournemouth Pavilion, Bournemouth, Dorset with Granny’s Intentions and The Palmer James Group (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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9 October 1967 – Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales with The Searchers, Lucas with The Mike Cotton Sound and The Zombies (South Wales Echo)

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15 October 1967 – Cosmopolitan, Carlisle, Cumbria with Tamla Express (Cumberland News)

20 October 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

21 October 1967 – Northwich Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire (Crewe Chronicle)

29 October 1967 – South Bank Jazz Club, Grimsby, Humberside (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

This large gap in November suggests they may have been overseas

2 December 1967 – Pearce Hall, Maidenhead, Berkshire with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch and The Echoes (Bucks Free Press)

3 December 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

8 December 1967 – Students’ Union, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and Precious Few (Eastern Evening News)

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9 December 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London with Ferris Wheel and Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede (Melody Maker)

12 December 1967 – New Century Hall, Manchester with Kibbus (Manchester Evening News & Chronicle)

14 December 1967 – Student’s Union, University of East Anglia, Norwich with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and The Reasons (Eastern Evening News)

25 December 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker) Guest with The Tonicks, Ronnie Jones, Owen Grey and The Youth

26 December 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Portsmouth, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

1968

This large gap in January suggests they may have been overseas

4 February 1968 – Wooden Bridge Hotel, Guildford, Surrey with The Strange Brew (Surrey Advertiser)

18 February 1968 – New Regis Club, Bognor Regis, West Sussex (Brighton Evening Argus)

23 February 1968 – Shades, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Sheffield Star)

 

1 March 1968 – Hotel Leofric, Coventry, West Midlands with Scarlet Religion (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

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2 March 1968 – Sheffield University Student’s Union, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Sheffield Star)

8 March 1968 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

10 March 1968 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

18 March 1968 – Park Hall Hotel, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with Time and Mr Showbiz (Express & Star)

25 March 1968 – Cosmopolitan, Carlisle, Cumbria (Cumberland News)

29 March 1968 – Poole College Rag, Poole College Main Hall, Poole, Dorset with The Nite People (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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30 March 1968 – Ewell College, Ewell, Surrey with Robert Plant & The Band of Joy (Melody Maker)

 

1 April 1968 – Staffordshire Yeoman, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

John Carroll left about this time to join The Flowerpot Men’s backing band. Former member Junior Kerr may have briefly returned as footage from French TV show Bouton Rouge dated 4 April reveals; however, this may have been a recording from the previous year. In the first week of April 1968, Kerr played with his new band Junior’s Conquests

Eddie Thornton, who’d worked with Georgie Fame (and more recently The Amboy Dukes) also joined in time for the French tour on trumpet, taking over from Harry Beckett

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10 April 1968 – Cellar Discotheque, Hartlepool (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

13 April 1968 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

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15 April 1968 – The Shrubbery Hotel, Ilminister, Somerset (Somerset County Gazette)

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19 April 1968 – Scene, Cambridge YMCA, Cambridge (Cambridge News)

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20 April 1968 – Tin Hat, Kettering, Northamptonshire with Howling Robin (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

21 April 1968 – Le Metro, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

26 April 1968 – Cue Club, Paddington (Melody Maker)

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27 April 1968 – Ettington Park Hotel, Alderminster, near Stratford, Warwickshire (Birmingham Evening Mail) Could this have been the date below or did they play again a few weeks later?

 

4 May 1968 – Wolverhampton College of Technology, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with Soul Seekers (Express & Star)

11 May 1968 – Ettington Park Hotel, Alderminster, Warwickshire (Stratford upon Avon Herald)

12 May 1968 – Excel Blue Angel, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

19 May 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, London (Poster)

23 May 1968 – Liberal Hall, Yeovil, Somerset with The Klick (Western Gazette)

31 May 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

 

6 June 1968 – James Finegan Hall, Eston, Middlesbrough with Rivers Invitation and The Tramline (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

8 June 1968 – Mistrale Club, Beckenham Junction, London with The Shiralee (Coulson & Purley Advertiser)

16 June 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, London with The Satin Dolls (Poster)

23 June 1968 – Cosmopolitan, Carlisle, Cumbria with Junco Partners (Cumberland News)

 

31 August 1968 – Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey with The Strange Brew (Surrey Advertiser)

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2 September 1968 – Top Spot, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with Lot 39 with Mel Taylor (Gloucester Citizen)

Around September 1968, Dave Price and Alan Roskams left.

Would welcome insights from readers but I think a new formation featured the following:

Herbie Goins – lead vocals

Kelvin Bullen – lead guitar (ex-Joe E Young & The Tonicks)

Hugh Bullen – bass (ex-Joe E Young & The Tonicks)

Mick Eve – tenor saxophone

Eddie Thornton – trumpet

Speedy Acquaye – congas

Ian Hague – drums

+ Satin Dolls backing singers/dancers Cassie and Candy

6 September 1968 – Pavilion Ballroom, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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7 September 1968 – Alex Disco, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Salisbury Journal/Western Gazette)

20 September 1968 – CLCE Scraptoft, Leicester with The Shevelles and The Decoys (Leicester Mercury)

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21 September 1968 – Stage Club, Oxford (Oxford Mail)

 

7 October 1968 – Quaintways, Chester, Cheshire with Perfumed Garden, The Hands and Wall City Jazzmen (website: www.45worlds.com/live)

13 October 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

19 October 1968 – Students Union UEA, Norwich, Norfolk with Bumbly Hum (Eastern Evening News)

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3 November 1968 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

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7 December 1968 – Stage Club, Oxford (Oxford Mail)

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10 December 1968 – King’s College, Strand, London with The Nice and The Circus (Melody Maker)

14 December 1968 – Mid-Herts College, Welwyn Garden City, Herts with The Herbal Remedy (Welwyn and Hatfield Advertiser)

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18 December 1968 – Candlelight, Scarborough, North Yorkshire with The Satin Dolls and Free (Scarborough Evening News)

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21 December 1968 – The Catacombs, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Express & Star)

1969

Sometime in early 1969, Ian Hague left to join J J Jackson’s backing band

21 February 1969 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

23 February 1969 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

 

1 March 1969 – Cue Club, Paddington, London (Melody Maker)

30 March 1969 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

 

13 April 1969 – Blaises, London (Hounslow Post)

27 April 1969 – Le Metro, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

 

2 May 1969 – Lyceum Ballroom, Strand, London with Alan Bown, Spooky Tooth, Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum and Portrait (Melody Maker)

3 May 1969 – New Union Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

24 May 1969 – Farnborough Technical College Students’ Union, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

 

14 June 1969 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

28 July 1969 – Soul Club, Plaza Ballroom, Newsbury, Berkshire with Simon K & The Meantimers (Reading Evening Post)

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28 September 1969 – Rebecca’s, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

Soon after the above gig, the band landed a part-time residency in Rome, Italy

I would welcome any insights from readers on what happened next with the band’s formation

I’d like to thank David Else for generously sharing his own history on the band and helping to cross check timelines and facts. Also, thanks to Mick Eve for his insights.

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Sonny Childe & The TNT’s gigs 1966-1967

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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.

1966

Having worked with Elders Consolidated from late 1964 to mid-1965 and The Cool School from mid-late 1965, Sonny Childe also worked briefly with The Pyramids.

In March 1966, he played at the Flamingo in Soho with The Alexis Korner Band and then was backed by various groups before joining Freddie Mack around May 1966.

5 March 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with Dicky Pride (The Star) Backed by The Sidewinders

6 March 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker) Does not list who backed him

 

1 May 1966 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London with The Square Deals (Melody Maker) This was Sonny Childe & The Charms and possibly just before he joined Freddie Mack

14 May 1966 – Stamford R&B Club, Stamford Hotel, Stamford, Lincolnshire (Grantham Journal) With The Sidewinders

Childe worked with Freddie Mack from around early May to early July 1966 when he split with Mack’s backing group This ‘N’ That with the line-up listed below:

 

Sonny Childe – lead vocals

Ernie Hayes – lead guitar

Mike Vaughan-Jones – organ

Derek Bond – bass

Phil Kenzie – saxophone

Ashton Tootell – saxophone

Richard “Nobby” Clarke – saxophone

John Pritchard – trumpet

Marc Charig – trumpet

Eddie Lincoln – congas

Billy Adamson – drums 

The TNT minus Sonny Childe in early 1967

6 July 1966 – Town Hall, High Wycombe, Bucks (Bucks Free Press)

23 July 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker)

 

6 August 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker) TNT not mentioned in billing

7 August 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

12 August 1966 – Carousel Club, Farnborough, Hampshire (Camberley News)

13 August 1966 – Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Johnny & John (ex-Merseybeats) and group, Fleur de Lys, The Rising Suns and The Ferryboys (Lincolnshire Standard)

19 August 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

27 August 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker) TNT not mentioned in the billing

 

3 September 1966 – Bumper Barbecue Beat Night, Holcombe Rogers near Wellington, Devon with The Four Hits Plus Two and The Shaky Notes Dance Band (Express & Echo) Billed as Explosive TNT

10 September 1966 – St George’s Hall, Exeter, Devon (Express & Echo) Billed as TNT Group

17 September 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

20 September 1966 – Chinese R&B Club, Corn Exchange, Bristol (Evening Post)

25 September 1966 – Regency Ballroom, Bath with People’s People (Poster/Western Daily Press)

 

1 October 1966 – Civic Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire with Fortune Tellers (Chester Chronicle)

1 October 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker) TNT not mentioned

10 October 1966 – Mews, Birmingham, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

14 October 1966 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

15 October 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

17 October 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The VIPs (Melody Maker)

21 October 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, west London (Melody Maker)

22 October 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker) TNT not mentioned

 

1 November 1966 – Chinese R&B Jazz Club, Bristol (Evening Post)

3 November 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Question (Melody Maker)

4 November 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with The Coasters and The Noblemen (The Star)

6 November 1966 – Beau Brummel Club, Avalston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with Phil Ryan & The Scorpions (Chester Chronicle)

7 November 1966 – Belfry, Wishaw, West Midlands with The Blaises (Birmingham Evening Mail)

10 November 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with Rey Anton & The Pro Form (Melody Maker)

12 November 1966 – Harpenden Public Hall, Harpenden, Herts (Welwyn Advertiser)

13 November 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham with Herbie Goins & The Night Timers (Nottingham Evening Post)

16 November 1966 – Elbow Room, Aston, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

18 November 1966 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker) TNT not mentioned

29 November 1966 – Concorde, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Echo)

 

3 December 1966 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

11 December 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

12 December 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Stormville Shakers (Melody Maker)

17 December 1966 – Midnight City, Digbeth, West Midlands with Ike & Tina Turner Revue and Tropical Boot Company (Birmingham Evening Mail)

17 December 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Essex Five and The Chevrons (Luton News)

23 December 1966 – Bath Regency Ballroom, Bath with The Spectres (Poster)

29 December 1966 – White Bicycle Club, Maple Ballroom, Northampton (Northampton Chronicle)

31 December 1966 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with The Knack and The Eyes of Blond (Julie Fielder book: What Flo Said Next)

1967

1 January 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker) Billed as Sonny Childe & His Band

6 January 1967 – Starlite, Greenford, west London with The Syn (Melody Maker) Billed as just TNT

14 January 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

20 January 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Felders Orioles (Melody Maker)

21 January 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

28 January 1967 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with The New Generation (Julie Fielder book: What Flo Said Next)

 

5 February 1967 – King Mojo, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (The Star)

10 February 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Goodtime Band (Melody Maker)

16 February 1967 – Guildhall, Gloucester (Gloucester Citizen)

18 February 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker) Billed as & His 15-piece band

20 February 1967 – Belfry, Wishaw, West Midlands with Zoot Money & His Big Roll Band and The Monopoly (Birmingham Evening Mail)

23 February 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Melody Maker)

24 February 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

26 February 1967 – Gyro Club, Troutbeck Hotel, Ilkley, West Yorkshire (Yorkshire Evening Post)

3 March 1967 – Astoria, Finsbury Park, north London with Roy Orbison & The Candymen, The Small Faces, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Settlers, Ray Cameron and The Robb Storme Group (Hackney Gazette) Jeff Beck Group were billed but didn’t stay on the tour

5 March 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

20 March 1967 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

For the Roy Orbison tour, the group were reported as being a ten piece sax band

26 March 1967 – Coventry Theatre, Coventry, West Midlands with Roy Orbison, The Small Faces, Paul & Barry Ryan, PP Arnold & Four of a Kind (replaced Jeff Beck), The Settlers, The Robb Storme Group (David Else research)

31 March 1967 – Odeon Cheltenham, Gloucestershire with Roy Orbison, The Small Faces, Paul & Barry Ryan, PP Arnold & Four of a Kind, The Settlers, The Robb Storme Group (Melody Maker)

6 April 1967 – Adelphi, Slough, Berkshire with Roy Orbison, The Small Faces, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Settlers and The Robb Storme Group (Windsor, Slough & Eton Express)

8 April 1967 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Southend Standard)

14 April 1967 – Cue Club, Paddinton, central London (Melody Maker) Billed as Sonny Childe Show with The TNT Band

15 April 1967 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with Soul Concern (Julie Fielder book: What Flo Said Next)

22 April 1967 – Drill Hall, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire with The Minor Portion Big Roll Band (needs source)

22 April 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with Mary Wells (Leicester Mercury)

23 April 1967 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with The Sound Society (Crewe Chronicle)

27 April 1967 – Locarno Ballroom, Coventry, West Midlands (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

29 April 1967 – The Pitch, Birmingham, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

 

20 May 1967 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with New Generation (Julie Fielder book: What Flo Said Next)

29 May 1967 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Artwoods and The Real McCoy (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

 

14 June 1967 – Magdalen College, Oxford with Manfred Mann (Fabulous 208)

16 June 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Mud (Welwyn & Hatfield Advertiser)

17 June 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester (Disc & Music Echo)

 

22 July 1967 – Cesar’s, Bedford, Bedfordshire (Bedfordshire Times)

29 July 1967 – Baths, Matlock, Derbyshire (Fabulous 208) Billed as TNT

Around early August, Sonny Childe, who was Sam Cooke’s nephew and later found fame as R B Greaves, split with TNT.

Kenzie joined Tuesday’s Children briefly. Hayes, Vaughan-Jones and Adamson joined the Jet Harris Band for a few months and then added Eddie Philips from The Creation on bass and brought back Phil Kenzie to reform TNT as PP Arnold’s backing group in November.

Sunday early October 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette) With Maxine Brown

PP Arnold & The TNT:

28 October 1967 – Floral Hall, Southport, Lancashire (Lancashire Evening Post)

 

16 November 1967 – Concord, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Echo)

18 November 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, London with The Fourmost and Man Ee Go (does not mention a support band) (Melody Maker)

19 November 1967 – Kyrle Hall, Birmingham (needs source)

26 November 1967 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Bluecaps (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

 

7 December 1967 – Matlock Baths Pavilion, Matlock, Derbyshire with Locomotive (Derby Evening Telegraph) Does not mention The TNT but seems likely

8 December 1967 – South Bank Jazz Club, Grimsby, Humberside with The Rumble Band (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

9 December 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

10 December 1967 – Plaza, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (Huddersfield Daily Examiner)

14 December 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, North Yorkshire (possibly Fabulous 208)

1968

6 January 1968 – Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone & Hythe Gazette) Does not mention TNT

7 January 1968 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

3 February 1968 – Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, Essex (needs source)

5 February 1968 – Club Marimba, Middlesbrough (needs source)

Kenzie left around February to rejoin Freddie Mack and later played with Sweetwater Canal

19 February 1968 – Top Rank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (needs source)

12 May 1968 – Beau Brummel, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with Jaytree Organisation (Crewe Chronicle)

3 June 1968 – Shrubbery Hotel, Ilminster, Somerset with Jon James & The Swamp (Somerset Gazette/Western Gazette)

Many thanks to David Else for providing additional dates and information from his own research.

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Categories: England

The Shevelles’ gigs 1964-1968

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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 and, where possible, I have added the sources used, whether they are newspapers or websites.  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.

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1964

3 April 1964 – Continental Dancing Club, Edmonton, Middlesex (Tottenham Weekly Herald) Billed as The Shevelles with Tony Sherveraton

 

19 June 1964 – Winchester Lido, Winchester, Hampshire with Mark Stevens & The Travellers (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette) Billed as Tony Sheveraton and The Shevelles

 

15 August 1964 – West Runton Pavilion, West Runton, Norfolk (North Norfolk News)

 

11 October 1964 – Clacton Town Hall, Clacton, Essex (Essex County Standard)

25 October 1964 – Trend Club, Colchester, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

 

28 November 1964 – Galaxy Club, Town Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire with The Other Versions (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

 

12 December 1964 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with Howlin’ Wolf and The Moody Blues (Essex Chronicle)

1965

17 January 1965 – Le Disque A Go Go, Landsdowne, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

 

4 March 1965 – Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)

 

17 April 1965 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex with The Washington DC’s (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

20 April 1965 – Bluesville, Aylesbury, Bucks (website: http://aylesburymusictown.co.uk/)

 

3 May 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Leyton, Leytonstone and Waltham Forest Guardian)

8 May 1965 – Royal Star Ballroom, Maidstone, Kent with Felders Orioles (Maidstone Gazette)

29 May 1965 – Harpenden Public Hall, Harpenden, Herts with The Chicago Callers (Welwyn & Hatfield Advertiser)

 

8 July 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

10 July 1965 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Washington DCs and Jean & The Statesiders (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

25 July 1965 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

 

5 August 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire with Sugar Pie Desanto (Dave Allen research)

6 August 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham with Sugar Pie Desanto (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

10 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Mark Leeman Five (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live) Backed Sugar Pie Desanto

23 August 1965 – Galaxy Club, Town Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire with Sugar Pie De Santo (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

 

2 September 1965 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

10 September 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

16 September 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

17 September 1965 – Ricky Tick, Guildford Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research) Else says they replaced The Spencer Davis Group who were originally advertised

18 September 1965 – St Mary’s Far Cotton, Northamptonshire (Northampton Chronicle)

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23 September 1965 – Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, Herts with The Saracens (Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire Express)

 

2 October 1965 – Milford R&B, Strutt Arms, Milford, Derbyshire (Derby Evening Telegraph)

7 October 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

14 October 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

16 October 1965 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with Junco Partners (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

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31 October 1965 – New All-Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, London, east London with The Blue Ace Unit (Melody Maker)

 

5 November 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

18 November 1965 – Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, north London (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

21 November 1965 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

 

4 December 1965 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Mickey Finn (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

10 December 1965 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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11 December 1965 – Zambesi Club, Hounslow, west London (Middlesex Chronicle)

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26 December 1965 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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26-27 December 1965 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire with The Crawdaddies (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

30 December 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

1966

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23 January 1966 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

28 January 1966 – Ricky Tick, Staines Town Hall, Staines, Middlesex (David Else’s research)

29 January 1966 – Carna Hive, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

 

4 February 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Gass (Melody Maker)

5 February 1966 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Crying Shame (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

6 February 1966 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

18 February 1966 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

26 February 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

 

1 March 1966 – Bristol Chinese R&B Club, Corn Exchange, Bristol (Western Scene)

5 March 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Rockhouse Band and The Chessmen (Melody Maker)

6 March 1966 – Blue Moon, Hayes, west London (Melody Maker)

10 March 1966 – Ricky Tick, Harvest Moon, Guildford, Surrey (David Else’s research)

11 March 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

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19 March 1966 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

27 March 1966 – Pontiac Club, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London (Melody Maker)

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28 March 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire with The Kinks (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

 

1 April 1966 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough with John McCoys Crawdaddies (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

2 April 1966 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham with Martha & Th Vandellas (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)

3 April 1966 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham News)

7 April 1966 – The Village, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire (Grimsby Evening Telegraph)

9 April 1966 – Stamford R&B Club, Stamford Hotel, Stamford, Lincolnshire (Grantham Journal)

10 April 1966 – Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

14 April 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

24 April 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

 

6 May 1966 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

9 May 1966 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey (Aldershot News)

15 May 1966 – Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

 

5 June 1966 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham, Kent (Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham News)

7 June 1966 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough with Wynder K Frog (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

17 June 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

19 June 1966 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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24 June 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News/Camberley News)

 

8 July 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Amboy Dukes (Fabulous 208)

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9 July 1966 – Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, Herts with Tony Knight’s Chessmen (Hertfordshire Express)

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15 July 1966 – The Micronest, Swiss Cottage, north London (Melody Maker)

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18 July 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

22 July 1966 – Cellar Club, Latin Quarter, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

27 July 1966 – The Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Fabulous 208)

30 July 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

 

27 August 1966 – Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, Herts (Hertfordshire Express)

 

2 September 1966 – Latin Quarter Cellar Club, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

3 September 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Fabulous 208)

4 September 1966 – Railway Hotel, Wealdstone, northwest London (Fabulous 208)

5 September 1966 – Disc Club, Colchester, Essex (Fabulous 208)

9 September 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

10 September 1966 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with The Mooche (Essex Chronicle)

15 September 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

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17 September 1966 – Blue Moon, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Gloucester Citizen)

22 September 1966 – Ricky Tick, Harpenden Public Hall, Harpenden, Herts (David Else’s research)

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23 September 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

25 September 1966 – New Spot, Gosport, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

29 September 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

30 September 1966 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

1 October 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

2 October 1966 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

3 October 1966 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey (Aldershot News)

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7 October 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

11 October 1966 – The Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Fabulous 208)

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13 October 1966 – Redcar Jazz Club, Coatham Hotel, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Graham Bond Organisation and The Alan Bown Set (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

14 October 1966 – Rialto Ballroom, Derby, Derbyshire (Fabulous 208)

15 October 1966 – Stamford Arms Hotel, Stamford, Lincolnshire (Fabulous 208)

15 October 1966 – Burlesque, Leicester, Leicestershire (Fabulous 208)

16 October 1966 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

18 October 1966 – Yum Yum Club, New Georgian Club, The Gun, Croydon, south London (Dick Dale poster)

26 October 1966 – Club A Go Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear with The Gas Board (website: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/)

29 October 1966 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

5 November 1966 – All Nighter Club, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Ronnie Jones & The Blue Jays (Melody Maker)

11 November 1966 – All Nighter Club, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

18 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Sean Downley Set and Tina and Johnny Glover (Melody Maker)

25 November 1966 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

27 November 1966 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

 

9 December 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

Photo Ray Stock. Left to right: Jeff  McCarthy, Eddie Lace, Ray Stock, Mike Stevens and Trevor Lewis

22 December 1966 – White Bicycle, Maple Ballroom, Northampton (Northampton Chronicle)

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23 December 1966 – Tiger’s Head, Downham, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

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23 December 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

27-28 December 1966 – Sibylla’s, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

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30 December 1966 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

1967

1 January 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Fabulous 208)

7 January 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

21 January 1967 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, west London with The Questions (Melody Maker)

 

7 February 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

10 February 1967 – Tiger’s Head, Downham, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

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11 February 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

11 February 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Fabulous 208)

13 February 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

15 February 1967 – Gravesend R ‘n’ B Club, Clarendon Royal Hotel, Gravesend, Kent  (PACE magazine)

25 February 1967 – The Riley-Smith, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire with The Soul System (Tadcaster News)

26 February 1967 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

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3 March 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

6 March 1967 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey (Aldershot News)

9 March 1967 – Cadenas, Stoke Hotel, Guildford, Surrey with The Jeremiah Thing (Surey Advertiser)

12 March 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

18 March 1967 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

31 March 1967 – Dancing Slipper, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

 

14 April 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London (Melody Maker)

15 April 1967 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

18 April 1967 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Fabulous 208)

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22 April 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

28 April 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

29 April 1967 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London with The Gass (Melody Maker)

 

6 May 1967 – Evington Boys’ Club, Evington, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

15 May 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

21 May 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

 

5-7 June 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, central London (Fabulous 208)

11 June 1967 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

16 June 1967 – Notre Dame Club, Leicester Square, central London with Alexis Korner & Free at Last and Elkie Brooks (Melody Maker) Shevelles backed Elkie Brooks

16 June 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

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21 June 1967 – Beat Cruise, Southsea Pier, Hampshire, Harbour Station, Hampshire and Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight with Mike Stuart Span (Portsmouth News)

24 June 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Crestas and The Associates (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

24 June 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker) Billed as The Shevelles Band

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4 August 1967 – Apex Club, Brookfield Hall, South Ashford, Kent with Amen Corner (Kentish Express)

5 August 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with The Union Blues Soul Band (Leicester Mercury)

6 August 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

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11 August 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

13 August 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

19 August 1967 – Maidstone Corn Exchange, Maidstone, Kent with Inspiration (Maidstone Gazette)

20 August 1967 – Union Rowing Club, Trent Bridge, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

26 August 1967 – Nite Owl, Leicester with Ferris Wheel (Melody Maker)

 

2 September 1967 – Upper Cut, Forest Gate, east London  with The Creation (Melody Maker)

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10 September 1967 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker)

16 September 1967 – Iron Curtain Club, Small Heath, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

24 September 1967 – Nottingham Boat Club, Nottingham (Down at the Boat book)

30 September 1967 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Essex Chronicle)

 

1 October 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

3 October 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire with Life ‘N’ Soul (Evening Sentinel)

13 October 1967 – Oak Leaf Hotel, South Bank, Middlesbrough with Diane Ferraz & The Ferris Wheel (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette) Billed as Mike Stevens & The Shevelles

21 October 1967 – Papas, Landsdowne, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

 

3 November 1967 – Rugby Town Hall, Rugby, Warwickshire with Pandora’s Box (Leicester Mercury/Rugby Advertiser)

10 November 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

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19 November 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

24 November 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Crew and Jo Jo Gunne (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

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25 November 1967 – The Polytechnic, Little Titchfield Street, central London with Tangerine Peel (Melody Maker)

26 November 1967 – Wooden Bridge, Guildford, Surrey with The Elite (Surrey Advertiser)

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29 November 1967 – Industrial Club, Norwich, Norfolk (Eastern Evening News)

 

1 December 1967 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

12 December 1967 – Bournemouth College Students’ Union, Bournemouth, Dorset with Traffic and Soul Foundation (Bournemouth Echo)

16 December 1967 – Taggs Island, Hampton Court, Middlesex (Melody Maker)

24 December 1967 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London with Terry Lightfoot Band (Poster)

29 December 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Brentwood Review & Romford Recorder/Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

1968

11 January 1968 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, central London (Fabulous 208)

11 January 1968 – The Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Fabulous 208)

12 January 1968 – Carnaby Club, Red House Hotel, Coventry, West Midlands (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

23-24 January 1968 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, central London (Fabulous 208)

23-24 January 1968 – The Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Fabulous 208)

28 January 1968 – Central R&B Club, Central Hotel, Gillingham (Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham Post)

30 January 1968 – Public Hall, Witham, Essex (Melody Maker)

31 January 1968 – The Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London with Wee Willie Harris (Fabulous 208)

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2 February 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

11 February 1968 – Alex Disco, Salisbury, Wiltshire (Salisbury and Winchester Journal)

17 February 1968 – Brave New World, Eastney, Hampshire (website: http://michaelcooper.org.uk/C/birdcage.htm)

23 February 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

24 February 1968 – Westminster Technical College, Westminster, central London with Black Cat Bones (Melody Maker)

 

2 March 1968 – Polytechnic, Little Titchfield Street, central London with support (Melody Maker)

8 March 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

24 March 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

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30 March 1968 – Matlock Bath Pavilion, Matlock, Derbyshire with Samuel J Enderby Outfit (Derby Evening Telegraph)

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3 April 1968 – Cheltenham Spa Lounge and Ballroom, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Gloucester Citizen)

15 April 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

26 April 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

26 April 1968 – Top Rank Suite, Swansea, south Wales with Plastic Penny and Love Sculpture (South Wales Evening Post)

 

9 May 1968 – Bournemouth and Poole Colleges Students’ Union, Bournemouth Pavilion, Bournemouth, Dorset with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and The Nite People (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

12 May 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

29 May 1968 – Summerhill House Hotel, Kingswinford, West Midlands (Express & Star)

30 May 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Poster)

 

2 June 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Melody Maker)

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15 June 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

 

4 July 1968 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Geoff Williams research: Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek book)

13 July 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

26 July 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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16 August 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

22 August 1968 – Park Hall Hotel, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton, West Midlands with The Soul Package (Express and Star)

25 August 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

31 August 1968– Windsor Ballroom, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Skyliners (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

 

20 September 1968 – CLCE Scraptoft, Leicester with Herbie Goins & The Night-timers and The Decoys (Leicester Mercury)

28 September 1968 – Spa Lounge and Ballroom, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Stroud News)

 

4 October 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

26 October 1968 – Fellowship Inn, Bellingham, south London (Melody Maker)

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2 November 1968 – Lion Hotel, Warrington, Cheshire with Toast (Warrington Guardian)

3 November 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

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8 November 1968 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

13 November 1968 – Sibyllas, Swallow Street, central London (Poster)

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21 November 1968 – Sloopy’s Scoop, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

 

5-6 December 1968 – Annabel’s, Sunderland (Newcastle Evening Chronicle)

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14 December 1968 – Stage Club, Oxford (Oxford Mail)

18 December 1968 – Students’ Christmas Dance, Isle of Ely College, Wisbech, Cambridgeshrie with Gass and Tuesday’s Outcome (Cambridgeshire Times)

20 December 1968 – Ealing Town Hall, Ealing, west London (Melody Maker)

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24 December 1968 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire with The Stix and The Colour (Warrington Guardian)

29 December 1968 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

31 December 1968 – Pantiles, Bagshot, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

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Categories: England

Dave Anthony’s Moods’ gigs 1965-1967

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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 and, where possible, I have added some of the sources used at the end, whether they are newspapers or websites.  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.

DAVE ANTHONY’S MOODS:

Tony Head (lead vocals)

Tim Large (guitar)

Bob Michaels (keyboards)

Bill Jacobs (bass)

Andy Kirk (trumpet)

Pete Sweet (saxophone) 

Graham Livermore (trombone)

John Devekey (drums)

1965

23 September 1965 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London

 

1 October 1965 – Fresher’s Ball, Student Union, Southwest Essex Technical College, Walthamstow, north London (poster)

6 October 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with Jimmy James & TheVagabonds

9 October 1965 – El Partido, Lewisham, southeast London with Next of Kin, The Loose Ends and Duke Lee

16 October 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London with The Artwoods and The Loose Ends

20 October 1965 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London

24 October 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with Jesse Fuller

28 October 1965 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London

30 October 1965 – Penthouse Club, Bromley, southeast London

 

4 November 1965 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London

6 November 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with Neil Sedalia Jazzband

7 November 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London

11 November 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London

14 November 1965 – Hoochie Coochie Club, Wooden Bridge Hotel, Guildford, Surrey Billed as The Moods

20 November 1965 – Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn, Norfolk with The Applejacks

24 November 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Right Track

27 November 1965 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London

 

1 December 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London

2 December 1965 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

4 December 1965 – Dungeon, Nottingham

8 December 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, London

10 December 1965 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London

11 December 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, London with Artwoods and The Five Proud Walkers

15 December 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London

22 December 1965 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London

29 December 1965 ­– 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London

1966

1 January 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham

15 January 1966 – Wood Green, north London

30 January 1966 – Co-Operative Hall, Warrington, Cheshire with The Cymerons and The Overlanders

31 January 1966 – Quaintways, Chester, Cheshire with The Herd, The Wall City Jazzmen and Bob Ross plus The Apache

 

2 February 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Al Stewart

5 February 1966 – Worsley Civic Hall, Walkden, Worsley, Greater Manchester with The Goldie, DJ Smith & The Moonrakers and The Missin’ Lynx

12 February 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Goldie & The Gingerbreads, Jeff Curtis & The Flames and The Game

25 February 1966 – Top Ten Club, Manchester with Goldie & The Gingerbreads

26 February 1966 – Carousel Club, Farnborough, Hampshire with Goldie & The Gingerbreads and The Tremors

13 March 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London

 

13 April 1966 – Target Paul’s Row, High Wycombe, Bucks

27 April 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London

 

8 May 1966 – Orford Cellar, Norwich, Norfolk

11 May 1966 – Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire

18 May 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with John Lee’s Groundhogs

30 May 1966 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Mark Leeman Five, The Graham Bond Organisation and The Alan Bown Set

Bob Downes briefly took over from Pete Sweet around this time.

4 June 1966 – Haymarket Lounge, Basingstoke, Hampshire

5 June 1966 – Le Metro, Birmingham

12 June 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with the Artwoods

16 June 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

17 June 1966 – Il Rondo, Leicester

https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/dave-anthonys-moods/

25 June 1966 – Harpenden Public Hall, Harpenden, Herts with The Associates

 

2 July 1966 – Cromford, Derbyshire (venue not known)

3 July 1966 – Dereham Tavern, Dereham, Norfolk with Barry Lee Show

4 July 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London

6 July 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with Deakin Lewis Band

Around this time Roger Peacock took over from Tony Head.

7 July 1966 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hants

8 July 1966 – Glenlyn Ballroom, Forest Hill, southeast London

9 July 1966 – Burlesque, Leicester with King Loon

https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/dave-anthonys-moods/

9 July 1966 – Stamford R&B Club, Stamford Hotel, Stamford, Lincolnshire

15 July 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London

15 July 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London

16 July 1966 – Crown Hotel, Poole, Dorset

17 July 1966 – Downs Ballroom, Hassocks, West Sussex with The Move

23 July 1966 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex with Beat Syndicate

23 July 1966 – Le Metro, Birmingham, West Midlands

27 July 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

31 July 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Kleek

 

4 August 1966 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire

12 August 1966 – Top Spot, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with The Nashville Teens and The Pathfinders

13 August 1966 – Ram Jam, Brixton, south London with Rick ‘N’ Beckers

14 August 1966 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with support

15 August 1966 – Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire

18 August 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

19 August 1966 – Elite Ballroom, Newark

20 August 1966 – Witchdoctor, Catford, southeast London

27 August 1966 – Beachcomber Club, Nottingham

28 August 1966 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham

31 August 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London

2 September 1966 – Regency Ballroom, Bath with The Nite Shift

4 September 1966 – Let Metro, Birmingham, West Midlands

11 September 1966 – Dereham Tavern, Dereham, Norfolk with Barry Lee Show

https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/dave-anthonys-moods/

16 September 1966 – Scene Club, Canton, Cardiff, Wales

16 September 1966 – Glenlyn Ballroom, Forest Hill, southeast London (this is more likely to be 17th September after Ashford gig below)

https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/dave-anthonys-moods/

17 September 1966 – 2 Bs Club, Ashford, Kent

18 September 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (needs confirmation)

20 September 1966 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London

21 September 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with The Convention

22 September 1966 – Adam & Eve, Southampton, Hampshire

24 September 1966 – Subscription Room, Stroud, Gloucestershire

25 September 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire

27 September 1966 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London

Photo: Melody Maker

1 October 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Uglys and The Ensemble

2 October 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with John Dummer Blues Band

6 October 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

7 October 1966 – Fiesta Hall, Andover, Hampshire

8 October 1966 – Blue Moon, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

9 October 1966 – Dereham Tavern, Dereham, Norfolk with Barry Lee Show

14 October 1966 – Pastures Hospital, Mickleover, Derby, Derbyshire

15 October 1966 – St Michael’s Youth Centre, Sydenham, southeast London

16 October 1966 – Le Metro, Birmingham, West Midlands

17 October 1966 – Baldock Youth Centre, Baldock, Hertfordshire

20 October 1966 – BRC R&B Club, Burton Manor, Stafford, Staffordshire

21 October 1966 – New Addington Hotel, Croydon, south London

https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/dave-anthonys-moods/

22 October 1966 – Witchdoctor, Catford, southeast London with support

27 October 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

30 October 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with Embers West

1 November 1966 – Concorde, Southampton, Hampshire

4 November 1966 – Il Rondo, Leicester, Leicestershire

https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/dave-anthonys-moods/

5 November 1966 – Matlock Bath Pavilion, Matlock, Derbyshire with Wynder K Frog

7 November 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede

13 November 1966 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire

16 November 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with A Q Blues Band

17 November 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Move

19 November 1966 – Le Metro, Birmingham, West Midlands

19 November 1966 – Beachcomber, Nottingham

19 November 1966 – King Mojo, Sheffield with Ben E King and Chapter 5

20 November 1966 – Le Metro, Birmingham, West Midlands

 

1 December 1966 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London

2 December 1966 – Winter Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall with The Jaguars

3 December 1966 – Flamingo Ballroom, Redruth, Cornwall with The Dissatisfied

4 December 1966 – Flamingo Ballroom, Redruth, Cornwall

7 December 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London with John Dummer Blues Band

9 December 1966 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire with The Syn and Gary Farr & The T-Bones

10 December 1966 – Club A Go-Go, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear with Junco Partners

17 December 1966 – New Spot, Gosport, Hampshire

18 December 1966 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire

24 December 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Blue Healers

Although they were billed to appear at the Flamingo on Christmas Eve, the band didn’t turn up as David Else rightly points out in the comments below and confirmed in Tim Large’s book.

26 December 1966 – Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, Warwickshire with The Justin Brothers (Poster/Rugby Advertiser)

1967

5 January 1967 – Concorde, Basset Hotel, Southampton, Hampshire

6 January 1967 – Elwes Hall, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

7 January 1967 – Midnight City, Birmingham, West Midlands with Timebox

18 January 1967 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, west London

21 January 1967 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with The Small Faces

22 January 1967 – Wooden Bridge, Guildford, Surrey with Whisky Ring

Tim Large did confirm that these January dates did happen

Melody Maker notes no vacant dates from February-May 1967 (band went to Italy and stayed there – see comments below)

Sources are not complete but include:

Cambridgeshire Times, Cheshire Observer, Derby Evening Telegraph, Express and Star, Evening Argus (Brighton), Evening Post, Evening Sentinel, Gloucestershire Echo, Gloucester Citizen, Grantham Journal, Leicester Mercury, Melody Maker, Lynn News, Aldershot News, Evening Echo, West Briton & Royal Cornwall Gazette, Eastern Evening News, Fabulous 208, Welwyn Times, Bucks Free Press, Essex Chronicle, Birmingham Evening Mail, Nottingham Evening Post, Andover Advertiser, Southern Echo, West Surrey Advertiser, Stamford Mercury and Peterborough Standard. Websites include: http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call

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Categories: England

The (Les) Fleur De Lys’ gigs 1964-1969

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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 and, where possible, I have added the sources used, whether they are newspapers or websites.  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.

(LES) FLEUR DE LYS

Formed in Southampton in early 1964, and originally called Les Fleur De Lys, the original line-up comprised:

Frank Smith (guitar/vocals)

Danny Churchill (bass/vocals)

Alex Chamberlain (keyboards)

Keith Guster (drums)

1964

3 October 1964 – TA Centre, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser)

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9 December 1964 – Royal Pier, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Echo)

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11 December 1964 – Esso Recreation Club, Fawley, Hampshire with Dave Dee & The Bostons (Southern Echo)

15 December 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

20 December 1964 – Bannister Ballroom, Southampton, Hampshire with The Soundsmen (Southern Echo)

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24 December 1964 – Lido Ballroom, Winchester, Hampshire with The Daisies (Eastleigh Weekly News/Southern Echo)

28 December 1964 – Top Hat, Littlehampton, West Sussex with The Dave West Show and (Littlehampton Gazette)

1965

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8 January 1965 – Royal Ballrooms, Royal Arcade, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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12 February 1965 – Steering Wheel, Weymouth, Dorset (Dorset Evening Echo)

13 February 1965 – 400 Ballroom, Torquay, Devon (Herald Express) Billed as Les Fleur De Lys

 

5 March 1965 – Three Coins, Albion Walk, Leeds, West Yorkshire (Yorkshire Evening Post)

20 March 1965 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Searchers and The Nomads (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

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26 March 1965 – Shirley Warren Youth Club, Shirley Warren School, Southampton, Hants (Southern Echo) Billed as Les Fleur de Lys

 

1 April 1965 – Thorngate Ballroom, Gosport, Hampshire (Portsmouth News)

9 April 1965 – Fiesta Hall, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser)

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17 April 1965 – Princes Theatre & Ballroom, Yeovil, Somerset with The Megatons (Western Gazette)

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23 April 1965 – St Barnabas Club, Southampton, Hants (Southern Echo) Billed as Les Fleur de Lys

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7 May 1965 – Guildhall, Axminster, Devon (Bridport News)

19 May 1965 – TA Centre, Andover, Hampshire with The Birds and Ten Feet Five (Andover Advertiser)

29 May 1965 – Gala Ballroom, Norwich, Norfolk with The Wayfares (Eastern Evening News)

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7 June 1965 – Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, Dorset (Bridport News)

18 June 1965 – Fiesta Hall, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser)

19 June 1965 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent with The Hollies (East Kent Times & Mail)

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27 June 1965 – New Victoria, Halifax, West Yorkshire with Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, Denny & The Witchdoctors, The Bondsmen, The New Blues and The Dave Little Trio (Halifax Daily Courier & Guardian)

 

7 August 1965 – Salisbury City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire with Ricky Vermone & The Pathfinders (Frogg Moody and Richard Nash’s book Hold Tight!)

15 August 1965 – Il Rondo, Leicester (Leicester Mercury)

19 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

10 September 1965 – Fiesta Hall, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser)

 

23 October 1965 – Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, Dorset (Bridport News)

 

6 November 1965 – Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, southwest London (Keith Guster’s diary)

13 November 1965 – Orchid Ballroom, Oxford, Oxfordshire with The Shakeouts (Oxford Mail)

Around this time, Danny Churchill left and Gordon Haskell joined from Bournemouth band The Dowlands.

14 December 1965 – Youth & Adult Centre, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser)

1966

During February, The Les Fleur De Lys worked in West Germany for a month. While there, they met former Cheynes guitarist Phil Sawyer, who is working with Johnny Deen & The Deacons and invited him to join.

However, when the band returned to the UK, Alex Chamberlain departed.

4 March 1966 – Fiesta Hall, Andover, Hampshire (Andover Advertiser)

5 March 1966 – Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, Cornwall with The Climates (West Briton & The Royal Cornwall Gazette)

12 March 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds and The Essex Five (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

13 March 1966 – Tower Ballroom, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with The Cheaters (Eastern Evening News)

24 March 1966 – Salisbury City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire with The Fortunes (Frogg Moody and Richard Nash’s book Hold Tight!)

 

15 April 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Guy Darrell and The Rising Sons (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

21 April 1966 – Starlight Ballroom, Crawley, West Sussex with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (Caterham Weekly Press)

Around this time, Frank Smith departed leaving Keith Guster as the only original member. Sawyer recommended his friend Chris Andrews as a lead singer. The band worked as a quartet for a short while before adding keyboard player Pete Sears.

By this point, the band have dropped the “Les” from their name and are billed as The Fleur De Lys.

13 May 1966 – Tower Ballroom, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with Mood Indigoes (Eastern Evening News)

29 May 1966 – Crawdaddy, Taggs Island, Hampton Court, Middlesex with The Downliners Sect (Keith Guster’s diary)

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4 June 1966 – Imperial Ballroom, Nelson, Lancashire with The Kinks, The Reflections and Five of a Kind (Burnley Express & News)

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9 July 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Klubs and The Eyes (Melody Maker)

15 July 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Summer Set (Keith Guster’s diary)

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22 July 1966 – Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, Hants with Rob Chance & The Chances and The Earth Angels (Southern Evening Echo)

30 July 1966 – Blaises, Queensway, west London (Keith Guster’s diary)

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5 August 1966 – Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, Hants with The Nite People, The Footprints and The Blue Stars (Southern Evening Echo)

7 August 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

10 August 1966 – Scotch of St James, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

13 August 1966 – Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Johnny & John (ex-Merseybeats) and group, Sonny Childe & TNT, The Rising Suns and The Ferryboys (Lincolnshire Standard)

19 August 1966 – 32 Club, Harlesden, northwest London (Keith Guster’s diary)

27 August 1966 – Adelphi Ballroom, Slough, Berkshire (Windsor, Slough and Eton Express)

30 August 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

Guster says Tony Rivers & The Castaways were billed to play as well at the Flamingo on the 30th August but failed to turn up

 

6 September 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Fenmen (Keith Guster’s diary)

9 September 1966 – Blaises, Queensway, west London (Keith Guster’s diary)

13 September 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

16 September 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

17 September 1966 – Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer, Norfolk with The Roosters (straight from Flamingo, Soho) (Eastern Evening News)

20 September 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Gaylords (Melody Maker)

20 September 1966 – Sybilla’s, Swallow Street, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

24 September 1966 – Memorial Hall, Woodford, east London (Keith Guster’s diary)

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24 September 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London with The Guests and C-Jam Blues Band (Melody Maker)

27 September 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

2 October 1966 – Sunday Club, Adelphi Ballroom, Slough, Berkshire (Windsor, Slough and Eton Express)

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7 October 1966 – Market Hall, St Albans, Hertfordshire (Welwyn Advertiser)

8 October 1966 – Braintree Institute, Braintree, Essex with The Tender Trap (Essex County Standard)

10 October 1966 – Black Triangle, Southampton, Hants (Southern Evening Echo)

10 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary) Start of 11 nighter

11 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

12 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

13 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

14 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

15 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

16 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

17 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

18 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

19 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

20 October 1966 – Playboy Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

22 October 1966 – TA Centre, Andover, Hants (Andover Advetiser)

24 October 1966 – Black Triangle, Southampton, Hants (Southern Evening Echo)

24 October 1966 – Queen’s College, London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Keith Guster’s diary)

30 October 1966 – Black Triangle, Southampton, Hants (Southern Evening Echo)

 

5 November 1966 – Atlanta Ballroom, Woking, Surrey with support (Aldershot News)

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5 November 1966 – Club Continental, Eastbourne, East Sussex (Eastbourne Herald Chronicle)

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6 November 1966 – Burnley Locarno, Burnley, Lancashire (Burnley Express and News)

10 November 1966 – Ashton Palais, Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester with Lee Dorsey (Manchester Evening News and Chronicle)

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11 November 1966 – Hightown YC, Thornill, Hants (Southern Evening Echo)

19 November 1966 – Witchdoctor, Catford, southeast London with The Clockwork Oranges (South East London Mercury/Keith Guster’s diary)

20 November 1966 – Kettering Working Men’s Club, Kettering, Northamptonshire with The News (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

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30 November 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Keith Guster’s diary/Melody Maker)

 

3 December 1966 – Cromfield Hall, Romsey, Hants (Southern Evening Echo)

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7 December 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Melody Maker) This is missing from Keith’s diary

9 December 1966 – Starlite, Greenford, west London with Gass (Melody Maker)

10 December 1966 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent with The Easybeats (East Kent Times)

11 December 1966 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent (East Kent Times)

Around this time, Phil Sawyer left to join The Shotgun Express and subsequently The Spencer Davis Group. Bryn Haworth took his place on lead guitar.

21 December 1966 – Hampton Park Hotel, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

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24 December 1966 – Toft’s, Folkestone, Kent with The Mixed Feelings (Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald/Melody Maker)

25 December 1966 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire with The Silverstone Set (Warrington Guardian)

28 December 1966 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent (East Kent Times)

30 December 1966 – Top Hat, Littlehampton, West Sussex (Littlehampton Gazette)

31 December 1966 – St George’s Hall, Exeter, Devon with support (Express & Echo)

1967

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8 January 1967 – Adelphi Ballroom, Slough, Berkshire (Windsor, Slough and Eton Express)

13 January 1967 – Moorhill Youth Club, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

14 January 1967 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with The Vivas (Cambridgeshire Times)

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22 January 1967 – Bluesette Club, Bridge Street, Leatherhead, Surrey (Caterham Weekly Press)

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28 January 1967 – Midnight City, Birmingham, West Midlands (Birmingham Evening Mail)

 

2 February 1967 – Cromwellian, Kensington, west London (Keith Guster’s diary)

3 February 1967 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Ronnie Jones & The Blue Jays (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

5 February 1967 – Saville Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

Guster thinks they may have supported Sonny & Cher at Saville Theatre on this occasion.

11 February 1967 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent with The Searchers (East Kent Times & Mail)

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24 February 1967 –Municipal Hall, Pontypridd, Wales with Shapes of Things (Glamorgan County Times)

 

4 March 1967 – Co-op Hall, Chesham, Bucks (Buckinghamshire Advertiser)

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14 March 1967 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

15 March 1967 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent (East Kent Times & Mail)

18 March 1967 – Lion Hotel, Warrington, Cheshire with Chapter 6 and Expressions (Warrington Guardian)

19 March 1967 – Carlton Club, Warrington, Cheshire (Warrington Guardian)

25 March 1967 – Co-op, Rainbow Suite, Birmingham (Birmingham Evening Mail)

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27 March 1967 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent with Mike Berry & The Luvvers (East Kent Times & Mail)

In late March/early April, Pete Sears departed to form Sam Gopal’s Dream.

2 April 1967 – Sunday Club, Adelphi Ballroom, Slough, Berkshire (Windsor, Slough and Eton Express)

 

7 April 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire with Joey Young & The Toniks (Evening Sentinel)

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9 April 1967 – Kettering Working Men’s Club, Kettering, Northamptonshire with The Breed (Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph)

10 April 1967 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Herd (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

16 April 1967 – Bluesette Club, Bridge Street, Leatherhead, Surrey (Caterham Weekly Press)

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22 April 1967 – Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, Dorset (Bridport News)

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29 April 1967 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex with Odds On (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

 

5 May 1967 – Beachcomber, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

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6 May 1967 – Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (East Kent Times & Mail)

7 May 1967 – Dreamland, Margate, Kent (East Kent Times & Mail)

13 May 1967 – Witchdoctor, Catford, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

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20 May 1967 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

27 May 1967 – The Place, Hanley, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

During June, Chris Andrews departed to front Rupert’s People. The Fleur De Lys continued as a trio.

2 June 1967 – Tech College, Streatham, southwest London with Bluesology (Keith Guster’s diary)

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3 June 1967 – Union Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

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10 June 1967 – Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, Kent with Crispian St Peters (Folkestone & Hythe Gazette)

23 June 1967 – The Dolphin, Marine Court, St Leonards, East Sussex (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)

 

3 August 1967 – Speakeasy, Margaret Street, central London (Fabulous 208/Mick Capewell’s Marmalade Skies) Billed as Sharon Tandy & The Fleur De Lys

22 August 1967 – Bag O’Nails, Kingley Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

30 December 1967 – Market Hall, St Albans, Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire Express)

1968

20 January 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

22 January 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

27 January 1967 – Speakeasy, Margaret Street, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

Guster says Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell joined them for a 45 minute jam at the Speakeasy show on 27th January

Around February, Haskell’s friend from Bournemouth, Tony Head, who had sung with Dave Antony’s Moods from 1965-1966, joined.

29 February 1968 – Speakeasy, Margaret Street, central London with Sharon Tandy and Donnie Elbert (Fabulous 208/Mick Capewell’s Marmalade Skies)

Guster says they did two 15 minute slots as the band before backing Sharon Tandy for 30 minutes, then Donnie Elbert for 30 minutes and finally Sharon and Donnie together for 20 minutes.

 

27 April 1968 – Montreux Festival, Montreaux, Switzerland (Keith Guster’s diary)

28 April 1968 – Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Netherlands supporting Aretha Franklin (Keith Guster’s diary)

Guster says that the group rehearsed at the Revolution club on 24, 25 and 26 April before flying to Switzerland for the festival and Dutch dates.

On the band’s return to the UK, Gordon Haskell left to join The Flowerpot Men. Tago Byers from Reading band, The Moquettes took his place on bass.

17 May 1968 – Falaise Hall, Hastings, East Sussex with The Fire (Hastings & St Leonards Observer) Billed as Sharon Tandy & The Fleur De Lys

 

18 June 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

19 June 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

24 June 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

25 June 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

26 June 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

Guster says The Webb played on the evening of 26th June

27 June 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

11 July 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

12 July 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

8 August 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

9 September 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

25 September 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London for rehearsals (Keith Guster’s diary)

 

9 November 1968 – Witchdoctor, Catford, southeast London (Keith Guster’s diary)

9 November 1968 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

19 November 1968 – Revolution Club, Mayfair, central London (Keith Guster’s diary)

22 November 1968 – Fishmonger’s Arms, Wood Green, north London with Eyes of Blue (Melody Maker)

24 November 1968 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with Sharon Tandy and Six Across (Warrington Guardian)

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4 December 1968 – City Hall, Sheffield, South Yorkshire with The Beach Boys, Barry Ryan, Bruce Channel, Vanity Fayre, Eclection and Sharon Tandy (Barnsley Chronicle & South Yorkshire News)

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14 December 1968 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire with Sharon Tandy (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

1969

15 February 1969 – 76 Club, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire (website: http://www.76club.org.uk/gigs.html)

Around March, Keith Guster was injured in a car accident and the band were unable to perform for several months. After he had recovered, Bryn Haworth departed for the US and the band Silver Metre followed soon after by Tony Head for a solo deal.

Guster and Byers briefly kept the band going with former Mojos guitarist Eddie Harnett before splitting in September. Guster and Byers then joined a reformed Amboy Dukes until May 1970.

A massive thank you to Keith Guster for generously giving up his time to pull out and send me gigs from his diary.

Copyright © Nick Warburton.  All Rights Reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced or transmitted in any from or by any means, without prior permission from the author.

 

 

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Mark Leeman Five gigs 1963-1966

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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 and, where possible, I have added the sources used, whether they are newspapers or websites.  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.

Left to right: David Hyde, Mark Leeman, Brian Davison, Alan Roskams and Terry Goldberg. Pictured in Melody Maker. Image may be subject to copyright

THE MARK LEEMAN FIVE:

Mark Leeman (real name: John Ardrey) – lead vocals 

Alan Roskams – lead guitar

Terry Goldberg – keyboards

David Hyde – bass

Brian Davison – drums

1963

12 January 1963 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with Danny Davis & The Dynamos (Stevenage Gazette)

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9 February 1963 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with The Classics (Aldershot News)

23 February 1963 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with Neil Christian & The London Crusaders (Stevenage Gazette)

 

30 March 1963 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with Grant Tracy & The Sunsets (Stevenage Gazette)

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13 April 1963 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with The Mike Jones Combo (Aldershot News)

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25 May 1963 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with The Niteshades (Stevenage Gazette)

 

10 June 1963 – King’s Hall, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire with The Niteshades (Berkhamsted Gazette)

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27 July 1963 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with Johnny Gentle-Johnny Angel and Terry Judge & The Wayders (Stevenage Gazette)

 

12 August 1963 – White Hart, Acton, Middlesex with Mel Turner (Melody Maker)

19 August 1963 – White Hart, Acton, Middlesex with The Sovereigns (Melody Maker)

24 August 1963 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames (Stevenage Gazette)

26 August 1963 – Manor House R&B Club, Manor House, north London with Mel Turner (Melody Maker)

 

19 October 1963 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with Johnny Duncan and Kerry Rapid & The Seltones (Aldershot News/West Surrey Advertiser)

25 October 1963 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Big Three, The Undertakers and Jackie Frisco (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

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14 December 1963 – Drill Hall, Camberley, Surrey with The Bumblies (Aldershot News)

28 December 1963 – Pontiac Club, Zeeta House, Putney, Surrey with Manfred Mann (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

1964

11 January 1964 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Hertfordshire with Terry Franks & The Avalons (Hertfordshire Express)

14 January 1964 – St Mary’s Hall, Putney, Surrey with Manfred Mann (Blues-rock Explosion book, edited by Summer McStravick and John Roos)

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9 February 1964 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Hertfordshire with The Rockin’ Berries (Hertfordshire Express)

 

14 March 1964 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Hertfordshire with Unit 7 (Hertfordshire Express)

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15 March 1964 – Willows Dance Club, London Colney, Herts (Welwyn & Hatfield Advertiser)

20 March 1964 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers, The Redcaps and Troy Dante & The Infernos (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

29 March 1964 – The Scene, Florida Rooms, Brighton, West Sussex (Evening Argus)

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9 April 1964 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London with Graham Bond and The Blue Bottles with Mike Patto (Harrow Weekly Post)

13 April 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

14 April 1964 – 100 Club, Oxford Street, central London with The Pretty Things and The Tridents (Record Mirror)

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18 April 1964 – Ballito, St Albans, Herts with Wayne Gibson & The Dynamic Sounds (Welwyn & Hatfield Advertiser)

18 April 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Harrow Observer & Gazette)

19 April 1964 – Willows, London Colney, Herts (Welwyn & Hatfield Advertiser)

25 April 1964 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Hertfordshire with The Lion Herts (Hertfordshire Express)

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5 May 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with The Bo Street Runners and The Soul Messengers (Middlesex Chronicle)

9 May 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

12 May 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with The Bo Street Runners and The Soul Messengers (Middlesex Chronicle)

16 May 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

19 May 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with The Bo Street Runners and The Soul Messengers (Middlesex Chronicle)

23 May 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

24 May 1964 – Majestic Ballroom, Luton, Bedfordshire with The Who (Luton News)

26 May 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with The Bo Street Runners and The Soul Messengers (Middlesex Chronicle)

30 May 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

1 June 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Bluebirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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2 June 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with The Bo Street Runners and The Soul Messengers (Middlesex Chronicle)

6 June 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

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7 June 1964 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Hertfordshire with The Deltics (Hertfordshire Express)

8 June 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

12 June 1964 – Ealing Town Hall, Ealing, Middlesex with The Soul Messengers and Jimmy Royal & The Hawks (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

13 June 1964 – Margate Winter Gardens, Margate, Kent with Manfred Mann, The Tornados, The Sensations, Guy Hamilton and The Scaffolds (East Kent Times & Mail)

13 June 1964 – Continental Dancing Club, Edmonton, Middlesex (Tottenham Weekly Herald)

13 June 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Are three gigs likely on the same date?

15 June 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

20 June 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Needs confirmation

22 June 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

27 June 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

29 June 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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30 June 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardeners, Isleworth, Middlesex with Frankie Reid & The Casuals (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

4 July 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

6 July 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

11 July 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

18 July 1964 – Hermitage Ballroom, Hitchin, Herts with Fernando & The Hideways (Hertfordshire Express)

18 July 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

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28 July 1964 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with Ray Martin & The Corvettes (Middlesex Chronicle)

 

1 August 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

2 August 1964 – The Scene, Florida Room, Brighton, West Sussex (Evening Argus)

3 August 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

8 August 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Likely but not confirmed

15 August 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Likely but not confirmed

22 August 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Likely but not confirmed

29 August 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Likely but not confirmed

 

5 September 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette) Likely but not confirmed

12 September 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

19 September 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

26 September 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

3 October 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

17 October 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

24 October 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

31 October 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

2 November 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

7 November 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

9 November 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

14 November 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

16 November 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

28 November 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

5 December 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

7 December 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

12 December 1964 – Waterfront, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Echo)

13 December 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

14 December 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

20 Decembr 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

21 December 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

26 December 1964 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex with The Hobos (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

28 December 1964 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

1965

2 January 1965 – Tavern Club, Dereham, Norfolk with The Utopians (North Norfolk News)

4 January 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

10 January 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

11 January 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

17 January 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

18 January 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

24 January 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

25 January 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

 

1 February 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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6 February 1965 – Ferndown Village Hall, Ferndown, Dorset with Tony & The Trackmarks (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

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13 February 1965 – Whitehall, East Grinstead, West Sussex with The Forerunners (Sussex Evening Express)

14 February 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

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21 February 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

22 February 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

28 February 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

1 March 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

5 March 1965 – Radio Caroline Sounds of ’65, Fairfield Hall, Croydon, Surrey with The Moody Blues, The Yardbirds and Ronnie Jones & The Night Timers (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon)

6 March 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

7 March 1965 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, Kent (Melody Maker)

8 March 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

15 March 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

21 March 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

22 March 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

27 March 1965 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with The RBQ (Essex Chronicle)

28 March 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

29 March 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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30 March 1965 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardeners, Isleworth, Middlesex with The Tribe (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

3 April 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

10 April 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

14 April 1965 – Farnborough Town Hall, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)

19 April 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

24 April 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, Middlesex (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

26 April 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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27 April 1965 – Nurses Club, Jolly Gardners, Isleworth, Middlesex with Group Survival (Middlesex Chronicle)

 

1 May 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, London (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

3 May 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

11 May 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

18 May 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

23 May 1965 – Beachcomber, Bolton, Greater Manchester (Bolton Evening News)

25 May 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Who (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

30 May 1965 – Black Prince Hotel, Bexley, southeast London (Melody Maker)

 

8 June 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

15 June 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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19 June 1965 – Royal Star Ballroom, Maidstone, Kent with Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (Kent Messenger)

26 June 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London (NME)

27 June 1965 – Rainbow Theatre, Blackpool, Lancashire (Blues-rock Explosion book, edited by Summer McStravick and John Roos)

According to the Blues-rock Explosion book, edited by Summer McStravick and John Roos, The Mark Leeman Five were scheduled to undertake a series of 13 Sunday concerts with Manfred Mann at the Rainbow Theatre in Blackpool, Lancashire. The first date on 27 June went well but that evening Mark Leeman took a lift with one of singer Julie Grant’s friends to Blackburn and was killed in a car crash.

29 June 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live) Unlikely this happened

According to the Blues-rock Explosion book, Roger Peacock (from The Cheynes), Leeman’s replacement, debuted on 2 July 1965

2 July 1965 – Pontiac, Zeeta House, Putney, southwest London with Platform Six (Melody Maker)

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6 July 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

10 July 1965 – Wilton Hall, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire with Manfred Mann (Bletchley District Gazette)

13 July 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Who (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

16 July 1965 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Tony Rivers & The Castaways and The Denisons (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

20 July 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

24 July 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, west London (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

 

3 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

6 August 1965 – Ealing Club, Ealing, west London (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

10 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Sugar Pie Desanto and The Shevelles (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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11 August 1965 – The Plughole, Tottenham Court Road, central London (Melody Maker)

17 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

Article in the Coventry Evening Telegraph, 19 August 1965. Thanks to Vin Miles for providing

20 August 1965 – New Fender Club, Kenton, northwest London (Greenford Weekly Post)

24 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Lulu & The Luvvers (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

27 August 1965 – Witham Public Hall, Witham, Essex with The Fairies (Essex Chronicle)

30 August 1965 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers and Heinz & The Wild Boys (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

30 August 1965 –  The Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Martyn Hanson’s Hang on to a Dream: The Story of the Nice book)

According to Hanson’s book, this was keyboard player Terry Goldberg’s final gig with Mark Leeman’s band.

Terry Goldberg left at this point and Tom Parker joined from John Lee’s Groundhogs. Goldberg briefly took Parker’s place in the Groundhogs and then later worked with The James Royal  Set, Tintern Abbey and Hamilton & The Hamilton Movement.

The new line up with Tom Parker (top right) from Melody Maker. Image may be subject to copyright

31 August 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Moody Blues (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

 

2 September 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

7 September 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

14 September 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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16 September 1965 – Club Dolphin, Luton, Bedfordshire (Ampthill News & Flintwick Record)

18 September 1965 – Ticky Rick and Rang-A-Tang Club, Carnival Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)

25 September 1965 – Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with The Movements (Essex Chronicle)

27 September 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

 

12 October 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Yardbirds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

17 October 1965 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)

19 October 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

23 October 1965 – Hanwell Community Centre, Hanwell west London (Middlesex County Times & West Middlesex Gazette)

26 October 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

Left to right: David Hyde, Tom Parker, Alan Roskams, Brian Davison and Roger Peacock. Melody Maker. Image may be subject to copyright

2 November 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Who (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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7 November 1965 – Beachcomber, Preston, Lancashire (Lancashire Evening Post)

8 November 1965 – Dancing Slipper, West Bridgeford, Nottinghamshire (Nottingham Evening Post)

9 November 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

11 November 1965 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Kevin Cann research)

14 November 1965 – Sunday Club, Co-op Hall, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

16 November 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Spencer Davis Group (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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18 November 1965 – Stockton ABC, Stockon-on-Tees, Teesside with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Paul and Barry Ryan, Marty Wilde, the Scaffold and Gary Farr & The T-Bones (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

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24 November 1965 – Ritz, Chatham, Kent with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, The Scaffold, Paul & Barry Ryan and Gary Farr & The T-Bones (Chatham, Rochester & Gillingham News/Kent Messenger)

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25 November 1965 – ABC Regal Cambridge, Cambridge with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez and Charlie Foxx, Paul and Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Cambridge News)

27 November 1965 – Granada East Ham, East Ham, east London with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Southend Standard)

29 November 1965 – Northampton ABC, Northampton with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Northampton Chronicle)

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2 December 1965 – Granada, Bedford with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Boyfriend magazine)

3 December 1965 – Colston Hall, Bristol with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Boyfriend magazine)

4 December 1965 – ABC Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Boyfriend magazine)

5 December 1965 – ABC Exeter, Exeter, Devon with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Paul & Barry Ryan, The Scaffold and The Summer Set (Boyfriend magazine)

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6 December 1965 – Adelphi, Slough, Berkshire with Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Goldie of The Gingerbreads), Shangaans, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds and Gary Farr & The T-Bones (Buckinghamshire Advertiser/Windsor, Slough & Eton Express) Windsor, Slough & Eton Express has Scaffold instead of Jimmy James

8 December 1965 – New Brighton Radio Caroline gig (Kevin Cann research)

9 December 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Alan Price Set (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

9 December 1965 – Cromwellian, South Kensington, west London (Kevin Cann research)

10 December 1965 – Ealing College, Ealing, west London (Kevin Cann research)

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11 December 1965 – Harpenden Public Hall, Harpenden, Herts with The Mob (Welwyn & Hatfield Advertiser)

14 December 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Action (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

21 December 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Who (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

24 December 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

28 December 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Manfred Mann (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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31 December 1965 – Parkside Hall, Ampthill, Bedfordshire with The Triads (Ampthill News & Flintwick Record)

31 December 1965 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Gary Farr & The T-Bones (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

1966

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2 January 1966 – Tavern Club, Dereham, Norfolk with Sounds Reformed (Lynn News)

3 January 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

7 January 1966 – Parkside Hall, Ampthill, Bedfordshire (Biggleswade Chronicle)

10 January 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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15 January 1966 – The Catacombe, Eastbourne, East Sussex (Eastbourne Herald Chronicle) Says from Marquee

16 January 1966 – Big E Club, Finchley, London (Melody Maker)

24 January 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

25 January 1966 – Ready Steady Go Club, Aylesbury, Bucks (http://aylesburymusictown.co.uk/)

26 January 1966 – Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, London (Melody Maker)

30 January 1966 – The Mod Place, Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol with The Exiles (Bristol Evening Post)

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11 February 1966 – Carousel Club, 1 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hampshire with support (Aldershot News)

14 February 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

20 February 1966 – Hive Club, Wooden Bridge Hotel, Guildford, Surrey with Fives a Crowd and The Clayton Squares (Surrey Advertiser)

20 February 1966 – Sunday Club, Adelphi Ballroom, Slough, Berkshire (Windsor, Slough and Eton Express)

21 February 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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26 February 1966 – Worsley Civic Hall, Walkden, Worsley, Greater Manchester with The Gamblers (Bolton Evening News)

27 February 1966 – Mod Place, Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol with The Quad (Western Scene)

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28 February 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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3 March 1966 – Ross Jazz Club, Gloucester with The Astrals (Gloucester Citizen)

5 March 1966 – St George’s Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire with The Birds (Nuneaton Evening Tribune)

6 March 1966 – Hive Club, Wooden Bridge Hotel, Guildford, Surrey (Surrey Advertiser)

10 March 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Summer Set (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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13 March 1966 – Dereham Tavern, Dereham, Norfolk with Sullivan James Band (Eastern Evening News)

17 March 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Objects (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

19 March 1966 – Godalming Methodist Youth Club, Godalming, Surrey with Primevals (Surrey Advertiser)

23 March 1966 – Seagull Beat Club, Southall, west London with The Handles (Middlesex County Times)

24 March 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

27 March 1966 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with RBQ (Essex Chronicle)

27 March 1966 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

30 March 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Bo Street Runners (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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7 April 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Move (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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9 April 1966 – ABC Promotions, Public Hall, Heacham, Norfolk with Mick’s Mode (Lynn News)

11 April 1966 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with Sounds Incorporated and Brian Something and The What’s Its (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)

14 April 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Objects (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

21 April 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Bo Street Runners (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

28 April 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Alan Bown Set (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

29 April 1966 – Matrix Ballroom, Coventry with The Small Faces and The Clayton Squares (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

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30 April 1966 – KD Club, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees with The Denmen (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

 

1 May 1966 – Britannia Rowing Club, Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post)

5 May 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Emeralds (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

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7 May 1966 – The Cave, Village Hall, Hilgary, Norfolk with The Cynics (Lynn News)

14 May 1966 – Orford Cellar, Norwich (Eastern Evening News)

16 May 1966 – Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London with The Bo Street Runners (Tony Bacon’s book: London Live)

21 May 1966 – Polytechnic, Little Titchfield Street, W1, London with Alexis Korner (Melody Maker)

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27 May 1966 – Parkside Hall, Ampthill, Bedfordshire with The Triads (Bury Free Press)

30 May 1966 – Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, North Yorkshire with The Graham Bond Organisation, The Alan Bown Set and Dave Antony’s Moods (Dennis Weller, Chris Scott Wilson and Graham Lowe’s book)

 

3 June 1966 – Parkside Hall, Ampthill, Bedfordshire with The Triads (Luton News)

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24 June 1966 – Mr McCoys, Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

 

3 July 1966 – Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, Middlesex with Saints and Sinners (http://eelpieislandmusic.com/eel-pie-island-roll-call)

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4 July 1966 – The Catacombe, Eastbourne, East Sussex (Eastbourne Herald Chronicle/Brighton Evening Argus)

According to the Blues-rock Explosion book, edited by Summer McStravick and John Roos, Roger Peacock left in early-mid July (to join Dave Anthony’s Moods) after the failure of “Follow Me”.

Peacock’s replacement was Pete Hodges (who may be the same musician who had previously played with Jimmy Cliff & The New Generation and would briefly front The Attack).

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9 July 1966 – Top Spot, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire with The Jokers (Gloucester Citizen)

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11 July 1966 – Tiles, Oxford Street, central London (Fabulous 208/Melody Maker)

16 July 1966 – Penthouse, Birmingham with Monopoly (Birmingham Evening Mail)

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17 July 1966 – Beachcomber, Bolton, Greater Manchester (Bolton Evening News)

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29 July 1966 – Flamenco, Folkestone, Kent (Blues-rock Explosion book, edited by Summer McStravick and John Roos/Folkestone, Hythe & District Herald)

According to the above book, this was the final gig but I found the following:

 

24 December 1966 – New Spot, Gosport, Hampshire with The Gass featuring Roscoe (Portsmouth News)

During early September Alan Roskams joined The Gass and later worked with Herbie Goins & The Night-timers. 

Tom Parker briefly worked Boz & The Boz People (including a Dusty Springfield tour) and then joined Eric Burdon & The New Animals for a short tour. Parker then joined Jimmy James & The Vagabonds.

Brian Davison meanwhile joined The Habits before briefly working with The Mike Cotton Sound and then The Attack (in January 1967). After working with Don Shinn, he joined The Nice that August.

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