This little known Reading, Berkshire band featured siblings, Kelvin and Hugh Bullen, who later joined Joe E Young & The Tonicks.

I would welcome any additional information about the band’s personnel and its history in the comments section below. Also, any photos.

Notable gigs

20 August 1966 – Silver Meter, Reading, Berkshire (Reading Evening Post)

23 September 1966 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

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

29 October 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Escorts and Tina and Helen (Melody Maker)

2 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

5 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Derek Savage Foundation and Tina and Johnny Glover (Melody Maker)

8 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

12 November 1966 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

19 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with The Derek Savage Foundation and Tina and Johnny Glover (Melody Maker)

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

22 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, central London with Johnny Glover (Melody Maker)

25 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Winston G Set and Tina and Johnny Glover (Melody Maker)

29 November 1966 – Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London with Johnny Glover (Melody Maker)

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

24 December 1966 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Ricky Tick website: https://www.rickytick.com/)

1967

7 January 1967 – El Partido, Lewisham, southeast London (South East London Mercury)

13 January 1967 – Ricky Tick, Newbury Plaza, Newbury, Berkshire (Newbury Weekly News)

14 January 1967 – YMCA, Sebert Street, Gloucester with supporting group (Gloucester Citizen)

21 January 1967 – Newbury Plaza, Newbury, Berkshire (Newbury Weekly News)

28 January 1967 – Cue Club, Paddington, central London (Melody Maker)

28 January 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

29 January 1967 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker)

9 February 1967 – Concorde, Southampton, Hampshire (Southern Evening Echo)

11 February 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

12 February 1967 – Riverside Club, Cricketers Hotel, Chertsey, Surrey (Woking Herald)

16 February 1967 – Guildhall, Southampton, Hampshire with Pink Floyd (Melody Maker)

Pink Floyd cancelled but not sure about Soul Trinity

24 February 1967 – Roaring 20s, Carnaby Street, Soho, central London (Melody Maker)

25 February 1967 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex with The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Melody Maker)

26 February 1967 – New All Star Club, 9a Artillery Passage, east London (Melody Maker)

2 April 1967 – Riverside Club, Cricketers Hotel, Chertsey, Surrey (Woking Herald)

8 April 1967 – Ricky Tick, Thames Hotel, Windsor, Berkshire (Berkshire)

9 April 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

15 April 1967 – Clouds, Derby (Derby Evening Telegraph)

18 April 1967 – Ricky Tick, Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks (Melody Maker)

21 April 1967 – Guildhall, Southampton, Hampshire with The Move (Southern Evening Echo)

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

30 April 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

30 April 1967 – Ricky Tick, Newbury Plaza, Newbury, Berkshire (Newbury Weekly News)

5 May 1967 – Ricky Tick, Hounslow, west London (Melody Maker)

6 May 1967 – Ricky Tick, Thames Hotel, Windsor, Berkshire (Melody Maker)

12 May 1967 – Ricky Tick, Borough Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks with Small Faces (website: http://aylesburymusictown.co.uk/) Small Faces may not have performed

14 May 1967 – Co-op Hall, Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Contract/Woking Herald)

17 June 1967 – St Thomas’ Hall, Brentwood, Essex (Melody Maker)

23 June 1967 – El Grotto, Ilford, east London (Redbridge & Ilford Recorder)

1 July 1967 – Ocean Room Pavilion, Bournemouth, Dorset (website: https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/)

6 July 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Melody Maker)

13 July 1967 – Golden Torch, Tunstall, Staffordshire (Evening Sentinel)

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

23 July 1967 – Beau Brummel Club, Alvaston Hall Hotel, Nantwich, Cheshire with Phil Ryan & The Scorpions (Crewe Chronicle)

28 July 1967 – Bluesville ’67, Manor House, north London (Melody Maker)

29 July 1967 – Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Lincolnshire with The Spellbinders, The Clockwork Orange and The Barry Lee Show (Melody Maker) The Spalding Guardian below lists Garnet Mimms rather than The Spellbinders but notes “The Fabulous Singing Group from America”. 

30 July 1967 – Tabernacle, Stockport, Greater Manchester (Fabulous 208)

6 August 1967 – Kirklevington Country Club, Kirklevington, North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough Evening Gazette)

8 August 1967 – Malvern Winter Gardens, Malvern, Worcestershire (Malvern Gazette)

20 August 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

31 August 1967 – Klooks Kleek, West Hampstead, north London (Melody Maker)

2 September 1967 – Chelmsford Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, Essex (Melody Maker)

8 September 1967 – Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks (Bucks Advertiser)

11 September 1967 – Foseco Sports & Social Club, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Tamworth Herald)

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

30 September 1967 – Ritz, Bournemouth, Dorset (website: https://bournemouthbeatboom.wordpress.com/)

15 October 1967 – Sunday Club, Addlestone, Surrey (Woking Herald)

Around late October/early November, the Bullen brothers joined Joe E Young & The Tonicks.

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