Tamworth Bands History : 1965
02/04/65
First Tamworth Carnival Selection Dance
The Vacant Lot, The Emperors, Carl and the Teddy Bears
Assembly Rooms, 8.0pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
02/04/65
The Vipers
Hurley WM Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
03/04/65
RAF Association Tamworth Branch Spring Ball
The Lewis Hillcox Band and star vocalist Johnny Revill
Drayton Manor Ballroom, 8.00pm-12
Admission: 15/-
03/04/65
The Other Guys
The Railway (Engine Inn) Glascote Heath
03/04/65
The Jossellars, Terry and the ‘D’ Men, The James Boys
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
03/04/65
The Gingermen
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
04/04/65
Johnny Eville and The Satans
Belgrave WM Club
09/04/65
Second Carnival Selection Dance
Gerry Levene and the Avengers, Martelles, Keith and the Premiers
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
10/04/65
Beat Preachers, The Chicanes
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/6
10/04/65
Terry and the ‘D’ Men
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
17/04/65
The Blackouts
Elford WM Club
Admission: 5/-
17/04/65
Suspects 4, The Zeros, The Spratts
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
19/04/65
Easter Beat Rave
The Chantelles, Bernie and the Raiders, The Voodoos
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
Vince Baker Entertainments
19/04/65
The Electro Combo
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
23/04/65
Third Carnival Selection Dance
The Chantelles, Chuckles, Carl and the Teddy Bears
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00pm
Admission: 6/6
24/04/65
The Kingfishers, Bernie and the Raiders, The Voodoos
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 6/-
Vince Baker Entertainments
24/04/65
The Blue Hawaiians
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
24/04/65
The Blackouts
Fazeley Youth Club, Fazeley Parish Hall, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 4/6
24/04/65
Tamworth Young Farmers Club
The Concords
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 9.00pm-11.45pm
Admission: 5/-
27/04/65
R n R – Johnny Eville and the Satans
Miners Welfare Club Polesworth
30/04/65
Semi-Final Carnival Queen Selection Dance
The Sorrows, The Stringbeats, The Raiders
Assembly Rooms
Admission: 7/6
01/05/65
The Other Guys
The Engine Inn, Glascote Heath, 8.00pm-10.30pm
01/05/65
The Anthony Lea Trio
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
07/05/65
1965 Carnival Queen Final Selection Dance
Des O’Connor, Jack Douglas
The Kingfishers, Chuckles, The Chantelles
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-2.00am
Admission: 7/6
07/05/65
The Lloyd Jackson Trio
The Chequers “25” Club
The Chequers
08/05/65
The Tony Chiles Trio
The Chequers “25” Club
The Chequers
08/05/65
E.B. Hamel & Son Social Club Dance
Two Bands
Drayton Manor Ballroom
Admission: 6/6
08/05/65
The Satans
Belgrave WM Club
13/05/65
The Johnny Hollyoake Four
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
14/05/65 - Tamworth Herald
Carnival Queen Winner
June Weaver aged 21 from Peel Close, Drayton Bassett
15/05/65
Staffs Old Comrades Association
The Queue, The Cavemen
The Drill Hall
Admission: 5/-
15/05/65
Johnny Eville and the Satans
Austrey WM Club
19/05/65
Beat Barbecue
The Coalitions, The Zeros
Market Bosworth Young Farmers Club
Elmside Farm, Nailstone
Admission: 6/-
20/05/65
Johnny Eville and the Satans
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
21/05/65
… Burns and the Invaders
Assembly Rooms
Admission: 6/-
22/05/65
The Barrons (Walsall), Bairds (Liverpool), Terry and the ‘D’ Men (Burton)
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/6
22/05/65
The Blue Hawaiians
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-11.30pm
25/05/65
The Wanderers
Polesworth Miners Welfare Club
28/05/65 - Tamworth Herald
Alongside the “Applejacks”
Life’s really swinging along at a pace these days for the local beat group – “The Blackouts”. Last month saw them down at the Cambridge “Jive Hive” – one of the top beat clubs in the university city – and also doing many bookings around the Burton area and locally.
And last Friday at the first social evening organised by Wearwell Overalls Ltd at the Chequers, Hopwas, the group’s leader and lead guitarist, Trevor Pickering, told the “Herald” that they had captured a booking alongside Solihull’s top group “The Applejacks” at Sutton Coldfield’s carnival on June 18, and also will be playing at a Birmingham University dance organised by the Student’s Union.
28/05/65
The Montanas, The Chantelles, The Hepcats
Assembly Rooms
Admission: 6/6
28/05/65
Polesworth Dancing Club (Jive, Beat and Twist Every Friday)
The Sherwoods
Polesworth Memorial Hall
29/05/65
The Spirits, Four XXXXs
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.30am
Admission: 5/6
29/05/65
Matt and His Music
Shuttington and Alvecote Social Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
04/06/65
The Buckinghams, The Ricochettes, The Chantelles
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
Vince Baker Entertainments
04/06/65
Polesworth Beat Club
The Impaks
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Admission: 4/-
05/06/65
The Startones, The Spirits
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/6
05/06/65
The Blackouts
Belgrave WM Club
05/06/65
Grand Whitsun Benefit Dance
The Melody Makers, Red Rockers
Mile Oak Hotel Ballroom
Admission: 5/-
Proceeds to injured Mile Oak footballer.
07/06/65
Ricky James Movement, Unit 5
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
11/06/65 - Tamworth Herald
Murder Charge
Follows the death of a Fazeley woman in a shooting.
11/06/65
Palace – Carry on Cleo
11/06/65
The Creators, Vacant Lot, The Ricochettes
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
Vince Baker Entertainments
11/06/65
The Capitols
Polesworth Beat Club
Polesworth Memorial Hall
12/06/65
The Suspects, The Spirits
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/6
18/06/65
The Chantelles, The Tikis, The Countdowns
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
Vince Baker Entertainments
19/06/65
Lee Ford and the Classics, The Agents
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
Vince Baker Entertainments
23/06/65
The Wanderers, The Other Side (Wolverhampton)
Birch Coppice Gala
24/06/65
The Blue Hawaiians
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
25/06/65 - Tamworth Herald
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| In a clubroom above the Prince of Wales in Lower Gungate last Tuesday, the opening of Tamworth's own Folk Club attracted around 50 young people.. Here are a few of them with the resident folk group The Packmen, during a break in the evening's entertainment. |
Folk Club is Born
Discerning young people in Tamworth can now air no grievance against the lack of entertainment on at least one evening in the week.
For last Tuesday in an isolated, unassuming clubroom at the Prince of Wales in Lower Gungate, a Folk Club was born.
And judging by the response on the opening night, not only will the promoters find success in their venture to bring folk music to the town, but the youngsters themselves showed that if there is something to appeal to their modern taste, they will give it their full support and interest.
We shall be very happy if we get 30 along, first night promoter Mark Gill said, as the first few followers signed their membership cards and filed shyly into the room.
The people who come along on the first night will tell their friends, Mr Gill said confidently and within a few weeks the membership of a club has usually trebled.
So according to Mr Gills calculations around 150 will soon be packing the Prince of Wales on Tuesday evenings as no fewer than 50 had joined the club at the close up the evening.
But the Midland Folk Agency is already accustomed to success. They have two other clubs flourishing in Walsall and Cannock and now their gamble over opening a third in Tamworth seems to be heading the same way.
And yet why has Folk Music - which has been around since time immemorial - become so popular with young people so suddenly? You cannot put your finger on the reason really, said Chris Tower a member of the resident folk group The Packmen.
The probable reasons is that the folk music has been lying just below the surface and now with the influence of American Bob Dylan, Donovan and The Seekers from Australia, it has broken through with the help of the younger generation's ceaseless search for something different.
The whole atmosphere is also completely different from any other form of entertainment.
There is almost a bond joining artistes and audience with no footlights or curtains to come between and off-the-cuff performance is probably the most important factor in folk musics success.
The music itself covers an incredible range of subject and emotion, from sea shanties to rural - thought-provoking criticism of injustice to songs of simple humour.
Here is an entertainment form which will never die.
25/06/65
The Valets
Polesworth Beat Club
Polesworth Memorial Hall
25/06/65
Save Five, Conchords, The Countdowns
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/6
Vince Baker Entertainments
26/06/65
Parade of the Pops
Coleorton Hill, Nr. Ashby De La Zouch
26/06/65
Tomorrow is Carnival Day
Four XXXXs Rhythm Group
Main Arena Stage at 6.30pm
26/06/65
Carnival Night Dance
The Creators, The Ricochettes,
Assembly Rooms
26/06/65
Tamworth Young Farmers Club
The Capitols
Polesworth Memorial Hall
26/06/65
The Johnny Hollyoake Four
Belgrave WM Club
27/06/65
The Chains
Belgrave WM Club
28/06/65
3 Top Groups
The Brand, The Moonrakers, The Demons
Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm-10.30pm
Admission: 3/-
Vince Baker Entertainments
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