Tamworth Bands History : 1969
04/07/69
The Amalgamation
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 04/07/69
Tamworth Carnival was Biggest and Best Ever
Hope of reaching £3,500 target
04/07/69
J.T. Bullitt
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
04/07/69
Unit 4 Plus 2
Polesworth Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 04/07/69
Soggy Pee Disco
New Swan, Atherstone
Mondays: Underground Sounds
06/07/69
Disco – The Jason Roberts Show
Wood End Youth Centre
06/07/69
The Hykells
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
09/07/69
The Dave Stewart Show
Tamworth Herald – 11/07/69
An Arts Centre for Tamworth will be provided in a “unique” scheme for a Central ward community centre.
Old people will also have their own facilities in the £55,000 centre, to be built on the Riverside off Lichfield Street.
11/07/69
Ambrose Slade
Polesworth Working Mens Club
11/07/69
The Strate Sides
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
12/07/69
The Fabulous Jackpots
Tamworth Progressive Club
13/07/69
The Jalopy Ride
DJ – Nicky Steele
The Spot Club
15/07/69
The Stateside
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
17/07/69
The Emdee’s Trio
Tamworth Progressive Club
17/07/69
The Lota Four
Polesworth Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald - 18/07/69
ENTERTAINER “Wee Willie Harris” – the rock ‘n’ Roll idol – was banned from driving by Tamworth magistrates on Tuesday…Harris was fined £15 and disqualified from driving for three months.
He pleaded guilty to exceeding the 40mph speed limit on the Watling Street at Fazeley in his Volvo car. It was said that the speed of his car had been checked by the police at between 58 and 60mph.
18/07/69
The Fabulous Hopscotch
20/07/69
DJ – Jason Roberts
The Spot Club
25/07/69
Birds and Bees
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
25/07/69
The Harlem and Food For Thought
Netherseal and District Young Farmers Club Barbecue
Poplars Farm, Edingale
26/07/69
The Jay Hawks
The Progressive Club (The Pro)
27/07/69
Fire
Plus DJ – Dave Stuart
The Spot Club
27/07/69
The Solettes
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
01/08/69
The Diary
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
01/08/69
Wellington Kitch
Polesworth Working Mens Club
02/08/69
Fabulous Jackpots
Polesworth Working Mens Club
02/08/69
North Side Band
Polesworth Miners Welfare Club
03/08/69
Radio Five DJ
The Spot Club
05/08/69
Tom Bettany Trio
Amington Liberal Club
08/08/69
Electric Circus
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 08/08/69
Sunday lunchtime striptease shows at Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club have been stopped.
08/08/69
Mud
Polesworth Working Mens Club
10/08/69
Harlem
Plus DJ - Dave Freeman
15/08/69
Fantastic Five
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 15/08/69
Unable to beat the Assembly Rooms “jinx”, a Tamworth entertainments agency has switched its venue for weekly beat dances to Fazeley parish hall.
On Friday more than 120 teenagers – some of them are pictured – were at the first of the Fazeley dances, where there is a “soft drinks and no trouble” rule.
“We hope in a few weeks to begin running the dances on a club scene where members have to sign themselves and their guests in.” said Mr. Richard Hall, a partner in Clubland Entertainment Agency, which this week moved into new offices at 58A Church Street, Tamworth.
“So far we have been pleased with the response we had on Friday, especially as we had no trouble, although we do have tow professional bouncers to make sure”.
Mr. Hall said the agency had previously lost £100 on two dances they had staged at Tamworth’s Assembly Rooms.
“The place is jinxed”, he said. “Everywhere is too eerie – the new atmosphere is for a smaller room lit by coloured lights”.
He added that the name of Fazeley’s new teenagers’ club may be “The Beachcomber”.
15/08/69
Fire
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
16/08/69
The Fourtunes
Chequers
16/08/69
The Tonics
Belgrave Miners Welfare Club
16/07/69
The Frute
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
17/07/69
Chapter 24
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
17/08/69
The Russ Anthony Show
The Spot Club
Tamworth Herald – 22/08/69
Local Disc Jockey
Twenty-two-year old Grant Chandler – better known to local pop music fans as DJ Memphis – is soon to become a resident disc jockey in London. After three years as disc jockey at Birmingham ice rink, Grant, whose parents live in Tamworth – is moving to another ice rink at Stretham.
22/08/69
Time Flies
Plus DJ – Bob Russell
Parish Hall, Fazeley
Tamworth Herald – 22/08/69
Workhouse Disco re-opening
23/08/69
Fascinations (all coloured soul group)
Plus DJ - Geoff Owen
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Millbank Promotions
23/08/69
The Emdees
Tamworth Working Mens Club
24/08/69
Sound Barrier
Plus DJ – Dave Stuart
The Spot Club
24/08/69
Fourth Dimension
Glascote Working Mens Club
26/08/69
Geoff Owen and his records
Hurley Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 29/08/69
Pop stars appeal against driving ban fails – Wee Willie Harris
29/08/69
Regency Lemon
Plus DJ – Russ Anthony
Beachcomber Club, Fazeley Hall
30/08/69
The Fourtunes
The Chequers
30/08/69
The Lemonade
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
30/08/69
The Jays People
Wood End Working Mens Club
31/08/69
The Millionaires
Wood End Working Mens Club
01/09/69
Chapter 24
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
01/09/69
Morning
Cathy and the Crusaders
Wood End Working Mens Club
01/09/69
Night
The Fabulous Jackpots
Wood End Working Mens Club
05/09/69
The Hilltones
Mercian Ward Community Association Dinner Dance
The Centre, Masefield Drive
05/09/69
The Colleagues
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
05/09/69
Electric Circus
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
05/09/69
Fire
Plus DJ Russ Anthony
Beachcomber Club, Fazeley Hall
06/09/69
The Smoke Stack
The Hall, Fazeley
06/09/69
The 4th Dimensions
Belgrave Miners Welfare Club
06/09/69
Molly and the Moonriders (formerly The Mims)
Polesworth Working Mens Club
07/09/69
Soggy Pee re-opens
New Swan, Atherstone
Monday = Underground
DJ – from Mothers – Erskinet
07/09/69
The Madissons
Atherstone Town Supporters Club
07/09/69
The Jayhawks
Polesworth Working Mens Club
09/09/69
Disc Time
Geoff Owen
Hurley Working Mens Club
11/09/69
The Lota Four
Polesworth Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 12/09/69
Starving themselves to fit “Twiggy” clothes, says survey
FASHION-CONSIOUS girls at Tamworth’s co-educational Queen Elizabeth Grammar School are starving themselves to fit into “Twiggy” clothes.
This claim is made by a team of six pupils who have carried out a survey to discover how many boys and girls in the school are having a properly balanced diet.
Tamworth Herald – 12/09/69
POEMS written by 19-year-old Michael Mladenovic, one of Tamworth’s leading young writers, will be read at his funeral at Hopwas this afternoon.
Michael died suddenly in his flat at 47a, Wigginton Road, early on Sunday. The East Staffordshire Coroner was informed and following a post-mortem examination has decided that death was due to natural cuses and an inquest is not necessary.
Michael, a former pupil of Tamworth Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, was one of a team of five young people, all members of the Little Theatre 69, who presented an anthology of contemporary poetry, songs and dramatic readings, in the Assembly Rooms only four days before his death.
12/09/69
Tapestry
Plus DJ – Russ Anthony
Beachcomber Club, Fazeley Hall
12/09/69
Sale
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
13/09/69
The Jayhawks
Amington Liberal Club
13/09/69
Fabulous Jackpots
Polesworth Working Mens Club
13/09/69
Chapter 24
Plus DJ – Rick Savage
The Hall, Fazeley
13/09/69
Revolver
Plus Mark Brown (Coventry DJ)
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Millbank Promotions
13/09/69
Geoff Owen DJ
Hurley Working Mens Club
14/09/69
The Two Tones
Two Gates Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 19/09/69
Palace – The Great Escape
19/09/69
Food For Thought
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
19/09/69
J.T. Bullitt
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
19/09/69
Diary
Plus DJ Russ Anthony
Beachcomber Club, Fazeley
20/09/69
Revolution
Plus DJ Rick Savage
The Hall, Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
20/09/69
The Sequence
Two Gates Working Mens Club
20/09/69
The Solettes
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
20/09/69
Passion Wagon
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
21/09/69
Disco
DJ – Malcolm Jay
Wood End Youth Centre
21/09/69
The Emdees
Two Gates Working Mens Club
26/09/69
Regency Lemon
Plus DJ – Russ Anthony
Beachcomber Club, Fazeley
26/09/69
The Unknown
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
27/09/69
Revolution
Plus DJ Rick Savage
The Hall, Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
28/09/69
The Diary
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
28/09/69
Katch 22
Plus DJ – Dave Stuart
The Spot Club
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