Tamworth Bands History : 1966
11/01/66
Ivor Pope and His Band
Elford Village Hall, 7.30pm
Admission: 5/-
12/01/66
Ted Taylor and His Band
Polesworth Miners' Welfare Club, 8.30pm-10.30pm
12/01/66
Atherstone Farmers Hunt Ball
Roy Stelling and his Band
Atherstone Memorial Hall
13/01/66
Tommy Walkden and his Trio
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
14/01/66
Johnny Tremin and the Liberties (Walsall)
The Stringbeats (West Brom)
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/-
15/01/66
Tamworth Young Farmers Club Dance
The Capitals
Polesworth Memorial Hall, and 9.00pm-11.45pm
Admission: 5/-
15/01/66
The New Sound of 1966, Club 21, Mile Oak Hotel, Tamworth
Bobby Ash Sounds
8.00pm to 11.00pm
Admission: 5/-
15/01/66
The Four XXXX's, The X-Cels
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
(North Staffs Old Comrades Association)
16/01/66
The Electro Combo
Warton Working Men's Club
20/01/66
The Four XXXX's
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
21/01/66
Fazeley Swifts FC
The James Henry Band, The Puncture Outfit
Drayton Manor Missanda Suite, 8.00pm to 1.00am
Admission: 6/6
22/01/66
The Vipers
Austrey Working Mens Club
22/01/66
The Brum Beats
Club 21, Mile Oak Hotel, 8.00pm-11.00pm
Admission: 3/-
23/01/66
The Freeways, Who's Who?
Club 21, Mile Oak Hotel, 8.00pm –11.00pm - Members only
26/01/66
Bob Mason and His Band
Polesworth Miners' Welfare Club
27/01/66
The Fiends (Dance, Rock & Twist)
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
28/01/66
The Stringbeats, Chapter Five (Birmingham)
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission 6/-
29/01/66
Richard Thorpe and His Orchestra
The Wanderers
Glascote ACF Dance
Tower Suite, Drayton Manor, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 7/-
30/01/66
The Kirby's (Liverpool - RCA recording artistes)
Club 21, Mile Oak Hotel, 8.00pm-11.00pm
03/02/66
Johnny Hollyoake Four
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
04/02/66 - Tamworth Herald
Packed Hurley Church for Youth Service
Hurley Church had one of its biggest ever attendances on Sunday night when over 100 people crowded into pews, the aisle and rear of the building to take part in a special youth service.
Clergyman the Reverend John Robinson, 31 year-old priest-in-charge of the Church of the Resurrection in the country to nature, took a seat with the congregation - and joined them in an "act of Christian worship in the modern idiom."
"I actively enjoy my Christianity. IOP will tonight. quotation marks said the 23 year-old bass guitarist and singer from the Gospelaires, the Nuneaton Salvation Army Group who were making only their second appearance at a church service.
Garry Muggleton, heading a team of five group members playing with their own equipment which cost £250, provided from their own pockets, ran through a programme of "hit numbers had the conversation before the introduction to the youth service which took the place until evensong.
Lessons and prayers were given and commentaries spoken by members of Hurley Youth Club and young people from the Church Companions Group.
In a welcome to the congregation Mr Robinson said the youth service was new to Hurley. The response to the service, he said, was such that it was well worth presenting again. And perhaps some young people in the village would be inspired to start a group on similar lines to the Gospelaires.
He said later there was about equal proportion of young people to adults in church, when the next service was organised it would be termed a "swinging service."
04/02/66
The Liberties, Cardinal Sins
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
05/02/66
The Wanderers
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
05/02/66
Rhythm Ranchers
Wilnecote Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.30pm
05/02/66
Roy Stanley and His Broadcasting Trio
Drayton Manor Park Ballroom, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 6/6
05/02/66
Some Other Guys, The Shades, The Newbolds
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
06/02/66
The Bobby Ash Sounds
Club 21, Mile Oak Hotel, 8.00pm-11pm
Admission: 5/-
07/02/66
Beat Group Contest
Tamworth College of Further Education Students Union
11/02/66
Pete Tierney's Fugitives (Decca recording artiste)
The Stringbeats (the great coloured group)
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-12.30am
Admission: 6/-
12/02/66
The Spots, The Shades
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.00pm
Admission: 5/-
12/02/66
Twist and Twang to The Vipers
Tamworth Young Farmers Club
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Admission: 5/-
12/02/66
The Collingwoods
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
12/02/66
3M Social Club Valentine Dance
Bob Mason's Ballroom Orchestra, The Orphan Clyde Group
Atherstone Memorial Hall
12/02/66
Tamworth F.C. Disco
Bob Hayward's Band, The Other Guys
Drayton Manor, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 6/6
13/02/66
Zodiac Trio
Polesworth Miners' Welfare Club
12/02/66
Tamworth F.C. Disco
Bob Hayward's Band, The Other Guys
Drayton Manor, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 6/6
14/02/66
Fazeley Swifts FC
The James Henry Band, The Puncture Outfit
Drayton Manor Tower Suite, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 6/6
14/02/66
THEM
St. Valentine Dance
Assembly Rooms
3 Star Entertainments
Admission: 2/6
16/18/19th February, 1966
The Beverley Sisters
Assheton House Cabaret Club, Twycross
Tom Bettany at the Hammond organ
17/02/66
The Sapphires
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
18/02/66
The Deep South Boys
Assembly Rooms
Admission: 6/-
18/02/66
The Rivals
Polesworth Working Men's Club
18/02/66
Tamworth Herald - Now On Sale "Take It All" by The Four XXXXs
From J. Weavers, Bolebridge Street
19/02/66
The Four XXXX’s
Elford Village Hall, 8.30pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
19/02/66
Vincent and the Diamonds
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
19/02/66
Bob Mason and His Band
Polesworth Dancing Club (members only)
19/02/66
The Wanderers
Belgrave Working Mens Club
20/02/66
The Satans
Warton Working Men's Club
20/02/66
Zodiac Trio
Belgrave Working Mens Club
21/02/66
'N Betweens (Wolverhampton) plus Blues Ensemble
Assembly Rooms
3 Star Entertainments
Admission: 4/6
"This gig in Tamworth, just outside of Wolverhampton, may not have been 'the occassion' but I bet John Howells was chatting to the Blues Ensemble that night? 'My band, they're a bunch of yobs. I want a proper band like you lads. Guys that understand the blues. A band that knows where I'm coming from?' An interesting gig and a nice find?"
Taken from "From Roots...to Boots" - thanks to: Mick Parker
22/02/66
The Melody Makers
Polesworth Dancing Club
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 8.00pm-12 midnight (members only)
24/02/66
Bob Mason and His Band
Polesworth Working Men's Club
24/02/66
Mike and the Planets
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
24/02/66
Lokel-Yokel's Ball (Nuneaton and District Young Farmers)
Ronnie Hancox and His Band, The Rocking Farmers
Queen's Road Ballroom, Nuneaton
25/02/66
WM. Tolson Ltd Social Dance
Bob Mason's Orchestra, The Spots
Drayton Manor Missanda Suite, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 6/-
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| Teddy of the Beverley Sisters signs the autograph book of local girls Angela Cleaver and Joyce Andrews at the Assheton House Cabaret Club, Twycross on Saturday night. Twenty-year old Angela (pictured second from right) is a secretary in Tamworth and lives at 63, Sutton Avenue, Fazeley Road Estate, Tamworth, and machinist Joyce, who is 24, at The Gables, Clifton Campville. |
25/02/66
Tamworth Herald - Beverley Sisters at Twycross Cabaret
25/02/66
The Strangers
Polesworth the Working Men's Club
25/02/66
The Four XXXXs
Stechford YWCA
27/02/66
Eric Jackson and the Four
Belgrave Working Mens Club
27/02/66
The 'New' Blue Hawaiians
Warton Working Men's Club
04/03/66 - Tamworth Herald
Palace - Peter Pan
05/03/66
The Inn-Sect
Kingsbury Youth Centre
11/03/66
The Gary Ford Trio
Tamworth Working Mens Club
11/03/66
Doulton FC Grand Dance
Lloyd Jackson and His Band
The Wanderers
Drayton Manor, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 7/-
12/03/66
The Zodiacs
Wilnecote Working Men's Club
12/03/66
Atherstone Cricket Club Beat Dance
The Wanderers, The Jones's
Atherstone Memorial Hall
Admission: 6/-
12/03/66
The Four XXXXs
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
13/03/66
The Bobcats
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
18/03/66
The Four XXXXs, The Contours
Wigginton Hotel FC
18/03/66
The Inn-Sect
Polesworth Working Men's Club
18/03/66
Tamworth Herald - Four XXXXs fan club
19/03/66
The Meteors
Tamworth Working Mens Club
20/03/66
Electro Combo
Warton Working Men's Club
23/03/66
The Wanderers
Fazeley Victory Club
24/03/66
The Fiends
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
25/03/66
The Vipers
Polesworth Working Men's Club
25/03/66
The Tritons
Wood End Working Men's Club
26/03/66
Fazeley Swifts FC Grand Dance
Len Dawson Quartet, The Tritons (Coventry)
Drayton Manor, Tower Suite, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 6/6
26/03/66
Why
Tamworth Working Mens Club
26/03/66
Netherseal Young Farmers Dance
Dave and the Countdowns
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 8.30pm-12 midnight
Admission: 5/-
26/03/66
Every Saturday Night
Chequers 25 Club
Lloyd Jackson Trio
27/03/66
The Ditones
Polesworth Miners' Welfare Club
30/03/66
Ted Taylor and His Band
Polesworth Miners' Welfare Club
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