Tamworth Bands History : 1966
01/10/66
E.B. Hamel and Son Ltd Entertainments invite you to
Dance, Twist and Jive
Bob Hayward Orchestra and The Inn-Sect
Drayton Manor Ballroom, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 6/6
02/10/66
Drayton Manor Park Ballroom
First Sunday Night Dance
Roy Stanley Band
8.00pm-11.00pm
Admission: 6/-
02/10/66
Tamworth & District Licensed Trade (Ladies Auxilliary)
4th Annual Dance
Drayton Manor Ballroom
Johnny Revill and Organ
Knife and Fork Buffet
Admission: 22/6
07/10/66
3 Star Entertainments Presents
For The Birds (Fabulous new group from Birmingham)
Plus your resident DJ "Mac the Mouth" and his Discotheque
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.00pm
Admission: 3/-
07/10/66
Beat 66 - The Times (Columbia recording artistes)
Foseco Sports and Social Club
07/10/66
The Rocking Thunderbolts
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
08/10/66
The Velvetones
Foseco Sports and Social Club
09/10/66
The Zodiac Trio
Austrey Working Men's Club
10/10/66
The Sensational Second City Swingers - The Spirals
with The Limeys
Assembly Rooms, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
14/10/66
On the sports field - barbecue
Beat 66 - The Fonics
14/10/66 - Tamworth Herald
Traditional Dances Now More Favoured
Beatnik-type dances at Tamworth’s Assembly Rooms are out and more traditional dances our coming in, members of Tamworth Borough Council were told at their meeting.
Councillor H. Titterton reported that block bookings had been made by a reputable firm whose aim was to upgrade the standard of dances and improve the tone of the place.
Alderman Tom Kennedy said that an end to rowdyism and to the bad odour which had surrounded dances at the Assembly Rooms of the past few years would be welcomed on all sides.
Councillor Mrs Lily Tricklebank was less optimistic. She said she could see little or no difference between the groups which had been playing at dances over the past few years and the groups recently advertised.
She criticised the decision to allow the firm making the block bookings to have a guaranteed Christmas holiday dance. Quite a number of charitable organisations have been running dances at a loss and had hoped to recuperate something on the certain profit-making Christmas Dances but had to take a chance of their names being drawn out of the hat, she said. But her move to persuade the council to allocate all the Christmas Week dance evenings by a ballot failed to find support.
14/10/66 - Tamworth Herald
Ballot To Be Held To Hire Out The Assembly Rooms
21/10/66
Beat 66 - The Duces
Foseco Sports and Social Club
21/10/66
The Four XXXXs(5)
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10:45pm
Admission: 2/-
22/10/66
The Vipers
Tamworth Young Farmers Club Dance
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 9.00pm-11:45pm
Admission: 5/-
22/10/66
The Zodiac Trio
Tamworth Progressive Club
23/11/66
Come Dancing to the Tommy Walkden Trio
Mile Oak Working Mens Club, 8.00pm-10:45pm
23/10/66
Big Beat Night
The Trendmen, The Four XXXX's
Atherstone Memorial Hall
Admission: 6/-
27/10/66
Mile Oak Youth Club Grand October Dance
The Vipers
Mile Oak Hotel Ball Room, 8.00pm-11.45pm
Admission: 5/-
27/10/66
County Chamois FC Grand buffet dance
Lloyd Jackson and His Band
Prince of Wales, one 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 8/6
28/10/66
Beat 66 - The Outer Limits
Foseco Sports and Social Club
28/10/66
The Teen Beats
Kingsbury Working Men's Club
29/10/66
Hallowe'en Beat Dance
Warter Orton Parish Hall
04/11/66
The Expressions
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
05/11/66
Mile Oak Rovers FC Grand Bonfire Night Dance
The Easy Beats and The Four XXXX's
Mile Oak Hotel Ballroom, 8.00pm-12 midnight
Admission: 5/-
05/11/66
Staffordshire Regiment Tamworth Branch Grand Dance
Lloyd Jackson and The Wanderers
Drayton Manor Tower Ballroom
Admission: 6/6
05/11/66
The Velvetones
Foseco Sports and Social Club
05/11/66
Water Orton Youth Club Bonfire Night Big Beat Dance
The Protection Racket
7.45pm-11.30pm
10/11/66
Beat 66 - The Blaizes
Foseco Sports and Social Club
11/11/66
Mile Oak Hotel Discotheque
Every Night - Dancing to the new Stereo Big Sound
11/11/66
The Fenders
In aid of the Aberfan Disaster Fund
Hurley Village Hall
12/11/66
Tudor Rose Football Club Dance
The Dimensions and The Trend Men
Atherstone War Memorial Hall, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
12/11/66
The Trendmen
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
18/11/66 - Tamworth Herald
Discotheque Opened At Mile Oak
A new Discotheque in the Mile Oak Hotel opened on Friday night complete with the "new stereo big-sound" and with the appearance of an exclusive nightclub.
The Discotheque with its adjoining bar, has on its walls a "New York at night" scene painted with blue, white, yellow and green fluorescent paints. This absorbs the ultra-violet light from eleven tubes hanging from the ceiling, giving the decor extra fascination; the effect has to be seen to be believed.
At the far end of the room, behind the jukebox which contains 100 singles and, 60 LPs and 120 EPs covering a range of musical tastes including the latest "pop" and Italian music, is a backcloth of coloured lights which when a disc is played flash in time with the music, these are known as a "chromatic".
The idea of a Discotheque originated in Paris and then spread to America. Mr A. Levy, local representative of the Headingley Company in Yorkshire told the "Herald" that it was his company that brought the Discotheque to Britain and described Discotheques as "having an on beat sound in a off beat setting."
Mr Levy, continued: "the general standard of entertainment for young people in public houses is very low with. We hope with Messrs. Bass, Mitchell and Buttlers, to select the best public houses in the Greater Midlands area and open up our Discotheques there.
The new Discotheques will be in a radius of a few miles of each other so young people will be able to visit a large number of them, which will all have different decor, but possess the new big sound and chromatic lighting which we have specially developed to meet the requirements of the Discotheque.
18/11/66
Vince and the Diamonds
Belgrave Working Men's Club
18/11/66
The Vipers
Whitacre and Shustoke Horticultural Society (Livestock Section) Grand Dance
Shustoke Parish Hall, 8.00pm-1.00am
Admission: 5/-
18/11/66
The Four XXXXs
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
20/11/66
The Crusaders
Belgrave Working Men's Club
25/11/66
The Other Guys
Hurley Youth Club Dance
Hurley Village Hall, 8.00pm-11.45pm
Admission: 5/-
26/11/66
The Vipers
Tamworth Young Farmers Club Dance
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 9.00pm-11.45pm
Admission: 5/-
29/11/66
Beat 66 - The Times (Columbia recording artistes)
Foseco Sports and Social Club
Plus discotheque with our resident DJ - Jeff Owen
02/12/66
The Other Guys
Fazeley Parish Hall - Beat Night
02/12/66
The Countdowns
Polesworth Working Mens Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
03/12/66
Johnny Hollyoake Band
Polesworth Working Mens Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
03/12/66
The Convention
Fazeley Parish Hall - Beat Night
Admission: 4/-
03/12/66
Netherseal Young Farmers Club Dance
Dancing to Dave and the Countdowns
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 8.00pm-11.45pm
Admission: 5/-
04/12/66
Johnny Revill
Drayton Manor Park Ballroom
08/12/66
Brian Poole and The Tremeloes
Neil Christian and The Crusaders
Foseco Sports and Social Club, 7.30pm-12 midnight
09/12/66
The Rivals
Polesworth Working Mens Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
10/12/66
The Velvetones
Foseco Sports and Social Club
15/12/66
The Loving Kind
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
15/12/66
Glascote Detachment Army Cadet Force Dance
Bob Hayward and His Orchestra and The Wanderers
Drayton Manor Tower Suite
Admission: 6/-
15/12/66
Beat 66 - The Times
Foseco Sports and Social Club
16/12/66 - Tamworth Herald
No Dances At Assembly Rooms Over Christmas Period
There will be no dances at the Corporation-owned Assembly Rooms in Tamworth during the Christmas period.
No applications to stage dances on Christmas Eve, Boxing Night or New Year's Eve have been received by the Borough Council.
A council spokesman said: "Dances on these nights have had to be allocated by ballot for many years. A Christmas without dances cannot be recalled."
Only weeks ago it was announced a move by an entertainments firm to improve the standard of dances at the Assembly Rooms had "flopped".
Three Star Entertainment Ltd, based at Stourbridge, cancelled the remainder of the six-month block booking of the Rooms on Friday and Saturday nights after the first four dances did not get the support expected.
When a block booking was accepted by the Council, the firm was given a guarantee it could present a dance on one of the three nights at Christmas or New Year. This was withdrawn when their main booking was cancelled.
Councillor Howard Titterton, Chairman of the Estates, Parks and Allotments Committee which is responsible for the Assembly Rooms, said: "It is a great pity no organisation has applied to hold dance on any of the three nights. we are very sorry.
"There is not enough time left now for anyone to arrange a dance for any of these nights.
"It seems the Assembly Rooms have lost their attraction as a dance venue."
Councillor Titterton said the committee was also disappointed by the response Three Star Entertainments received for its dances.
"The company was trying to lift the dances out of the rut of rather mediocre groups and wanted to get back to a more traditional type dance." he said.
17/12/66
Polesworth Dancing Club
Frank Carter and His Orchestra
Admission: 5/-
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| More than 300 students and guests attended the Annual Ball at Tamworth College of Further Education on Friday evening, together with members of the college staff and governors, including chairman Mr W E Brown, the mayor and mayoress of Tamworth (Councillor and Mrs T Willcox) and councillors Mr and Mrs A Heathcote also attended. Music for dancing was provided by Frank Carter's Orchestra and the "4XXXXs,) who were photographed with some of the guests. |
23/12/66Tamworth Herald Tamworth College of FE Annual Ball
The Four XXXXs
23/12/66
The Rocking Thunderbolts
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8pm-10:45pm
Admission: 2/-
23/12/66
Whitacre and Shustoke Horticultural Society (Livestock Section)
The Vipers
Shustoke Parish Hall
Admission: 5/-
24/12/66
Christmas Eve Dance
The Trend Men
Atherstone Memorial Hall
30/12/66
The Vipers
Polesworth Working Men's Club, 8.00pm-10.45pm
Admission: 2/-
30/12/66
Beat 66 - The Times and Zero5 and Discotheque - DJ Kev
Foseco Sports and Social Club
31/12/66
Beat Dance - Dancing to Zantis
Sibson Village Hall
31/12/66
The Huggers, Davey Johnson
Water Orton Youth Club - New Years Eve Beat Dance
Water Orton Parish Hall, 8.00pm-12 midnight
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