Tamworth Bands History : 1968
05/01/68
The Niteriders
Polesworth Working Men's Club
06/01/68
Doulton Entertainment Committee
New Years Dance
Alan Melville Orchestra and The Wanderers
Drayton Manor, Tower Suite
07/01/68
Bobby Johnson and the Atoms
Foseco Sports and Social Club
09/01/68
The Loving Kind
Amington Liberal Club
09/01/68
Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
Supported by the Bob Mason Dance Orchestra
Drayton Manor, Tower Suite
12/01/68
The Expressions
Polesworth Working Men's Club
13/01/68
Fazeley Swifts FC
Beat Dance
Cyrus and the Planets and The Male
Drayton Manor, Missanda Suite
14/01/68
The Pyramids
Foseco Sports and Social Club
19/01/68
The Power and The Glory
Polesworth Working Mens Club
19/01/68
The Fugitives
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
20/01/68
Tudor Rose Football Club Dance
Power and the Glory and The Teen Beats
Atherstone Memorial Hall
20/01/68
Zodiac Trio
Tamworth Progressive Club
26/01/68
The Rocking Thunderbolts
Polesworth Working Men's Club
26/01/68
Edwin Starr
Foseco Sports and Social Club
26/01/68
Mid-season Dance
The Cataracts
Atherstone Memorial Hall
27/01/68
Dance
The Jigsaw and Discotheque
Wilnecote Community Centre
27/01/68
The Four Dimensions
Tamworth Progressive Club
27/01/68
Kym and The Lovin’ Kynd
Bassetts Poll Inn, Canwell
28/01/68
The Power and The Glory and The Teen Beats
Atherstone Memorial Hall, 8.00pm-11.30pm
Admission: 5/-
28/01/68
Big Beat
The Trendmen
Atherstone Memorial Hall
28/01/68
Robert Plant and the Band of Joy
Foseco Sports and Social Club
02/02/68
The Teen Beats
Polesworth Working Men's Club
03/02/68
Grand Beat Dance
Wellington Kytch Jump Band and The Roundabouts
Atherstone Memorial Hall
03/02/68
Gordon and The Crusaders
Tamworth Progressive Club
03/02/68
Grand Beat Dance
The Orphan Clyde and Winterton G. and the Royvettes
Atherstone Memorial Hall
04/02/68
The Wanderers
Belgrave Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – February 1968
American “soul singer” Edwin Starr opened his first major British tour on Friday with an appearance at the Foseco Sports and Social Club at Drayton Manor.
Starr backed by a London based group “The J.J. Sound” sang at the club’s weekly dance “Scene ‘68”.
10/02/68
The Arnhem Blue
Atherstone Memorial Hall
10/02/68
Midland Red Sports and Social Club
Bob Miller and The Miller Men and The Bob Mason Dance Orchestra
Drayton Manor, Tower Ballroom, 8.00pm-1.00am
11/02/68
The Hummingbirds
Foseco Sports and Social Club
16/02/68
The Wanderers
Polesworth Working Men's Club
17/02/68
The Fourth Dimension
Kettlebrook Working Men's Club
17/02/68
Come Dancing to Tom Bettany
Foseco Sports and Social Club
18/02/68
Carl Douglas and the Big Stampede
Foseco Sports and Social Club
18/02/68
Gordon and The Crusaders
Tamworth Progressive Club
20/02/68
The Wanderers
Amington Liberal Club
23/02/68
Peter Green (top blues guitarist) and The Fleetwood Mac
Foseco Sports and Social Club
23/02/68
William Tolson Dance
Ted Gibbs and His Orchestra and The Wanderers
Drayton Manor, Missanda Suite
23/02/68
The Rocking Thunderbolts
Polesworth Working Men's Club
26/02/68
The Fugitives
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
01/03/68
The Teen Beats
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
01/03/68
The Evan Lyric
Polesworth Working Men's Club
02/03/68
Whitacre and Shustoke Horticultural Society Dance
The Sound Affair
Shustoke Village Hall
02/03/68
Polesworth Football Club Grand Dance
The Sky Blue Pinks and The Teen Beats
Polesworth Memorial Hall, 7.30pm-11.45pm
Admission: 8/-
03/03/68
Scene ’68 – Lucas and the Mike Cotton Sound (Mod)
Foseco Sports and Social Club
Tamworth Herald – 08/03/68
A “POP” group promised last week to make amends for its failure to appear at a dance organised by a local youth club.
About 50 people walked out of the dance at Wilnecote Community Centre when two hours after the start it was announced that the Birmingham based group had been unable to find its way to the centre.
The dance was organised by Wilnecote Youth Centre to raise money for club funds. The 120 people who had paid for admission were offered half of their money back because of the let-down.
Mr. Ken Briggs, the club leader, told a “Herald” reporter “When the group failed to turn up I ‘phoned Tamworth police station and was told the players had been given directions.”
Mt. Terry Blood, agent for the group, Jimmy Powell and the Dimensions said “Jimmy would like the … He…an engagement before and is more hurt than anyone about this slip.
“Jimmy did rather a silly thing. He had forgotten to bring his contract for the dance with him. He knew the dance had something to do with the youth in Tamworth, but he could not remember exactly where it was being held.”
Jimmy Powell is the singer and leader of the professional group.
Said Mr. Blood: “The group went to the police station but could not get any form idea of where they were supposed to be playing. Jimmy and another boy then went to about seven different places and asked people in the street.
08/03/68
The Wrangles
Foseco Sports and Social Club
08/03/68
The Fugitives
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
08/03/68
The Teen Beats
Polesworth Working Men's Club
10/03/68
Bobby Johnson and The Adams
Foseco Sports and Social Club
15/03/68
Pineapple Sun
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
15/03/68
The Expressions
Polesworth Working Men's Club
15/03/68
The Scorpions
Foseco Sports and Social Club
17/03/68
Noel and The Fireballs
Foseco Sports and Social Club
17/03/68
The Wanderers
Royal Oak
Kingsbury
22/03/68
The Fact
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
22/03/68
Kiki Dee with Dusty Springfield’s backing group The Echos
Foseco Sports and Social Club
22/03/68
The Niteriders
Polesworth Working Men's Club
23/03/68
Grand Dance
Mike Prince (ATV Announcer)
… Douglas Band and The Loving Kind
23/03/68
Disc-o-Tek DJ – Dave Stewart
Fazeley Parish Hall
26/03/68
The Wanderers
Amington Liberal Club
29/03/68
The Teen Beats
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 29/03/68
A little theatre and arts centre? If Borough Council accept imaginative plan
Tamworth’s Assembly Rooms will become a little theatre and arts centre for the borough if an imaginative new plan is approved by the Borough Council.
While leisure-time groups work under one roof a tow lottery could, it is suggested, be raising money for purpose-built accommodation.
The plan has been drawn up by Alderman Tom Kennedy. He is the secretary of Tamworth Arts Advisory Council and chairman of the cultural activities group of the Borough Council.
Alderman Kennedy thinks that the chances of Tamworth ever having its promised civic centre “planned to include” a small theatre – are virtually nil.
T a meeting in the Corporation-owned Assembly Rooms on Wednesday night, a sub-committee was formed to meet the Council’s policy-making Resources planning Committee and present a case for the use of the rooms as a little theatre and arts centre.
IN PRINCIPLE
The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ron Hanson chairman of the Arts Advisory Council which has already given its agreement in principle to the proposal.
Cultural groups invited to the meeting had been told by Alderman Kennedy that there had to be a rational and well-presented case if operations were to begin this autumn.
“The sub-committee will be called to a meeting of the Resources Planning Committee very shortly” he told a “Herald” reported.
Councillor Eric Johnson chairman of the Council’s Civic Enterprises Committee and Councillor Ben Nadin, chairman of the Leisure Activities Committee and Advisory Council representatives were also present at Monday’s meeting.
“I have already written to Councillor Johnson asking if his committee could discuss the provision of suitable premises for a little theatre and arts centre for Tamworth and district.” Alderman Kennedy explained.
He told Councillor Johnson there appeared to be general agreement that Wigginton Lodge was unsuitable as an arts centre and civic theatre. It would cost several thousand pounds to put to a state of repair.
If the Corporation decides to keep the Assembly Rooms open, will have to reconcile itself to a continuing and probably increasing deficit.
“If on the other hand, it is decided to allow the various cultural groups a limited use of the premises, this would bring in an additional small but regular sum and cater for leisure-time activities in an expanding borough – as is becoming more and more the duty of local authorities.
The building could the take on a new lease of life with financial and social advantage to all concerned.
He went on to say that in the last two years the Borough Council, through the Arts Advisory Council had been responsible for a transformation in the cultural life of the town and district.
The district was now only lacking a civic centre and arts centres.
Many communities had arts centres and in all cases the local authorities concerned helped in the running and maintenance.
29/03/68
The Rocking Thunderbolts
Polesworth Working Men's Club
29/03/68
The Teen Beats
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
30/03/68
Royal Air Force Association (Tamworth Branch)
Annual Spring Ball
Bob Mason Orchestra and The Teen Beats
Drayton Manor, Tower Suite
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“Soul singer” Edwin Starr opens his British tour at Foseco