Tamworth Bands History : 1969
01/04/69
Rainbow Blend
Wood End Working Mens Club
03/04/69
Prince of Wales Folk Club
The Paragon and Bob Lines
Tamworth Herald – 04/04/69
Foseco Advert – Dancing to ‘A Group’
04/04/69
The Magazine
Polesworth Working Mens Club
04/04/69
Griffy Dam
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
05/04/69
The Multitones
Tamworth Progressive Club
Tamworth Herald – 05/04/69
Soggy Pee
Discos Every Sunday
New Swan, Atherstone
DJs – Ged and Tony
06/04/69
Cathie Christian and the Crusaders
Polesworth Working Mens Club
06/04/69
The Spot Club
DJ – Radio 5 Discotheque
06/04/69
The Millionaires
Wood End Working Mens Club
06/04/69
Disco
Dave Stewart Show
Wood End Youth Centre
07/04/69
Rainbow Blend
Wood End Working Mens Club
07/04/69
The Jay Hawks
Amington Liberal Club
10/04/69
The Lota Four
Two Gates Working Mens Club
11/04/69
Regency Lemon
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald– 11/04/69
Palace – Jungle Book
11/04/69
Regency Lemon
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
11/04/69
Discotheque
The Meteors
Atherstone Miners Welfare Club
DJs – Rod and Dave
12/04/69
Coloured Raisins (Straight from the Stevie Wonder tour)
The Mickey Dunn Show
Top ‘Go-Go’ Girls
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Millbank Promotions
12/04/69
The Tritons
Belgrave Miners Welfare Club
13/04/69
Gordon and the Blackjacks
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
13/04/69
The Spot Club
DJ – Nicky Steele
18/04/69
Ultra Sounds
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
18/04/69
Tramps Ball
Lloyd Jackson Band, 4th Dimension
Tower Suite, Drayton Manor
18/04/69
The Jigsaw
Polesworth Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald– 18/04/69
TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Miss Lynn Taylor become a pop group wife on Monday when she married bass guitarist Mr. John Best at Amington parish church.
The bridegroom, whose wedding outfit was completed by a high-necked white shirt and sky blue shoes, was a member of the backing group for America’s Flirtations on the recent nationwide Stevie Wonder tour.
And after a reception at Tamworth’s Castle Hotel, the 24-year-old guitarist left with his new bride for a seven-day working honeymoon in Belgium.
Tamworth Herald – 18/04/69
A discotheque started on the Leyfields Estate only two and a half months ago now has 500 members.
The discotheque is called the Spot Club and is held every Sunday evening from 7.30 to 10.30 in the Community Association Centre. It is organised by a junior committee and is open to anyone.
The club is proving very successful and the committee hopes to open it on Friday evenings in the future. A dance is to be arranged in the next few months on a Friday from 10.30pm to 2.00am. If this proves successful more dances will be held on a Friday as well as on Sundays.
The Community Centre was full up at a recent Easter dance which was a Blues and Soul event. The Club is expanding all the time and hopes to buy its own audio equipment soon. All the money made goes towards the booking of the groups and disc jockeys, the maintenance of the centre, and towards the Community Association’s funds.
The Spot Club is not licenced but refreshments are on sale. Membership is one shilling a year plus the entrance fee, according to the group or disc jockey appearing.
18/04/69
Jigsaw
Polesworth Working Mens Club
18/04/69
The Loving Kind
Amington Liberal Club
19/04/69
Gordon and the Blackjacks
Polesworth Working Mens Club
20/04/69
The Diary
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
20/04/69
J.T. Bullitt and D.J. Dave Freeman
The Spot Club
20/04/69
Disco - D.J. Dave Stewart
Wood End Youth Centre
20/04/69
The Fourth Dimension
Glascote Working Mens Club
24/04/69
The Lota Four
Polesworth Working Mens Club
25/04/69
The Tiger
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
26/04/69
The Frute
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
26/04/69
Big Beat Dance
Jalopy Ride
Polesworth Memorial Hall
27/04/69
Ray Day Radio Hockin Sound
The Spot Club
27/04/69
Kathy and the Crusaders
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
27/04/69
The Loving Kind
Glascote Working Mens Club
09/05/69
The Trojans (soul)
Stray Cats (blues)
Soul and Blues Dance
The Centre, Masefield Drive
09/05/69
The Lemonade
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 09/05/69
Soggy Pee Disco
New Swan, Atherstone
Sundays = Soul
Mondays = Progressive and Blues
10/05/69
Big Beat Dance (Blues & Soul)
West Bank Avenue plus Hampton Court
Atherstone Memorial Hall
10/05/69
The Light Fantastics
Plus the best of soul from the Jason Roberts Soul Show
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Millbank Promotions
11/05/69
The Passion Wagon
Plus Radio Five
The Spot Club
11/05/69
Gordon and the Blackjacks
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
13/05/69
The Probe (fantastic seven piece soul band)
Regency Lemon
Plus Radio Essex DJ – Jason Roberts
Assembly Rooms
16/05/69
Barley Baron’s Beat Ball
The Midnights
Grendon House Farm
Tamworth Herald – 16/05/69
Disco Every Tuesday
The Chet, Polesworth
DJs – Greg and George
16/05/69
Emily Cue
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
16/05/69
The Apex
Polesworth Working Mens Club
17/05/69
The Lemonades
Dosthill Cosmopolitan Club
17/05/69
Bob Mason Orchestra
Foseco Sports and Social Club
18/05/69
The Nicky Steele Show
Disco
Wood End Youth Centre
18/05/69
Regency Lemon
Plus Radio Five
The Spot Club
18/05/69
The Loving Kind
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
19/05/69
Beat Dance
The Second City Roadshow
DJ – Dave Stewart
The Centre, Masefield Drive
21/05/69
The Dave Stewart Show
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
23/05/69
The Riot Squad
Polesworth Working Mens Club
24/05/69
Tramps Ball
(Tamworth College of FE Rag Week)
Roundhouse (Soul)
Earth (Blues)
Ray Savage (Disc Jockey)
College Hall
Admission: 6/6
24/03/69
The Katch 22
Dave Freeman Disk-K-Tek
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Millbank Promotions
25/05/69
The Fabulous Jackpots
Polesworth Working Mens Club
26/05/69
The Regency Lemon
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 30/05/69
More than 200 Tamworth students and their friends were at a tramps’ ball at the town’s College of Further Education on Saturday night. Although “very few” turned up in tramps’ garb, the event, organised by the Students’ Union, was said to have been a success. Music for dancing was provided by the Round House and Earth.
Tamworth Herald – 30/05/69
Carl Wayne, lead singer with the internationally-known ‘pop’ group “The Move”, is to officially open a summer festival staged by Tamworth’s Mercian Ward Community Association.
A programme of attractions in Wigginton Park, where the opening ceremony is to take place, will follow a festival parade of floats, bands and fancy dress entrants. For the first time the procession will be routed through Tamworth town centre as well as the Mercian Ward.
The parade which will leave the Jolly Sailor commercial vehicle park at 1pm will be led by the Dandies children’s jazz band – a recently formed association activity – and by the Glascote Army cadet force band.
30/05/69
Soul ‘n’ Ska
The Workhouse, Amington Inn, 8.00pm-11.00pm
Admission: 5/-
30/05/69
The Peppermint Circus
Polesworth Working Mens Club
30/05/69
The Breakthru and House Blues
Crows Nest Disco
DJ – Jason Roberts
Assembly Rooms
31/05/69
Mercia Ward Festival
Carl Wayne of The Move
31/05/69
The Herd plus 67 Park Lane
Geoff Owen Disk-K-Tek
Assembly Rooms
Millbank Promotions
01/06/69
The Alphabets
Wood End Youth Centre
Plus The Dave Stewart Show
01/06/69
Belle Sebastian
DJ – Jason Roberts
The Spot Club
05/06/69
The Lota Four
Polesworth Working Mens Club
06/06/69
The Raizens (ex-coloured raizens)
Polesworth Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 06/06/69
Tamworth’s recording artiste greengrocer Roy Everett has caused a stir in the record business both on television and radio.
The Fazeley singer had his first solo record released last Friday and the response has been “quite amazing” says his manager Jim Simpson.
Roy was interviewed in front of 3,000 people on BBC’s Radio One Show in Birmingham last week. Since the release of his record, sales in his greengrocery shop have increased and all the customers have promised to buy the release.
Commented Jim Simpson: “Sales for the record have been a steady 150 a day and on one radio show his record was tipped for the top.”
Green’s record shop in Tamworth has been flooded with inquiries and if this continues the town may have a number one record on its hands.
07/06/69
67 Park Lane
plus The Peter Barclay Disk-K-Tek
Polesworth Memorial Hall
Millbank Promotions
13/06/69
Deep Heat and Hampton Court
Tamworth Young Farmers Grand Chicken Barbecue
Home Farm, Thorpe Hall
Tamworth Herald – 13/06/69
A motoring summons against former rock ‘n’ roll idol “Wee Willie” Harris was adjourned for five weeks by Tamworth magistrates on Tuesday.
The summons for exceeding the 40mph speed limit in a car on the Watling Street, was adjourned at his request after the court had been told that Harris would be abroad “for a few weeks.”
Thirty-five-year-old Harris of Flat 1, Ashfield, St. Anne’s Road, Prestwich, Lancs, was charged under his real name of Charles William Harris.
Tamworth Herald – 13/06/69
TWO Tamworth boys are members of a highly successful Birmingham “pop” group.
The group is called “Paradox” and is due to have a single and L.P. released in September.
Sixteen-year-old Charles Harrison of 5, Temple Row, Mill Lane, Tamworth, is bass guitarist with the group. He left the Mercian Boys’ School last July and worked as an apprentice at Messrs. Percy Lane’s on the Lichfield Road Industrial estate.
His parents bought him the guitar only fifteen months ago and Charles has had to work hard to master the instrument.
The other Tamworth boy is the most recent addition to the group. He is 18-year-old Victor Motorny, of 20, Bridge Street, Amington, who is the group’s new road manager.
Victor, who worked as a signal-man on British Rail, now drives the group to their different venues, such as London, Margate (next week) and Scotland last weekend.
He has to make sure they get to where they are playing in time and is responsible for seeing that all their equipment is set up. Victor also operates the lights in the “paradox’s” light show.
The group went into the “Mercury” recording studios on June 1 and it took the 12 hours to record four tracks. They are playing in London clubs and are popular in Birmingham.
13/06/69
The Ray King Soul Band
Polesworth Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 13/06/69
Sunday and Thursday Disco and The Dolphin Inn
14/06/69
Harlem (Fantastic coloured soul band)
Wood End Youth Centre
Plus Dave Stuart Show
15/06/69
Food For Thought
Plus DJ Dave Stuart
The Spot Club
20/06/69
Millhound Sounds
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
20/06/69
The Ultra Sounds
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 21/06/69
Pictured are just five of the five hundred people who enjoyed themselves at a chicken barbecue held by Tamworth Young Farmer’s Club at Home Farm, Thorpe Hall, on Friday evening.
Organisers were fortunate in having a lovely night for the function, and the music for dancing was supplied by beat groups “Deep Heat” and “Hampton Court”.
Tamworth Y.F.C. Press officer Barbara Simpson said that the event was a marvellous success and it was attended by far more people than were really expected. Proceeds were in aid of Y.F.C. funds.
21/06/69
The Tritons
Glascote Working Mens Club
21/06/69
The Fabulous Jackpots
Wood End Youth Working Mens Club
22/06/69
Nicky Steel Show Disco
Wood End Youth Centre
22/06/69
The Hykells
Amington Liberal Club
22/06/69
Source of Power
Kettlebrook Working Mens Club
23/06/69
Passion Wagon
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
25/06/69
Chapter 24
Fazeley Victory Working Mens Club
Tamworth Herald – 27/06/69
“Bakerloo” – a group which includes two Tamworth lads in it’s line-up – has a single and L.P. released within the next few weeks
Clem Clempson of Bailey Avenue, Hockley and Terry Poole of Chesterton Way, Leyfields, form part of the now famous “Bakerloo”.
The group is well-known in London and Birmingham and enquiries have been flooding record shops as to when the outfit will release a record.
The trio signed a recording contract on the newly formed E.M.I. “Harvest” label last week. They have a single called “Driving Bachwards” released on July 11 and an L.P. called “Gang Bang” five weeks later.
The trio have been together for 14 months and play a mixture of jazz, blues and classical music, giving their own interpretation.
Clem plays lead guitar and Terry is bass player and “Bakerloo” plan to play in Birmingham to promote the two releases.
Said manager, Jim Simpson, “The single is very commercial and very unlike their style, but it should get a lot of radio plays which will draw attention to the forthcoming L.P.”
27/06/69
Passion Wagon
Kingsbury Working Mens Club
27/06/69
The Cabinet
Polesworth Working Mens Club
28/06/69
The Fourtunes
Tamworth and District Scouts Dance
The Chequers, Hopwas
28/06/69
Carnival Night
Light Fantastic
Mr. Max Disk-K-Tek
Assembly Rooms
28/06/69
4th Dimension
Glascote Working Mens Club
29/06/69
The Millionaires
Glascote Working Mens Club
29/06/69
Bakerloo
DJ – Dave Stuart
The Spot Club
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