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The Shuffle
(c’83) Mike Reed (?), Dom Walker (?) and ?.
Played at The Royal, Guildford. Reed went on to join Screaming Lullabies.
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The Shuffle at The Royal. Picture courtesy of Mike Reed -
The Vintners Arms, Guildford
In the 50’s, if you were lucky, you might catch Patrick McGoohan or Richard Harris grabbing a drink at The Vintners Arms. In the early-mid ’60s a folk club was held at this Guildford hostelry, whose landlord and lady’s names at the time were Nobby and Dolly. This was organized by Brian Dunt, who also performed at the club in the function room upstairs; he also performed at the folk club held at The Red House, Woking.
This folk club featured guest musicians from around the world as well as resident and local performers: Tom Dillon, Brian & Jean Dunt, Susan Bush, and Paddy Carrigys. In another connection to the local music scene, Reg “Robin Red Breast” Curtis, a past landlord’s grandson was Bert Curtis, the drummer with The Age Beaters.
Front of programme, designed by Brian Dunt, for the Guildford Folk Music Club held at The Vintners Arms, Guildford in 1966. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Record On 22 May ’64, the folk club’s opening night, featured singer and concertina player Louis Killen. The Watersons, an English folk group from Hull performed mainly traditional songs with little or no accompaniment on 25 March ’66. The following week, Tony Rose – a London based teacher at the time – appeared on 1 April. Later that month, on 15 April, Margaret Barry, who appeared on the David Attenborough produced TV series called The Songhunter in the 50s, was accompanied by Michael Gorman, as she often was, and club regular Enoch Kent – he also performed in The Exiles. Flat picking guitarist Malcolm Price was joined by Roger Churchyard on 22 April ’66. The voice of the rag doll in Bagpuss, and co-writer with her husband John Faulkner of the music for the series, Sandra Kerr climbed the stairs to the function room at The Vintners Arms on 29 April ’66. Killen would return to the folk club on 6 May ’66, not long before emigrating to the United States. Australian, and future member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay, Trevor Lucus made a triennial visit to the club on 13 May ’66. The next Friday, 20 May ’66, the club celebrated its second anniversary with: The Rakes, Gordon McCulloch, Bobby Campbell, and Malcolm Price with Roger Churchyard.
The venue closed in ’66, shortly after the folk club’s second anniversary and just over 150 years after opening. It was certainly there in 1823 and was helmed by licensed victualer Joseph Silver by 1855. The license had passed to George Smith by 1867, who lived there with his wife and five children, being replaced by Walter Costick in c’13, who was followed by Arthur Webb c’37, who may have been landlord when it was damaged by fire in ’32. Added to the Church of England’s property assets for $100k on closing, the building is still there at 36/38 North Street, used now as retail outlets. The folk club moved to The Star, Guildford.
Gallery:
Back of programme, designed by Brian Dunt, for the Guildford Folk Music Club held at The Vintners Arms, Guildford in 1966. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Record 
The Vintners Arms, Guildford c’60s from the collection of Mark Sturley. Picture courtesy of Ben Darnton Arthur Webb, Bagpuss, Bert Curtis, Bobby Campbell, Brian Dunt, Church of England, David Attenborough, Enoch Kent, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, George Smith, Gordon McCulloch, Guildford, Jean Dunt, John Faulkner, Joseph Silver, Louis Killen, Malcolm Price, Margaret Barry, Michael Gorman, Paddy Carrigys, Patrick McGoohan, Reg Curtis, Richard Harris, Roger Churchyard, Sandra Kerr, Susan Bush, The Age Beaters, The Exiles, The Rakes, The Red House, The Songhunter, The Star, The Watersons, Tom Dillon, Tony Rose, Trevor Lucus, Vintners Arms, Walter Costick, Woking -
ERA
(c’93-’95) Pete Barringer (keyboards / vocals), Terry Winstanley (vocals), Dave Hitchins (bass / vocals), Darren Patoto (drums) and Danny Cundy (guitar).
ERA in Worthing in the mid 90s. Picture courtesy of Dave Hitchins. Several years after Backstage Pass, Barringer and Hitchens formed ERA. When ERA first played The Cricketers, Westfield they opened to about 30 people in the bar, not a good omen for a happy Bernie; but by the time it ended around 200 were crowded into the venue.
The band appeared a few times after that at the Cricks as well as playing further afield, such as Worthing. Graham Tull replaced Cundy on guitar and Darran Bridge became the bands third drummer around late ’94.,
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ERA (L-R: Terry Winstanley, Dave Hitchins, Pete Barringer, Darren Patoto and Danny Cundy) 
ERA live! Picture courtesy of Dave Hitchins 
Band pic of ERA. Picture courtesy of Dave Hitchins -
The White Lyon, Worplesdon
The White Lyon was a regular music venue in the mid to late ’80s. The jazz trio called Dumb Waiter along with Sammy Rat’s Big Big Blues Band, who debuted there around ’86, Piccadilly Mudmen, and The Flying Tigers played regularly.
There has been a pub on the site since the late 18th century, while the most recent building was built post-1939. The artist Sidney Sime would sit in the bar at what was then The New Inn making cartoon drawings of other characters who drank there. That was the former pub building, that survived for a few years after the new pub was built and was the headquarters of the local Home Guard during the Second World War, now replaced but the 20th century roadhouse we knew as The White Lyon.
Rockit Men at the White Lyon, Worplesdon 1989. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records On Christmas Eve ’87, The Special Sammy Rat Band, without the ‘Big Big Blues’, provided a night of Rock ‘n Roll, returning on 1 September ’88 as the full-blown Sammy Rats Big Big Blues Band. Hot Club appeared on 16 September ’88 and The Rockit Men were also rocking it at The White Lyon in ’89. The Ant Hill Mob’s debut gig was at the venue on 31 January ’91, returning on 11 April ’91. The Tamla Tigers, with their Soul, Motown and Stax numbers and Godfrey Matthews on keyboards, always packed the place out.
The White Lyon in 2018 In a prominent location of the A320 the pub closed in early 2018, reopening in late October 2018, as a dim sum restaurant, with bar, renamed White Lyon & Dragon. Closing during Covid, it did not reopen and by 2021 the building was being used as officers. As of September 2024 a planning application had been discussed for converting The White Lyon from a public house to an office and five apartments.
Gallery:
Sammy Rat’s Big Big Blues Band debuted at The White Lyon, Worplesdon c’86. Source: Glyn Edwards via Guildford Town Past & Present 
24 Dec 1987: The White Lyon, Worplesdon hosted The “Special” Sammy Rat Band. Picture courtesy of Sammy Rat 
Rockit Men at the White Lyon, Worplesdon 1989. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records 
Rockit Men at the White Lyon, Worplesdon 1989. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records 
Rockit Men at the White Lyon, Worplesdon 1989. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records 
The White Lyon, Worplesdon in 1989. Photographed by Mark Sturley and here courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records -
The Senators
(c’59) – Richard Hodby (drums), Terry Ward (guitar/vocals), and John Dixon (guitar).
Both Ward and Dixon originated in Cranleigh, while Hodby lived in Ewhurst. We know the band played at the Village Hall, Ewhurst in ’59.
The Senators folded after Ward became a Butlins’ Redcoat in Pwllheli, Wales; where Ringo Starr was the drummer with Rory Storm and The Hurricanes – Ward even ended up doing a set with the band a few times a week. Ward and Hodby went on to form the Bumblies.
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The Senators at Ewhurst Village Hall in 1959. -
Funtime for Philip
(c’83) Martin Smith (?) & ? (guitar), ? (guitar), ? (bass), ? (percussion), ? (keyboard), and ? (?).
The band joined LongPig, La Maison Du Chants, Freedom Dance and Dark Trio at the New Wave Society’s May Bug Ball event on 7 May ’83 in the Great Hall of the University of Surrey, Guildford. As a result, the band received coverage in The Werewolf fanzine.
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7 May 1984: Funtime for Philip were forth on the bill for this Surrey University New Wave Society event. Picture courtesy of Sharon Pilling. 
7 May 1984: LongPig, La Maison du Chants, Freedom Dance and Funtime for Philip are at Surrey University. Picture courtesy of Alan and Jackie Wallis 
Funtime for Philip were featured in this issue of The Werewolf fanzine. Picture courtesy of Sharon Pilling. 
7 May 1983: Funtime for Philip at May Bug Ball, University of Surrey. Picture courtesy of Debra Harris. -
The Mickey Kennedy Band
(c’57-’66) Mickey Kennedy (sax), Bob McGowan (double bass), Paul Wearing (drums), Bert Pendrill (piano), George Pryor (trombone), and Bob Gibbons (trumpet).
Farnborough based, The Mickey Kennedy Band started out as a 6-piece Dixieland band and played locally ‘for dancing’ in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s including “The Traco”.
5 July 1963: Mickey Kennedy Band (L-R: Ted Fowler (trumpet) ? (piano), Mickey Kennedy (sax), ? (sax), Charlie Partleton (drums), ? (sax), Sheila Kenndey (sax) and ? (double bass)) at Farnborough’s Town Hall. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia Formed around band leader and driving instructor, infamous for the Morris Minors used, Mickey Kennedy, they were a regular fixture at the Town Hall, Farnborough for dances in the 50s and held a regular Monday night at the Queen’s Hall, Aldershot. Kennedy always stood at front playing his sax. Drummer Charlie Partleton, who was a barber at Swan hairdressers, and civil servant Ted Fowler (trumpet) replaced Waring and Gibbons respectively, at some point, and Sheila Kennedy (sax) joined. Sometime in the early 60’s Jock Cree was on drums. On 5 July ’63 the band performed at the Technical College, Farnborough, and we know the band performed at a wedding reception at Frogmore Village Hall in ’65/’66, at which time Alan Harvey deputized for his uncle Partleton on drums – Harvey’s first ever paid gig.
Partleton, Fowler, and the Kennedy’s along with their son, Michael Kennedy, were members of the Farnborough Concert Orchestra, in the 60’s. Mickey and Sheila were married and have both now sadly passed; Sheila on 15 Dec 2017, aged 83 at Frimley Park Hospital. Partleton passed in June 2016, at 92. Fowler was also 1st horn in The Aldershot Brass Band / The Aldershot Brass Ensemble. Cree died in Cove in 2006. Harvey would go on to appear in The Modern Art of Living. Pendrill emigrated to Australia, where he performed as Bert Penn ‘King of the Keys’.Gallery:
The Mickey Kennedy Dixieland Band. Source: Alan Gowan via Historic Aldershot Military Town 
The Mickey Kennedy Band c’60s. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia Alan Harvey, Aldershot, Aldershot Brass Band, Aldershot Brass Ensemble, Bert Pendrill, Bert Penn, Bob Gibbons, Bob McGowan, Charlie Partleton, Cove, Farnborough, Farnborough Concert Orchestra, Frimley, Frimley Park Hospital, Frogmore, George Pryor, Jock Cree, Michael Kennedy, Mickey Kennedy, Paul Waring, Queens Hall, Ted Fowler, The Mickey Kennedy Band, The Modern Art of LIving, The Traco, Town Hall, Village hall -
Town Hall, Farnborough
Also known by many as ‘Ferneberga House’, or colloquially as ‘Funny Bugger House’ there were regular dances at the Town Hall through the 40s, 50s and early 60s.
Photograph of Farnborough Town Hall by Peter Trevaskis c’1960. Picture courtesy of Ben Darnton In the late 50s on Wednesday & Saturday nights there was live music, and you could dance to The Mickey Kennedy Band, Chris Barber Band or The New Stars. In the early 60’s there was a jazz night with clarinetist and bandleader Terry Lightfoot; and the Clyde Valley Stompers, who climbed to a high of No.25 in the charts with their recording of the “Peter and the Wolf” main theme.
In 1963 the gig roster at the Town Hall, Farnborough really kicked into gear with acts that included the like of Chris Montez with The Eagles, whose debut album, “Smash Hits from The Eagles” was released in the UK and the US that year, in support on 10 April ’63. Local trad jazz band, The Mickey Kennedy Band performed on 5 July 63. The Town Hall was packed on 16 October ’63 with Tommy Roe, Freddie & The Dreamers, The Searchers, Ian Crawford & The Boomerangs, and the Rob Charles Combo all performing – probably as part of a package tour. Then American singer / songwriter Johnny Burnette, in the latter years of his career, appeared there on 6 November ’63.
3 March 1964: Sonny Boy Williamson with The Yardbirds at the Town Hall, Farnborough. Behind Sonny is a young Eric Clapton. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia In ’64, Sonny Boy Williamson appeared with The Yardbirds on 3 March in his custom-made, two-tone suit, bowler hat, matching umbrella, and attaché case for his harmonicas. The Zombies, riding the crest of “She’s Not There”, paid Farnborough’s Town Hall a visit on 9 September ’64.
Another hit-maker in ’64 were The Merseybeats, and they gigged at the Town Hall on 13 January ’65. The next month, 10 February ’65 The Yardbirds revisited, without Sonny, to be supported by newly formed locals The Soul-Tones, or rather a rebranded Seltones. The Moody Blues played on 24 February ’65, The Mark Leeman Five on 14 April ’65, Gene Vincent on 22 April ’65, The Who on 30 June ’65, and The Riot Squad on 11 August ’65. On 8 September The Who returned, and Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers were booked for 20 October ’65.
On 19 January ’66, Zoot Money performed, followed a week later by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers on 26 January ’66. The Who played the venue again on 8 February ’66, and The Emeralds supported Dave Berry and The Cruisers on 16 February ’66. A few weeks later, on 9 March we find The Who returning once more. Martha and the Vandellas performed, who almost “…but not quite – evoked a big response from a dead audience” according to the local rags review for their 16 April ’66, short 30-minute, appearance at the Town Hall. Georgie Fame was reportedly received more warmly on 27 April ’66. Another act to return was John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers on 8 June ’66. It is also rumored that Stevie Wonder played the Town Hall on 12 June ’66, but we know for certain that the same week, on 15 June ’66, Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band appeared. Later that year, on 7 September ’66, just over a month after their debut at the Twisted Wheel, Cream rocked the hall; then Eric Clapton’s old band John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers were back on 21 September.
16 April 1966: Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on stage at the Town Hall, Farnborough. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia The venue also hosted the High Curley Stompers, The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Hollies, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, Lonnie Donegan, Emperor Rosko, Steam Packet, Pickettywitch, Eden Cane, Johnny Leyton, Sounds Incorporated, The Cyril Davies All Stars, Phillip Goodhand-Tait and the Stormsville Shakers, The Graham Bond Organisation, The Bedrocks, Springfields, Millie, Johnny Burnette, The Barron Knights, and The Spencer Davies Group at some point in the 60s; nearly always supported by a local band and at a cost of about six bob (six shilling / 72 old pennies). Many of these were booked by Bob Potter who ran a Saturday night dance club out of the venue.
Status Quo made an appearance on 9 May ’68; and on 5 September ’69, there was a gig at the Town Hall headlined by Canticle that also featured Bill Boazman, Diz Disley, Graham Butterfield, Fiona, Johnny Silvo, and Dave Moses.
White as White (and Twice as Dirty) at Farnborough Town Hall in June ’75. Picture courtesy of Paul Trew By ’71 the bands had all gone replaced by a Saturday night disco. Then Mervin ? took over promoting the Town Hall, Farnborough from Dave Wise in the mid/late 70s; and the local bands were back, such as White as White (and Twice as Dirty) in June ’75, and Straightshooter who played the venue in ’78. In March ’80, The Aldershot News used the Town Hall as the backdrop for a photo shoot of Aldershot punk band Deadlock, whose track “Scrap the Town Hall”, an anti-proposed Rushmoor Council offices anthem, boosted their notoriety. Then, in the ’80s and early ’90s it was leased by SD-Scicon. The building was later rented / bought by EDS and turned it into a training centre.
Gallery:
5 July 1963: Mickey Kennedy Band. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia 
11 August 1965: Advert for The Riot Squad at Town Hall, Farnborough. 
The Town Hall, Farnborough pre ’66. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia 
The Town Hall, Farnborough gets a mention in this Melody Maker (26 March 1966 issue) clipping about Martha and the Vandellas British tour. 
16 April 1966: A review of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas at the Town Hall, Farnborough. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia. 
15 June 1966: The Ram Jam Band with Geno Washington played the Town Hall, Farnborough. Advert from the Aldershot News & Camberley News from June 1966 
The Town Hall, Farnborough c’72. Source: Don West via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia 
Straightshooter in 1978, pictured before a gig at the Town Hall, Farnborough. 
Deadlock – Aldershot News photo shoot outside the Town Hall, Farnborough, March ’80 Bill Bozman, Bob Potter, Canticle, Chris Barber Band, Chris Montez, Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, Clyde Valley Stompers, Cream, Dave Berry and the Cruisers, Dave Moses, Dave Wise, Deadlock, Diz Disley, Eden Cane, EDS, Emeralds, Emperor Rosko, Eric Clapton, Farnborough, Ferneberga House, Fiona, Freddie & The Dreamers, Funny Bugger House, Gene Vincent, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, Georgie Fame, Graham Butterfield, High Curley Stompers, Ian Crawford & The Boomerangs, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Johnny Burnette, Johnny Leyton, Johnny Silvo, Lonnie Donegan, Martha and the Vandellas, Millie, Phillip Goodhand-Tate, Pickettywitch, Rob Charles Combo, Rushmoor Council, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, SD-Scicon, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sounds Incorporated, Springfields, Status Quo, Steam Packet, Stevie Wonder, Straightshooter, Terry Lightfoot, The Barron Knights, The Bedrocks, The Cyril Davies All Stars, The Eagles, The Graham Bond Organisation, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Mark Leeman Five, The Merseybeats, The Mickey Kennedy Band, The Moody Blues, The New Stars, The Riot Squad, The Searchers, The Seltones, The Soul-Tones, The Spencer Davies Group, The Stormsville Shakers, The Swinging Blue Jeans, THe Who, The Yardbirds, The Zombies, Tommy Roe, Town Hall, Twisted Wheel, White As White, Zoot Money -
High Curley Stompers
(c’52-’69) Alan Roe (trumpet), Trevor Swale (clarinet / sax), Neil Manders (bass), Bill Tottle or Billy “Billy Wayne” Woodall (drums), Chas McDevitt (banjo), Peter Honri (piano) and Norman Bull and/or Tony Milliner (trombone).
27 April 1953: High Curley Stompers at The Savoy, Southsea. Source: http://michaelcooper.org.uk/ Founded by Dunross Farm, Bagshot based pianist Peter Honri – who once had his nose broken in a match by Brian Blessed while playing rugby – this Farnborough / Camberley band were named after the High Curley farming area in Bagshot. They played Dixieland Jazz and often relied on musicians from the Parachute Regiment, Aldershot to make up the full compliment.
Bassist Manders, an Aldershot based photographer, managed the band and secured their first venue – The Victoria Hotel, Camberley before they moved to The White Hart, Frimley with sessions held in an upstairs room with the audience on hard wooden chairs and a raffle, often for an LP, at the back. The band ventured up into Staines and London, for the London Architects’ Annual Ball for example, and further afield, such as The Savoy, Southsea – although the Portsmouth Evening News billed the band as The “Curley” Stompers – on 27 April ’53. The band would return to The Savoy’s ballroom on 22 June, 24 August, 2 November, when they were joined by Roy Richards and his Mayfair Music, and 14 December ’53. The original drummer, John Gannon, had other commitments and Tottle and Woodall took over; and soprano sax player John Brunner guested from time to time.
The band returned to the ballroom at The Savoy, Southsea on 10 May, 5 July ’54, and 31 December ’54. The next year they continued their irregular appearances at The Savoy, performing on 7 March, and 20 June ’55. In ’55/’56 they had a Sunday night residency at the Cambridge Hotel, Camberley which lasted into the 60’s. They also played the Town Hall, Farnborough. McDevitt was replaced by Ron Simpson in ’56 through May ’57. In the early 60’s they were heard every Saturday night at St Andrews Church Hall/Village Hall, Frimley Green.
By ’62 the line-up had changed again: Manders was still present, Simpson had been replaced by Alan Brown, Len Downs had taken over the drums, Honri had left, and Alan Thomas replaced him with Derek Mills taking on the keys later on. Brian White was on clarinet instead of Swale, Roe had been replaced by Dave Stradwick, while Peter Sherman held trombone and also covered lead vocals. This line-up reportedly lasted until 1966, while the group continued through to ’69.
22 April 1966: High Curley Stompers at Cambridge Hotel, Camberley Source: Camberley Photographs from the 1880s to the 1980s. Brunner, who was mentioned earlier, was not the only guest. Godfrey Dubber, of the early Humphrey Lyttelton band, also “sat in”; and New Years Eve concerts included guests such as George Melly and The Alberts. Other musicians associated with the band included a Mr. Shoebridge (trombone).
Milliner would leave the Stompers to join Dave Carey’s band, moving onto the Fairweather-Brown band, In the mid-60s he was a semi-pro in Tubby Hayes’ Rehearsal Band and then led The Tony Milliner – Alan Littlejohn Sextet operating out of the Tally Ho, London. The 70’s found him in Stan Greig’s London Jazz Big Band and at some point, he was in Sandy Brown’s Jazz Band and many others through to the new century. He passed away on the 3 August 2015. Simpson was last heard of living and playing in New Orleans. Roe now lives in Alton. Honri, who was an actor and music hall historian, along with John Earl founded the first trust to raise funds to buy the lease for Wilton’s Music Hall. Gannon lives/d in the West Country somewhere, as did Honri who passed in 29 August 2016 and received an obituary in The Telegraph. Bull lives in Beckenham. White formed Brian White’s Magna Jazz Band. Woodall joined The Bob Miller Big Band. Unfortunately as time passes fewer and fewer of the band members are with us, including: Manders, Swale, Brunner – who became a Sci-Fi writer -, Tottle who spent his later years in Church Crookham passed in 2009/10, and Downs – who passed in 2000, was a supervisor at Solartron and pulled a band together of work colleagues called the Vic Collins Jazzmen, with himself (piano) Vic Collins (trombone), John Smith (banjo), Dave MacD? (bass), Mike Robinson (guitar) and Tuttle (drums).Gallery:
27 April 1953: Poster for Camberley’s High Curley Stompers at The Savoy, Southsea. 
27 April 1953: High Curley Stompers at The Savoy, Southsea. Source: http://michaelcooper.org.uk/ 
27 April 1953: High Curley Stompers at The Savoy, Southsea. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia Alan Brown, Alan Roe, Alan Thomas, Aldershot, Bagshot, Bill Tottle, Billy Woodall, Brian Blessed, Brian White, Brian White’s Magna Jazz Band, Camberley, Cambridge Hotel, Chas McDevitt, Church Hall, Dave Stradwick, Derek Mills, Dunross Farm, Fairweather-Brown, Farnborough, Frimley, Frimley Green, George Melly, Godfrey Dubber, High Curley Stompers, Humphrey Lyttelton, John Brunner, John Earl, John Gannon, Len Downs, London, London Architects’ Annual Ball, Neil Manders, Norman Bull, Parachute Regiment, Peter Honri, Peter Sherman, Portsmouth Evening News, Ron Simpson, Roy Richards and his Mayfair Music, Sandy Brown’s Jazz Band, Solartron, Southsea, St. Andrews, Stan Greig’s London Jazz Big Band, Tally Ho, The Alberts, The Bob Miller Big Band, The Savoy, The Tony Milliner – Alan Littlejohn Sextet, The Victoria Hotel, The White Hart, Tony Milliner, Town Hall, Trevor Swale, Tubby Hayes’ Rehearsal Band, Vic Collins Jazzmen, Village hall, Wilton’s Music Hall -
Displayed
(c’81-’82) Ian Johnston (vocals), Anthony Whittaker (guitar), Gavin Dunt (bass), and Rick Creed (drums).
Dunt, following the split of Matrix, got together with a few friends in early ’81 to form Displayed. The band played a few gigs locally at The Wooden Bridge, Guildford; the Village Hall, Cranleigh; and at the Hopwood run Old Co-op, Woking. There was also a gig at the Art College, Winchester. They later moved rehearsals to London and were joined by Disruptive Patterns‘ keyboardist, Adam Peters.
Gallery:
Displayed’s Gavin Dunt at The Wooden Bridge, Guildford. Picture courtesy of Gavin Dunt 
Displayed’s Ian Johnston at The Wooden Bridge, Guildford. Picture courtesy of Gavin Dunt 
Displayed (L-R Ian Johnston, Anthony Whittaker and Gavin Dunt) at The Woodenbridge, Guildford. Picture courtesy of Gavin Dunt
Our Soundscene 
Human beings takes me back to 1981. Followed them all over the Surrey reading area for a year a great band and 3 good guys playing well written songs of the era. I wish john Tim and steve well what ever they are doing now. Should reform for a few shows just like Oasis but do the wooden bridge.
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