Heatwave - Xmas Ents December 1965
Thanks to John Clayton we are able to bring you Xmas Entertainments 1965. Plug in your loudspeakers, turn up the volume and sit yourself down in the New Hall at Gayton Road where it is December 1965, the chairs are set out and the curtains are about to open for Heatwave. Click on each item in turn:
The Alternative School Song The Alternative School Song, as John Clayton has called it, was obviously performed by a group of young ladies from the local places of learning, but there are no credits on the programme.
The Brethren
Rob Thomasson
Chris Elvin
Phil Mann
Dave Chenkin
Drumbreak (Click
here for the full-length MP3 recording)
Barry Johnson
Ronan Knox
Dustbowl (Click
here for the full-length MP3 recording)
Gerry Gold
Charlie Kreeger
Jon Hall (Click here for the full-length MP3 recording)
Sheila James and the A6 Combo
Billy Peter
Chris Elvin
Rob Thomasson
John Clayton
A Small Folk Group (Click
here for the full-length MP3 recording)
Steve Graham
Chris Rocker
Gerard Pitts
John Clayton writes: I think they ... capture some of the essence of the event. I borrowed a copied cassette from John Allen, but believe Pete Robinson was responsible for making the original recording. Just to add to the confusion, John Sewell seemed to be the guy who was rummaging through his loft looking for tapes (he was foolish enough to suggest there may be some more somewhere). I've edited them down quite a lot, applied a bit of audio tweaking to make them rather more listenable and coded them to 32Kb MP3, which seems to work quite well for this sort of less-than-perfect material.
There doesn't seem to be a great deal of correlation between all the items on the tape and the acts as presented in the programme. Neither of the bands that our group of old pals were involved with (Ikons and Mink Creed) got onto the tape, but maybe there are some more recordings yet to be uncovered. .... It's a shame there weren't any video cameras in those days. Maybe someone has some more photo's.
John Allen was the compere of the show and I believe the maestro on the piano in the 'pit', holding the whole thing together (which took some doing!) was John Orchard. No doubt John Sewell will correct me on anything I've got wrong. Hopefully, visitors to the site may also remember their own contributions.