Welcome to another posting of a series of gig listings for 1960s bands. None of these lists is exhaustive and my idea is to add to them in the comments section below over time. They are here for future researchers to draw on. I have also added a few interesting bits of information and will add images in time.
I’d like to encourage band members to get in touch to share memories, or for anyone to send corrections/clarifications to my email: Warchive@aol.com
Equally important, if you attended any of the gigs below or played in the support band, please do leave your memories below in the comments section for future historians to use. If you know of any missing gigs, please add them too, if possible, with the sources.
Formed in 1959, The Paramounts’ line-up comprised the following by late 1963:
Gary Brooker – keyboards/lead vocals
Robin Trower – lead guitar
Graham ‘Diz’ Derrick – bass
Barry J Wilson – drums
1964:
19 January 1964 – Olympia Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire (Bucks Free Press)
22 January 1964 – Cromer Olympia, Cromer, Norfolk with Denny Raven & The Sabres (North Norfolk News)
21 February 1964 – Palace Dance Hall, Pier Hill, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
29 March 1964 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with Danie Boone & The Emeralds (Aldershot News)
30 March 1964 – California Ballroom, Dunstable, Bedfordshire with The Puppets and Margo & The Marvelletes (website: www.california-ballroom.info/gigs/)
4 April 1964 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts with Johnny & The Starliners (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)
15 May 1964 – Ricky-Tick, Plaza Ballroom, Guildford, Surrey (Aldershot News)
18 May 1964 – Clacton Town Hall, Clacton, Essex with The Contrasts and The Deepbeats (Essex County Standard)
5 June 1964 – Wimbledon Palais, Wimbledon, London with Demons and Chantons (Streatham News)
10 July 1964 – Winchester Lido, Winchester, Hampshire with Kerry Rapid & The Seltones (Hampshire & Berkshire Gazette)
24 July 1964 – Locarno Ballroom, Basildon, Essex with Manfred Mann and The Monotones (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
4 September 1964 – Greenwich Town Hall, Greenwich, London with The Renegades (South East London Mercury)
10 September 1964 – Modern Jazz Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
11 October 1964 – 76 Club, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire (website: http://www.76club.org.uk/gigs.html)
Around this time B J Wilson left to join Jimmy Powell’s Five Dimensions and Phil Wainman joined beating Mick Underwood to the job. Wainman had recently returned from Sweden where he’d played with British band, The Hi-Grades
7 November 1964 – Gaiety Ballroom, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire with Bobby Leroy & The Freeman (website: http://peterboroughimages.co.uk/music/?p=8130)
17 December 1964 – Modern Jazz Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
1965:
2 January 1965 – Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey with The King Bees (Surrey Advertiser)
10 January 1965 – Dungeon Club, Nottingham (website: https://dungeonmods.wordpress.com/)
14 January 1965 – Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
31 January 1965 – Agincourt Ballroom, Camberley, Surrey with Daniel & The Emeralds (Aldershot News)
According to Ron Wood’s book ‘How Can I Be? A Rock & Roll Diary’, Phil Wainman deputised for Pete McDaniels in The Birds for a gig at London Polytechnic on 6 February 1965
11 February 1965 – Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
7 March 1965 – Walthamstow Guardian, Walthamstow with Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw, The Barron Knights, The Roulettes, Patrick Kerr and Freddie Earle (Leyton, Leytonstone and Waltham Forest Guardian)
Around this time B J Wilson returned to the band. Wainman later became a noted producer but spent the mid-late 1960s backing Jimmy Cliff with The New Generation, playing with Hamilton & The Hamilton Movement and then working with The Quotations, supporting Jack Hammer
17 April 1965 – Hastings Pier, Hastings, East Sussex with The Searchers (Roger Bistow’s research at Dizzy Tiger Music website)
19 April 1965 – Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
21 April 1965 – Studio, Westcliffe, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
22 April 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)
6 May 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)
10 May 1965 – Blue Moon, Hayes, Middlesex with Poison Ivy (Dorothy Bullock list) This could be another year
14 May 1965 – Cricketers Inn, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
20 May 1965 – Birdcage, Kimbells Ballroom, Southsea, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)
21 May 1965 – Tarpots Public House, Benfleet, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
28 May 1965 – Cricketers Inn, Southend, Essex with Ray Martin Group (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
2 June 1965 – TA Centre, Andover, Hampshire with The Men Friday (Andover Advertiser)
16 July 1965 – Tarpots Public House, Benfleet, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
23 July 1965 – Tarpots Public House, Benfleet, Essex (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
18 August 1965 – Cricketers Inn, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
28 August 1965 – Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts with The Cortinas (Steve Ingless book: The Day Before Yesterday)
4 September 1965 – Cricketers Inn, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
9 September 1965 – Orchid Ballroom, Purley, London (Chris Broom book: Rockin’ and Around Croydon) They backed Sandie Shaw
24 September 1965 – Locarno Ballroom, Basildon, Essex with The Transalantics and The Pentads (Southend Standard & Essex Weekly Advertiser)
27 November 1965 – Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire with Sandie Shaw, The Quiet Five and The Basic Five (Lincolnshire Standard)
24 December 1965 – Cricketers Inn, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
31 December 1965 – Cricketers Inn, Southend, Essex with The Orioles (Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser)
1966:
3 January 1966 – Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (website: http://www.coda-uk.co.uk/60’s_music_scene.htm)
4 January 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)
1 February 1966 – Ready Steady Go Club, Aylesbury, Bucks (website: http://aylesburymusictown.co.uk/)
19 February 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)
22 April 1966 – Birdcage, Eastney, Hampshire (Dave Allen research)
23 April 1966 – Farnborough Technical College Students’ Union, Farnborough, Hampshire with Tony Rivers & The Castaways (Aldershot News)
29 April 1966 – Cricketer’s Inn, Southend, Essex (Southend Standard)
In late June/early July Robin Trower left to form his own group, The Jam and Martin Shaw joined on guitar from Jimmy Powell’s group
14 July 1966 – Bamboo Club, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)
16 July 1966 – Bamboo Club, Farnborough, Hampshire (Aldershot News)
The Paramounts split soon after and B J Wilson joined George Bean & The Runners before joining Freddie Mack and The Mack Sound later that year. He then worked with Sands before he reunited with Brooker and Trower in Procol Harum in June 1967
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