ARTISTS D – G
The Damned – Focus Youth Club, Dogsthorpe – 30th September 1978
- appeared as “The Doomned” after the original Damned line-up had split a few weeks earlier
- line-up was Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies, Henry Badowski
The Damned – Wirrina Stadium – 24th November 1979
- originally scheduled for 16th November but was put back after the mixing of their album (“Machine Gun Etiquette”) overran
The Damned – Wirrina Stadium – 4th December 1981
The Damned – The Park, Park Road – 19th August 2000
The Damned – The Park, Park Road – 7th December 2000
The Damned – Cresset, Bretton – 2nd August 2006
The Damned – Cresset, Bretton – 28th November 2007
The Damned – Showground, Alwalton – 17th May 2008
The Damned – The Park, Park Road (“Club Revolution”) – 9th August 2009
Dandy Livingstone – Drill Hall, London Road – 6th January 1973
Danny Storm – Corn Exchange – 21st May 1960
The Darkness – Met Lounge – 8th December 2002
The Darkness – Met Lounge – 13th February 2003
- “Justin stood on the monitors, lost his balance and grabbed the ceiling and pulled it down on top of him!!!”
- “They played The Met in Feb 2003 as a warm up to the theatre tour they were just about to do with Def Leppard – which they got after they played The Met in December 2002 and I spoke to Justin and said that they needed to get front of classic ‘rock’ audience in order to break through. I said then that Def Leppard had just announced a tour for March 2003 and that would be the perfect tour to get onto and he txd his agent there and then asking if they could be put forward. Its all started from that Def Leppard tour, they got a show with (I Think) Deep Purple at Wembley Arena and then the Robbie shows and then Radio 1 picked up on them and they were away” Steve Jason, Met Lounge
Darryl Way’s Wolf – Technical College – Mid 1970s
- ex Curved Air
Darts – Odeon, Broadway – 1979
Darts – The Cresset, Bretton – 5th July 1981
Dave Berry & The Cruisers – A1 Club, Wittering – 7th April 1965
Dave Berry & The Cruisers – Ramsey Gaiety – 19th June 1965
Dave Berry & The Cruisers – Boston Gliderdrome – 3rd July 1965
Dave Berry & The Cruisers – Palais, Wentworth Street – 4th September 1965
Dave Berry & The Cruisers – Boston Gliderdrome – 5th March 1966
Dave Berry & The Cruisers – A1 Club, Wittering – 6th September 1967
- support was The Justin Brothers
Dave Clark – Boston Gliderdrome – 25th February 1961
Dave Clark Five – Embassy Theatre – 12th April 1964
- a fantastic line-up also featuring The Hollies and The Kinks ! (see “The Hollies” & “The Kinks” for more details”)
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Ramsey Gaiety – 23rd October 1965
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Boston Gliderdrome – 5th February 1966
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Ramsey Gaiety – 30th April 1966
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Palais (“Palais De Danse”), Wentworth Street – 30th June 1966
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Boston Gliderdrome – 16th July 1966
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Boston Gliderdrome – 3rd February 1968
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Mick & Tich – Baston Playing Field (Marquee) – 14th September 1968
David Bowie (see “Manish Boys”)
David Bowie & The Buzz – Palais, Wentworth Street – 10th March 1966
David Bowie & The Buzz – Boston Gliderdrome – 13th August 1966
- third on the undercard behind Sonny Childe and headliners Johnny & John (ex Merseybeats)
David Essex – ABC – 1976
- his first solo tour
David Essex – Broadway Theatre – 15th November 2001, 17th May 2008
David Essex – Cresset, Bretton – 5th November 2009, 23rd November 2012 and more ?
David Lee Roth – Mallard Park Hotel – 6th March 1991
- supported by Warrant and Jagged Edge
Dawn (featuring Tony Orlando) – Boston Gliderdrome – 9th October 1971
Deacon Blue – Broadway Theatre – 17th November 2001
The Deep Throats – Unity Hall – 9th November 1978
- supported by The Now
Demon Fuzz – Great Hall, Oundle School – 13th June 1971
- afro-rock group formed by UK immigrants from Commonwealth countries
- supported by Heron
Denny Brand & His Rockets – Corn Exchange – 14th February 1959
Denny Laine & His String Band – Boston Gliderdrome – 22nd April 1967
- ex Moody Blues
The Desecrators – The Glasshouse, Key Theatre – 1987 ?
Desmond Decker & The Aces – Ramsey Gaiety – 27th January 1968
Desmond Decker & The Aces – Spinning Wheel Club, Bull & Dolphin – 5th April 1969
- “Desmond Decker arrived in the back of a big old Humber wearing a coat with a fur collar. The Aces opened the set and lit the place up before he even set foot on stage !”
- arrived at the Bull & Dolphin the same week that “Israelites” hit #1 in the UK charts and an estimated 1,000 turned up to a venue holding around 200 !
- support was UK prog rock band “If” who went down so well that the club managers decided to start regular Sunday rock nights thereafter !
Desmond Decker & The Aces – Boston Gliderdrome – 20th September 1969
Desmond Decker & The Aces – Boston Gliderdrome – 23rd October 1971
Desmond Decker – The Cresset, Bretton – 29th July 1978
The Destructors – Herlington Centre, Orton Malborne – 25th February 1978
- played with fellow local band The Now
The Destructors – Technical College – 23rd April 1983
- supporting Sisters Of Mercy
- billed as “Demons Of Youth” due to The Destructors being banned from playing in the city at the time !
Diamond Head – The Park, Park Road – 4th November 2007
- set list was Lightning to the Nations (with “Am I Evil?” Intro), Give It to Me, The Prince, This Planet and Me, In the Heat of the Night, Skin on Skin, Sucking My Love, Helpless, Am I Evil?, Mine All Mine, Streets of Gold. Encore: To the Devil His Due
Detroit Emeralds – Wirrina Stadium – 5th March 1976
The Detours – The Gaslight Club – 1987 ?
Dickie Valentine – Embassy Theatre – 10th March 1958
- week long residence with Roy Castle, Jimmy James, Clarkson & Leslie, Lester Sharp & Iris, Kendor Brothers and Three Brittons
Doctor & The Medics – Glasshouse Sessions, Key Theatre – 1980s
Doctor & The Medics – Bourne Festival – 12th June 2004
Doctor Feelgood – Cresset, Bretton – 29th October 2000
Doctors of Madness – Oundle School, Great Hall – 14th November 1976
- setlist was Mainlines, Doctors of Madness, Marie and Joe, B Movie Bedtime, Billy Watch Out!, In Camera, Brothers, Suicide City, Waiting, Please Don’t Shoot The Pianist Encore: Cool, I’m Waiting for the Man
- “We booked them based on their promo boast of the Kw output of their light and sound rigs !”
- “November 1976 was still pre-punk – at least so far as public school Northamptonshire was concerned – we had no idea what was coming and the bleak nihilism and energy the Docs brought to the show blew me away and perfectly set the scene for the coming youth explosion that was punk.”
Dogs D’Amour – Cresset, Bretton – 1989
- supporting Uriah Heep
The Dole – Community Complex, Padholme Road – 4th November 1977
- appeared with fellow Peterborough band Gobblinz
The Dole – Focus Youth Club, Dogsthorpe – 14th January 1978
- supporting Suburban Studs
The Dole – Technical College – 6th May 1978
- supporting Stadium Dogs
The Dole – Focus Youth Club, Dogsthorpe – 7th October 1978
- supporting The Only Ones
The Dole – St Barnabas Hall, Taverners Road – 26th January 1979
The Dole – Technical College – 10th November 1978
- supported by White Heat and The Now
The Dole – Technical College – 28th April 1979
Donovan – Palais, Wentworth Street – 5th August 1965
- was scheduled for 3rd July 1965 but “failed to appear” !
Donovan – Boston Gliderdrome – 4th September 1965
Donovan – Whittlesey (“The Barn BBQ Concert & Barn Dance”) – 2nd/3rd June 1968
- with John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, Amen Corner
- the venue was a newly built “centrally heated” warehouse on Benwick Road (today’s Lattersey Hill Trading Estate and possibly the “Harveys” warehouse ?)
- Sunday headliners The Move never showed up, leaving Amen Corner to headline !
- “Bundy’s pit was the camping field. The actual event was in one of the warehouses opposite on Station Road. Think it was the Kingsbury’s furniture warehouse.”
The Doomed – Focus Youth Club, Dogsthorpe – 21st October 1978
- see “The Damned” above
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 8th July 1967
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 30th September 1967
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 28th October 1967
The (“Original”) Drifters – Ramsey Gaiety – 24th February 1968
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 16th March 1968
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 5th October 1968
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 10th May 1969
The (“Original”) Drifters – Boston Gliderdrome – 18th October 1969
The Drifters – Wirrina Stadium – 19th April 1974
The Drifters – La Scala Night Club – 12th October 1983
- “I typed that menu! I’d actually typed up 50 and then we were notified that the woman in America who owned the name “The Drifters” wouldn’t allow it to be used so their management hastily changed it to “Johnny Moore & Slightly Adrift”! I had 1 hour to type another 50 and was definitely slightly adrift myself by that time! Good night though and they were great guys, even if they did arrive early and frightened the living daylights out of me!”
The Drifters – Broadway Theatre – 26th November 2011
The Drifters – Cresset, Bretton – 1st December 2012, 10th November 2013
The Drones – Focus Youth Club, Dogsthorpe – 14th October 1978
- supported by The Now and The Dole
The Duane Eddy Show – Boston Gliderdrome – 7th October 1967
Duane Eddy & The Quotations – Ramsey Gaiety – 27th April 1968
Ducks DeLuxe – Great Hall, Oundle School – 15th June 1974
Duke D’Mond & The Barron Knights – Boston Gliderdrome – 19th January 1963
Duke D’Mond & The Barron Knights – Ramsey Gaiety – 23rd March 1963
Duke D’Mond & The Barron Knights – Boston Gliderdrome – 5th July 1963
Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts – The Cresset, Bretton – 3rd April 1992
Dusty Springfield – Embassy Theatre – 18th February 1962
- see “The Springfields” for show details
Dusty Springfield – Boston Gliderdrome – 15th January 1966
Dynatones – Various – 1960s
- local Peterborough band who were formed in the late 1950s and had the dubious legend to play before the Beatles on their 1963 visit to the Embassy Theatre. Pianist with band, Adam Titman, remembered how John Lennon offered them some friendly advice after their set. “He said we all played well, but told us to stop being like the Shadows. It was a revelation because up until then most bands did try to be like the Shadows and the Beatles were one of the few who didn’t !”
- Top centre:- COLIN HODGKINSON ( Bass Guitar- who is now a world acclaimed musician ), Extreme left:- TREVOR WRIGHT ( Drummer -Stage Name Trev West ) Deceased, Extreme right:- ADRIAN TITMAN ( Keyboards – Now Adrian King gigging & residing U.S.A.), Bottom Left:- TONY BENHAM ( Vocalist ) Deceased, Bottom Middle:- MICK LEMMON ( Rythmn Guitarist ) Deceased, Bottom Right:- Richard ‘Bugs’ Austin ( Lead Guitarist – living in Aussie & still gigging ).
East Of Eden – A1 Club, Wittering – Early 1970s
East Of Eden – Technical College – Early 1970s
East Of Eden – Boston Gliderdrome – 2nd January 1971
East 17 – Orton Longueville School – November 1992
- school pupil won competition to have band play a show
- 200 tickets for the show
The Easybeats – Ramsey Gaiety – 17th December 1966
Ed Sheeran – Cresset, Bretton – 26th May 2010
- supporting Example
- tickets cost £10
Eden Kane – Boston Gliderdrome – 25th March 1961
Eden Kane – Boston Gliderdrome – 20th January 1962
Eden Kane – Corn Exchange – 27th January 1962
Eden Kane – Ramsey Gaiety – 14th November 1964
Eddie & Finbar Furey – City Folk Club, Grand Hotel, Wentworth Street – 25th August 1969
Eddie Calvert – Embassy Theatre – 1953
Eddie Holman – Wirrina Stadium – 12th November 1977
Edison Lighthouse – Boston Gliderdrome – 7th March 1970
Edison Lighthouse – POSH Club – 26th May 1977
Edmundo Ross – Mansfield Palais – Late 1940s/Early 1950s
Edwin Starr – Boston Gliderdrome – 28th January 1967
Edwin Starr – Boston Gliderdrome – 4th March 1967
Edwin Starr – Boston Gliderdrome – 10th June 1967
Edwin Starr – Ramsey Gaiety – 5th October 1968
Edwin Starr – Wirrina Stadium – 1976
Egg – Great Hall, Oundle School – Early 1970s
Egg – Halcyon, Atherstone Avenue – 29th February 1972
- original “Canterbury Scene” progressive rock band
Electric Light Orchestra – Boston Gliderdrome – 31st March 1973
The Elgins – Boston Gliderdrome – 2nd October 1971
Elkie Brooks – Cresset, Bretton – 25th May 1994, 24th October 1995
Elton John – Boston Gliderdrome – 24th February 1973
Elton John – Abax Stadium, London Road – 11th June 2017
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Wirrina Stadium – 7th March 1980
- a tour of “small venues” which started with a date at the West Runton Pavillion in North Norfolk ….. all tickets were just £3 and only available from local vendors !
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Boston Gliderdrome – 26th September 1970
Emile Ford & The Checkmates – Embassy Theatre – 29th February 1960
Emile Ford & The Checkmates – Boston Gliderdrome – 15th September 1962
Emile Ford – Corn Exchange – 14th March 1963
Engelbert Humperdinck – Embassy Theatre – 1954
Engelbert Humperdinck – Palmerston Arms, Woodston – 1st July 1967
The Enid – Key Theatre – 30th April 1984
- this gig was filmed and shown in part on regional TV
The Enid – Key Theatre – 9th December 1984
The Enid – Key Theatre – 16th June 2011
Enter Shikari – The Park, Park Road – 13th October 2005
Enter Shikari – The Park, Park Road – 15th December 2005
Enter Shikari – Met Lounge – 7th September 2006
Enter Shikari – Cresset, Bretton – 10th October 2008
- set list was Step Up, The Jester, Return to Energiser, Kickin’ Back on the Surface of Your Cheek, Mothership, Hectic, OK, Time for Plan B
Enter Shikari – Cresset, Bretton – 28th April 2013
- set list was System, Meltdown, Sssnakepit, Sorry, You’re Not a Winner, Gandhi Mate Gandhi, The Feast, The Jester, The Paddington Frisk, Destabilise, Havoc B, All Eyes on the Saint, Arguing with Thermometers, Unite, Mothership (Motherstep 2.0). Encore: Return to Energiser, Zzzonked
The Equals – Ramsey Gaiety – 15th July 1967
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 22nd July 1967
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 8th June 1968
The Equals – Ramsey Gaiety – 15th June 1968
The Equals – Ramsey Gaiety – 3rd August 1968
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 12th October 1968
The Equals – Baston Playing Field (Marquee) – 7th April 1969
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 9th August 1969
The Equals – Freeman’s Field Marquee, Coates – 1960s
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 11th April 1970
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 22nd August 1970
The Equals – Ramsey Gaiety – 19th June 1971
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 4th September 1971
The Equals – Boston Gliderdrome – 8th July 1972
Erasure – Mallard Park Hotel – 10th August 1988
- Dogsthorpe born Andy Bell, one half of the Erasure duo, leapt from the Bretton Sainsbury’s meat counter in 1985 to answer an advert from which Erasure was born !
Esperanto – Oundle School, Great Hall – Early 1970s
- Belgo-English rock band
Evelyn Thomas – Wirrina Stadium – 1970s
Example – Met Lounge – 15th January 2010
- this was one of two dates played at the venue (other date unknown)
Example – Cresset, Bretton – 26th May 2010 (see “Ed Sheeran”)
- supported by Ed Sheeran and Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
The Exciters – Wirrina Stadium – 5th September 1975
The Exciters – Wirrina Stadium – 2nd July 1976
Explosive Amazing Gas Medicine Show – Halcyon, Atherstone Avenue – Early 1970s ?
Fabulous Flee Reckers – Corn Exchange – 13th August 1960
- early london based rock ‘n’ rollers
Factory – Peterborough Technical College – Early 1970s (numerous gigs)
- London based Psychedelic Rock band
Fairport Convention – Whittlesey (“The Barn BBQ Concert & Barn Dance”) – 2nd/3rd June 1968
- with Donovan, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Fleetwood Mac, Amen Corner
- see “Donovan” for more details on this show
Fairport Convention – Baston Playing Field (Marquee) – 19th July 1969
- line up was Simon Nicol (guitar, vocal), Richard Thompson (guitar, vocal), Ashley Hutchings (bass), Sandy Denny (vocal, piano), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandolin, vocal), Dave Mattacks (drums, keyboards, bass)
Fairport Convention – Wirrina Stadium – 1987
Fairweather (Andy Fairweather Low) – Ramsey Gaiety – 3rd July 1971
The Fall – The Park, Park Road – 15th October 2001
- “The Joke / Cyber Insekt / Bourgeois Town / Crop-Dust / Antidotes / Way Round / Touch Sensitive / Mr Pharmacist / Folding Money / And Therein / Two Librans / Dr Buck’s Letter / I Am Damo Suzuki. I’m sure that I’ve missed out a couple of tunes, also the running order is suspect. Anyone?A really good show, which I enjoyed far more than the last couple of outings I’d caught (Junction Cambridge UK & Forum London UK 1999).Nice small venue, pleasantly crowded, decent sound. The lads seemed a bit lost on a couple of numbers, with bemused glances being exchanged particularly during Mr Pharmacist & Two Librans. This didn’t seem to dampen their or MES’s apparent good mood though, and when they did ‘get it together’ (which they certainly did on most numbers) things seemed to really take off. Damo Suzuki surfaced as the second encore – blistering after a nervous start. Smith left the lads to it after some amp-twiddling and a friendly wrestle with the bassist. The drummer, by now stripped to the waist & looking fit to drop, eventually underlined the end of the proceedings by kicking over his kit. I’m guessing any more encores & he’d have needed an ambulance – rather than this being a sad rock cliche!”
Family – Boston Gliderdrome – 17 October 1970
- Leicester band
The Fantastics – Boston Gliderdrome – 2nd March 1968
- American soul/funk band
The Farinas – St Mary’s Hall – 11th September 1964
The Farinas – The Crown, Westgate – 5th March 1965
- Leicester based band who went on to form the nucleus of sixties prog-rock band Family
- very regular visitors to the city at this time, playing the A1 Club, Elwes Hall and even The Palais
Fatback Band – Wirrina Stadium – 1987
Fatback Band – Wirrina Stadium – 1987 (played two gigs in 1987)
The Felice Taylor Show – Boston Gliderdrome – 26th October 1968
- American soul singer
The Ferris Wheel – Boston Gliderdrome – 28th October 1967
The Ferris Wheel – Boston Gliderdrome – 23rd November 1968
Fields of the Nephilim – Wirrina Stadium, Bishops Road
Fields of the Nephilim – Tropicana, Bishops Road – 18th June 1986
- with Gene Loves Jezebel and the Heroes
Fields of the Nephilim – Cresset, Bretton – 29th July 1990
Flamin’ Groovies – Boston Gliderdrome – 29th July 1972
Fleetwood Mac – Whittlesey (“The Barn BBQ Concert & Barn Dance”) – 2nd/3rd June 1968
- with Donovan, Fairport Convention, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Amen Corner
- see “Donovan” for more details on this show
Fleetwood Mac – Ramsey Gaiety – 12th October 1968
- billed as “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac”)
Flying Hat Band – Halcyon, Atherstone Avenue (Cloud Nine) – 22nd February 1972
- highly regarded Birmingham based heavy rockers that failed to make the big time
- featured guitarist Glenn Tipton who went on to play with Judas Priest who did make it !
- also featured drummer Steve Palmer who was the brother of Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer fame
FM – Tropicana Room, Wirrina – 27th January 1987
- supported by White Sister
The Fortunes – Boston Gliderdrome – 9th November 1963
The Fortunes – Ramsey Gaiety – 18th January 1964
The Fortunes – Ramsey Gaiety – 18th April 1964
The Fortunes – Ramsey Gaiety – 10th October 1964
The Fortunes – Ramsey Gaiety – 13th March 1965
The Fortunes – Palais, Wentworth Street – 10th July 1965
The Fortunes – ABC Embassy Theatre – 13th November 1965
- supporting Herman’s Hermits
The Fortunes – Boston Gliderdrome – 19th February 1966
The Fortunes – Palais, Wentworth Street – 26th March 1966
The Fortunes – Boston Gliderdrome – 9th July 1966
The Fortunes – Ramsey Gaiety – 12th November 1966
The Fortunes – Fletton Ex-Servicemens Club – 16th November 1979
The Foundations – Boston Gliderdrome – 16th December 1967
The Foundations – Ramsey Gaiety – 2nd November 1968
The Foundations – Cloud Nine, Grand Hotel – 31st December 1969
The Foundations – Drill Hall, London Road – 2nd February 1973
The Foundations – A1 Club, Wittering – 7th August 1974
The Four Pennies – Corn Exchange – 16th May 1964
- their hit “Juliet” made #1 in the charts at the time of the Peterborough show
The Four Pennies – Palais, Wentworth Street – 13th February 1965
The Four Pennies – Ramsey Gaiety – 6th March 1965
The Four Pennies – Ramsey Gaiety – 16th April 1966
The Fourmost – Corn Exchange – 26th October 1963
The Fourmost – Embassy Theatre – 10th November 1963
- support to Helen Shapiro (see Helen Shapiro show details for poster)
The Fourmost – Corn Exchange – 11th April 1964
The Fourmost – Boston Gliderdrome – 22nd May 1965
The Fourmost – Palais, Wentworth Street – 17th July 1965
The Fourmost – Ramsey Gaiety – 11th September 1965
The Fourmost – Ramsey Gaiety – 26th February 1966
The Fourmost – Ramsey Gaiety – 29th October 1966
The Fourmost – LaScala Nightclub – 6th September 1980
Frank Ifield – Embassy Theatre – 2nd December 1962
- Played as headliner on a lengthy bill that was opened by The Beatles (see Beatles show details above) !
Frank Turner – Met Lounge – 20th August 2003, 15th April 2004, 26th March 2005
Frank Turner – The Park, Park Road – 26th September 2006
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – ABC Theatre – 29th January 1971
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – ABC Theatre – April 1976
Frankie Vaughan – Milton ’80 Fete – 26th May 1980
Frantix – Glasshouse, Key Theatre – 18th August 1986
- with The Pleasure Heads
Freddie & The Dreamers – Ramsey Gaiety – 1st December 1962
Freddie & The Dreamers – Ramsey Gaiety – 27th April 1963
Freddie & The Dreamers – Boston Gliderdrome – 18th May 1963
Freddie & The Dreamers – Corn Exchange – 1st June 1963
Freddie & The Dreamers – Palais, Wentworth Street – 6th February 1965
- supported by The Charioteers (Hinckley)
Freddie & The Dreamers – Boston Gliderdrome – 19th March 1966
Freddie & The Dreamers – Boston Gliderdrome – 1st October 1966
Freddie Fingers Lee & The Shriekers – Palais, Wentworth Street – 10th October 1964
- supporting Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers
- featuring Ian “Mott The Hoople” Hunter on bass guitar
- in March 1964, Hunter chanced upon Freddie ‘Fingers’ Lee in a pub. Ian knew of Freddie, having seen him play with Screaming Lord Sutch’s backing band, the Savages. Ian asked Freddie to join The Shriekers as pianist and front man, and Ian switched over to bass. The reconstituted Shriekers played the Midlands circuit in 1964 and 1965, and also travelled regularly to Germany to play in Hamburg, Keil, and Duisburg.
Freddie Fingers Lee & The Shriekers – Ramsey Gaiety – 26th December 1964
Freddie Fingers Lee & The Storm – Ramsey Gaiety – 9th April 1966
Freddie Notes & The Rudies – Cloud Nine, Grand Hotel – 17th December 1969
- their seminal ska classic “Montego Bay” made #45 in the charts in October 1970 before the key members reformed as Greyhound who went on to have three top twenty hits in 1971/1972
The Freddy Mack Show – Boston Gliderdrome – 10th February 1968
Free – Cloud Nine, Grand Hotel – 9th November 1969
- a classic early appearance from Free well ahead of their 1970 release of “Alright Now” that brought them overnight fame and legend !
Free – Boston Gliderdrome – 15th August 1970
Funeral For A Friend – Cresset, Bretton – 15th October 2009
- watch “Into Oblivion” from the Cresset show HERE
Funeral For A Friend – Met Lounge – 6th August 2011
The Gangsters – Wirrina Stadium – 28th March 1980
- Brum Beat Tour with The Quads
- The gig was cancelled !
Garnett Mimms – Boston Gliderdrome – 29th July 1967
- American soul singer
Garnett Mimms – Boston Gliderdrome – 23rd September 1967
Gary Glitter – Boston Gliderdrome – 26th August 1972
Gary Glitter – Boston Gliderdrome – 16th December 1972
Gary Glitter – Boston Gliderdrome – 7th April 1973
Gary Glitter – Mallard Park Hotel – 1990s
Gary Moore Band – Technical College – 2nd November 1973 (band never turned up ?)
- supported by Jasper
- Chris Johnson, “I was at the Gary Moore gig, no doubt printed tickets exist – their gear was even set up on stage with a very impressive drum set up – but the band had a car accident that day and were replaced at the 11th hour – I think the stand ins were either GT Moore & Reggae Guitars or String Driven Thing?”
Gaye Bykers On Acid – Cresset, Bretton – 7th July 1989
- with The Black Sky
Gene Loves Jezebel – Tropicana, Bishops Road – 18th June 1986
- with Fields Of Nephilim and The Heroes
Gene Loves Jezebel – Wirrina Stadium – Late 1987
- with Passion Fodder and Hunting Party
Gene Pitney – Embassy Theatre – 22nd March 1964
Gene Pitney – ABC Theatre – 1st May 1968
- support included Status Quo and Amen Corner
Gene Pitney – Cresset, Bretton – 9th October 1990
Gene Pitney – Cresset, Bretton – 23rd October 1992
Gene Pitney – Cresset, Bretton – 21st October 1999
Gene Pitney – Broadway Theatre – 19th March 2006
- many thanks to Chris Boland for use of this image
Gene Vincent – Corn Exchange – 4th February 1961
- show was cancelled the week before due to “booking duplication” by his agent Don Arden
Gene Vincent – Corn Exchange – 11th March 1961
- “my Dad’s mate saw Gene play at the Peterborough Corn Exchange after he’d recovered (from the accident that killed Eddie Cochran in April 1960) and he came out and sung ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, dedicated it to Eddie, and then broke down and had to be helped off stage.”
- show was originally set for 4th February 1961 but was rescheduled
- support band was Chris Wayne & The Echoes
Gene Vincent & The Shouts – Elwes Hall, Church Walk – 17th July 1964
- the legendary rock ‘n roller played in France the night before and was at Heacham the following night !
Genesis – Great Hall, Oundle School – 1970
- “complete with Peter Gabriel wearing a box on his head !”
Genesis – Cloud Nine, Grand Hotel – 14th February 1971
- the band were touring in support of their Trespass album released in 1970. Tour set list was Happy the Man, Stagnation, The Fountain of Salmacis, The Light, Twilight Alehouse, The Musical Box, The Knife.
Genesis – ABC Theatre – 3rd April 1980
- set list was Deep in the Motherlode, Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (Intro), The Carpet Crawlers, Squonk, One for the Vine, Behind the Lines, Duchess, Guide Vocal, Turn It On Again, Duke’s Travels, Duke’s End, The Lady Lies, Ripples…, In the Cage, The Colony of Slippermen, Afterglow, Follow You Follow Me, Dance on a Volcano, Drum Duet, Los Endos. Encore: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Palais, Wentworth Street – 2nd June 1966
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Boston Gliderdrome – 14th January 1967
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Ramsey Gaiety – 28th January 1967
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Boston Gliderdrome – 30th December 1967
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Baston Playing Field (Marquee) – 9th August 1969
- unless the band played the same venue twice in quick succession, this gig may not have happened despite being advertised
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Baston Playing Field (Marquee) – 4th October 1969
Geno Washington – Key Theatre
- week long Key Music Festival
George Formby – Embassy Theatre – 1946
George Hamilton IV – Embassy Theatre
George Hamilton IV – Embankment (Country Music Festival) – 1985 ?
Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames – Corn Exchange – 29th February 1964
- supported by Unit 4
Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames – Boston Gliderdrome – 16th May 1964
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Embassy Theatre – 13th December 1964
with The Kinks and an “unknown” Tom Jones
- Programme courtesy David Boocock
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Boston Gliderdrome – 2nd April 1966
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Anabelles, Bridge Street – 27th February 1980
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Central Park – 29th June 2002
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Cresset, Bretton – 23rd October 2009
The Ghears – Met Lounge – 2000s
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band featured Paul Archer, vocalist with Snow Patrol and brother Iain Archer – producer & writer for Jake Bugg (among many others) and also one time member of Snow Patrol
Ghost – Great Hall, Oundle School – 24th February 1974
Gilbert O’Sullivan – ABC Theatre – 23rd February 1978
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Cresset, Bretton – 3rd April 2012
Ginger Baker’s Airforce – Boston Gliderdrome – 10th October 1970
Girlschool – The Fleet, Fletton – 6th March 1980
Girlschool – The Fleet, Fletton – 16th July 1980
- supported by Easy Prey
Glitter Band – Wirrina Stadium – 27th September 1974
The Globe Show – Baston Playing Field (Marquee) – 20th September 1969
- well respected UK soul band who supported many top acts including Ben E King and Jimmy Ruffin
The Go-Go’s – Wirrina Stadium – 23rd April 1980
- support to Madness
Go West – Broadway Theatre – 17th July 2010
Gobblinz – Community Complex, Padholme Road – 4th November 1977
- appeared with fellow Peterborough band The Dole
Gobblinz – Bull & Dolphin – 27th December 1977
- based on the adverts for the February 1978 gig, the band probably didn’t play this one !
Gobblinz – Bull & Dolphin – 9th February 1978
Gobblinz – Technical College – 7th July 1978
Gobblinz – Technical College – 10th November 1978
- supported by White Heat and The Now
Gobblinz – Focus Youth Club, Dogsthorpe – 14th October 1978
- with The Dole and The Now
Gobblinz – Cressett, Bretton – 20th January 1979
- supported by T’Birds
Godfathers – Tropicana, Bishops Road – Late 1980s ?
Goldie – Town Hall – 17th November 1973
Gonzalez – Wirrina Stadium – 7th May 1979
Gonzalez – LaScala Nightclub – 27th June 1981
Graham Bond Organisation – Ramsey Gaiety – 10th December 1966
Graham Bond Organisation – Cloud Nine, Grand Hotel – 14th December 1969
Greenfield Hammer – Town Hall – 13th September 1969
- three months after the gig, the Slough based band auditioned to back up singer Tony Burrows and became Edison Lighthouse who had the hit “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” in 1970
Greenslade – Oundle School – 9th December 1973
Groundhogs – Peterborough Technical College – 1974
- supported by Nutz
Groundhogs – Willow Festival, Embankment – 2000
Gwen McRae – Wirrina Stadium, Bishops Road – Late 1980s ?
Gypsy – Technical College – Early 1970s
Gypsy – A1 Club, Wittering – 29th November 1974