April - June 1965

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1965 Charts etc

Date	Venue	Details and Notes
January 1st 1965	Market Tavern	Lykes Of Witch
January 8th 1965	Little Fat Black Pussy Cat	Mort Draygen Halifax harmonica led blues band. Recorded "If I Had a Ticket" as Mort Draygen & The Diamonds
January 9th 1965	Little Fat Black Pussy Cat	Victor Brox Blues Train
January 17th 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Alexis Korner & The Blues Inc
January 18th 1965	Majestic Ballroom	The Mojos
January 23rd 1965	Little Fat Black Pussy Cat	Original All Stars	Until November 1964 these were the "Hoochie Coochie Men" when the band also included Rod Stewart
January 24th 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Jimmy Powell & The Five Dimensions
January 24th 1965	Lyceum Rainbow Club	Anne Shelton Tom Jones & Squires Originally known as Tommy Scott & The Senators he changed to Tom Jones when he left Joe Meek. "It's Not Unusual" was released the following month. The song was originally intended for Sandie Shaw and was his second release for Decca
January 31st 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Joe Cocker's Big Blues
February 7th 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Rod Stewart & The Soul Agents
February 14th 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	John Mayall & The Blues Breakers
February 15th 1965	Majestic	Zoot Money & His Big Roll Band
February 18th 1965	Queens Hall	Swinging Blue Jeans
February 19th 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	Lykes Of Witch
February 21st 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Zoot Money & His Big Roll Band
February 22nd 1965	Majestic	Hollies
February 21st 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Graham Bond Organisation Advert for coach trip to the Twisted Wheel in Manchester
February 24th 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	Undertakers (Takers)
March 3rd 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	Screaming Jay Hawkins	Wrote and recorded "I Put A Spell On You" in 1956. He died 12th February 2000 aged 70.
March 6th 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	The Beat Merchants	Formed in Horsham, Sussex in 1962. Toured in 1964 with Gene Vincent and Lulu
March 7th 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Alexis Korner & The Blues Breakers
March 8th 1965	Majestic	Lulu & The Luvvers
March 10th 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	Mojos
March 12th 1965	Witchbarn Club	Opened at 8 Manor Street Obviously encountered early problems because the following month "After considering the damage inflicted to the property over the last weekend the management must impose a ban on all rockers or jean clad youths whatsoever
March 14th 1965	St George's Hall	Adam Faith Sandie Shaw Barron Knights Paramounts Roulettes Patrick Kerr Freddie Earle That's Where It Is Girl Don't Come Lemon Tree I'll Stop At Nothing Always Something There To Remind Me
March 17th 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	Applejacks Were the first band to appear at the Top 20 when it opened in May 1964
March 19th 1965	Gaumont	Roy Orbison Rocking Berries Marianne Faithful Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers Untamed Three Quarters Jon Mark Frank Berry (compere) Promoter : Arthur Howes
March 21st 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Victor Brox Blues Train
March 24th 1965	Top 20 Club, Idle	Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages
March 27th 1965	Witchbarn Club	Downliners Sect David John & The Mood They recorded for Columbia and their cover of "Little Egypt" appears on a number of compilation albums.	The advert is presumably a typo Based in Preston. Shared the same management company as the Rolling Stones. Made three singles, the last two were produced by Joe Meek
March 28th 1965	Troutbeck, Ilkley	Screaming Jay Hawkins Had appeared earlier in the month at the Top 20 Club in Idle

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