During the mid sixties a wealth of British Talent played at The Beat Scene Club held at The Wolsey Hall in Cheshunt.Here is a list of club nights held between 1964 and 1966.
1964
APRIL
16th The Migil Five
JUNE
26th Unit 4+1
AUGUST
26th The Mark Four
SEPTEMBER
02nd The Fairies
03rd Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band
10th The Honeycombs
16th Johnny Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
17th The Roulettes
23rd The Mark Four
30th The Clique
OCTOBER
02nd Unit 4+1
11th The High Numbers
14th The Mark Four
18th The Cheynes
21st The Cherokees
25th The Mark Four
28th Unit 4+1
NOVEMBER
04th The Poets
05th Herbie Groins & The Nightimers
11th Phillip Goodhand-Tate & The Stormville Shakers
13th The Shevells
18th The Who
19th Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbolts
25th The Fairies
26th Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames
29th R.B.Q.
DECEMBER
09th The Birds
13th The Wackers
16th The Mark Four
20th The Fenmen
27th The Mark Four
30th The Challengers
1965
JANUARY
02nd Mike Berry & The Innocents
06th The Roulettes
13th The Who
17th The Vincents
20th Cops ‘n’ Robbers
24th R.B.Q.
27th The Mark Four
31st The Wackers
FEBRUARY
03rd The Mark Leeman Five
07th The Prophets
10th Four + One
14th Loose Ends
17th The Riot Squad
24th The Mark Four
MARCH
03rd The Animals
10th The Yardbirds
17th Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band
24th The Mark Four
31st The T Bones
APRIL
06th The Zephyrs
14th The Downliner Sect
21st Them
28th The Shevells
MAY
12th The In Crowd
19th The Mark Four
26th Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages
SUMMER BREAK
SEPTEMBER
08th The Moody Blues
15th Radio London Kenny & Cash Show
OCTOBER
06th The Fourmost
10th The Mark Four
13th Radio London Kenny & Cash Show
17th Prophets
20th The Mojos
27th The Herd
NOVEMBER
03rd Radio London Kenny & Cash Show
10th The Mark Four
24th The Nashville Teens
DECEMBER
01st The Who
08th The Mike Cotton Sound
15th The Pentad
1966
JANUARY
12th The Small Faces
FEBRUARY
09th The Kinks
16thThe Valkyrie
MARCH
02nd The Who
OCTOBER
21st The Little People
31st Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
NOVEMBER
07th The Riot Squad
Any corrections or additions to this list would be greatly appreciated.
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I lived in Hertford in the 60’s. If we didn’t go to the Cherry Tree in WGC or the Corn Exchange in Hertford or the Cally (Californian, Dunstable) or the Mecca in Stevenage then we went to the Wolsey Hall in Cheshunt. Its difficult to tell kids these days, that we could see all those bands on our doorstep, pay ‘half a crown’, smoke Woodbines and pint of mild for a shilling! Fond memories.
Helo everyone.
The Beat Scene club was put together by my Dad and Mum. Norman and Chris Sheffield.
Dad went to school with Cliff. Was in a local band called the Hunters who had a couple of hits. Then in 1968 created Trident Studios. The Worlds first 8 Track Studio where the Beatles recorded Hey Jude and Bowie became Ziggy. In 1972 he discovered and signed Queen.
I was born in Waltham Cross and am still active in the music business. It’s in my blood. 😁
WOW (Good Vibes) I was born in 1960 living off Theobalds Grove In Cheshunt during this time so I was VERY young at the time and my first record which I still have is ‘Pickty Witch’ That same old feeling (1969). I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF albums of The KINKS (LOLA) and 7″ singles of the WHO However my niche market is the 70’s and 80’s and have just STARTED up my own DJ BUSINESS and looking to expand my 60’s collection. I supported ENFIELD FC throught the 80’s and 90’s till their demise and now a BIG FAN of ENFIELD TOWN FC and saw their first match at HOME to Grays in Ryman North Div 1 when they moved in to Donkey Lane I Live in West London at the moment and have been to a few games last season and will go to a few more this season. Brilliant blast from the past MARK W
Very interesting. I remember seeing some of these groups at the California Ballroom Dunstable. Plus elswhere, such as Watford, and believe it or not, Eric Burden and Chas. Chandler with Julie Grant at a fashion event in Hotham Park Bognor Regis in 1964. I took some cine film, which one day I will have to get transferred to DVD. But it is inconvenient at the moment. Alan French.