Diary Of Engagements

Most of the more successful groups had a very hectic schedule of playing or rehearsing most nights during the 60's. In the majority of cases those engagements would be relatively local, although as a group gained in popularity and received greater exposure the location of gigs would move much further afield. Roger Bromley who was the lead guitarist with Dane Tempest & Atoms and the Soul Seekers has provided a diary of engagements for the Atoms from 1963, as follows:
     

January  
1/1/63   Regent Dance Club 19/1/63   Lichfield Guild Hall
3/1/63   Bridgnorth (Cancelled snow) 23/1/63   Claregate
5/1/63   Regent Dance Club 24/1/63   Practice Session
7/1/63   Castlecroft Hotel 25/1/63   Plaza Old Hill
8/1/63   Practice Session 26/1/63   Bridgnorth
12/1/63   Lichfield Guild Hall 29/1/63   Fieldhouse
17/1/63   Bridgnorth 30/1/63   Practice Session
18/1/63   21 Club Oakengates      

February

2/2/63   Plaza Old Hill 15/2/63   Woolpack
3/2/63   Ritz King's Heath 16/2/63   Ritz King's Heath

5/2/63

 

Claregate

19/2/63   Woolpack
6/2/63   Practice Session 21/2/63   Bridgnorth
8/2/63   Wheel O' Worfield 22/2/63   Plaza Old Hill
9/2/63   Bridgnorth 23/2/63   Bridgnorth
12/2/63   Claregate 24/2/63   Regent Dance Club
13/2/63   Crown Codsall 26/2/63   Woolpack
14/2/63   Sankeys Club 28/2/63   Castle Hall
March
1/3/63   Plaza Handsworth 17/3/63   Regent Dance Club
2/3/63   Regent Dance Club 22/3/63   W'ton Girls High School
3/3/63   Ritz King's Heath 23/3/63   Bilston Town Hall
5/3/63   Fieldhouse 24/3/63   Ritz King's Heath
8/3/63   21 Club Oakengates 26/3/63   Woolpack
9/3/63   Regent Dance Club 29/3/63   Wheel O' Worfield
10/3/63   Ritz King's Heath 30/3/63   Bridgnorth
16/3/63   Wednesbury YC      
April
6/4/63   Plaza Old Hill 20/4/63   Regent Dance Club
11/4/63   Plaza Handsworth 22/4/63   Castlecroft Hotel
12/4/63   Wheel O' Worfield 26/4/63   Wheel O' Worfield
13/4/63   Bridgnorth 27/4/63   Plaza Old Hill

May

2/5/63   Express & Star Club 16/5/63   St. Paul's Hall
3/5/63   Plaza Handsworth 17/5/63   Bradmore
4/5/63   Majestic Wellington 18/5/63   Molineux Hotel
10/5/63   Wheel O' Worfield 24/5/63   Bradmore
11/5/63   Regent Dance Club 26/5/63   21 Club Oakengates
12/5/63  

21 Club Oakengates

31/5/63   Plaza Handsworth

June

1/6/63   Woolpack 8/6/63   Dane (Graham) on holiday
2/6/63   Regent Dance Club 22/6/63   Dane (Graham) back from holiday
4/6/63   Woolpack 28/6/63   Compton YPS
7/6/63   Castlecroft Hotel      

July

2/7 /63   Woolpack 12/7 /63   Plaza Handsworth (Big Three on bill)
5/7/63   Plaza Old Hill (Beatles on bill) 13/7 /63   Bilston Town Hall
6/7/63  

Highfields School

19/7/63   W'ton Grammar School
7/7/63   Regent Dance Club 28/7 /63   Regent Dance Club
10/7 /63   Audition      

August

2/8/63   Regent Dance Club 16/8/63   Plaza Old Hill
3/8/63   Darlaston Town Hall 17/8/63   Majestic Wellington
9/8/63   Wheel O' Worfield 23/8/63   Plaza Handsworth
10/8/63   Express & Star Club 24/8/63   Bridgnorth
11/8/63   Regent Dance Club      

September

3/9/63   Woolpack 15/9/63   Ritz King's Heath
5/9/63   Woolpack 17/9/63   Woolpack
6/9/63   Plaza Old Hill 21/9/63   Plaza Handsworth
7/9/63   Plaza Handsworth 25/9/63   Ritz King's Heath
8/9/63   Black Horse 27/9/63   Plaza Handsworth
13/9/63   Compton YPS 29/9/63   Regent Dance Club
14/9/63   Regent Dance Club 30/9/63   Plaza Old Hill

October

2/10/63   Ritz King's Heath 16/10/63   Ritz King's Heath
4/10/63   Plaza Handsworth 19/10/63   Plaza Old Hill
5/10/63   Plaza Old Hill 23/10/63   Ritz King's Heath
9/10/63   Ritz King's Heath 25/10/63   Plaza Old Hill
10/10/63   Woolpack 26/10/63   Staffordshire Volunteer
12/10/63   Plaza Old Hill 30/10/63   Ritz King's Heath
15/10/63   Woolpack      

November

2/11/63   Plaza Old Hill 20/11/63   Ritz King's Heath
6/11/63   Ritz King's Heath 23/11/63   Staffordshire Volunteer
9/11/63   Plaza Old Hill 27/11/63   Ritz King's Heath
13/11/63   Ritz King's Heath 28/11/63   Express & Star Club
15/11/63   Plaza Handsworth 30/11/63   Plaza Old Hill
16/11/63   Plaza Old Hill      

December

4/12/63   Wulfrun Hall 24/12/63   Staffordshire Volunteer
7/12/63   Plaza Old Hill 26/12/63   Darlaston Town Hall
11/12/63   Ritz King's Heath 27/12/63   Regis School
13/12/63   Plaza Handsworth 28/12/63   Plaza Old Hill
14/12/63   Bilston Town Hall 31/12/63   Plaza Old Hill
18/12/63   Ritz King's Heath 31/12/63   Crown Codsall
21/12/63  

Plaza Old Hill

     

    
Such was the hectic schedule for just one of the area's more successful groups. If we were to consider any of the others we would find exactly the same picture emerge.


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