General Chat

Hello Huia....How fantastic to have sung with such amazing singers. How long did you do that for.
Yes...l think thats the one..... Hayley Westenra, it may also have been her in Bristol!
l'd see Russel again, amazing.....especially when you think what he has been through!!

jude xx

l may not be on here much till tomorrow, so keep the names coming:)

jude xx

Well here's one I doubt many will remember. Went to see Edmund Hockridge at the Kings Theatre Portsmouth, can't remember the year but I went with my Mum so I was probably in my early teens. And we went to the stage door afterwards and met him.
Also met Petula Clark although didn't see her sing live, she was signing records when my Dad was manager of the shop.

Mine are
Beatles
Billy Fury
Cliff with and without Shadows
Shadows with and without Cliff
Joe Brown
David Essex
Sandie Shaw
Mark Wynter singing and acting
Tornados with Heinz
Searchers
Tremeloes
Marmalade
Yardbirds
Frank Ifield
Merseybeats/Merseys

Struggling now but reckon there's some more

Pat

Jude - Russell is coming to St.David's Hall in Cardiff - Sunday, 17th June

Guinevere - one of the Moody Blues owns a golf club not far from me

Lolly you must live near me, cos I used to go to the Finsbury Park Astoria.
Happy days.

Oh, I forgot

The Zombies
Lulu
Wet Wet Wet [holding up a fainting daughter]
A 50's show. Bobby Vee, Frankie Avalon, Tommy Cannon
Moody Blues


and probably a few more, my mind is going..................

:-0

AnnGlos....Vic remembers the name Edmund Hockeridge...show boat type songs??

On journey to Birmingham yesterday l remembered we saw Bob Marley's son, not sure which one but he was brilliant. At The Concorde Brighton sea front:)

jude :)

OOh, Ann, is it John? He loves golf - or maybe Ray he has a home in west Wales.

Gwynne

Michael Buble x 2
Will Young
Toni Braxton
Coldplay x 2 (Fantastic) !! <3
Armarda Groove
Beautifil South
Paloma Faith
Alicia Keys (Amazing) <3
Oasis
Christina Aguilera (Awful) :-P

Chuckle Brothers
Thomas the Tank and Friends
Dora and Friends


The list goes on and on LOLOL

Jude yes he used to sing those sort of songs and Rosemarie. He was quite a big man, big voice, Canadian. Quite good looking

I looked him and was surprised myself at what he had done. And also that he only died three years ago aged 89

Hockridge had his own radio show in Canada: nonetheless, at the age of 31, he decided to return to Britain. There could not have been a better time to make the move. Stephen Douglass, the American actor playing Billy Bigelow in Carousel, had exhausted his work permit and a new lead man was needed. The role called for an imposing character with stamina and a powerful voice. Someone, as the script says, "as tall and as strong as a tree". Hockridge, at 6ft 1in and, according to one critic, with "looks girls long to encounter on the beach" fitted the bill.

He played the fairground barker Billy more than 1,000 times in London and hundreds of times on the provincial tour. For seven years he was regarded as "London's resident male lead", topping the bill in the first London productions of Guys and Dolls (1953-54), Can-Can (1954-55) and The Pajama Game (1955-56). He became a major recording artist as a result of his success in musicals, having a hit with Hey There, from The Pajama Game. Carousel was also to change Hockridge's personal life. In the cast was a 19-year-old dancer and singer called Jackie Jefferson. He was smitten by her but was still married, and 13 years her senior. The couple chose to keep their affair low-key, eventually marrying after his first wife agreed to a divorce. They moved to Peterborough (where they lived next door to Ernie Wise) and brought up a family.

During his 50-year career Hockridge recorded 11 albums and worked with a dazzling array of old-style stars, including Tommy Cooper, Eartha Kitt, Max Wall, Roy Hudd, Cliff Richard, Billy Dainty, Morecambe and Wise, and Petula Clark. In 1986, aged 67, he partnered the rock singer Suzi Quatro in a London production of Annie Get Your Gun (his seventh musical) and also appeared with Isla St Clair in a provincial production of The Sound of Music (1984).

For many years Hockridge lived quietly in Peterborough, the city to which he had been persuaded to move by his immediate neighbour, the comedian Ernie Wise.

edit to say he wasn't in Rosemarie I don't think

Big Country
Rod Stewart
Lionel Ritchie
wet wet wet
Simply Red
U2
Muse
Keane
Belinda Carlisle
David Cassidy
Meat Loaf
Steve Harley
Brian Adams
Pink
Boy George
Fleetwood Mac
The Corrs
Supreams
Sister Sledge
Stylistics
Four tops
Spandau Ballet
Alexander O'Neil
Slade

Just wondering.....sit down in a theatre type concerts or stand up at dances with name bands? or just famous people we have seen perform live?

I ask because in me teeny bopper and student days saturday night wasn't complete without going to the local dance hall or later uni hall with top bands.

Then there was the Hammersmith Palais and the Fulham Greyhound which I bet MotownGirl and Carol numbers were no strangers to :-D :-D :-D

Michael Jackson
Elton John
Van Morrison
George Michael
Kylie
Oasis
Eminem
P Diddy
jls
Kanye West
Spice Girls
Whitney Houston
Cher
Tina Turner
Shania Twain
Gladys Knight
Dionne Warwick
Savage Garden
Backstreet Boys
Shaggy
Take That
Chris De Burgh
Gabrielle
R Kelly
Louise Redknap
Mariah Carey
Phil Collins
Simply Red
Katie Melua
Dolly Parton
Alanis Morrisette
Rod Stewart
Lionel Richie
Katie Perry
Rihanna
Stevie Wonder

Plus many more...........

More brilliant stars entertainers:)

Island....yeh that'll count:))
Tell us about Hammersmith Palais and the Fulham Greyhound :)

Whitney and Oasis brilliant:)

jude

Island, strangely enough I never went to the Hammersmith Palais. Too far to get home.

Me gels and meself went to the Tottenham Royal. A wonderful Art Deco theatre converted to a dancehall. With a fishpond in the entrance.

We had some great nights there, getting home late, then getting up to go to work in the mornings. [couldn't do it now]

Wearing new shoes, and carrying them home in my hand.
:-D

I used to go to The Calais in Dunstable, saw almost all of the Motown groups, Jimmy Ruffin was my absolute favourite but still adore the rest.

Before I got into Motown I saw Blackfoot Sue and some others but from then on, Motown became my world. Gosh, saw so many ...

Yay, another Girly with good taste. :-)

We had the opportunity of seeing Marvin Gaye, but as the kiddlywinkles were very small, we could not afford the tickets............6 months later he was dead. Very sad.

Love Motown, sing it, dance it, live it.

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Oh dear Jude, I didnt add one person I saw in concert to my list. He was a very good showman at the time, but had I known then what we all know now I would have saved my money.

Am i the only one here who has seen Gary Glitter but now wish I hadnt?

Teresa

Teresa......lol....l don't think anyone has mentioned him, maybe they will now you've owned up...lol....

Hello Shimmers....

Motown....love it:))

Has anyone seen Brenda Lee, Elvis, Barry Manilow, The Everly Bros, Sinatra.


AnnXardiff....tickets are still available for Russell:))))might try and get some, have to persuade vic to take me though!!

jude ;-)

Dermot, you have listed a few of many I have seen at folk clubs, pubs and festivals. Dingle Spike we used to see every week.

Concerts:
Elton John
Jethro Tull
Four Tops
Jnr. Walker & the All Stars
Diana Ross
Roy Orbison
Jules Holland
Lulu
Hawkwind
Little Richard
Chuck Berry
Bill Haley & then Comets
Gary Glitter
The Crickets
Billy Connelly
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Status Quo
Wings
KC and the Sunshine Band

cont: (computer has a mind of it's own)
Jules Holland
Lulu
Chris Rea
3 Degrees
Madness
Spice Girls
Boyzone
UB40
Gareth Gates/Will Young

To name but a few

Brian Adams (last year on out 40th wedding anniversary)
Moody Blues
Chieftains
Shirley McCleane
Wolftones
Wizzard

Island......... Hammersmith Palais and Fulham Greyhound.... you must come from the same area as me.