Library chronology
Live Music from 1973
A preserved transcription of the supplied Library listing covering Chelmsford music activity from 1973. Original abbreviations, dates and wording are retained.
Library-first record. This page is built from the supplied source document retained in the archive. It is not a web-verified reconstruction, and the source's wording and uncertainty have not been silently reconciled.
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EC
5th January 1973
1. Marconi Club = 5th Johnny Hall
6th Free dancing with Harry Beere & his music
13th Folk get together
2. Civic Theatre = 22nd Jake Thackray
3. Chancellor Hall = 7th Patto/ Snake Eye
12th January 1973
1. Marconi Club = 12th Denver Sound
13th Folk evening
19th January 1973
4. Marconi Club = 20th Len Ebbage Show Band
23rd Feb Terry Lightfoot Band
5. Chancellor Hall = every Monday disco with Bruce Benson
23rd Olde Tyme Dancing with Harry Christy Orchestra
6. Chelmsford City Night Owl 'Outrageous' Fridays & Saturdays
7. Saracens Head Scimitar Club = 12th BBC DJ Steve Jones appearance
19th Mick Cater/Ramble
8. Trinity Methodist Church Hall = The Compass Folk Group (fundraiser for Magpie)
26th January 1973
Article - BBC Jazz Club host Humphrey Lyttelton to play at CH on Feb.11th
9. Chancellor Hall = 28th Vinegar Joe/Slowhand
10. Marconi Club = The Cliff Olley Trio
2nd February 1973
11. Marconi Club = 2nd Johnny Hall
3rd Johnny Clayton Combo
7th Ben Truman Party Night - dancing to Dave George Scene
12. Chancellor Hall = J.S.D Band/FROPP
13. SC Scimitar Club = 2nd Marty Babb's 'land of a thousand dances'
14. Rockin-R = Jim West and the Texans
9th February 1973
SH Scimitar Club = 9th 'Smile'
16th February 1973
15. SH Scimitar Club = 16th Mick Cater
16. Rockin-R = Country Shack
23rd February 1973
17. CH = 4th Stackridge/Mike Maran
18. MC = 24th Bon Robinson Sound
3rd March Terry Lightfoot and his Jazz Band
19. METC Students Union = James Hogg/Celeste/Match Two
2nd March 1973
20. MC = 2nd North comes South
3rd Terry Lightfoot
21. Rockin-R = 2nd Nashville County
9th March 1973
Article - local musicians Steve and Whizz Ambrose
22. SH, SC = 9th Ricky Racoon DJ
23. METC, SU = 9th Electric Light Orchestra
24. MC = 10th Carnival dance, Len Ebbage Show Band
25. CH = 18th Man/Fat Grapple
16th March 1973
26. MC = 17th Roy Howard Big Band
24th The Yetties/Steve Hoorey/Compass
27. SH,SC = 16th Bob Anthony Show/Go Go
28. CH = 25th Spirit (American)/Jo'Burg Hawk (South African)
23rd March 1973
29. SH,SC = back by demand on 23rd Bob Anthony/Go Gos (Michelle & Christine dancers)
30. METC, SU = 23rd Sandgate
30th March 1973
31. Rockin-R = 30th Denver Country Sound
32. SH,SC = 30th dancing to Purple King Disco
33. MC = 30th Fusion Orchestra
31st Steve Band Four
6th April 1973
34. CH = 8th Alex Welsh/George Chisholm
9th Bruce Benson with the dance scene
15th Brinsley Schwarr and Jumbo Bus
35. SH,SC = 6th Ricky Racoon/Go Gos
36. METC,SU = 6th Flesh/The Jook (Students Ball)
13th April 1973
37. MC = 15th Johnny Hall/Dennis Hayward Band
38. Rockin-R = 13th The Fugitives
19th April 1973
39. MC = 20th folk evening White on Black/Marriwyn
27th April 1973
40. MC = 27th Cliff Olley Duo
13th May The Dallas Boys
41. CH = 30th Mick Cater/Go Go dancer
1st May Mick Cater/Embers (should these be Saracens Head?)
4th May 1973
42. CH = Saturdays - dancing to the Purple Satin Sounds/The Tripple Tones
June 2nd - 1st anniversary - Edmundo Ross and his Orchestra
43. SH,SC = 4th Bob Anthony Road Show
44. Victoria Road Hall = opens on 4th May - "Bubbles" under 18 disco
45. MC = 4th The All Electric Sound
5th Steve Bond Four
11th May 1973
46. CH = 13th Mungo Jerry/Mike Maran
20th Thin Lizzy'MO-I-RANA
27th Barclay James Harvest
47. Rockin-R = 11th Knoxville County
48. Regent Theatre = 21st-27th May Sandie Shaw etc (see copy of poster)
49. MC = 11th Johnny Hall
12th Grand dance with South Sea Serenaders
13th Dallas Boys
18th May 1973
50. Danbury Village Hall = 18th folk evening with Compass/Celeste
51. CH = 3rd June Chris Barbers jazz Band
52. Odeon = 28th the Halle Orchestra
25th May 1973
53. MC = 25th Chris Penny and the Billikins
26th Jimmy Bell and his music
54. CH = 27th Barclay James Harvest/Bridget St John
55. Rockin-R = 25th MUSKRATS
1st June 1973
56. SH,SC = 8th Stillwater/Mr Big DJ
57. MC = 1st Johnny Hall
2nd Del Gray Quartet
22nd Cabaret with the Settlers
8th June 1973
58. CH = 12th Country Music Spectacular with Pete Sayers/Tom Thomstricker/ Thomahawk/Frisco/Larry Adams
59. MC = 9th Ray Howard Big Band
30th Kenny Ball
60. Rockin-R = 8th Country Shack
15th June 1973
61. MC = 16th Redwick Smith's Rock and Roll Circus
29th June 1973
62. MC = 30th Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
6th July 1973
1. SH,SC = 8th Jo'Burg Hawk
2. MC = 6th Johnny Hall
7th Le Christy dance band
14th The Talisman (Pete/Chessie and Jon)/Marriwyn
3. Rockin-R = 6th Fugitives
4. CFC = 8th Diz Disley
13th July 1973
63. SH,SC = 13th Nature's Way
64. Rockin-R = 13th Blue Country
65. CFC = 15th Mick Haywood
66. Gt Waltham VH = 14th Fugitives
27th July 1973
67. Rockin-R = 17th Country Rain
3rd August 1973
68. Rockin-R = 10th The Westerners
17th August 1973
69. CH = 19th James Hogg
24th August 1973
70. SH,SC = 24th Revibal (local band)/The Music Machine
25th Mike Absalom
71. CH = 2nd Sept. Geordie/The Fantastic Bitch
72. Rockin-R = 24th Cedar County Boys
25th Western Echos
31st August 1973
73. CH = 4th Gentry (country)
9th Terry Lightfoot
7th September 1973
74. CH = 16th Medicine Head/1&1is1/Mike Maran/Rising Sun
The Mac Wiseman Show
75. Rockin-R = 7th Tung Twisters
8th Syndicate
76. MC = 7th James Webley Fusion (Reggie Webb)
14th September 1973
77. CH = 23rd Jake Thackray
78. MC = 14th James Webley Fusion
21st September 1973
79. SH = the last Scimitar Club
80. MC = 21st Steve and Whizz Ambrose
22nd Steve Bond Four
81. Rockin-R = 21st Western Echos
28th September 1973
82. MC = 2nd Oct. Still Water/Chantilly Lace
83. METC = 28th Roy Young band/Flesh
84. CH = 30th Cy Grant
85. SH = 28th SC replaced by 'Discotheque plus Go Go girls'
5th October 1973
86. SH = 5th Gray Havens
87. Rockin-R = 5th Country Capers
12th October 1973
88. Rockin'R = 13th Julie Byrne/Nashville Cat
89. Odeon - 4th Nov. The Spinners
90. CH = 21st The Settlers
28th Ian Wallace
4th Marian Montgomery
91. MC = 12th Fantasy Fairchild
19th October 1973
92. Rockin-R = 19th The New Westerners
26th October 1973
93. Rockin-R = 26th Julie Byrne/Nashville Cat
94. CH = 30th debut concert of Blanche concert and her lounge lizards
95. SH = 26th Jeff Taylor
2nd November 1973
1. MC = 2nd Terry Lightfoot/Steve and Whizz Ambrose
2. CH = 11th Max Jaffa Show
3. CFC = 5th John & Sue Kirk Patrick
4. Rockin-R = 2nd Alamo
9th November 1973
96. MC = 10th South sea Seranaders
16th Wild Oats
97. CH = 25th Humphrey Lyttelton
Dec. 2nd The Peddlers
16th November 1973
98. RR = 16th Country Shack
99. MC = 17th Jimmy Belle Duo
23rd November 1973
100. CH = 28th Edison Lighthouse
101. RR = 23rd Muskrats
30th November 1973
102. CH = 5th Stillwater
9th Gryphon
103. MC = 1st Life/Chantilly Lace Disco
2nd Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen
104. RR = 30th The New Westerners
7th December 1973
105. RR = 7th Silver Aces
106. MC = 7th Froffy Coffee
8th Steve Bond Four/Ivor Owen
14th December 1973
107. CH = 17th Christmas Disco DJ Mick Cater/Stillwater
Christmas Eve special dance with Purple Satin Sound/The Trippletones
108. RR = 14th Nashville County
21st December 1973
109. CH = Farewell '73 dance with Purple Satin Sound/The Trippletones
110. RR = 21st Julie Burne and Nashville Cat
29th December 1973
MC = 28th Jan Mistral
4th January 1974
111. MC = 5th Roy Howard Big Band with vocalist Pat Barber
112. RR = 4th Dave West and the Cripple Creek
113. CH = every Sat. Candlelight Night with Gentry and the Trippletones
11th January 1974
114. MC = 11th James Webley Fusion
12th Fugitives
18th January 1974
115. RR = 18th Wild Bunch
116. CH = 27th Budgie/Judas Priest
117. MC = 19th dancing to Dennis Hayward & his Music
26th Continental Cabaret with French vocalist Varina
25th January 1974
118. RR = 25th Country Rain
119. CFC = 27th Martin Carthy
1st February 1974
120. RR = 1st Country Capers
121. CH = Cockney Rebel/Bitter Harvest
122. CFC = 3rd Richard Thompson, Linda Peters and Simon Nicol
22nd February 1974
123. RR = 22nd Nashville County
124. MC = 22nd Ray Norman Band
125. CH = 27th Copper Kettle
1st March 1974
126. RR = 1st New Silver Aces
127. CH = 4th Merlin
6th Embers
8th March 1974
128. CFC = 10th The Riggers
129. CH = 13th Rainbow Cottage (from Lancashire)
130. MC = 8th Romanian Dance Ensemble with Ron Gray Quartet/James Webley Fusion
9th Colin Brookes Orchestra
131. RR = 9th George Brown's Alabama Hayriders
RR held in Springfield on Fridays & Gt Waltham on Saturdays
15th March 1974
132. CH = 19th Hearts of Soul
133. MC = 16th James Webley Fusion
22nd March 1974
134. MC = 23rd Jimmy Bell
29th March 1974
135. CH = 1st Radio 1 DJ Johnny Walker
136. RR = 29th New Texas Drifters
5th April 1974
137. RR = 5th Ted Hatton Trio
11th April 1974
138. MC = 12th James Webley Fusion
15th Enterprise
19th April 1974
139. RR = 26th Nashville County
3rd May 1974
140. RR = Country Shack
141. CH = 5th Caravan/Gnasher
6th guest from Radio 1 Stuart Henry
7th Bay City Rollers
142. MC = 3rd Take Four
4th Mike & Bernie Winters Show
143. Roxwell & Writtle Folk Club (Rose & Crown Writtle) = 9th Alex Atterton
10th May 1974
144. MC = 10th Steve & Whizz Ambrose
11th Mike Ward and his music, vocalist Peter White
145. RR = 10th Dave West and Cripple Creek
17th May 1974
146. MC = 17th Enterprise
18th Colin Brookes Orchestra
147. R & W FC = 23rd Bob Stewart
148. RR = 17th Jelly Stone Park
149. CFC = 19th Bob Stewart
24th May 1974
150. RR = 24th Gentry
151. MC = 17th Cats Whiskers
25th Dennis Hayward and his music
27th Grant Richards
152. SH = 24th Avengers ("Top Group")
31st May 1974
153. CH = 8th The Trippletones/Mike Ward Music
154. MC = 31st Freeway
1st Steve Bond Four
7th June 1974
155. MC = Folk evening featuring Talisman/Johnny Sivo
156. CH = 10th Radio 1 DJ Noel Edmonds
12th Enterprise
157. RR = 7th Nashville County
14th June 1974
158. CH = 19th Enterprise
22nd Mike Ward Music/Wild Country
159. RR = 14th Frontier Express
160. MC = 14th Ray Howard Quartet, vocalist Pat Barber
15th Cats Whiskers
21st June 1974
161. RR = 21st Kentucky Colonels
162. MC = 23rd Jazz evening featuring Steve Lame's Southern Stompers with Pam Heagren/V.J.M Wasboard Band/Grahame Humphries Jazz Band
163. CFC = 23rd Eilien
28th June 1974
164. RR = 28th Saddle Tramps
165. CH = 3rd Enterprise
6th The Trippletones/Mike Ward Music
166. CFC = 30th Sean Cannon
167. R & W F = 4th Johnny Silvo
4th July 1974
168. CH = 10th Goliath
12th The Iowa and Nebraska Swing Choir and the Idaho Choir
12th July 1974
169. RR = 12th Frisco
13th Gentry
170. CFC = 14th A.L.LLOYD
171. CH = 17th Enterprise
20th Singer Sally Kelly/Trippletones/Mike Ward Music
172. MC = 13th Hard Road
19th July 1974
173. CH = 24th Abacus
174. RR = 19th Muskrats
175. CFC = 21st Tony Capstick
26th July 1974
1.CH = 31st Trippletones/Mike Ward Music/Sally Kelly
2. RR = 26th Ken Jackson and Country Echos
3. CFC = Johnny Handle
2nd August 1974
176. CH = 7th Blizzard
177. RR = 26th New Silver Ace (error?)
9th August 1974
178. CH = 12th Giggles
14th Enterprise
179. RR = 9th Saddle Tramps
10th Country Shack/Fine Harvest
19th August 1974
180. CH = 21st Kickers
181. RR = 16th Mustang
23rd August 1974
182. CH = 28th Enterprise
CH = 31st Trippletones/Mike Ward Band with Peter White/Sally Kelly
183. RR = 23rd Fugitives
184. MC = 26th Grant Richards
30th August 1974
185. CFC = 1st Muckram Wakes
186. RR = 30th The Cousins
187. CH = 4th Angel
7th Trippletones/Eric Camden Band
6th September 1974
188. CH = 11th Abacus
189. MC = 6th The Keith Young Sound
7th Enterprise
13th Maurice Hinton Band
190. RR = 6th Christine and Southern Shades
191. CFC = 8th Dave and Dave
13th September 1974
192. Odeon = 5th Slim Whitman/Springfield Revival
193. RR = 13th Kim Jackson and Country Echoes
14th Sidewinders/Country Rain
194. Civic = 14th Talisman in concert
195. CH = 18th Giggles
21st Trippletones/Wild Country
6th KC Sunshine Band/Body and Soul
196. MC = 13th Ken Howe Trio plus Maurice Hinton Band
14th Don Hill Trio (sold out)
20th September 1974
197. CFC = 22nd
198. CH = 25th Angel
27th September 1974
199. RR = 27th Denver country Sound
200. CFC = 29th Vin Garbutt
201. CH = 29th Trapeze
30th Fuchies
2nd Easy Virtue
4th October 1974
202. MC = 4th Gray's Elegy
5th South Sea Serenaders
203. CH = 9th Buckles
204. RR = 4th Saddle Tramps
205. R & W FC = 10th Pete and Chris Coe
206. CFC = 6th Miriam Backhouse
11th October 1974
207. RR = 11th New Silver Ace
208. CH = 14th Ashes
16th Too Hot to Handle
18th October 1974
209. CFC = 20th Ray Fisher
210. RR = 18th Country Shack
211. CH = 20th Country & Western Festival with Frisco/Malcolm Anthony/Al Dokhery and the Frontier Express
212. MC = 9th Roy Castle Show
1st Dec. Syd Lawrence Orchestra
4th Mike Reid
11th Talisman
22nd Kenny Ball
New Years Colin Brookes
25th October 1974
213. CH = 30th Joanne
13th = Ken Boothe/The Cimarons
214. RR = Muskrats/Lincoln Park Inn
215. CFC = 27th The Riggers
1st November 1974
216. METC SU at CH = 7th 10cc/Richard Digance
217. CFC = 3rd NA FILY
218. RR = 1st Christine and Southern Shades
219. CH = 4th Giggles
6th Barry Moonshine
8th November 1974
220. CFC = 10th Ceilidh
221. CH = 13th Ken Boothe /The Cimarons
15th November 1974
222. RR = Sundowners
223. CFC = 17th Frankie Armstrong
224. CH = 23rd Trippletones/Gloria Taylor/Black Cat Combo
24th Alex Welsh and his Jazz Band
25th The Jacques Orchestra
Also on 15th article about Humble Pie - Steve Marriott lives near Chelmsford
22nd November 1974
225. CFC = 24th Tony Rose
226. Christ Church = 25th The Jacques Orchestra
227. RR = 22nd Western Line
228. CH = 27th Easy Virtue
1st Swinging 60s show with The Swinging Blue Jeans/The Love Affair/ The Honeycombs/The Nashville Teens
29th November 1974
229. CH = 4th Too Hot to Handle
15th Eddie Holman (in the charts with 'Hey There Lonely Girl')
230. CFC = 1st The Bushwackers
6th December 1974
231. CFC = 8th Derek Brimstone
232. CH = 8th Al Stewart/Fred Colley
11th Kickers
13th December 1974
233. RR = 13th Feeling
14th New Nashville County/Saddle Tramps/Christine and Southern Shades
234. CH = 18th Surrender
22nd Fruup/David Mercer
20th December 1974
235. CFC = 22nd Gladstone's Bag
236. CH = Christmas Eve Trippletones/The Bob Robinson Sound
28th December 1974
237. CFC = Ceilidh
238. RR = 27th The New Silver Ace
3rd January 1975
239. CH = 8th The Rocky Rivers/Colin King International Road Show
240. RR = 3rd Dave West and Cripple Creek
241. CFC = 5th Pete and Chris Coe
10th January 1975
242. RR = 10th The Wichita Linemen
243. CFC = 12th Arkies
244. CH = 13th Hello (in the charts with 'Tell Him')
245. MC = 11th Jaspar Dance Band
19th Die Bayerischen Musikantern
25th Terry Lightfoot
17th January 1975
246. RR = 17th Hickory Lake
24th January 1975
247. RR = 24th Shilo
25th Frank Jennings/Syndicate/Fugitives
248. METC Social Club = 24th Byzantium
1st Miss 18 and Sunshine
14th Albert Y Los Trios Paranoios
31st January 1975
249. Odeon = 7th The Spinners
250. RR = 31st Saddle Tramps
251. Night Owl at Chelmsford City FC = 1st Top London DJ Freddie Slade
EWN & EC
04/12/1975
CH 1. Modern Masquerade show starring FRUUP
2. 75 Disco Scene with Light Show
3. SC by C Dancing to the Trippletones & Purple Satin Sound
4. Extra Christmas Dinner & Dance on 18th
Odeon on 8th = Stephane Grappelli with Dis Disley Trio (International Lions Club of Chelmsford
Regent on 5th = Bavarian Stompers
11/12/1975
CH 1. Under 18's 75 Disco Scene etc on 15th
2. Professional Wrestling on 16th
3. Xmas Eve Dance
18/12/1975
CH 1. Under 18s Disco on 22nd
2. Xmas Candlelight D & D on 23rd with Ken Howe Trio & the Rocking Rebels
3. Xmas Eve Dance with the Purple Satin Sound & the Trippletones
4. SN by C with Mike Ward Band with Peter White
Lion & Lamb = Chelmsford Carnival Association Christmas Eve - dancing to the Embassy Band
02/01/1976
CH 1. Under 18s 1976 Disco Scene with resident DJ Mick Cater
2. SN by C The Trippletones & guest Wild Country plus cabaret artists
3. Major Mole's Sound House featuring 'Hard Road' Spin-a-disc, Infern Lights & Go-Go Girls. All ages welcome
Marconi Club on 7th = over 18s Disco
Regent EMI Social Club = Ship's Banjo Boys
Three Cups Rockin-R = Oregon Pine
09/01/1976
CH 1. Disco on 12th
2. Wrestling on 13th
3. Major Mole on 14th
4. SN by C on 17th with Mike ward Band & Trippletones
Rockin-R = Big Country
Regent = Ship's Banjo Boys on 8th