The longest running band in pop history The Searchers are calling it a day with a final show at the Glastonbury festival
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1w93x9ggo

68 years!!! Incredible. Give them all a Knighthood.

I have all their albums, numerous comps and box sets. They were amazing band. They will still be going if it was not down to logistics, UK roads are diabolical.

Yet the government is focused on houses than infrastructure.

Green Man wrote:
UK roads are diabolical - yet the government is focused on houses than infrastructure


Totally off point

Al Gershwin wrote:
Green Man wrote:
UK roads are diabolical - yet the government is focused on houses than infrastructure


Totally off point




It's not Dumb-nuts! The Searchers said in an interview a few days ago they want to carry on but they had enough motorway gridlocks when going from venue to venue.

Like us all?

In future when I want to talk about town planning and infrastructure I'll start a thread on The Beatles. lol.

Downing Street Cat wrote:
In future when I want to talk about town planning and infrastructure I'll start a thread on The Beatles. lol.

It's all in here Cat.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment...l-tour-b2719829.html

Green Man wrote:
I have all their albums, numerous comps and box sets. They were amazing band. They will still be going if it was not down to logistics, UK roads are diabolical.

Yet the government is focused on houses than infrastructure.

I went to see them as part of a 60's show in 2019, I bumped into Chris Farlowe in the theatre foyer as well who had sung Out Of Time, accompanying my mother whose era it was. As the Searchers were rattling off Sweets For My Sweet all I could think of was how many times they must have sung that and how bored they must have been doing it yet again! But they all seemed remarkably enthusiastic all this time later so I have to commend their total professionalism and dedication to their craft.

I saw Searchers twice, with and without Mike Pender. I had a signed poster but it went missing. Sweets for my Sweet is very corny IHMO but I love Take Me For What I'm Worth and Each Time. Spencer James will probably tour as a Searchers tribute, he has been been part of the Searchers camp since the 1980s. (JK probably has some stories about Spencer and First Class)



I went to a 60s package gig and Dave Berry was on the bill, he refused to sign an autograph for elderly gentleman I knew.

I told the gent what happened, he burnt all his Dave Berry collection. It was another case of Never meet your heroes.

I do love some obsecure stuff by Chris Farlowe and this one.