Another piece of info which may be of interest is that during 1964 or 1965 for the 1st time the school eisteddfod featured a ‘pop group’ session.
Each of the 3 ‘houses’ managed to field a group – I was in ‘Taf’ house & pleased to say the ‘pop group’ I played in won, playing an instrumental ‘Shadows’ number. I already had a small drum kit of my own before then & having had piano lessons in previous years, music had been part of my life for some time. The 3 ‘pop groups’ had practice sessions in the old gym in the days leading up to the ‘big day’ and never had I been so popular, with people wishing to gain admittance to the gym in the lunch hour to witness the practice sessions & try to have a go my drum kit… A few of us from the 3 groups were from the St Clears area and decided to get together after that and have a ‘knock about’ & learn some other numbers.
A friend of our bass player was in Whitland YFC & he invited us to Llanboidy hall to play 30 mins of live music during one of their social evenings as a break from the record player & records they usually had. And so was born ‘The Scene’ , a group that then had a few years of success playing the local circuit of dances and all ex Whitland Gram lads. Our area expanded over the years and we ranged from Aberystwyth down to Sennybridge, down as far as Cardiff & Carleon & all points west.
Kept of a bit of a scrapbook & there are a couple of attachments with details of a few of the local ‘big’ dances we performed at with ’top ten’ groups which perhaps you will remember from your teenage years. We started out as a 5 man set up, went down to 4 a year of so later, then down to 3 around 1970. At that stage the big dances in Narberth & Haverfordwest had dried up and we were down in the Swansea area and coal mining valleys most of the time. Time was called around 1973 when the disco’s were ‘flavour of the month’ and much cheaper than the cost of live music.
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