The Portsmouth Music scene 1944 to 1959
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The Popular Portsmouth Music Scene
Over a glorious century of Portsmouth Music History

The City of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England and its environs.
Including Gosport, Fareham, Waterlooville, Havant and Hayling Island.

Please note, this is a NON-PROFIT MAKING project.
Purely a labour of love for my City and the music of the City that I love.


Dave Allen, a one time member of local groups called Harlem Speakeasy, Rosemary and Gilbey Twiss, has researched the decade of the 1960's. Detailed here are his findings on the Portsmouth Music Scene. Mick Cooper, another former Portsmouth musician has added to his work by researching from 1944 to the end of 1959 and beyond.
Therefore we have here over a century of the popular music history of the City of Portsmouth.
As you read these pages, hopefully it will give you a strong flavour of those days. If it jogs any memories, and you would care to pass them on so that we might add to this ever increasing history, we would be very pleased to hear from you.

We are determined that the names of these
Portsmouth musicians will be remembered.

Acknowledgments;-
There are so many people we have to thank for their help. Including Ron Brown, Alan Zeffertt, Terry Hounsome, Stephen Pomeroy, Mike Scaddan,
and not forgetting the ever patient Alan King and staff of the Norrish Central Library in Portsmouth, also the staff at the Portsmouth Museum
but most of all The Portsmouth Evening News and Portsmouth NEWS without their tireless efforts over many years there would be NO archive of the music in the City.
There are many more who we are indebted to for information, photographs and their memories,...
A very BIG Thank You.

Photographic copyright;-
Every effort has been made to identify the photographic copyright owners, but if you feel a photograph on these pages violates your copyright, please advise us and it will be removed.

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If you have any additions or corrections to these pages and information, please contact us;-

Contact Mick at,... email: cooper_m6@sky.com ----- Contact Dave at,... email: daveshomeport@gmail.com

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- 1969 -
- beyond -


Photos and line-ups

- Before the Sixties -

- The Sixties groups -

- The 70's 80's 90's -

- 21st Century Bands and Groups and Solos -

Who's who in those groups/bands

- Musicians before 1959 -

- Bands before 1959 -

- Musicians during the 1960's -

- Bands and Groups in the 1960's -

- Musicians from 1970 to 1999 -

- Bands and Groups from 1970 and 1999 -

- Musicians in the 21st Century -

- Groups and Bands in ther 21st Century -

- Pompey s Musical New Blood -

- 1990's "Venue" Magazine Band Directory 1 -

- 1990's "Venue" Magazine Band Directory 2 -

- The Pompey Pop Guildhall Exhibition -

- The Portsmouth Music Experience -

- Dave Allen's thesis on Pompey Pop -

A

- Accordions -
- Angel Radio -

B

- the Bandstand -
- Battle of the Bands 1986-2017 -
- Beat Cruises -
- Blues at the Fort -
- Barking Spider -
- Boarhunt Blues & Country music -
- Band Contests (old ones!) -

C

- Clarence Pier Pavillion-
- Clarence Pier Assembly Hall -
- Country Music -
- Concert Parties -
- Church Music -
- Classical Music -
- Choirs -

D

- Dance Bands -
- Portsmouth DJ's -
- Drummers -
- Drakefest -
- Dancing Schools -
- Dock Yard Music -

E

- Entertainment Agents -
- Evening NEWS -
- Early Music -

F

- Folk Music -
- Forgotten Ballroom -
- Fan Mags from Portsmouth -
- Festivals outside -
- Festivals inside --
- The Follies --
- Family connections -

G

- Guildhall 1890-1941 -
- Guildhall 1959 to date -
- Guildhall Organs -
- Group/Band family trees -
- Gig Histories -
- Guide Awards -
- Generations - -
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H

- Roll of Honour -
- Musical Humour -

J

- Jazz -
- Paul Jones -
- 'Jam' sessions -

L

- Letters to the News -

M

- Melody Maker -
- Military type bands -
- Music Adverts -
- Musicians' Union -
- Music Shops -
- Music Societies -
- Musical Families -
- Music Clubs (Classical) -
- The "Melody Makers" -
- Music deaths -
- Music Organisations -
- Music Schools -

N

- Navy & Army entertainment -

O

- Organists Entertained -
- Other Reading & Films -
- Odd assortment -
- Orchestral music -
- Organs (Cinema/Church) --

P

- Personal Musical Histories A to F-
- Personal Musical Histories G to L-
- Personal Musical Histories M to R-
- Personal Musical Histories S to Z-
- Pleasurama -
- Pompey Pop Exhibition 2014 -
- Pompey Punx Collective -
- Portsmouth songs -
- Pompey FC music -
- Pompey Music Scene -
- Portsmouth Music Festival -
- Personalities-
- Pompey Pop Pix Book -
- Portsmouth Music Books -

R

- Radio Victory -
- Recordings -
- Recording Studios -
- Re-unions -
- Record Labels -
- Rock'n'rollers -
- Religious Music --
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S

- Skiffile days -
- Spinner's pages -
- Savoy Ballroom -
- South Parade Pier -
- Schools Music -
- Southern Entertainer -
- Student Projects -

T

- Tickets -
- Transport -
- Trouble at the gig -
- Ticket collection -
- more Tickets & Posters -
- Portsmouth music adverts -

U

- Uncle Charlie -
- Unreleased tracks -

V

- Venues -
- Venues (lesser known) -
- Venues (Services/Political) -
- Visiting Dance Bands -

W

WALL OF FAME -
- Weddings -

Y

- Youth Clubs -
- You Tube videos -

Numbers

- 12th October 2009 -
- 1000 Days -
-Venues in 2009 -

- Personalities-

-Links to YOU TUBE videos -

- Guitars -

- Keyboards -

- Drums -

- Amplification -

- The Portsmouth NEWS Guide Awards history -

- The 'Pompey' Music Scene -

Theatres

- Kings Theatre-

-Theatre Royal -

-Hippodrome -

-Coliseum - Empire -

- Guildhall 1890-1941 -

-Guildhall 1950 to date -

-South Parade Pier -

- Other Theatres -

- South Downe Musical Society -

- Portsmouth Players -

- Fareham Musical Society -

- Gosport Amatuer Operatic Society -

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Web Pages worth looking at;-
- Link to Pompey Pop Pix - - Link to Pompey Pop Blog -

- Link to Dave Allen's Lecture Part ONE - - Link to Dave Allen's Lecture Part TWO -

- More from Dave Allen at The Cellars, October 2013 - - Link to Bobby Collins film -

- The Last Dinner Dance at The Rock Gardens 1986 NOT TO BE MISSED-

- Jet Harris with the Shadders at the Heros Waterlooville (Inc Nobby Glover and Barry Sutton) -

Southampton

Many of the Portsmouth groups and musicians often played in and around the Southampton area,
and many of their musos often played in and around Portsmouth.
For information on the Southampton Music Scene, there is only one web page to look,
run by David St John, and it's this one:-

- The Southampton Music Scene -

Brighton Beat

- 'Brighton Beat' Music Scene -

Bournemouth Beat

- The 'Bournemouth Beat' Music Scene -

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