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(Tuesday 13 May 2008 21:00:35)
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Don't forget you can buy tickets from Sandy's shop on Airworth Road 20.06.08 19:09 |
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message: The sad loss of long time friend of the Nomads John Anderton ANDERTON John On June 11th, suddenly but peacefully at Airedale Hospital, John aged 64 years of Exley Head, former engineer at Landis Lund. Beloved husband and best friend of Margaret  (Friday 20 June 2008 19:07:34)
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name: Susan Fenton
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message: I would like to know if Andy Wiseman is the same Andy that I worked with back in 1982 at Lakeside Holiday Park, North Somercotes? I was part of the resident organ/drums duo with my then partner Bernie Longford. It would be so nice to know how Andy is doing. I know Andy came from Keighley.
Perhaps someone would let me know?
(Sunday 11 May 2008 10:42:55)
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message: Hi Nomads,
Whilst looking for something else I stumbled across your website and tumbled straight back to the early sixties.
My name is Roger Manton and I was founder and lead singer / rhythm guitar with The Beatniks which later became The Beat Squad.
Our first line up was me, Ricky Hardacre lead guitar, Mike Pickles piano/ vocals, Derek Heaton drums and no base would you believe! We pretty soon put that right. We raided the Presidents, Keighley’s first rock band, and stole Bruce Russell their base player and his girlfriend (now wife) Linda Nixon who had a great voice. Linda came from a very musical family as you probably know and both guitar playing brothers helped us out at various times.
Later, Mike Pickles left along with Derek Heaton, so then we poached The Presidents’ drummer as well…the unforgettable Ted Earl. A sort of early version of Keith Moon in character. I remember Ted getting a brand new Trixon kit with an oval shaped, two drum, base drum. He was so pleased with this that we decided to put him at the front of the stage one night at Leeds Town Hall. He got so carried away on the new kit that he didn’t notice that he hadn’t hammered the spikes of the base drum in firm enough and… yes….he ended up going over the edge of the big stage trying to catch his beloved new base drum which was heading down into the orchestra stalls.
Ricky was a fantastic guitar player. Often in the very early days we would share a bill with a trad jazz band and some of these blokes would get very snooty about being associated with “ 3 chord merchants”
like us. Rick would just get out his big beautiful Rogers guitar in the dressing room, sit down quietly in the corner and warm up with a seamless Nuages or other Django Reinhart piece. You could see the Trad bloke’s jaws hit the floor. Later I believe Rick turned to playing jazz himself, but on piano and keyboards.
My late mother told me last year that she had bumped into Bruce Russell in Keighley and he told her that he (on regular guitar) and Rick on keyboard were playing some small gigs at golf cubs etc…. Together again after all these years.
We played all around the local area, clubs, town halls, ballrooms etc but I think the best time I had was when we went to France to play US army and air bases. One GI actually wanted us to go to the States where he would manage us “and make us really big” …wonder what would have happened if we had said yes?
Eventually we broke up and went our separate ways. Bruce and Linda played on….resident for years at the big Batley Variety Club, Rick became a TV sound man, I went to London and a career on the creative side of advertising, Mike Pickles became a BA captain flying Jumbos, Ted I last heard of years ago doing the big cruise liners with a guitarist called Murph.
For anyone who is interested in the history of bands in the area, I attach some old photos. One (blurry) is early days at the Mechanics with a stand-in base player called “Bones” but can’t remember his real name. Incidentally, we were the last band to ever play The Mechanics , it burnt to the ground the same night we played there….wonder who’s fag end it was? Another is in France showing me, some GI, Linda, Ricky and Ted, no Bruce so he must have taken it. The posed shot was taken in Central Youth Club and the even posier playing one at, I think, Imperial Ballroom Nelson.
It is wonderful to see you guys keeping the spirit of rock music alive in Keighley and obviously enjoying every minute of it. I send best wishes to anyone who remembers me from all those years back.
Happy New Year you all for 2008
Roger
Photos can be seen here http://www.thenomads.co.uk/other.html
(Sunday 13 January 2008 15:01:56)
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(Wednesday 12 December 2007 23:23:10)
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name: John Dunn
message: Keighley Blues Club St Anne's Catholic centre Friday 26th October Sean Webster (support, Chris Dunn) If you need tickets please phone 01535 600310 or email bbj21 ! 
(Monday 08 October 2007 16:12:45)
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name: julie
email: xxhotlipsxx68
message: hi to all joe haigh is my father and im proud of him for being one of the original nomads..he has been a great dad but hey an even better drummer..im glad they all keep in touch after all these years too..so good on you all for doing the charity events to this day..im sure my dad would like to take part too as he retires next may and his hands could do with some drum sticks ha... 
(Sunday 22 July 2007 21:13:25)
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The evening seemed to be enjoyed by all that attended, it was nice to see some new faces among the audience, and some surprisingly had never seen either band before!! 
Unfortunately not all the tickets were sold, so less money to Manor Lands. Whether poor ticket sales will have an effect on future events remains to be seen, but updates will be placed here on the message board. 
Can we wait that long? 
Thanks must be given to the ladies who once again pulled out all the stops to organise an evening that went without a hitch, anyone that’s ever organised an event will appreciate all the time and effort involved in bringing such an event together. This can not have been an easy task while dealing with personal bereavement. 
