Venues

The ballroom was also called The Rendezvous and The Top Spot.

Dreamland Ballroom was the place. Everybody played it.

I remember the queues all along the seafront to see Brian Poole & The Tremeloes who were almost resident band before they hit the big time. Great value at two shillings and sixpence. That is where I started my career playing records while the bands had a break. I must have appeared with all the chart bands of the era. If only I had taken a camera with me. The while working on the off-shore stations I did discos at most of the venues I mentioned earlier.

Roger "Twiggy" Day 

Dreamland Ballroom in Margate was the venue of Showaddywaddy's first professional gig on 1st September 1973.

Paul Fixter