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Memories

Mick & Tim Coleman were in a group called the Beezers. They met drummer Graham Evans after he placed an advert in the Manchester Evening News, and they met in the Queens pub in Ashton.

While they were rehearsing upstairs, the band downstairs hadn't turned up.

The landlord asked them to come down and play, which they did, doing "Twist & Shout", "Bebop a Lula", "Sweets for my Sweet", and "I Saw Her Standing There", over and again for the next two hours, as that was all they knew.

Tim Coleman

I remember the Hornets playing Ashton Palais every Saturday afternoon.

My mates and I were teenagers then, and we thought they were fantastic! (I still do!!!) I remember them as a three-piece, though, and their rendition of 'the joint was rockin' was the best I have ever heard.

Thanks, lads. Because of you I went on to play in several bands both locally and further afield, and still jam with other band members occasionally.

Martyn Atkinson