Nottingham group 1965-66

Line up: A five piece I think

Terry Penn: Bass Guitar
Ken: Henshaw: Tenor Sax
Mick Brown: Sax
Mel Munks: Guitar
Ber????: Drums?

This line up is referred to cryptically in the following ad.

The Artful Dodgers were a Nottingham group who had previously been known as “Rockin Ron’s Combo“. From their beat roots they started to play a high powered soul set with brass accompaniment. Announcing their name change they kept their regular fans happy at the Coronation Hall in Toton and played countless gigs in the region including the Festival Inn, Trowell, the Cherry Tree in Calverton, the Ilkeston CO-OP Hall, the Phoenix Farm club in Gedling, the Strutt Arms in Milford, the Excel Bowl, Barker Gate, Nottm (Opened in March 1964. That’s the Bowling alley in town to me and you), the Cocked Hat, the Cavalier in Bestwood, the White Hart in Lenton, the Cat and Fiddle in Kirk Hallam, the Rialto Ballroom in Derby, the Cotgrave Youth Centre, the Cornhill Club on Carlton Road, the Matlock Bath Pavillion and the Y.M.C.A. on Shakespeare Street in Nottingham. They played the Sherwood Rooms at one of the Christmas children’s party’s which were still a feature of early sixties social activities. By the summer of 1967 they underwent another name change and became the John Smith Affair

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In the summer of 1967 the Artful Dodgers became the John Smith Affair.