January 01 – Findhorn Water Ski Club presents New Year’s Carnival Dance
January 03 – Elgin Jazz Club presents Midnite Holiday Dance. Music by The Alex. Sutherland Band with Alyson Armstrong.
January 07 – Special Teenage Dance “Beat Away The New Year Blues” Johnny And The J.P.s plus The Copycats
January 13 – The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
January 14 – Moray Dance Club presents Dave Berry And The Cruisers. Here’s Dave with Little Things which would hit the chart in March.
January 15 – Late Night
January 16 – Palais Night
January 21 – The Copycats
January 26 – Tuesday Teen Beat Dancing recommences. Dancing to The Copycats
January 28 – SJPA presents Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders with The Alex. Sutherland Sextet. Here are Wayne and The Mindbenders performing “Game Of Love” which will enter the chart next week and hit the number two spot and “Just A Little Bit Too Late”.
February 04 – Lulu And The Lovers
February 09 – The Leopards
February 18 – Moray Dance Club presents ex-Beatles‘ Drummer The Jimmy Nicol Sound plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
February 23 – Teenbeat Dancing “The Eagle Force Seven” Group
February 24 – Over 25’s Night
February 25 – Elgin Folk Music Club presents Big Beat Night with Malcolm Clarke And The Cresters, George Washington and the Senators, The Stepping Stones, The Leopards, The Jacobeats, The Alex. Sutherland Band
March 11 – The Swinging Blue Jeans, seen above with “Shake, Rattle And Roll” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly” from last year’s NME Pollwinners Concert.
March 18 – The Honeycombs
March 25 – Elgin Jazz Club presents Them
April 08 – Moray Dance Club presents Unit 4 + 2 (seen here with “Concrete And Clay”) plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
April 15 – Goldie And The Gingerbreads plus The Boomerangs and The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
April 22 – The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
April 29 – Irish Showband The Viceroys and Liverpool recording group The Mighty Avengers
May 06 – Elgin Jazz Club presents The “I Can’t Explain” Group The Who plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
May 13 – Findhorn Water Ski Club presents Neil Landon And The Burnettes
May 27 – The Searchers plus The Rats
June 03 – Moray Dance Club presents The Measles plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
June 10 – SJPA presents The Fabulous Lectrones plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
June 17 – Irish Showband The Drumbeats
June 24 – Moray Dance Club presents The Four Pennies plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
July 15 – Modern Dancing Enterprises “Night Of The Beat People”
July 22 – Fitz-N-Starts
August 02 – Elgin Jazz Club “Holiday Dance”
August 11 – Over 25’s Night
August 12 – Star Night with Johnny Peters And The J.P.s
August 13 – Late Night
August 14 – Palais Night
August 18 – Over 25’s Night
August 20 – Late Night
August 21 – Palais Night
August 25 – Over 25’s Night
August 26 – Kris Ryan And The Questions
August 27 – Late Night
August 28 – Palais Night
September 01 – Over 25’s Night
September 02 – No Dance
September 03 – Late Night
September 04 – Palais Night
September 08 – Over 25’s Night
September 09 – The Manchester Playboys
September 10 – Late Night
September 11 – Palais Night
September 15 – Over 25’s Night
September 16 – Elgin Dance Club presents The Peasants and The Jimmy Martin Band
September 17 – Late Night
September 18 – Palais Night
September 23 – Elgin Jazz Club presents The Toggery Five plus The Groundhogs. The Toggery Five were a Manchester band named after a clothes shop in Southport. They only released two singles. This, their second, “I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys”, was written by Andrew Loog Oldham and Keith Richards.
October 01 – Late Night with The Sandy West Dance Band
October 02 – Palais Night
October 07 – Moray Dance Club presents The Mighty Avengers plus The Delinks
October 12 – Moray Dance Club presents The Ivy League, seen here with their number 8 hit from earlier this year, “Funny How Love Can Be”.
October 14 – Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen
October 21 – Thursday’s Chart Cart – The new style Thursday night entertainment to the jet set with Douglas Eames as resident D.J. All the tops from the pops with special guest group The Kubas
October 28 – Elgin Folk Music Club present The group to set the heather on fire George Fame And The Blue Flames
November 09 – SJP Association present The Nashville Teens, seen above performing “Tobacco Road” on the U.S. TV show, Shindig! back in March.
November 11 – Chart Cart Nite. Guest group Phil Ryan And The Crescents
November 18 – Chart Cart Nite. Guest group The Washington D.C.s
November 25 – Chart Cart Nite. Guest group The Powerhouse Six plus Johnny Cannon
The Northern Scot dated Saurday December 4th, 1965 carried the notification “Thursday dancing discontinued until further notice”
December 17 – Sounds Incorporated
December 24 – Christmas Eve Carnival Dance
December 25 – Christmas Day Dance
December 30 – The Copycats Fan Club present after their successful two-moth tour of the German high spots a welcome home to The Copycats in their Mask ball ’65 (Bring your own face and we’ll supply the mask)
December 31 – Hogmanay Dance
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