HERMAN meets TOM JONES in Australia, where they are now touring. Between
them is impressario HARRY MILLER, and on each side are HERMAN'S HERMITS.
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HERMAN'S Hermits will undertake a string of 12 concerts in April - joined by two other current chart groups, the Mindbenders and Pinkerton's Assorted Colours! The tour is in three phases - beginning in the South, moving to the North and finishing in Scotland. The package plays five dates over the Easter period at Southern venues, opening at Dover ABC on Thursady, April 7. It then visits Southend Odeon on Good Friday (8th), Plymouth ABC (9th), Exeter ABC (10th), and Gloucester ABC on Easter Monday (11th). The following weekend, the show plays five dates in the North. Venues are Lincoln ABC on April 14, Hull ABC (15th), Stockton Globe (16th), Newcastle City Hall (17th) and Carlisisle ABC (18th). The tour then visits Scotland on April 19 and 20 - but theatres are still being set by promoter Danny Betesh, who told the NME that he is negotiating for an American attraction to |
complete the line-up. Herman and the Mindbenders are also set for a date in Wales. They star in a festival being organised by Merthyr Tydfij Corporation on March 27. Two new TV bookings for Herman's Hermits are ATV's "Morecambe And Wise Show" on Saturday, March 19, and BBC-1's "A Whole Scene Going" on Wednesday, March 23. They guest in BBC-2's American produced "Danny Kaye Show" on Saturday week (February 21). The Mindbenders are currently recording their first LP, for release in April. It features numbers from their stage act plus several originals, including two compositions by "Groovy Kind of Love" writer Toni Wein. Negotiations for the Spencer Davis Group to join the Herman tour have fallen through. It is now expected that Davis will be featured in another tour - commencing at the end of March. |