Funny story. A guy is trying to track down the 19 people that were at this Beatles show in 1963.
Most of the crowd didn't like their music and left to catch a more "popular" local band.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h ... s-13004514
Its crazy to know that even in 1963, they played to an audience of just 19!
Even crazier is what 1964 had in store for them.
Beatles played to an almost emtpy house?
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Re: Beatles played to an almost emtpy house?
Cool story... Most Scots preferred the Bay City Rollers... lol
Snubbed Dingwall Beatles gig crowd to be reunited
The Beatles Within a year of the Dingwall gig The Beatles were the world's biggest band
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A reunion event is to be held later for people who saw The Beatles play in a Highlands town hall in 1963.
Nineteen watched the gig in Dingwall, Ross-shire, but within days of an appeal for audience members 24 people came forward saying they were there.
Billy Shanks, of Dingwall Business Association, has been involved in the effort to reunite the crowd.
A Beatles tribute band are to perform during the reunion celebration in the town hall.
Those who have come forward include members of the 19 people who paid to watch The Beatles. Others include people who had served teas, or were working in the cloakroom, on the night.
Mr Shanks told BBC Scotland in March that some who turned up thought the music was rubbish and left to join an audience of 1,200 watching a local band in nearby Strathpeffer.
He said The Melotones had been a bigger attraction on the night.
In the weeks following the Dingwall gig, The Beatles went on to have their first top 10 hit with Please Please Me.
Within a year they were the most popular band in the world.
Olive Lees, 64, was among the 19 audience members and stayed to the end of the gig even though her father Jimmy Stewart was band leader of the Melotones at the time.
She said: "My father told me the mini bus to the Strath was full so I'd have to go to the town hall.
"I wasn't bothered because the Melotones would come round to our house and play in the sitting room.
"I remember The Beatles were late in arriving and when they came on stage one by one they were wearing three-quarter-length leather jackets, long scarves - one was trailing his on the ground behind him - and winkle pickers.
"Everyone was laughing at them.
"But they were brilliant and they chatted with the audience between songs."
Mrs Lees, who later lived in Aberdeen for 42 years before returning to Ross-shire, will be attending the reunion.
Snubbed Dingwall Beatles gig crowd to be reunited
The Beatles Within a year of the Dingwall gig The Beatles were the world's biggest band
Continue reading the main story
A reunion event is to be held later for people who saw The Beatles play in a Highlands town hall in 1963.
Nineteen watched the gig in Dingwall, Ross-shire, but within days of an appeal for audience members 24 people came forward saying they were there.
Billy Shanks, of Dingwall Business Association, has been involved in the effort to reunite the crowd.
A Beatles tribute band are to perform during the reunion celebration in the town hall.
Those who have come forward include members of the 19 people who paid to watch The Beatles. Others include people who had served teas, or were working in the cloakroom, on the night.
Mr Shanks told BBC Scotland in March that some who turned up thought the music was rubbish and left to join an audience of 1,200 watching a local band in nearby Strathpeffer.
He said The Melotones had been a bigger attraction on the night.
In the weeks following the Dingwall gig, The Beatles went on to have their first top 10 hit with Please Please Me.
Within a year they were the most popular band in the world.
Olive Lees, 64, was among the 19 audience members and stayed to the end of the gig even though her father Jimmy Stewart was band leader of the Melotones at the time.
She said: "My father told me the mini bus to the Strath was full so I'd have to go to the town hall.
"I wasn't bothered because the Melotones would come round to our house and play in the sitting room.
"I remember The Beatles were late in arriving and when they came on stage one by one they were wearing three-quarter-length leather jackets, long scarves - one was trailing his on the ground behind him - and winkle pickers.
"Everyone was laughing at them.
"But they were brilliant and they chatted with the audience between songs."
Mrs Lees, who later lived in Aberdeen for 42 years before returning to Ross-shire, will be attending the reunion.
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Re: Beatles played to an almost emtpy house?
- Town Hall, Dingwall
Re: Beatles played to an almost emtpy house?
A similar thing had happened in Aldershot... but of course that was the end of 1961, not early '63
http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/beatle ... shot.shtml
http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/beatle ... shot.shtml