Ricky Tick’s resident DJ Martin Fuggles sets up shop at The Firestation for a new series of DJ and live music events to celebrate the old and the new of the Ricky Tick vibe!
From its early beginnings as a Jazz Club then a Rhythm & Blues Club in a dark and smoky back room at the Star and Garter on Peascod Street in Windsor (where an unknown band called the Rolling Stones played many times in late 1962 and 1963), the Ricky Tick became an iconic part of the Rhythm & Blues and mod scenes at various locations in the Home Counties in the mid 1960s. The club continued at the Star and Garter and the Thames Hotel until spring 1964, before moving to the iconic Clewer Mead and dropping in on Newbury Corn Exchange, Pearce Hall in Maidenhead, Olympia Ballroom in Reading and loads more before wrapping up in 1967.
A regular “who’s who” of top British Rhyhtm & Blues acts appeared at the Ricky Tick – including Cyril Davies, Alexis Korner, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, The Yardbirds, Graham Bond, The Stormsville Shakers, Brian Auger, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Moody Blues, Ronnie Jones and the Nightimers, Manfred Mann, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Zoot Money, Herbie Goins, Downliners Sect, Chris Farlowe, Jimmy James and The Vagabonds, Spencer Davies, The Animals, The Action, Alan Price, The Who – plus a tonne of US artists such as John Lee Hooker, Howling Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis & Sister Rosetta Tharpe!
So come on down and join us in this FREE to attend Disco Tick event!
Sun 24 Nov, 7:00pm
FREE ENTRY
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