The High Seas Showband
Bobby Duff
Stewart Gillispie Jackie Gault Thelma Hall
Norman Purdy (RIP.Granada Sound)
Billy Clements Jim Hill Alex Brown Alex Newell
Alex Brown And Billy Brown
Were Full Cousins Jackie Gault Is My Brother In Law
This Is The Original Band Taken At The Larne Boat Club
Had Australian Day Breakfast
Billy Maginty Plattermen
Bob
Macdowell Gaylords Billy Clements
High Seas Jim Macilmurry Newmen
Yours In Music Jim Hill Still Known In Larne By My Middle Name (Fagan)
Im Still Playing Every Week Hope This Helps
Jim-----
Jim Hill
fagan@powerup.com.au
The band was resident in the Kings Arms Ballroom
in the late 6Os
that had also toured Ireland, Scotland and
North of England.
The band line up was Larne locals; Norman
Purdy (RIP), Thelma Hall, Jackie Gault,
Alex Newell, Bobby Duff, Jim Hill, Wilbert
Clements and Louis Craig
and Alex Brown (cousin of the Late Billy Brown
of The Freshmen).
Another local Stuart Gillespie joined the
band after its formation.
The band cut a demo Extended Play (EP) record
(disc) featuring the following four numbers.
L/r Jerry McIlduff, Mike Nibblet , Merve
Allen,Thelma Hall,
Bobby Duff, Billy Herron and Alex Brown.
Jerry McIlduff(a brilliant Drummer) later played
with the Plattermen.
Merve Allen, sang previously with the Jimmy
Johnston Showband,
and later sang with a revival of the
Clipper
Carlton.
Here are all the Band's I played in you may
not have all the bands listed!
anyway here goes in no particular order,
Tony G. Ford and the Stellas,the
Silhouettes,the
Outer Limits,later Clouds
(Downpatrick,this was the band that Gerry
Kelly played with),
the People,later
Eire Apparent,(The People were also the backing
band for Millie Small
and Julie Grant
when they toured Ireland).Thelma and the High
Seas,the Night People,
Peadar Cowan,Patricia Gratton and Southern
Comfort(both singers ex the Hilton)
Big Ivan and the
New County(or Down county) Big Ivan,R.I.P.
Mike Niblett
From Mike Niblett collection
MchlNiblett@aol.com
