1965

Complete

Confirmed events are indicated by a ♫
Events are only confirmed if printed evidence is available, i.e.. Magazine, Advert, Ticket, Poster etc. or if verified by two independent sources. Internet sourced dates are not classed as evidence due to errors being copied from site to site.
All acts are listed exactly as they appeared in the advert.
It will be noted that in the early years, some of the more famous bands had differing names and may have been lower on the bill. This usually means that they were, as yet, relatively unknown.
Additional information and corrections to this list are more than welcomed.

All the gigs and events at the California Ballroom during 1965
Date		Valid	Event	Comments
Jan	1	♫	The Kinks Linda Laine and the Sinners The Panthers	All day and all the night Adm 10/-
	2	♫	G.T. Phillips and the Stormville Shakers Mike Dean and the Kinsmen The Midnights	Big Beat Night Adm. 6/6
	5	♫	Wrestling
	8	♫	Johnny Childs and the Elders Consolidated The Clearways The Challengers	Big Beat Night Adm. 5/-
	9	♫	The Takers The Fenmen The Witnesses	Top Pop Night Adm. 6/6
	14	♫	Wrestling
	15	♫	The Poets The Wackers The Dominators	Big Beat Night Adm. 5/-
	16	♫	Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas The Mark 4 The Reasons	Top Pop Night Adm 7/6
	22	♫	Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders The Twilights The Avengers	Hm Hm Hm Adm 5/6
	23	♫	Bern Elliot & the Klan The King Snakes The Vibratones	Big Beat Night Adm 5/6
	28	♫	Wrestling
	29	♫	The Takers The Classmates Eddie Falcon & the Fournotes	Big Beat Night Adm5/-
Feb	5	♫	The Marauders The Stringbeats The Prowlers	Big Beat Night Adm. 5/-
	6	♫	Band of Angels The Johnnie Cousins Combo The Half Dozen	Top Pop Night Adm 6/6
	11	♫	Wrestling
	12	♫	Russ Sainty & the Nu Notes The Debutantes The Whispering Four	Big Beat Night Adm. 5/-
	13	♫	Screaming Lord Sutch The Cheetahs The Five Just Men	Top Pop Night Adm7/6
	19	♫	The Lancastrians George and the Rave Ons Fernando & the Hide-a-ways	Big Beat Night Adm 5/-
	20	♫	Simon Scott & Group The Emeralds The Allens	Top Pop Night Adm. 6/6
	25	♫	Wrestling
	26	♫	The Hollies The Bowstreet Runners Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich The Jaguars	All Star Night Adm7/6
	27	♫	(Ex Searcher) Tony Jackson and the Vibrators The Sorrows Kit & the Saracens	Top Pop Night Adm7/-
Mar	5	♫	The Downlands & The Soundtracks Bryan and the Brunelles The Mantis Set	Top Pop Night Adm 5/-
	6	♫	Joe Brown and the Bruvvers The Riot Squad Yensons Trolls	All Star Night Adm8/-
	11	♫	Wrestling
	12	♫	The Cherokees Terry Judge and the Barristers The Kingsways	Top Pop Night Admission 5/-
	13	♫	The Knives & Forks The Apex Group The Triads	Big Beat Night Admission 6/6d
	19	♫	The Ivy League Dave Curtis and the Tremors The Plainsmen	Funny how love can be Admission 7/6
	20	♫	The Searchers Fleur De Lyes The Nomads	Goodbye my love Admission 10/-
	25	♫	Wrestling
	26	♫	Russ Sainty and the Nu-Notes Grant Tracey & the Sunsets The Washington D.Cs	Top Pop Night Admission 5/-
	27	♫	The Lynx Mike Dean and the Kinsmen The Les Fauves	Big Beat Night Admission 6/6
Apr	2	♫	Zoot Money's Big Roll Band Mal Ryder & The Spirits The Ricochets	Admission 5/- This was listed as Mel Ryder
	3	♫	Brian Poole and the Tremeloes The Modern Blues Six The Rebounds	Admission 8/-
	9	♫	The Escorts Geoff Curtis and the Flames The Beaux Maverix	Admission 5/-
	10	♫	The 4 Pennies Tony Rivers and the Casterways The Cannibals Soultet	Admission 7/6
	15	♫	The Nashville Teens The Fenmen The Nightshades	Admission
	17	♫	P J Proby and the Proby Orchestra Blues By Five The Midnights	Admission 12/-
	23	♫	The Beat Merchants The Echo's Tom Thumb and the Fourfingers	Admission 5/-
	24	♫	Johnny Kid and the Pirates Russ Sainty and the Geoff Mole and the Diggers	Admission 7/-
	30	♫	The Classmates Johnny Flood and the Trespassers The Kingsnakes	Admission 5/-
May	1	♫	Beau Brummell and his Noblemen The Downsiders The Ricochets	Admission 6/6
	7	♫	The Symbols The Shin-Digs Johnny Kaye and the Kossaks	Admission 5/-
	8	♫	The Mule Skinners The Sons of Adam The Yenson Trolls	Admission 6/6
	14	♫	The Hollies Half Dozen The Dominators	Admission 7/6
	15	♫	The Undertakers The Wreckers C.C. and the Riders	Admission 6/6
	21	♫	The Manish Boys Bryan Diamond and the Cutters Simon St. Just	Admission 5/-
	22	♫	Manfred Mann The Niteshades The Sneakers	Admission 8/6
	28	♫	The Checkmates Beat Six Tom Thumb and the Four Fingers	Admission 5/-
	29	♫	The Merseybeats Dave Curtis and the Tremors The Bumps in the Night	Admission 7/6
Jun	4	♫	The Mark Four The Herd Keith Conway and the Aristokats	Admission 5/-
	5	♫	The Pickwicks The Apex Group The Yes and No	Admission 6/6
	11	♫	The Persuations (sic) Shane & the Shane Gang Billy Storm & the original Falcons	Top Pop Night Admission 5/-
	12	♫	The Fourmost The Tramps The Vivas	Big Beat Night Adm7/6
	17	♫	Wrestling
	18	♫	Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages The Prowlers The Knight Errants	Big Beat Night Adm 5/-
	19	♫	Lulu & the Luvvers The Downlands & Soundtracks The Whispering Four	Top Pop Night Adm. 6/6
	25	♫	Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich	Big Beat Night Adm5/-
	26	♫	The Fenmen Justin Tyme The Artwoods The Sorrows The Dyaks	Top Pop Night Adm 6/6
July	1	♫	Wrestling
	2	♫	The Birds The Meddy Evils The Shames	Big Beat Night Adm. 5/-
	3	♫	The Fairies Terry Judge & the Barristers The Chequers	Top Pop Night Adm6/6
	9	♫	The In Crowd Jimmy Royal & the Hawks The Symbols	Top Pop Night Adm6/6
	10	♫	The Washington DCs The Shevelles Jean & the Statesides	Big Beat Night Adm. 6/6
	15	♫	Wrestling
	16	♫	Tony Rivers & the Castaways The Mark Leeman Five The Dennisons	Top Pop Night Adm 5/-
	17	♫	The Animals The Apex Group Yensons Trolls	All Star Night Adm. 8/6
	23	♫	Trendsetters Ltd The Classmates The Saracens	Real Rave Night Adm 5/-
	24	♫	Guy Hamilton & the Sensations Sonny Childs & the Elders Consolidated plus supporting Group	All Sorts Night No price given
	29	♫	Wrestling
	30	♫	Hipster Image Karl Stewart & the Profile Hells Aliens	Rock Nite Adm. 5/-
	31	♫	The Measles Mike Dean & the Kinsmen The Tykes	All Sorts Night Adm 6/6
Aug	6	♫	The Cherokees Dean Ford & the Gaylords The Reasons	All Sorts Night Adm 5/-
	7	♫	The Moody Blues The Downlanders & Soundtracks The Fab Beats	All Star Night Adm 7/6
	13	♫	Zoot Money's Big Roll Band Bern Elliott & the Klan The Tribe	Rave Night Adm5/-
	14	♫	P.J. Proby The Saracens The Consorts	Nite of all nites Adm10/-
	20	♫	The Merseybeats The Sweet & Lovelies Fernandos Hide-a-ways	Beat Nite Adm5/-
	21	♫	Cops 'n' Robbers Shelley The Johnny Cousin Combo	XXX Adm5/-
	26	♫	Wrestling
	27	♫	The Fourmost The Beat Six The Notes	Adm5/-
	28	♫	Graham Bond Organisation Guy Darrell with the Wind of Change The Modern Blue Six	Adm6/6
	30	♫	Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers The Mark Leeman Five Heinz and the Wild Boys	Three Star Special Adm6/6
Sep	3	♫	The Who Mike Sheridan & the Nightriders The Vivas	Adm7/6
	4	♫	Manfred Mann Simon & the Surreys The Essex Five	Adm9/-
	9	♫	Wrestling
	10	♫	Spencer Davis Group The Soundtrekkers Blues by Five	Adm. 6/6
	11	♫	The Walker Brothers The Peddlers The Blues Breakers	Adm9/-
	17	♫	The Barron Knights Rick & the Voodoos The Shames	Adm6/6
	18	♫	Goldie and the Gingerbreads The Rocking Chairs Yensons Trolls	Adm7/6
	23	♫	Wrestling
	24	♫	Tony Jackson and the Vibrators Bobbie Jean & those Scots Boys The Stringbeats	Adm6/6
	25	♫	Brian Poole & the Tremeloes Hamilton King Blues Messengers The En-devers Ltd	Adm8/6
Oct	1		The Rockin' Berries	Adm
	2		Johnny Kidd and the Pirates	Adm
	?	♫	The After 10 Casino Club opened	Membership only (free) Opened early October - prior to the 10th, possibly 7th
	8		Lulu and the Luvvers The Sorrows	Adm
	9	♫	The Yardbirds unconfirmed date from Chrome Oxide web site. Their source not recorded.	Yardbirds March 4, 1965 to June 20, 1966 Lineup 3 Keith Relf - vocals/harp Jeff Beck - lead guitar Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar Paul Samwell-Smith - bass guitar Jim McCarty - drums
	15	♫	Them The Ginger Tom People	Adm 6/6 Info from Trevor Williams (TGTP)
	16		The Honeycombs plus supporting acts	Adm 8/6
	22		The Animals	Adm 6/6
	23	♫	Billy Fury supported by the Cortinas	Confirmed by Paul Griggs of the Cortinas but advertised as The King Snakes.
	29		The Moody Blues	Adm
	30		The Measles	Adm 6/6
Nov	5		The Ying Tongs	Adm 6/6
	6		Tom Jones	Adm. 8/6
	12		The Kinks	Adm. 7/6
	13	♫	Saturday Morning Tots & Teens Club	Started. 10.30am - 12.30pm for 8-14 year olds. Cost 1/6
	13	♫	Sir Douglas Quintet	Adm. 8/6
	19		Loose Ends	Adm. 6/6
	20	♫	The Honeycombs Mike Dean and the Kinsmen	Adm. 8/6
	22	♫	The Candlelight Club starts	Every Monday. Free Taxis from West Street. Before 8 Admission 2/-, after 8 Admission 2/6 Discs, Three Groups, Prizes
	26	♫	The Nashville Teens plus two supporting Groups	Adm 6/6
	27	♫	The Link Dimplettes	Adm 6/6
Dec	3	♫	The Art Woods Boz and Boz People plus support	Adm5/-
	4	♫	Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers plus two supporting groups	Adm7/6
	6	♫	Candlelight Club- Beat Nite Personal appearance of The Silkie	Adm 2/- or 2/6
	7	♫	All England Beat Contest	Adm 2/6 contact Rodney 9987
	8	♫	Bingo
	10	♫	The Ying Tongs plus two supporting groups	Adm5/-
	11	♫	The Symbols plus two supporting groups	Adm6/6
	12	♫	Bingo
	13	♫	Personal appearance by Billy Walker
	16	♫	Wrestling
	17	♫	Saturday Morning Teens Club	Admission had risen to 3/6
	17	♫	Roulettes plus two supporting groups	Adm5/-
	18	♫	Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames plus two supporting groups	Adm8/6
	24	♫	Brian Poole and the Tremeloes	Adm7/6
	26	♫	Zoot Money's Big Roll Band	Adm7/6
	30	♫	Wrestling
	31	♫	Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick & Tich The Fenmen Nitepeople Mike Sheridan's Lot	Adm10/6