{"id":263997,"date":"2025-11-15T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:57:08","slug":"bands-who-played-weymouth-in-the-60s-70s-and-80s-to-reunite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263997\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands who played Weymouth in the 60s, 70s and 80s to reunite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The special reunion charity gig will be at the Centenary Club at Jubilee Sidings, Weymouth, on Friday, November 21.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The night of nostalgia, entertainment and dancing will begin at 6.45pm and continue until late.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will feature three bands and a solo artist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are: Ken Watkins, Strange Brew with Matt Black and the Boys, Package Deal &#8211; a seven piece soul band from 1967 who will be performing their last ever gig from the early 60s &#8211; and Crystal Ship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Psychedelic rock and blues band Crystal Ship are to disband at the end of the year after decades on the stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The popular Weymouth-based band, who formed in the 1960s as The Conquerors, reunited in 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They now\u00a0perform diverse styles of music with a line-up of six members, three of which made up the original Conquerors and Crystal Ship &#8211; Alan Hodder (vocals), Phil Biggs (drums) and Mick Martin (guitar).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets for the gig cost \u00a310. They can either be collected or paid for with cash before the gig at the Centenary Club in Weymouth .\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  People can reserve\u00a0 tickets in their name by phone on 01305 839310.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There will also\u00a0be some non ticket\u00a0 entry allowed\u00a0 by cash on the door on the night .\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Organisers say: &#8220;This will be a great night full of class entertainment, nostalgia and dancing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There will be a raffle on the night with a first prize of \u00a3100 cash and a second prize of \u00a350 in cash, which will be drawn on ticket numbers\u00a0 between 1 and 100, so it pays to buy or reserve your tickets early to take part in this part of the\u00a0 draw.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0&#8220;The raffle will also be backed up by various other prizes and donated vouchers from our sponsors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The special reunion charity gig will be at the Centenary Club at Jubilee Sidings, Weymouth, on Friday, November&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-263997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}