Showband

Stevie and Lindsey had serious offers to form a Top Forty showband to ply the steak-and-lobster circuit on the West Coast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It provokes plastic-glassed euphoria anyway, with Smith and Co looking for all the world like the best wedding cabaret showband in the world. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After his father bought him a guitar from one of the showband musicians, he began teaching himself Shadows and Beatles songs. ❋ Adam Sweeting (2011)

When we started out, people saw us as a kind of soul showband, but people coming to our shows these days expecting to hear so ft ballads are going to be confused. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Print Miami Showband massacre: HET raises collusion concerns Three members of the Miami Showband were killed by loyalists in 1975 The families of three men shot dead in the Miami showband massacre have said a report into the killings indicates an RUC Special Branch agent was involved. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nuki with his wife, Marge, and brother Gugi formed the Maori Volcanics showband in 1964, which still tours today in Australia and New Zealand, with various performers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has toured all over the world and still continues to thrill audiences with the rock and roll/showband style music. ❋ Unknown (2010)

YOU report that stamps are to be issued to commemorate the showband era, the bands depicted being the Royal, Miami, Joe Dolan and the Drifters, and the Freshmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mmmmmm - anyone want to start a showband with an ageing neverwas, who still has the audacity to think he can cut it??????? ❋ Unknown (2010)

As well as the auction there will be entertainment from a 17-piece showband, a champagne reception and a three-course meal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It will also cover the tragedy of the Miami showband massacre, in which ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cassidy gives an exoneration to Ronan Collins - showband influenced politics rears it's head again. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rory Callagher began playing guitar back in County Donegal in his native Ireland at age nine and when he was 15 he joined the Fontana showband and then later on an other showband called Impact. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On Saturday came write-ups for Pat Kirkwood, “star of British musical theater,” Joe D.lan, “pop singer from Ireland’s ‘showband’ era,” and G.D. Warrington, Amtrak’s chief, “who ushered in the Acela high-speed” train. ❋ Friend, David (2008)

In 1963, Hollywood actress Dian James joins the Greenbriar Boys in "Cannon Ball Blues," and Judy Lynn's Nevada casino showband nails "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock through the showband era and right up to the present day, "said Balfe, who began his radio career with Radio Eireann as an 18-year-old in 1964. ❋ Unknown (2009)