Below, The Folkestone Herald article that conned the band into distribute Marshmallows to the audience at the Leas Cliff Hall gig.

A box of bagged Marshmallows was purchased from Dave Watkins, who at the time was partner of Mick Scott in the local Agency "Micave" Dave ran his dads cafe under the Bridge at Central Station, Mick was a photographer and later had a shop in Dover Road. The agency ran successful during the 50's and 60's giving many new bands their first break in the better venues. Mick and Dave were very helpful to us in the early days in the music biz. and we have no complaints and loads of praise - except the emergency stand-in for Acker Bilk, Dave arranged for us at Bridge Country Club for 2 pounds less than we normally got paid and then we had his fees to pay on top. To go with that we found out that Acker Bilk was not even booked, he was playing a big venue in London, still that was a typical Peter Melkin trick. As long as he got people in the door...............the band had a chicken dinner and gave the the bill to Peter after they had loaded the van to go home after the gig.
To continue - Bags of sweeties were distributed to the fans at the gig but quickly became re-distributed all around the hall singly - on the stage, the curtains, the walls, floor and even the ceiling. It appears if you suck them first they will stick to anything. The real suckers were the band, who got a real roasting from the Leas Cliff Hall manager with threat of the cleaning bill.

Note at this time Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band were in the charts with "Urban Spaceman" and regular visitors to Folkestone. Cliff joined Raw Material and The Vivian Stanchall Band later in his career.

One snowy winter night we were doing the support spot at the Leas for "Amen Corner" at the Leas and they had been delayed by the weather. The crowd was getting restless and screamed at anything that moved - even us. It was getting dangerous to to approach the edge of the stage as the girls were already hysterical. Amen Corner eventually arrived and did a blistering set with 2 or 3 attendants keeping the stage clear. At he finale the stage was invaded and all of the stacks knocked over. Later we were invitedinto the band's dressing room for a drink. One of the guitarist was sitting in the dressing room, crying and inconsolable. Apparently he had bought a Gibson 335 that day and it was behind his Marshall stack as a spare. The insurance had not been set up yet.

Classic Amps

• 1969 -
  Shure Unisphere Microphone - £23
• Van Tax - £9 3s 0d
• Van Insurance - £17 0s 0d
• Engine Overhaul - £22 0s 0d
• Service - £2 10s 0d
• Practice Hall - 18s 6d
• Hire van - £2 10s 0d
• Agent - 10%
• Roady 10/-
• Sunshine Cafe Cheriton - Hang-out of local bands after a gig The Calcutta in Tontine St. for a curry after a gig.
• Gig - Anything from 1 hour to 3 and a quarter hours on stage at resisdency like Bridge Country club finishing around 1.30am

The band were very pleased to have been chosen to take part in a competition at The Dreamland Ballroom and came Second.

Nobody remembers who won, but their victory was marred by the fact that the mic. of the "clapometer" which the judges were to go by, was in the hands of one off their fans and he was yelling loudly into it.

Starting to have second thoughts about the music business. Who wants to be rich and famous anyway.