The Tiles Beat Club, Durban - George Polly (Owner)
The Tiles Club was opened July 1964 in Durban and was the first Teen Club in South Africa to offer live local bands and entertainment for teenagers.
The club opened with the 004 from the UK, The Ivy League (No 1 UK hit Tossing and Turning), and later The Hedgehoppers Anonymous (No 1 UK hit, It's Good News Week – check YouTube)
Tiles hosted The Dream Merchants, Billy Forrest and Billy Andrews, and almost every South African band of note including Dicky Loader and the Blue Jeans, Freedom’s Children, John Sharp and the Squires, The Etonians, The Shyannes, Dunny and the Showmen together with local amateur bands Craig Ross and the Gonks, Alan Reid and the Mods, Dawn Selby and It's a Secret just to name a few. (Dawn was only ten at the time!)
The 60s gave us The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Bats, The Tiles, the GUNSTON 500 Surfing Contest, the Moon landing, Vietnam, Woodstock, LSD, Martin Luther King, the Pill, Twiggy, the Mini skirt, Jim Morrison, Janice Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, and some of the best music ever.
‘We were there and that is what we are celebrating,’ explains George.
The Tiles Band:
Dawn Selby – ex It’s A Secret and Third Eye
Bruce Boome - ex Four Jacks and a Jill and The Zombies
Glen Turrell - ex Howard Carpendale & The Kinsmen and
Dave Anthony Quartet
Ian Webster - ex Bite and Circus
Featuring special guests:
Pete Clifford – ex 004 and The Bats
Brian Gibson - ex 004
Mick Matthews - ex Ballyhoo and Hedgehoppers Anonymous
The Tiles Band will feature Dawn Selby, Bruce Boome, Glen
Turrell, Ian Webster and special guests Pete Clifford, Brian Gibson & Mack
Matthews.
Performances take place on August 24 at 19h30 and on August 25 at 14h00.
The venue is open 90 minutes before show. Bring food picnic
baskets or buy at the venue.
Bar Available (no alcohol may be brought on to the premises)
R200 per ticket
Booking is essential on email: roland@stansell.co.za or WEBTICKETS
For more information visit http://events.durbantheatre.com/
or call 082 499 8636
Limited secure parking available
Rhumbelow Theatre is situated at 42 Cunningham Road, off Bartle Road, Durban.