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@azacavagin17 they did practice often in the YMCA at Bedlington station. Your granda John was a couple of years older than me and he lived next door to us in Coquetdale Place. I remember the bands first gigg and I think it was your granda (electrician?) who connected four coloured light bulbs to aa slab of wood and added an extension cable with an on-off switch. I sat under a table, covered by a cloth, and operated the switch = off and on to the beat/rythm of the song the band was playing. The band bought me my first under age pint of a Blank and Tan. I can't be sure of the venue of this first gigg that would have been 1964, or 65, but I thnk it might have been netherton Colliery or the Top End of Bedlington. I know the band were riginally named the Statesmen but can't remember when they changed to the Olympics - (to me). Just remembered your granda's son fitted my kitchen when we were living in cramlington. Think it would have been in the 1990's and the two of them, I think, were living in Millbank Road.

That’s my grandad, John Cavagin. He used to tell me stories about when he was in the band when I was younger, I remember him saying that they used to play in the YMCA often.