Fact #68343

Peter Clouting (audience) : I saw the Small Faces at Trowbridge Town Hall on a rainy night in 1965. I was three months short of my 16th birthday and envious of the hundreds of mods who arrived on scooters from everywhere within a fifty mile radius, some of whom I recognised as 'Faces' from the infamous Spin a Disc cafe in Chippenham. Outside there were running battles with local rockers while inside the cloakroom was filled with heaps of green parkas and the walls dripped with sweat as Steve Marriott ripped into Jump Back, Come on Children and the crowd favourite E to D. Jimmy Winston played keyboards (pre - McLagan) and I seem to remember some strange whirling device mounted on top of their speaker cabinets. Having seen all the great bands, Stones, Who, Zeppelin, etc. I still find it hard to beat the excitement of a night when everything came together - a great band at the start of their career and the height of the Mod phenomenon.
(Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2008/02/26/sixties_bands_in_wiltshire_feature.shtml)