Show Stopped With Sound System

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30667, 5 February 1965, Page 12

Show Stopped With Sound System

Hundreds of disappointed teen-agers left the first performance of the “Swingin’ ’65” show in the Majestic Theatre last evening without so much as hearing the “beat.”

Soon after the show began the sound system failed. Artists were upset and so were sound engineers who tried everything possible to rectify the fault.

While work was going on to get the system back in operation, the large audience sat whistling and stamping, but was otherwise quite orderly. An hour later, after one or two abortive attempts to pfe-

sent the entertainment, the manager (Mr D. S. Hughes) announced the early show was cancelled. Given Choice

He gave patrons the option of having their money refunded or of transferring the seats they held forward to the 6.30 p.m. Cilla Black show, which will play at the same theatre next month.

“We did everything we could,” said Mr Hughes. “The sound equipment was thoroughly tested before the first show began and it was all O.K. We have never had a sound problem at any show before in this theatre. What happened with the equipment remain something of a mystery,” he said.

For the second show of the evening a new set of amplifying equipment was used.