Date:

7th March 1966

Judges:

Joy Home (Flamingo Ballroom)
John Adams (Winter Gardens)
L. Banks (Princess Pavilion)
S. Kamin (400 Club, Torquay)
Harry Coster (Blue Lagoon)
John Curnow (Leader of the Ray & Allen Band)

Winners:                                         

1st- The Reaction
2nd - ?
3rd - Vampires                             

Performers:         

Kontiki Klan (Falmouth)
Other Five (Newquay)
The Reaction (Truro)
The Sect (Falmouth)
The Strangers (Truro)
The Climates (Penryn)
The Dissatisfied (St Austell)
The Gentleman (Penzance)
The Lynx (Fowey)
The Smoky Joes (Truro)
The Vigilantes (Newquay)
Vampires (Redruth)
Vince Tracy and the Fifth Formers (Camborne)
The Trolls (Camborne)
                           

This years winners were offered the opening slot at the Flamingo Ballroom, supporting Gerry & The Pacemakers

John Challingsworth remembers the 1966 contest;

"Played at the Rock and Roll Rhythm Contest at the Flamingo about 1966 with my group Dannys Passion. We were well on the way to winning until an up country group who happened to be just passing decided to ask if the could enter. We had 30 watt WEM amps and they had 50 watt Marshall amps. We were blown off the stage."

The Reaction onstage during the 1966 contest

Thanks to QueeninCornwall for the Cornishman scan