In recent times we've been getting requests for information to be put on the website regarding the Searchers' stage equipment – amps, monitors, effects pedals, drum kit, sound desk etc – to go alongside the guitar article which we've had on line for some while. Frank Allen has now written an article about this, with detailed lists and photographs of what they all use. Click here to access the first page, and then on the NEXT buttons to take you to all the other pages. I think this is a very valuable addition to the site, and I'm sure you'll find it interesting, particularly the more technically minded amongst you.

The boys popped over to Germany in early August for an open air event at Satzgitter, near Hanover, and one of the fans filmed parts of the show and put three excellent clips on YouTube. I thought you'd enjoy watching them – What Have They Done To The Rain, Goodbye My Love and When You Walk In The Room.

There are a few of the summer solo evenings in early September, and then it's the start of the SIXTIES GOLD package tour which runs from 21 September to 26 November. The dates are selling well, so it's high time to be booking your tickets if you want good seats. The show will feature the Searchers, Gerry & the Pacemakers, P J Proby and Chip Hawkes (former lead singer of the Tremeloes). Click here for much fuller details of the tour - it certainly looks like a great line-up to look forward to as the nights draw in. And check out the dates list to see when they'll be down your way between now and when they go off to Australia in mid January.

Frank Allen's book “The Searchers And Me” has now been in print for over a year. It's a very detailed biography of the Searchers and, running alongside the first few chapters, his own early life story including his time with Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers. The book is published and distributed exclusively by Aureus, and is ONLY available to purchase direct from them - it is not and will not be available via Amazon or other internet or High Street retailers. Read more about it here and follow the link to the publisher's site to place an order. If you bring your copy along to your next Searchers show, Frank will be very pleased to autograph it for you.

I look forward to seeing some of you on the Sixties Gold tour - I'll be at Croydon, Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells and Chatham - so if you see me (I'll be in the front row at all of them except for Chatham) do come and say hello.

Wendy Burton Website Editor/Co-ordinator 1st Sept 2010 e-mail: wendy.burton@the-searchers.co.uk