The FORTHBEATS

BIOGRAPHY:

Act from the early 1960's (1963 at least) featuring Bill Hastings (guitar), Barry Hall, Bobby Duncan & Jim Allan, who played mostly at local venues. Duncan's father was the Golf Club Steward at the Camelon Club, and one Sunday night when Hastings was there he was approached by a local businessman, Peter Fallon, who had organised a competition for local groups, the winning prize was a week recording in London with EMI, Decca, & Pye. The Forthbeats did not win, however Hastings almost immediatly joined one of the acts that did, Tommy & The Delmonts, whilst the rest of the band became The Trespassers in June 1964.