I spent a fun morning with Mrs Beanphoto today scouring the car boot sales and trash 'n' Treasure fairs in the area.
As well as picking up some nice old flash guns, bulbs, lenses, some tasty looking exposed (but unprocessed) rolls of 120 film, and some unexposed 120 film, some old kodak camera manuals and other stuff (£2 the lot!), I picked up a pile of lovely looking wedding photographs, all postcard size and very sweet (again, £2 the lot). Hidden amongst them was another photo, postcard sized) of a 1960's - looking band. Flipping it over I found the band were called "The Anteeks", and it is signed "To Happy" by all 5 members of the band pictured.
Doing a little research I found the band were better known as "The Anteeeks" (with three e's) and released a double A sided single in 1966. I checked it out on You Tube - they sounded great!! My research shows they came from Scotland (Ayrshire in fact) and had connections with David Bowie, Deep Purple, Georgie Fame, Alex Harvey and The Everly Brothers! However the line up in the photo I have appears to be different from that listed anywhere, most significantly the lead singer is recorded everywhere I can find as Frank Knapp, and here it appears to be "Linda" (surname unknown). Whether this is pre or post 1966 I know not, but I'm guessing post by those clothes, so maybe they changed their name?
It's a great photo, interesting too as I can see only one other photo of the band anywhere on the web.
Here it is, and also both sides of their fab 1966 'freakbeat' release "Ball and Chain" c/w "I Don't Want You". Check it out!!
And here's the reverse of the photo...
