Twilights Three Piece Reunite
Left To Right: Paddy McCartney, Mike Sykes & Glenn Shorrock
Preparing For the 2018 Adelaide Fringe
Twilights Win Local ‘Beatle Hop’
Glenn Shorrock: “When I found out that The Beatles were from Liverpool, England, it really intrigued me that that sound could come out of there, it just didn’t ring true to me. I met a few Liverpool migrants in Elizabeth who told me about them so I just totally loved them. Even before they arrived we were all wearing sort of facsimiles of Beatle clothing. You couldn’t buy it, so you had to either make it or approximate it. Instead of Beatle boots, the only boots we could find like that would be the R.M. Williams’ boots in Prospect. And the hair was worn, not long but longish. People didn’t accept long hair. We just used to comb it forward on the weekends. But gradually the whole culture took over. It was just a great identity thing. We could all identify with it and, of course, Adelaide had a high percentage of English migrants and they were constantly coming in as well. So you were updated all of the time as to what was happening in England. Adelaide was definitely hipper than any other place in Australia. It stayed that way for a long time.”
Twilights On Local TV
The “Twilights” – Appearing At The Elizabeth Skating Rink
Glenn Shorrock: “By this stage we had become very popular in our local area, so Mike Sykes decided that we should open our own dance. We called it the Matelot Club because it was the Navy Association CLub in Elizabeth South. We used to play for a hour on Friday nights with the Vectormen. Then we were offered the job at the Salisbury Youth Centre which was a step us for us. That was a larger venue. We could get about 2000 kids in there on a saturday night, and so the Vectormen and The Twilights moved in.”
Checkmates Become Twilights
Glenn Shorrock: “We were actually The Checkmates to begin with and there were four of us, but we trimmed it down and became a trio. We were just looking at The sunset one night and I said: “Why don’t we call ourselves The Twilights?” I wish I hadn’t done that, I hated the name from then on. It worked alright if you said The Twilights fast but for some reason it sort of embarrassed me when comperes used to say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, would you put your hands together and give a big welcome for The Twilights.” It just didn’t have the same sort of ring, You know?”
Twilights With Car
Twilights Promo Photos
Twilights First Record
The Checkmates Perform
Twilights With The Vectormen
Glenn Shorrock: “There were a few teenage dances. People just bought their records along and every now and then you’d have a bit of an amateur band jumping up. People like Alan Tarney and Frank Tarney and those sort of people. The Vectormen started just down the street from me. Who else was around at that time? Bobby Bright and The Beaumen; Doug Ashdown, who lived in Elizabeth as well was in that. In fact the first electric guitar I ever saw was Doug Ashdown’s. If you were really lucky, you’d get an Adelaide band like The Penny Rockets, they were a damn good band, the best around. They were around 19 or 20, while we were all around 16. We used to copyDion’s Runaround Sue and The Hop by Danny and The Juniors. The folk thing was very big at the time so we sang Michael Row The Boat Ashore. Greenback Dollar, anything that had a bit of harmony to it. Then the Beach Boys came along and the Everly Brothers of course and we would do a few of those.”