Left To Right: Frank Barnard, Glenn Shorrock,  John Bywaters, Paddy McCartney, Peter Brideoake And Terry Britten

Glenn Shorrock: “The Vectormen soon moved away and then The Hurricanes moved in. They had John Perry  as lead singer and Kevin Peek (Later of Sky) on lead guitar, John Bywaters  on bass, Peter Brideoake on rhythm guitar and Frank Bernard on Drums. We worked with them at the Salisbury Youth Centre for quite a while and built up a small following. Kevin Peek  left to join the Vectormen and form Johnny Broome & The Handels. So Kevin recommended  a little weed of a guy from Tea Tree Gully  called Terry Britten. He joined and we became firm friends. The Twilights then were six. Mike Sykes sadly had to be sacked and that was one of the bitter periods of my life. He was probably my best friend at the time but that was my first taste of being professionally ruthless… fortunately there are no hard feelings now. So that’s how the six piece Twilights came into being. We would play half an hour at one end of the Salisbury Youth Centre and then Johnny Broome & The Handels would play the other end, facing us, for the  other half hour. So it was like a battle  of the bands and we enjoyed a keen rivalry…”         

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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?”  

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