Local 60s band Sounds Force Five is enjoying international recognition.
Band members were interviewed for a programme for Australia Radio.
The broadcast featured Spalding’s Sounds Force Five drummer Colin Ward and Sounds Force Five’s original guitarist Rob Munton, who now lives in Australia.
Colin Ward said: “The interviewer John Rogers visited both me at my Spalding address and Rob over in Australia to make a special radio programme about Barbeque 67.”
Barbeque 67 was a rock concert featuring Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Geno Washington, Pink Floyd, The Move, Zoot Money and Sounds Force Five.
Unbelievably, it was held in the old Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding on May 29, 1967.
It took place on the spring Bank Holiday Monday and was advertised as, ‘Non-stop dancing 4pm in afternoon until 12pm at night to the top six.’
Admission to the concert – lit by ‘soft ultra violet lighting’ – was just £1.
Colin continued: “ The interviewer wanted to know what it was like for us to have met such legends as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton during the festival held in the market town of Spalding.
“It was an exciting project to have been featured in, and it is certainly the furthest away that Sounds Force Five have been heard on radio.
“We are hoping that the interview can now get played here in Spalding or certainly in Lincolnshire by one of the radio stations over here in the UK.”