TINKERS WINK

Lead Vocals: Anne Brooke

Vox, Mandolin: Tony Scheuregger lnr

Vox, Guitar: Richard Painter lnr

Vox, Bass: Alan Mallett

Banjo: Raymond Lewis am

Tinkers Wink were a folk based group that was started around 8^th March 1973. I had met Tony Scheuregger at Norwich City College where we were studying Electronics. Tony got me interested in Folk Music and I was just finishing the band SKRU. I contacted Richard Painter, a guitarist I knew through a friend, Robert Pond. Tinkes Wink’s first rehearsal was on 11^th March 1973. Later at a rehearsal at the World’s End Mulbarton on 1^st April 1973 we were joined by Anne Brooke and this was the main line up of Tinkers Wink. From the from 27^th August 1973 Painter and Scheuregger departed and we were joined by Lewis for the remaining dates of the band. The group disband after their gig on 22^nd September 1973 at Chapelfield Gardens, Nch.

List of Gigs:

16^th May 1973: Bunwell Youth Club, Norfolk.

22^nd May 1973: Mischief Tavern Norwich.

27^th May 1973: Support to Ralph McTell Studio 4 Folk Club, Norwich.

29^th May 1973: Support to Noel Murphy at UEA Folk Club, Fifers Lane, Norwich.

2^nd June 1973: Gig in the sand dunes of Waxham organised by Studio 4 and UEA Folk Clubs.

24^th June 1973: Studio 4 Folk Club, Norwich.

11^th August 1973: Supported Global Village Trucking Company at Bungay Castle Hills, Norfolk.

27^th August 1973: Final line up of Tinkers Wink: Barsham Fair, Suffolk.

22^nd September 1973: Final line up of Tinkers Wink: Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich.

Between 11^th August and 22^nd of August 1973: Final line up of Tinkers Wink play several gigs arranged by the Waveney Clarion, Suffolk.

The dates were recorded by Richard Painter in his diaries.