About Old Tennis Shoes

Old Tennis Shoes was a very popular rock/blues outfit from the north-west of England. During the 70s they came over to the Netherlands to do a 2-week tour which lasted more than 20 years!

During this time they played numerous gigs and festivals all over Europe and were support act for bands such as Herman Brood, Ten Years After, Dr Feelgood, the Scorpions, the Groundhogs,  the Troggs, Normaal and many, many more.

Even to this day Old Tennis Shoes has a large following of very loyal fans from all over the world! 

Most Old Tennis Shoes members are still very active in the music industry, you can find their websites on the Links page.

For more information on Old Tennis Shoes go to the Biography section.

We hope you enjoy browsing through this website and will try and keep you informed of any new developments or new discoveries.
If you have any photos, stories etc. you would like to share with us you can send us an email at old.tennis.shoes@hotmail.com or use the Contact Form on the website.

 And please don't forget to sign the Guest Book.
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News

16 July 2015
Old Tennis Shoes support act for the Sparks and the Runaways in the 70s

In the 70's Old Tennis Shoes played Leeds University alongside the Sparks and the Runaways. Information found on VintageRock's Weblog .

You can check out both articles on the Press Articles page.

18 April 2015
New photos uncovered

Rare picture with sax player Geoff Oakes. Somewhere in Amsterdam. Photographer unknown, so if you shot this, let us know and we give you the credit due.

22 February 2013
Memories of Preston Music Scene

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The Dog & Partridge, Preston, England (Photo by Tony Worrall)
We stumbled on a website with a great piece by
Hard Cash bass player Tony Green describing
his days as part of Preston Rock history. Go check it out on
http://www.desoreilly.com/tonygreenmemories.htm

On the same website, but on a different page a certain Nick Holmes has penned down his memories of the Preston music scene. In spite of the small error of getting the bass player's name wrong (Turner instead of Walker. But then who ever remembers the bass player?) it makes great reading.  http://www.desoreilly.com/nickholmesmemories.htm

2 February 2013
Preston Rock Family Trees

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© Phil Eaves
The BBC haven't made a documentary of it yet, but the good, the bad and the ugly of the Preston Rock Scene have been put on the map by Phil Eaves in his book "Extra Bop".
Click the image to join the dots.
With a big thank you to Reg Kielty of RubiLazer
for the heads up!

10 January 2013

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© Int. Instituut for Social History
It isn't the Rock Hall of Fame  and Obama didn't come and shake our hands, but some of our Tour Posters have entered the Dutch International Institute of Social History. A collection of Paradiso Posters by the well known Martin Kaye have been given in loan to the Affiche Museum in Hoorn, the Netherlands
You can find more of the recently discovered posters in the Tour Poster Section of this website.

16 January 2012
Yet another great find

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The original Old Tennis Shoes roadie Geoff Lowther
sent us this beauty, click the image to read the full article.
The photo was taken on the roof
of the Lancashire Evening Post.

21 November 2011
New gems found

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An old friend of Old Tennis Shoes, Christine, came across these beauties, some passes from the Herman Brood Cha Cha Tour.
Christine also send us a copy of
a tour poster she discovered.
She tells us there's more boxes
to unpack, so watch this space.

14 November 2011
Old Tennis Shoe live on Dutch radio

Old Tennis Shoes's original drummer, Callie Ramsay, will be interviewed live on Dutch radio. In a sort of dessert island disc program he will choose some of his favourote records. You can tune in on Thursday 17 November 2011 between 21.00-22.00 hrs CET here (additional plug-ins might be needed).
More information on the RadioVoorst website.
Alternatively, if you want to tune in the old fashioned way:  Frequencies Radio Voorst
Ether:
105.3 MHz
UPC - cable
93.1 MHz

ReggeFiber (all providers except KPN)
107.7 MHz analogue network
DVB-C preset 840
ITV 767

29 January 2011
How to bring Old Tennis Shoes back to life

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We are always on the look-out for new material
for the OTS website and our own archive.
As you can tell from the photo we don't get very far with Google these days ;-)
So if you have anything at all, photos, posters, recordings, memorabilia, you name it,
please contact us at old.tennis.shoes@hotmail.com

26 January 2011
OTS going for world domination

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Eventhough there's nothing new to report lately,
 there's still a daily, and indeed global interest
in the Old Tennis Shoes' website,
as you can see from the picture above.
If this were a game of Risk,
all that would need doing now
would be to conquer Africa and Greenland.

19 December 2010
Happy New Year !

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Wishing you all
a very
happy & healthy 2011
filled with music

2 October 2010
Promo clip with Hansje & OTS on YouTube

Just when you think there's nothing new to report,
this shows up. It's a promo clip to promote Hansje's Automobile with Old Tennis Shoes as the backing band. The clip was recorded on Zandvoort Racing Circuit in Holland in 1979 and originally aired in Australia on 15 June 1980 on a show called Countdown.

A big thank you to Hansje for bringing it to our attention and to Steve (SGidlow1) for putting it on YouTube.

To view the clip, click here.

30 August 2010
Elusive Old Tennis Shoes T-shirt finally discovered

It took a while but the long searched for Old Tennis Shoes T-shirt has been discovered. As it turned out René van der Valk still had one, along with an OTS sweatshirt. Have a look at the Memorabilia photo section by clicking here.

With a big thank you to Alice for taking the pictures.

26 August 2010
New!!! The Old Tennis Shoes News Flash

Stay up-to-date with all the news and updates on the Old Tennis Shoes website with a free subscription
to the Old Tennis Shoes News Flash. To register click here or go to the News Flash page (under the Contact page tab).

8 August 2010
Impromptu Old Tennis Shoes Performance

Members of Old Tennis Shoes joined Eddy Gartry's Blues Stage UK on stage at the famous "Home of the Blues" Maloe Melo in Amsterdam.

See the Live section in the Photo Gallery for the pics.

Previous news items can be
found in the archive section

Disclaimer

This website has been created by Nik & Caroline Walker. Although due care and attention has been paid to the accuracy of the information on this website  we  cannot accept any liability.
 To read the full disclaimer click here.