Martin Fokkens has a web-site devoted to a Dutch pop group of the sixties called Q65.
He describes them as the “Dutch Pretty Things”. In June 1966 they came to London on
a promotional visit. They did not have a work permit so were not allowed to perform. Instead
they paid a visit to the Radio City fort in a rubber dinghy where they were interviewed on air.
We asked Radio City DJ Ian MacRae if he could remember their
visit. He said: “I remember the group in the rubber dinghy coming onto the station
only from the photo which I also have in my scrapbook somewhere. Whenever I've looked at
the photo I've wondered who they were. Q65 eh? Now I know. That's all I can
tell you except they must've been mad floating around out there in that thing!”
Does anyone have a recording of the Q65 interview on Radio City? Or any memories of the
occasion? Martin Fokkens would love to hear them - and so would we.
You can find Martin's Q65 web-site at www.Q65.org. Many thanks to him for getting in touch and supplying the
photographs. The colour pictures are from an edition of the magazine Muziek Express
from August 1966 (courtesy of Bert Bossink).
And if you want to hear what Q65 sounded like, a compilation album is available to buy via the link below.
