The Beatles’ 1964 British tour ended on this date, with two concerts at Bristol’s Colston Hall. It was the 27th date of the tour.
They performed two concerts at the venue, for which they were paid £850. Their set throughout the tour contained 10 songs: ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’, ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, ‘Things We Said Today’, ‘I’m Happy Just To Dance With You’, ‘I Should Have Known Better’, ‘If I Fell’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’.
The support acts on the tour were The Rustiks, Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam, The Remo Four, Tommy Quickly and Mary Wells, and the compère was Bob Bain. The evening’s two shows began at 6.20pm and 8.45pm.
During The Beatles’ set, the group was flourbombed by four students, who hurled the flour from the rafters above the stage. The miscreants later told the press their names were Sue, Roger, Richard, and Bob.
This was The Beatles’ third and final visit to Bristol. They had previously performed at the Colston Hall on 15 March and 15 November 1963.
I was there at this concert. I was 10 years old and my father Peter Prentice was the assistant manager of the Colston Hall to Manager Ken Cowley, who was detested by my Dad. My dad had to buy tickets, there were no free tickets. Dad died aged 88 in Oct 2017. I remember that John Lennon knocked his guitar stand over and kicked it into the audience where there was a shark feeding frenzy to get it. We couldn’t really hear anything except the beginning of Twist and Shout, because of the girls screaming which was very very loud. I’m now 63 and how I wish I could find a copy of the flyer or poster for the show. However, I was there. Good enough!
The first song was twist and Shout. Only heard the first few bars after that, the screaming was too loud.