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EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY THIS risible 1965 film is a result of clueless middle aged producers attempting to "get with it" in the wake of A Hard Days Night and make a picture about one of these new fangled "beat combos" trying to gain a foothold in the emerging swinging sixties by winning a talent competition at a holiday camp. Since the main opposition comes from Freddie and the Dream' ers one might be forgiven for thinking that success was assured, but instead a war of nerves ensues act. When it emerges that the respective managers were one time music hall associates, a decision is made to combine the acts under their joint managership. With Richard O'Sulli- van on lead ~~~ils the expanded combo clean up with a sort of faux Manfred Mann (weak R&B, black roll n~ck swe!j.t:ers and moody post\1res) image. You might think all this sounds appalling. And you would be right. If a slight note of bitterness can be detected in this review it is with an all girl variety simply because I ex- . -. ( I L- : ' \ -'--'". .' .- "---.. - . \ ~t.. ...,;;____ .. .. '" .. . "";{-'~ . - . ""~-", . !!,-.;-.- '-. ,... .':''' -'.' - ,,, ".,;,':,'":." '.'. (~.. " j "";"' .~ j . I ~-,... :.; ,..- ;",j -;;. ~r~ . I ' ~." 158 .1 . I. " ' ,& ~ pounded a fair amount of energy pedalling my Moulton bicycle (not old enough for a Vespa yet) all the way to Ealing Broadway to watch this rubbish. Worse still, the money wasted on admission notably depleted my slot car fund. The film has been fairly recently repeated on television, and out of curiosity I checked out viewer reviews on some internet film sites. To my dismay, the reviews were far from universally bad - many people thinking that this film represents some sort of trendy youth , , ..;It ( r r r ~i statement for its time. I can only assume that these people weren't there otherwise they would realise that many of the "stars" (John Leyton, Mike Sarne) had been big in '62 but were very passe by 1965 - the year of "Satisfaction" and Bob Dylan. Still, the opening sequences of people's journeys to the holiday camp include quite a few shots of a white GS 160 with chrome side panels and mudguard so at least all is not lost But pretty nearly all, though. AL a O:J WC Journal- No.31 I. /) ,( /1 ~I THE picture shown here of an all white GS160 could have been taken yesterday but was in fact sent in by former member Colin Gay more than twenty years ago. Time enough, in fact, for this GS (reg 879 GLY) to have become in need of restoration again when purchased by Spencer Payne for 1500 quid in 2001. After stripping the machine down completely, the frame and other bits were sent to Jahspeed for blasting and painting. It took a while for this work to be done, but a more serious delay occurred when a friend undertook to reassemble the GS. In fact it was Website: www.veteranvespaclub.com September 2004 before is now out and about it was back on the again, helped con- road, and even then there were inevitably a siderably by having a Scooterworks non- few teething problems. These have since been batteryversion. start con- resolved, and 879 GLY It's nice to see Vespas of this age used regularly, and Spencer and fine GS160 are often to be seen at events in the Colchester area. 155
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