Vicki Keall asks…. Reminiscing about various bands, and unfortunately a name gets into your head like a worm and you have to find the answer! Was there a band called Four Square in the sixties and who was in it?
Alan Esdaile… I seem to remember seeing the name Four Squares but maybe confused with a group called The Red Squares which appeared locally a few times. Anyone help?
Mike Vawdrey… Completely irrelevant – so why am I writing this ? – but there used to be a brand of cigarettes and pipe tobacco called Four Square produced (I think) by a Scottish firm called Dobie’s. Might ring a distant bell somewhere
Sir David Calvert-Smith… I was a member of the 4 Squares from 1964 until 1969 when we all went our separate ways. One to be a barrister, one to be an academic, two to be estate agents, one to be a professional musician/singer – classical/ecclesiasatical and pop. The group started with 4 members but soon acquired a fifth – keyboard and harp – but the name stayed. The band was founded at a well-known independent boarding school before I joined it to replace a member who left the school to join the army and to enable the band to fulfil a winter engagement playing afternoons and evenings at a ski resort in Austria. We were judged ‘most promising group’ of 1966 – I think – by the NME (Bert Weedon). The prize was a gig at the Wimbledon Palais……
