The bands rock family tree formed in 1964. We have a brick in the wall, which is included with 1801 others on the façade of the Cavern Club in Mathew Street, Liverpool. But, as Tynfoil we never played the Cavern. We did get a booking on Thursday 29^th January 1970 but we were somehow mysteriously cancelled at the last minute. When the commemorative brick-in-the-wall idea was conceived, old Cavern contracts must have had Tynfoil (miss-spelt Tynefoil on the brick) written down and booked to play. So we never played the dream gig. So the real number of bricks should be 1800 not 1801. Tynfoil are looking forward to playing this 33 year old outstanding gig and putting this small matter right.

    2016 is the fortieth anniversary of the ‘band’ (1964 - 2016) in all its variety and forms.

*1964 - 1968 (The) Shyms.

*1968 - 1975 Tynfoil

1997 onwards - Something Catchy

               A commemorative live four track CD is being produced celebrating our contribution to four decades of pop, rock and roll. One song, each of which reflects rock and pop music from each decade… the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s… and the Shyms/Tynfoil/Something Catchy’s place within this golden forty-year rock and roll musical era.

Alan ‘Benny’ Bentham, lead vocal.*

Alan ‘Rocky’ Turner, bass guitar and vocal.*

                                            Jack ‘Ice Cool’ Carney, lead guitar and vocal.

Bill ‘Billy Shym’ Hart, drums and vocal.*

      As a four-piece rock band, working in the high quality hotel/weddings/social clubs circuit, playing in and around northwest England, we work hard at producing easy-on-the-ear, high quality, tight, four-voice harmony. We take classic popular songs from every pop and rock genre, strip them bare, slowly and sensitively rebuild them and then shape, style and add and subtract from them, until they become --- sort of --- ‘our’ songs. You might say they are covers, but they are covers that are hugely different, and happily survive the plastic surgery, without altering their unique originality.

*Original members of each band.

One cancellation. Thurs 29th Jan 1970
Once as Tynfoil Sat 27th Dec 2015