Pete’s dream job was to be a professional entertainer and in the late sixties Stoke-on-Trent had a thriving cabaret club circuit. He soon became well-known enough in the pubs and clubs to allow him to quit his police job, which he swapped for a part-time job at a local firm. It was at this electrical components sales company he selected his stage name by browsing the employee list and checking which name went well with Pete.… Read More Pete Conway
Show Winner: Art Nouveau (four-piece group)
Viewers Choice: Les Dennis (comedian)
Notable Acts: Pete Conway (comedian) – Father of Robbie Williams
Panel: Tony Hatch, Clifford Davis, Arthur Askey & Noele Gordon
Host: Derek Hobson … Read More 6 Apr 1974 – Series Two (1)
Show Winner: George Huxley’s Dixieland Jazz Band (showband)
Viewers Winner: Pete Conway (comedian) – Father of Robbie Williams (singer)
Panel: Dickie Hurran, Noele Gordon & Clifford Davis
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 22 Dec 1973 – Series One (13)
A collection of facts, figures and trivia collected during the compilation of the New Faces archive.… Read More New Faces – Facts & Figures
The Early Years Warrington boy, David Concannon, had his first success in 1971 when, aged 15, he entered a talent contest in Rhyl, North Wales. He came first and part of his prize was a further week’s holiday the following summer. On that prize holiday, history repeated itself, he entered the same contest and won… Read More Just Oliver
Born Charlotte Rickards in 1952 in Pontypridd, Wales but brought up in Birmingham, Charlie was discovered by comedian Les Dawson who helped her to begin a career as a compere and singer at Birmingham’s Cavendish night club in 1970.… Read More Charlie James
Less than a week after the show aired on 10 November 1973, Tom was in London signing a recording contract with Pye Records. The deal to sign the Airdrie born singer was formally announced just a few weeks after his victory in the Grand Final.… Read More Tom Waite
Show Winner: Anthony Waters (actor/singer)
Panel: Clement Freud, Evie Taylor & John Smith
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 13 Oct 1973 – Series One (3)
The original series of ATV’s New Faces talent show ran between 1973 and 1978 and there was a brief revival on Central TV between 1986 and 1988. Using the many news articles available from the British Newspaper Archives, limited available original TV footage and the extensive research of lost archives organisation Kaleidoscope I have managed to… Read More The History of New Faces & Thanks
Show Winner: Redwood (four-piece group)
Panel: Muriel Young, Lionel Blair, Mickie Most & John Smith
Host: Derek Hobson… Read More 2 Oct 1976 – Series Five (4)