Guest Book & Fans' comments

Looking forward to seeing MPS at the Greenroom, Liverpool in October. Is the tour date page up to date?

Janice Long played 'Hearts in Her Eyes' for me last night on her Radio 2 programme, on her 'Tunes of the Unexpected' part of her nightly show! I sent in the request a wee while ago and had forgotten about it until I heard her say at the start of the show, "I shall be playing a Searchers' record for Sylvia later in the show!"

If you want to hear it, it's on the link below and Janice says a few words about Mike and The Searchers just before she plays it, including that they've been going since 1959 and how Mike was the lead singer etc and it was nice hearing it for a change on the radio!!!

Copy and paste the link -- that is if this message appears on here before Mon 1st August: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b012r8hr -- move slider forward to 1hr 33mins and it's just after Janice finishes chatting!

I was very sad to see Mike Pender leaving The Searchers. I saw them on Halloween 1973 do a great gig at a very smoky "Northern Club" on the Rochdale Road in Manchester.Fabulous. Pender was superb! However the remaining Searchers are still a great act to watch

When I was a teenager I had every Searchers record like 1000s of others who simply loved their music. In those days the top groups always had an elite singer and they didn’t come any better or bigger in voice than Mike Pender.

When he decided to break away from the original group I knew immediately that without his presence they would always be an echo of the past, not the magic recaptured which Mike Pender’s Searchers are.

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Re Sean from Ulsters message. Would be great to see them together one last time, but hardly likely. Would suggest Steve Carlisle on drums.

See you are playing in Kyrenia in August. Are Barrie, Keith and Mike jnr with you?

Wouldn't a Tremeloes-MPS USA tour be awesome. Miss you all!

Hi Mike,
We managed to see you twice in the last 10 months, The Philharmonic and the Green Room. Just love your style and the real voice and hope you will come over to South Africa again.
Regards
Norman

It was great seeing Mike and his band of merry men at the 'Young at Heart' 60s Festival at Rutherglen near Glasgow. A popular set of songs, including some superb non-Searchers songs like My Girl, Hold Me, You've Got It and I loved the encore of Bryan Adams' song... Summer of '69

hi mike it's great to see you are back on tour we met you 2010 at llandudano.that was a brilliant night and look forward to future gigs