Something Is Happening in Swindon this week, with a step Out of Time, as the Sensational 60's Experience will be Bringing On Back The Good Times, at the Wyvern Theatre.

The swinging sixties were a parade of unashamed guitar-based rocky pop bands, including Herman's Hermits, Union Gap, Amen Corner, Love Affair and Freddie and the Dreamers.

The new production for 1915 sees musicians from these bands come together in an evening of nostalgia featuring more than 25 hits.

Lead singer with the Love Affair, Steve Ellis sang on the 1970 film soundtrack Loot, and now performs solo and with the New Amen Corner, so he will be on stage for such crowd pleasers as Everlasting Love and Rainbow Valley, Bend Me Shape Me and If Paradise Is Half As Nice.

Hosting this jive down memory lane is Alan Mosca from Freddie And The Dreamers. He will be introducing the Union Gap UK, who shot to number one in the UK with the classic Young Girl, and number five with Lady Willpower.

Still Into Something Good are Herman's Hermits. The clean cut popsters appeared in several MGM movies, including When The Boys Meet The Girls in 1965, Hold On! in 1966, the film Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter in 1968, and they appeared in the 1965 anthology film Pop Gear.

The band's name came from a resemblance, noted by a publican in Manchester, between the then lead singer Peter Noone and Sherman in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. Sherman was shortened to Herman, and they became Herman and his Hermits, which was soon shortened to Herman's Hermits.

Hit upon hit followed including Silhouettes, There's A Kind of Hush and Henry Vlll.

Back in the spring of this year, the German label, Bear Family, released a 2-CD 50th Anniversary set containing 66 of their most significant recordings.

Chris Farlowe will also be gracing the Swindon stage, singing his hits such as Handbags and Glad Rags, Let The Heartaches Begin and Midnight Hour. Chris began his career in a band called The Thunderbirds and then later Colosseum in the 1970s, followed by Atomic Rooster, but most of his UK hits were solo performances. In 1978 he sang vocals for the theme music to the BBC TV series Gangster, and had a part in the BBC 2 play Curriculee Curricula.

Chris also sang on Jimmy Page's Death Wish ll soundtrack.

Tickets to soak up the Sensational 60's Experience are £27.50 from 01793 524481. - Flicky Harrison