I wasn't at either show but I saw Dusty and the Springfields here in Arklow, at the Entertainment Centre at around the same time.
To be honest, at the time, I wasn't overly impressed.

I thought it was more like 1963 than 1966 but that doesn't matter. To qualify what I said earlier about not being overly impressed. This was at a time when we had a spate of guest appearances during the Saturday night dances. Such as The John Barry Seven, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and so on. I remember when the Springfields were getting ready to start ther was a bit of foostering on the stage. Dusty said something along the lines of; Sorry about this, we're not used to playing small places like this. We didn't particularly take kindly to that and I remeber a few of us shouting up: Dare say you started in a barn or words to that effect. It was before the time of Dusty The Star but the Springfields were big at the time.

Hello, I'm working on writing a book on a venue called St. Mary's Hall, Portadown where I've heard that Dusty Springfield performed at the hall back in the early 1960's. Would anyone possibly know when Dusty Springfield would have toured at this venue or in the North of Ireland? Thank you in advance. Have a good day and week, David.