Singer of Early 1960s Group The Crescents Seeking Former Band Members

Published on: 8 Dec, 2025
Updated on: 8 Dec, 2025

The singer of a band that was part of Guildford’s live music scene in the early 1960s is hoping to make contact with his former band mates.

Chris Sreeves sang with the Crescents, whose members attended the youth club at St Saviour’s Church in Woodbridge Road.

The Crescents with singer Chris Sreeves second from left.

Chris says: “Our drummer was Mick White, who was the son of the vicar at St Saviour’s. Another member was Brian Avery (rhythm guitar) who had I sung with in the church’s choir.”

The line-up was completed with Colin Mills (lead guitar) and Ian Cooper (bass guitar).

Chris adds: “We played songs by Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, and even cut a record by Three Counties Recordings, with copies only for ourselves.

“We played at local youth clubs including the one at Guildford’s Congregational Church and I recall one in Haslemere. But I gave up singing and left the group when I saw and heard Guildford band the Stormsville Shakers with lead singer Philip Goodhand-Tait.

“They blew me away, and that’s when I said to myself: ‘That’s the end of my music career’.”

Chris went to Woking Grammar School and left Guildford in 1966 to study to become a teacher.

It seems the Crescents continued after Chris left and mostly played instrumentals.

If you played with Chris and would like to contact him, send an email to him at maryfranksreeves@outlook.com

Also, does anyone have any information about Three Counties Recordings? Chris says they were a mobile recording unit.

Could they have been based in the Haslemere area – where the borders of the counties of Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire meet?

Chris adds that his mother sang with the Guildford Philharmonic Choir and he has a record they made also recorded by Three Counties Recordings.

Details of three recording made by Three Counties Recordings are featured on a website called Discogs.

It lists: Roger Warren – John Aubrey’s Brief Lives (1966), Milford Parish Church St Luke’s Passion (1966), Royal Grammar School Guildford – Music 1966-67).

If you have any details, please email me, David Rose, at drosedragon@gmail.com You can also email me if you have details of the Crescents.