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The Freshmen supported The Beach Boys on their 1967 Irish tour. At the Belfast gig was a young Rory Gallagher, who later recalled (in conversation with journalist, John Waters) the impression both acts made on him: The Freshmen, led by Billy Brown and Derek Dean, played first and featured a medley of Beach Boys songs.
Brown left The Freshmen in the mid 1970s to pursue other musical projects, albeit with limited success. He later rejoined the band and, in 1977, they had one of their biggest hits with his composition, "Cinderella". Following the breakup of The Freshmen, Brown had a minor solo hit in 1980 with his own song, "Look What Jerry Lee Did To Me".
The Freshmen from Ballymena, Antrim, led by Billy Brown and Derek Dean, covered hits by The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean. Dickie Rock performed mainly big ballads. First singing with Dublin's Strykers, Blackbirds, Echoes and Melochords, he became a star with The Miami Showband, and in 1966 represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Ballymena on the Culture Northern Ireland website. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Antrim V111, Vol 23, 1831–5,1837–8. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queens University Belfast. ISBN 0-85389-466-3
A UDA sign on the front of 2-storey flats in Ballykeel 1. The Ballykeel estate is divided into two separate estates, with the estate on the Western side known as "Ballykeel 1", built in 1962 to relieve overcrowding in Ballymena, and also to facilitate people coming into the town from the country to work in the factories in Ballymena.
A kilogram of heroin arrived in the Co Antrim town of Ballymena every month in 1997, police believed in 1998. A “subculture of heroin users” was also present in South Belfast in the late 1990s ...
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council replaced Ballymena Borough Council, Carrickfergus Borough Council and Larne Borough Council.The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but in April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011. [4]
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