It became a household name as a result of supplying PA systems to the armed forces during World War II, and to Butlins and Pontins holiday camps after the war.

The band will re-emerge in 2013-it has been announced they will headline and curate the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, England from the 10-12 May 2013.

All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex, England ( formerly-at Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England ).

This event will be held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex.

This event will be held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex.

This event will be held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex.

This event will be held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex.

There is a Londis shop at every Butlins, Pontins and Haven Holidays camp.

Spencer was runner up in both inaugural Pontins events, first held in 1974.

Immediately after this Spencer lost narrowly again when he was defeated by Tony Meo, 5-4, in the semi-final of the Pontins event at Brean Sands.

He was Pontins Open Champion in 1982, Junior Pot Black champion in 1982 and 1983, and turned professional the following year after winning a record 14 tournaments in his last year as an amateur player.

Pontins was least affected, partly as they were already providing packaged holidays and partly because their smaller camps meant that they had fewer beds to fill.

The number of Pontins Camps was reduced to 8 with several sold off or redeveloped for housing estates.

One yardstick of the relative cultural impact of the three companies is that the Butlins ' Redcoats ( a sort of hybrid of general staff, entertainer and steward ) are remembered more vividly than Pontins ' Bluecoats and Warners ' Greencoats whose uniform was based on the school blazer & tie worn by Captain Harry Warner as a schoolboy are hardly remembered at all.

He was certainly old enough to drive by the 1980s as he tells of how he drove home from Pontins in 1982 ( while suffering from a fractured femur which he acquired while limbo dancing ).

In 2005, Ceroc Enterprises completed the purchase of Rebel Roc, along with its annual dance weekender event at Pontins, Camber Sands.

Most recently, Matt has been working with record producer Jay Reynolds, and performing at Pontins Holiday Parks.

Straight after this Reardon regained the Pontins Professional Title, defeating John Spencer 7 – 2 in the final.

He followed this up by winning the Pontins Professional title a week later, defeating John Pulman 7 – 5 in the final to win another £ 1500.

Spencer would be undefeated in the group stages of the Pontins Professional Tournament that year, winning all his five matches, but he lost 7 – 2 to Ray Reardon in the final.

Later that year, Spencer lost 4-1 to Steve Davis in the semi-final of the Pontins Open event.

He had also only narrowly failed to capture the Pontins Professional title that summer when he lost 9 – 7 to Willie Thorne in the final.

When he competed in the 1985 Pontins Professional event under ordinary shaded lighting he once again reached the final, losing only 9 – 7 to Terry Griffiths, who Spencer would never defeat in a major singles event.

He lost in the final of the English Under-16s Championship in 1980 and won the Pontins Junior Championship in 1981.

At the end of the 2004 – 05 season the first team finished trophyless, but the Reserve Teams headed by Ricky Sbragia won an unprecedented quadruple of the Pontins ' Holidays League, the FA Premier Reserve League, The Pontins ' Holidays League Cup and the Premier Reserve League Playoff.

In the 2004 – 05 season, Manchester United introduced a second reserve team to play in the Pontins ' Holiday League, in addition to the existing FA Premier Reserve League North side.

He also featured as the reserves secured the Pontins Holiday League title and the Pontins Holiday League Cup, once again acting as captain as Manchester United were narrowly denied a fifth trophy at the hands of Manchester City Reserves in the final of the Manchester Seniors Cup.

More recent appearances included a performance at Pontins in the UK for the Northern Soul Show, and at the 2008 Detroit Jazz Festival.

The latter, regarded in its day as one of the best open-air swimming and diving complexes in Europe, later became a holiday camp before closing in 1986.

The Who song " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( from Tommy ) was credited to Moon, who suggested the action should take place in a holiday camp.

Clover, the drummer at a holiday camp during the early days of British rock ' n ' roll in a fictional band called Stray Cats.

Most visitors are day-trippers, although there are 23 holiday properties and a camp site for staying visitors, mostly also around the south of the island.

Of course, many saw the annual camp as the equivalent of a paid holiday.

LR 685 the defendant smashed a van through the entrance gates of a holiday camp because, " It was like a secret society in there, I wanted to do my bit against it " as instructed by God.

* 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1, 000 Jews of Pidhaytsi ( west Ukraine ) to Belzec extermination camp.

* April 11 – The first Butlins holiday camp opens at Skegness.

* Joe Orton's play The Erpingham Camp ( television broadcast 27 June 1966 ; opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 6 June 1967 ) relocates The Bacchae to a British Butlin's-style holiday camp.

In 1928 Kessingland Grange was sold to a Mr Catchpole who established a holiday camp in the grounds, and subsequently demolished the Grange.

There was also a Caister Camp Halt, opened in 1933 to serve the holiday camp mentioned below.

In the 1980s a brand new holiday camp was opened, under the ownership of Ladbrokes, which was later sold to Warners in the 1990s.

It offers cultural programs including an annual juried fine arts show, a holiday arts and crafts show, a student art show, year-round exhibitions in the adjacent Washington Civic Center gallery, a series of free public concerts, an annual art camp for youth, workshops, lectures, and organized trips to attend cultural events throughout the region.

This was based on a misunderstanding by some of the British volunteers after Parrington in the summer of 1943 had visited the POW ' holiday camp ' at Genshagen, in the southern suburbs of Berlin, as representative of the Senior British POW, Major General Victor Fortune.

Alexis Mardas, head of The Beatles ' Apple Electronics, declared the Rishikesh ashram to be luxurious, though Ringo Starr likened it to " a kind of spiritual Butlins ", a low-cost British holiday camp.

She was also the guest of honour at the opening of the first Butlins holiday camp, in Skegness in 1936.

Every year, Harrison played seasonal songs, such as his holiday greeting " May You Always ” in the winter ( the Amy records single of this song made the Billboard Christmas charts in 1965 ), and Allan Sherman's summer camp novelty, " Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh ", throughout the summer months.

Despite the opening of a Butlins holiday camp at Minehead in 1962 which brought some 30, 000 people to the town that year, the line was recommended for closure in the 1963 ' Reshaping of British Railways ' report.

In 1975, after Butlins Minehead holiday camp decided to modernise and refurbish, it was proposed to extract LMS Princess Coronation Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton, purchased by Billy Butlin in 1966 along with LB & SCR A1 class Knowle ( transported out by road ), under an offer made by British Railways.

A new station at was opened on the coast east of Watchet on 27 June 1987 to serve a holiday camp at Helwell Bay.

Trains leave Minehead heading south-eastwards on the longest straight and level section of track along the whole line, passing behind Butlin ’ s holiday camp which is on the left between the railway and the sea and then across flat fields.

Subsequently Junius Blaesus, commander of three legions in summer camp in Pannonia, gave the men a holiday.

Billy Butlin's inspiration for his holiday camp empire came from an unhappy holiday on Barry Island in his youth, when he had been locked out of his bed and breakfast accommodation all day by his landlady, which was normal practice at the time.

In 1945, with war over, Filey opened as a holiday camp.