Final call for Dominoes

Although all band members are in their early 70s, they are all still rock'n'rollers at heart and can't wait to get on stage to show off their latest moves.

Little Pattie, Billy Thorpe, The Easybeats and Max Merritt were on top of the charts when the six lads from south of Brisbane formed their own rock'n'roll band, the Dominoes, in 1961.

Over the years, the group has a cultivated a special following in Redland, where two of its members are groundsmen at two of the city's major institutions.

Bass player 72-year-old Louie Noyes has been caretaker at Howeston Golf Club at Birkdale for 40 years and guitarist Lester Vickary has been the groundsman at Ormiston's Carmelite Monastery for 18 years.

"We know everyone in Redlands and have been guaranteed that there will be plenty of oxygen marks, nurses and doctors in the audience, just in case," Mr Vickary .

"I can guarantee there will not be a zimmerframe anywhere on stage and we might be old but we know how to rock," he said.

Their repertoire includes Elvis Presley hits, The Champs' perennial favourite Tequila and Save the Last Dance for Me and 60s classics.

But they have carefully avoided adding the hit Bee Gees song Staying Alive, which 71-year-old Mr Vickary said was part of their off-stage routine.

The concert will also include a cameo performance by 60s television celebrity and singer Sherry Wheeler, who is married to the band's drummer Darryl Wright.

There will also be a performance by guest band My 3 Sons, which is Mr Vickary and his three sons Luke Vilkars, Scott Vickary and Stuart Mannering.

Mr Vickary said the Birkdale concert might be the band's last in Redland even though members still have engagements, including the annual Old Rockers' Reunion concert every March at the Riverside ballroom.

The band starts playing at 7pm at Redlands Multi Sports Club, on the corner of Randall and Bailey roads, Birkdale, on Friday, December 7.