Tomorrow's Kind was one of two bands Pete Waterman played with during the mid to late sixties. The other band was The Pilgrims.
Tomorrow's kind, according to Broadgate Gnome, were an R & B based band operating c 1967 - 68
'Music for body and soul' said the gig ad in the Coventry Evening Telegraph.
Paul Hatt has sent some details about the Line Up and these two photos -
" I played in TOMORROW'S KIND, with Pete Waterman on guitar and vocals, Keith Jackson on bass, Duncan Hall on drums, Richard Hollis on lead guitar , and myself Paul Hatt on vocals.
(Thanks to Paul Hatt for the photos of Tomorrow's Kind)
Tomorrow's Kind playing at the Navigation Inn
Photos from Maryjane Hatt.
From Rex Brough Another band featuring Pete Waterman, formerly of the Pilgrims. He commented that they looked like they could have made it, but they didn't. Apparently they did motown covers. Recently their photo was in a picture of Q magazine. Anyway, one gig, one of the bands didn't turn up, so to fill time, Pete got his records out and started to DJ...and the rest is history.
From I Wish I Was Me - Pete Waterman's Autobiography
" By 1965 the whole Beatlemania phenomenon had gone barmy........for a while at least I
was in a band called Tomorrow's Kind who actually looked like they might have gone on to be famous. They didn't, of course, but we did pick up a bit of a following and we started gigging three or four nights a week while I was still holding down the day job at the GEC. That continued for a couple of years but I eventually realised that I didn't have any genuine talent. I could fake it like buggery, but I was never going to be top of the charts.
One night in 1966 we were playing a gig and one of the other bands didn't turn up, so I dashed home, got my records and played them before the band came on. Now no one really did this at that time and the Landlord of the pub where we were playing said he really liked it. He offered me 10 bob to come back again and play records the following week. This wasn't some kind of complicated system, it was a record player with a microphone next to it going through the PA,but for 10 bob. I wasn't about to complain. So by a quirk of fate, I went from being the lead singer in a not very good band to being the only DJ in Coventry. ....I began to play records more than I played instruments, and because I got to know the right people, I started to get people asking me to play records."
Memories of Pete's musical abilities fromTrev Teasdel
"I didn't know Pete Waterman when he was playing in Tomorrow's kind or The Pilgrims - he was a few years older than me and I was still at school in 1965 but I met him at the GEC in 1970. He was my shop steward and someone told him I was writing lyrics! I didn't realise he was a Coventry musician and DJ outside of the GEC until then. Without knowing his name, I'd probably been to a few of his discos at St. Osburgs and the Locarno. Anyway he came over and asked to see what I was writing and took my lyric - A Lotta Rain is Fallin' to put music to. It was a Dylanesque type of lyric and I'd only completed the first verse and bridge. The next week he played it to me on a small mono cassette player. He performed it on acoustic guitar and his voice sounded a cross between Dylan and Paul McCartney. He particularly liked the line "There's a lotta rivers flowing but the sea's learned how to fly" and repeated that line in the verse. I finished the lyric and gave it too him but nothing further happened with it. Pete teamed me up with a few bands to write lyrics for and sometimes made suggestions for themes.
However, as I was putting on bands at the time at The Coventry Arts Umbrella Club, he invited to his Tuesday night gigs at the Walsgrave pub. It was a 'Heavy /Progressive' club with Pete playing both chart hits and progressive music and putting on local bands, some of which I booked for the Umbrella. I did the door for Pete and helped the bands set up.
One Tuesday he organised a blues concert with Rod Felton, a blues band called Gypsy Lee and the acoustic blues outfit - Last Fair Deal. Gypsy Lee played covers like the Lemon Song (Killin' Floor) and Pete joined them on stage and they launched into Rock Me Baby with Pete on vocals. It was a raunchy hard hitting vocal and Pete played flute in a style similar to Jethro Tull - very breathy and staccato. I was pretty impressed - it definitely had balls. I didn't know then that he'd played in bands but if that was a sample of his vocals, it was pretty damn good. He must have lent his flute to Rod Felton because on another Tuesday in 1970 we went over to the Earlsdon Cottage Folk club before the Walsgrave gig opened as Pete wanted to retrieve his flute. Rod was sitting on the grass at the back of the Cottage jamming with other folkies. Pete picked up the flute and accompanied Rod on one of his songs. This time Pete's flute playing was superbly melodic.
So Pete was definitely a good vocalist and musician and it's a shame in some ways that his musical talent got over shadowed by the DJ ing but then he certainly did well by the DJ ing and record producing, !"
Tobias Heat played at the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club Music Marathon in 1969 amount many other venues.
They played the usual heavy rock and progressive gigs in the Coventry area such as The Village (Colin Campbell), Plough Club - London Road / and in 1971 The Walsgrave Pub.
Bob Poole's biographical piece tells us how he went from Tobias Heat to Cupid's Inspiration.
“Tobias Heat”, playing Cream and Hendrix stuff. A guy my age lived down the road from us
and we would have friendly competitions playing our guitar as loud as possible as the other walked past, trying to impress. He was in a soul group called “Jalopy Ride” and his name was Paul Shanahan. Paul then went off to play for 6 months in Canada and when he returned he got a job with Cupid's Inspiration. I was well pissed off until one day not long after he asked me if I would like to be their roadie. I immediately said yes as this was a chance to travel and be on the road and who knew what might happen? In 1971 I got my break. We were in Scotland in Kirkcaldy on New Years Eve, a big money night and Cupids bass player was too drunk to stand up on the stage. I had been watching carefully and knew all the songs so I grabbed his bass and said words to the effect of “I can do that”. That was my first real professional gig and from then on I became a bass player."
C 1969 - 71 - Cliff Wagstaff's band. They played locally in the Coventry area and including the Music Marathon at Coventry arts Umbrella Club, Queen Victoria Road November 1969. Cliff Wagstaff is now with Third Alert. They played local venues like The Village (Colin Campbell), The Plough club (London Road). Heavy Rock / progressive.
TheTierra Buena Jazz Band, formed in 1958, has been going for some 60 years and in 2008 they made a CD. they formed in 1958.
The line up included Trumpet (Trombone / cornet) / Double Bass / Electric guitar / and Drums and vocals. Three founder members are still involved with the band today.
From their former website - "Their music covers a wide spectrum of traditional jazz styles, as the list of tune titles shows, and everything they play is done with great enthusiasm and good taste. An all-round excellent band, which really should be much more widely known. They had a cassette recorded about ten or so years ago but amazingly this is their first CD!
The tune titles are:- Bouncing Around, Some Of These Days, Faraway Blues, I Saw Stars, Frog-I-More Rag, Big Fat Ma And Skinny Pa, Paramount Scuffle, Linger Awhile, I’m Minding My Own Business, When I Come To The End Of My Journey, Oriental Man, For All We Know, Just Wait ‘til You See My Baby Do The Charleston, Saratoga Swing, I Lost My Girl From Memphis, Swing That Music.
The line-up is Brian Bates cornet; Dave ‘Spud’ Taylor clarinet & tenor sax; Brian ‘Watty’ Wathen trombone; Dave Wagstaff banjo; Barry Potts bass; Al Sharpe drums."
From The Coventry Telegraph - by DAVID McGRORY 2006 -
A good grounding in jazz for Tierra Buena GET INTO THE SWING ON A MUSICAL TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH SOME TOP LOCAL BANDSMEN.
THE Tierra Buena Jazz Band have been entertaining the good people of Coventry for more than 47 years - not a bad record by any standard. Brian recalls the band's beginnings. "I guess it all started in the early 1950s when me and my school pals were watching the Coventry Carnival and a lorry went by with a band on the back. "They had a stripped-down piano, bass, drums, banjo, guitar and the usual front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone.
"They wore pork pie hats and shades and they were playing the most wonderful music. We were all really knocked out and all agreed that we had to have some of this.
"Afterwards we found out that they were a band from the Coventry Jazz Club, so we started going there to listen and learn. Although we were not old enough to be in a pub, they let us stay, although we weren't allowed to drink." The boys were determined to form their own band and started as a basic mouth organ band, then an accordion band. Brian recalls: "Jazz was the music for us, so we bought some cheap instruments and taught ourselves to play them. We formed a band called The Sherbourne Jazz Band and our first public appearances were doing the interval at the local jazz club.
"The break-through came when we started a regular Monday-night slot in Rugby at the Co-op Club.
"The line-up then was me on trumpet, Brian Wathen on trombone, Dave Wagstaffe on banjo and guitar, John Read on clarinet, John Astle on drums, Len Young on sousaphone and Bernard Overton on piano.
"I suppose the most notable thing that happened to us there was when they booked the
Mike Mulligan Band with George Melly and we were the support." The band became The Tierra Buena Jazz Band in 1958 and began their 11- year stint at the Pilot Hotel in Coventry.
Brian says: "We had reasonable audiences when we started, but after we represented Coventry on television on the BBC's Top of the Town it really took off. We had met some dancers on the show and invited them to come to our Monday sessions. "In those days we charged two shillings at the door and we had a line of people down the stairs and across the car park waiting for us to open up.
"The Pilot was a really good dancing club. During our time there a friend of the band, local jazz writer Roy Whitehead, had Wild Bill Davidson staying with him and Bill played with the band, which was a great thrill for us."
Mac Randle replaced John Read when he left the band, but the swinging 60s and rock bands saw audiences dwindling. Brian says: "We were moved downstairs to a smaller room with no piano, so we lost our pianist, Bernard Overton.
"When Mac Randle left us Watty Wathen switched from trombone to clarinet and Graham Slann joined us on trombone. Then John Astle left and John Ashby came in on washboard." The band began playing jazz at The Cottage in Earlsdon in 1969 and John Ashby went from playing washboard to drums. The band played at The Cottage until 1976 and during that time Graham left and Paul Munnery joined on trombone.
They've played in and around Coventry over the years including Virgins & Castle in Kenilworth, the Black Horse at Marton and Princethorpe Social Club, but have played Monday nights at the Cocked Hat in Binley since 1993.
The line-up has changed quite a few times over the years and bass player Sam and drummer John Ashby have both died.
John collapsed and died at the Cocked Hat on August 16, 1999, when they were playing the last tune of the night. Despite this the band went on and Al Sharpe is now the resident drummer.
Brian says: "The Tierra Buena Jazz Band has been 'blowing' around Coventry for 45 years plus. It may not be unique, but it's quite a record. "The sad thing for us now is that we feel like the last of the dinosaurs and wish that a few youngsters would come along, like we did, so we could encourage them to play, as we were encouraged. I'm glad to tell our story before we all disappear into the mists of time."
Buena's eras *THE band play every Monday night at the Cocked Hat, Binley. *They recorded a cassette "many years ago" with Lake Records, entitled Our Monday Date because they always play on Monday night. *THE band recently played four dates in Gibraltar. ........................
This six-piece band started playing Traditional/Dixieland/New Orleans Jazz in 1958 at The Pilot Hotel, Radford, just as the 'Trad Boom' started (band and audience were very young then!). Several years at The Pilot were followed by years at The Cottage, Earlsdon, then other residencies at pubs and clubs in Coventry and in Warwickshire, and more recently ten years at The Cocked Hat, Binley. Almost always it has been on Monday nights, and most remarkably half of the current band have been playing since the earliest days. The band has increased its expertise and its repertoire with the years, yet kept its enthusiasm and stayed true to its jazz idiom.
50 years and all that jazz The Tierra Buena Jazz Band is 50 years old this year.
I have never been a lover of modern jazz, too much pretension, not enough music.
Trad Jazz however, has never failed to put a smile on my face, and a tap to my foot, especially when it’s done well, and after 50 years you can bet these guys have learned their craft.
I caught up with the band’s trumpeter Brian Bates at a recent gig, and learned the story of a band who has turned out superb music for so long.
IT all began back in the early 1950’s, when friends Brian Bates, Dave ‘Spud’ Taylor, Dave Wagstaff and Len Young happened to spy a Coventry Carnival parade.
Along came a lorry with a band playing on it,
“They had a stripped-down piano, string bass, drums, banjo, trumpet, clarinet and trombone” said Brian.
“They wore ‘pork-pie’ hats and ‘shades’ and they were playing the most wonderful music. We were so impressed and agreed that we would find out more.
“They turned out to be The Godiva Jazz band who played at The Queen’s Pub, so we started going there to listen and learn”.
The guys had toyed with mouth-organ bands and accordion bands, but they all knew that Trad jazz was what they wanted to play.
“We brought some cheap instruments” added Brian.
“We taught ourselves to play over the next year and formed the Sherbourne Jazz Band. We started our public appearances by playing in the interval at The Coventry Jazz Club, and we seemed to be getting better and more popular”.
From there came regular Monday nights at the Rugby Co-op club. Band members at this point included Brian Bates, Brian Wathen, John Read, Dave Wagstaff, Len Young, John Astle and Bernard Overton.
In 1958, the band moved base to Coventry and took the new name of The Tierra Buena Jazz Band.
From 1958 to 1969, the band held court at The Pilot Hotel. The crowds were good, but after representing Coventry on the BBC show Top Town, the numbers swelled and as the ‘Trad boom’ took off the band enjoyed packed nights at The Pilot, with as many as 300 people up and dancing.
By 1969 the ‘Trad Boom’ was well and truly over, and rock bands were bringing in the punters at The Pilot.
After a few line-up changes, the band took a residency at The Cottage in Earlsdon, soon to become Coventry’s number one jazz club.
The band played here to 1976, with standout guests appearances from the likes of jazz legend Ken Colyer and Sammy Rimington.
Virgins and Castle, Kenilworth and the Princethorpe Social Club, also became homes to the band, as did the Cocked Hat in 1993.
“We played on the opening of the pub” says Brian. Our most traumatic night there was on August 16th 1999, our good friend and drummer John Ashby collapsed and died at the drums, while we were playing our last tune.
We stayed at the Cocked Hat till March 2008, and we are now based at The Coventry and North Warwickshire Cricket Club, Binley Road”.
It was at that very club I had the pleasure to see the band, as they worked their magic through a large and impressive set-list (but just a tiny part of their 600 song repertoire).
On stage that night with the band were Spud Taylor (Clarinet & Tenor Sax),Al Sharpe (drums), Roscoe Birchmore (bass) and the original members from right back in 1958, Brian Bates (trumpet), Watty Wathen (trombone) and Dave Wagstaff (banjo and guitar).
They boys have a CD available entitled Linger Awhile, that includes such favourites as, Paramount Scuffle, Saratoga Swing, Just Wait Till You See my baby and I Saw Stars.
“It’s been a pretty fantastic journey” reveals Brian, “we have sadly lost a few on the way, but we have just carried on.
I really can’t believe it’s been fifty years, we are just hoping we can go as long as we can, because we love it and we love the music.
The sad thing is we feel like dinosaurs now. We just wish a few youngsters would come along and get inspired to play as we did, maybe we should take a lorry on the carnival parade”?
So if you’re young or not so young get yourself down to The Coventry and North Warwickshire Cricket Club, Binley Road any Monday night from 8.30pm, and put a smile on your face, with some great people, a great atmosphere and some superb music.
The band celebrates their 50th birthday on 22nd December at the venue, it promises to be an exciting night.
Trivia
* The name Tierra Buena, actually means ‘good earth’, but over the years their name has been mispronounced as Terry Beano and even Terrible Banana.
* The boys recently did a world tour of Gibraltar, playing four dates on the rock.
"I played in Coventry bands from 1980 until the late 90s (nearly 20 years, man & boy!). The Time were a school band (Bishop Ullathorne being the school). We got together in 1978 when we were 13, but didn't start playing the Coventry pubs until 1980, (all the regular venues like the Hope & Anchor, Climax, Zodiac, Queen Inn). Each pub seemed to have 2 or 3 bands on every night of the week (was it really like that or is my memory rose-tinted?) Our last gig as a 4-piece was supporting the Mix and the Reluctant Stereotypes at the Lanch in 1981, a charity gig organised by our 'manager' (aka school pal Graham Hopkins). We then became 20 Days..."
" Thoria three years on - Thoria were our first Band of the Month in November 2003. Now three years later, 2006, we caught up with them again.
Thoria were our first Band of the Month all the way back in November 2003. Three years later the group are still together and going strong.
They changed their name to Evilson, but now they are back as Thoria and they've got a brand new single called Straight From Hell, which is out now.
Thoria appeared on Sounds' Band of the Month special where they spoke to Vic Minett.
In the interview with Vic, Thoria talk about: How the sound of the band has changed Gigging around the country Plans for a European tour Getting airplay in the States Looking for a record deal Pies! Having an identity crisis Planning a European tour in 2007
And from the Coventry Telegraph 2007
"The band's singer and guitarist was Martin Edwards, The band, whose name derives from chemical elements, is made up of singer and guitarist Martin Edwards, drummer Tom Smith, bassist Mike Jones and Michael Fitzgerald on guitar and backing vocals.
The band have been going for more than 10 years.
They have had previous success with singles, getting air play on MTV and having the Kerrang single of the week in 2004.
All of their singles have been released by the group's own label, Red Crust records.
And IMF asked the band to still send them future work because they like the Thoria sound.
The foursome are off on a summer tour this month and will be performing at The Dog and Trumpet pub in Coventry city centre tonight from 8pm."
"Graham Smith (previously of the X-Certs) asked myself, Adrian and John to form a band with him and Dave Pepper. This, under the watchful eye of Dave Chalmers (Mr.C.) friend / manager / sound technician is what became Team 23. Pep left (too many cooks) and was replaced by Jim Lantsbury (later of King etc). We started recruiting horn players and became the punk / soul seven piece known as Team 23. We supported Dexy's, Madness, toured with the Specials and played a load of gigs of our own all around the country. We recorded one single funded and produced by John Bradbury and released on his own "race records". By the summer of 81 the steam had gone out of it, I left and moved to London which is where my family originally come from. God bless you everyone'
And from John Hewitt
" Team 23, great band that should have been massive. Toured with Specials in 1980, also with Madness, and John Bradbury paid for and did our single. Band split and reformed and did 1 gig at Sportsman's Arms in Cov in 1981."
Andy Hayward, Bob Bostrum, Geoff Anthil formed The Tea Set from the remains of Sam Spade and the Grave Diggers with the introduction of Andy Kerrigan on guitar and Vocalist Little Joe Conway from Ireland's Miami Showband. "We were kitted out in custom made outfits playing hard rock" Andy admits. "We worked for entrepreneur Reg Calvert of Radio London and The Fortunes fame. We stood in for stable mates Pinkertons Assorted Colours after they went off touring with their hit Mirror Mirror and took over the Nag's Head. residency in Nuneaton. "We recorded a self-penned ballad You made me cry, but were probably best remembered as the band on stage at Nuneaton's Co-op Hall when four people were tragically crushed to death on a staircase attempting to get into a packed New Year's Eve ball."
Dave Freeman (ex-Flys)- Guitar replaced by Mark Byers - Guitar
Slim Pain - ?
Pete Davies (ex. U.K Subs) - Drums replaced by Tony Lynch - Drums
Joe Hughes (ex Flys) replaced by Badger - Bass. This was Roddy Radiation's post Specials band. Later he formed the Bonediggers and and The Skabilly Rebels. Pete Clemons on Roddy Radiationhere
Pete Chambers from Godiva Rocks 2004
"Before the specials finally split Roddy had formed Roddy Radiation and the Tearjerkers. Playing what he described as playing skabilly or reggae meets rock n roll."
1982. Western Song was the B-side to Desire.
Roddy Radiation and The TearJerkers- Desire
Roddy Radiation and The Tearjerkers - What's The Matter.
Prior to the being the Targets, the band was called Shure Tailor & the JP5. The original vocalist, Terry (TJ) Davies, moved to Bristol, and ended up playing bass in a 70's tribute band called FAB208. Gary Jackson carried on making music with a group called Personal Effect
A young band who played at the Hobo Workshop - Holyhead Road Youth Centre and Golden Cross c 1974 / 5.
The Hobo Workshop came of Trev Teasdel's magazine Hobo - a venue for new and upcoming Coventry bands on a Monday and Community arts workshop run in conjunction with youth worker Bob Rhodes of Coventry Voluntary Services who supported and facilitated the venue.
Under the Sun came along and asked for a gig. I seem to recall they were starting off and finding it hard to get gigs at the time. I don't have any further details of the band. Below - Hobo Workshop band schedule 1974.
Kevin and Lynda Harrison were in the avant garde Jazz Rock rock band Whistler in the early 70's and in 1973-5 Kevin was forming Zoastra - experimenting with synths and cut up lyrics. Zoastra was the bridge between Whistler and Urge.
Original line up -
Revolving Boy boy Urge on Look Hear.
Dave Wankling - Vocals Kevin Harrison - Guitar & Synth Lynda Harrison - Vocals John Westacott - Bass (Later Nigel Mulvey) Billy Little - drums (Ex Squad) Later Rich Medlock
Later - Dennis Burns - Keys / John Shipley - Guit (briefly) - Left to form The Swinging Cats
From Marco on the Bass site "Urge were one of the most popular local bands and were tipped for success. Given Harrison's relationship with members of 2-Tone bands, they toured nationally with both The Specials and The Selecter and released the single 'Revolving Boy' on their own label before signing to Arista where they recorded demos with noted reggae producer Dennis Bovell (bassist with Matumbi). While clearly not a ska band, the band's most well know song 'Revolving Boy" marries an updated Stax groove with a hypnotic dub bass line."
From Kevin Harrison's Personal History site here Marzimprint (now sadly gone from the internet)
"April '81 urge split up due to insurmountable difficulties with Arista and some acrimonious internal wrangles. The wheels have definitely well & truly come off the wagon. This is a very difficult time.
A new urge line-up is quickly put together (incl. Lynda, Dave Gedney, Rick Medlock, Dennis Burns and myself. See Rex Brough's Site but times have shifted and the elusive chemistry has gone. Chic & funky, we play plenty of gigs, but by this time we've had too much shit kicked out of us, and despite tentative record company interest, we accept the fact that Coventry is no longer the fashionable city it once was and we reluctantly decide to call it a day. (In hindsight, if we could have done some studio recordings things may have been very different)."
Pete Chambers in Godiva Rocks comments
"They claimed they refused to jump on the ska bandwagon then released a virtual ska single Revolving Boy in 1980. It made them lots of fans, especially DJ's John Peel and kid Jensen who made it his record of the week. They supported the UK subs and The Specials on their European tour. They also appeared on the Sent from Coventry compilation in 1980 with Nuclear Terrorist. Kevin Harrison released a solo tape On Earth ll on Eyeless from Gaza - Ambivalent label.
In August 1980, the band signed to Arista, releasing a second record Bobby and appeared on TV in the show Look Hear. John Westacott left to be replaced by another ex Squad member - Nigel Mulvey. After a tour supporting The Selecter, they called it a day."
Urge mark 11 were then formed with Lynda Harrison (Novak / Wolfe), Kevin Harrison / Dennis Burns (Keys - former Mix / Flood), Dave Gedney (Guitar) - Drummers - drum machine / John Hill / then Rich Medlock / Nigel Mulvey. Sax player Pete Jordan (Ex L' Homme de Terre). They played a lot at Whitley Abbey pub but their chance had come and gone with the first line up. Kevin Harrison, formerly with Whistler in the early 70's went on to do solo work - eg The LP Inscrutably Obvious - on Cherry Red and a 12 inch single called The Fly featuring Horace Panter of the Specials. Kevin has continued to work solo alongside musicians like Horace Panter, Neol Davies, Rich Medlock and others.
Urge came back again with a new line up - this time Kendell Smith (who went on to join Stereo Nation)
Lynda and Kevin Harrison and Rich Medlock. They recorded one session at Woodbine Studios, including songs such as Pressure Drop, Style and Fashion. They finally split for good in 1993. David Gedney joined Roddy Radiation'sThe Skabilly Rebels.
In Feb 2010, Urge reformed briefly - (From the Pete Chambers article in Coventry Telegraph)
Urge 2 (with Rick Medlock, Dave Gedney, Kevin Harrison, Lynda Wulf)
ONE of Coventry’s leading pop bands of the 80s are reforming for two concerts in aid of their former lead singer.
" Coventry band Urge reunite for former lead singer The charity double-header is at Taylor John’s House, at the Canal Basin, on Saturday, March 6 and Sunday, March 7.
Guitarist Kevin Harrison said David, who wrote the lyrics to Revolving Boy and Bobby, had just returned home after a second operation.
“He was a very quirky, humorous writer often satirising the world we live in,” said Kevin. “He was also an original performer, vocalist and a self-taught, uncompromising saxophonist.
“We all hope he gets well really soon and would like to help support him and his family through this difficult time.”
Vocalist Linda Harrison said: “We are really excited to be playing together again, although tinged with sadness. “
URGE, one of the most popular upcoming Coventry bands in the Two Tone era, have reformed and have already sold out their first concert in 30 years.
The concert, scheduled for March 6th 2010 at Coventry's prime music venue Taylor John's House, has now sold out in advance and further concerts are being planned. A second concert will be held at the same venue on Sunday 7th March and more may be in the offing. Said Kevin Harrison, who initiated the project, "The concert is a benefit for our former singer Dave Willet (Wankling) who went into hospital suffering from a brain tumour. We plan to have some special guests on the night including Neol Davies of Selecter and Horace Panter of The Specials"
