The Ship's Crew (John Shipley)
John Shipley is a Coventry musical legend and mentioned on this site under The lesser known Two Tone band - Swinging Cats and others. A full article on John Shipley can be found here by Pete Clemons and Milan Stojsavljevic
Pete Clemons tells us (from the above interview with John Shipley) "After the Swinging cats split up, owing to constant line up changes, in October 1980, the second planned single, “Greek Tragedy”, was finally recorded with a roster of Rhoda Dakar on vocals, Chris Dickie (of Gods Toys) on bass, Rob Hill on drums, Jerry on keyboards, and John on guitar. Sadly it never reached the pressing plant. “Greek Tragedy”, however, did get a live outing during the Rock Against Racism gig at the Butts stadium, in June ’81. The opening band that day were “Ship’s Crew” a hastily formed outfit of John’s creation. At about 1pm, the song was aired to just two people, as John recollects it...Jerry Dammers and John’s dad, Bob, who was attending one of his son’s gigs for the very first time. Ship’s Crew sailed out that day, and capsized on their maiden voyage."
"Chris became an engineer and has worked with the likes of Depeche Mode, The Pogues and Morrissey. He now lives in Australia." Pete Chambers.
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