The Candy Thieves

 The Candy Thieves

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From Creation Records

http://www.creation-records.com/adorable-our-favourite-fallen-idols/

"Before Adorable, three of the band were in The Candy Thieves

Wil: “I formed Bubblegum Flesh (their first band) as an English student at the University of Warwick back in 1988, I think. I sang and played guitar, Pete played bass. Pete then went on to form the Candy Thieves without me, this time with him on guitar and vocals. When they sacked their bassist shortly after, I was drafted in.” 1

Pete: “The Candy Thieves, which I had formed in 1988 with my friend Wayne Peters on guitar, when we were on a Film Studies course together at Warwick University.” 1

Wil: “We wrote a number of songs during this period, which went on to appear on Adorable singles including Homeboy and I’ll Be Your Saint. Candy Thieves became Adorable and Robert became guitarist.” 2

Their first and only single released on a flexi-disc was a version of Homeboy later recorded as Adorable.

Pete: “I can still remember the day we wrote it. Wil started playing the bass line, and Kevin joined in on the floor tom. I sang a whole load of lines culled from other discarded songs, Wayne picked some notes, and then when it felt right I stepped on my distortion pedal to make it start feeding back, Kevin sensed it was time to move onto the snare and we all crashed in – it was beautiful.” 

Dubotion

 Dubotion

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The Dubotion collective consisted in various shapes & forms of; Darren Wood, Simon Herbert, Martin Watts and John Docker.

A collection of recordings made during the mid 1990s by Coventry's ambient dubsters

credits released October 1, 2011

John Docker's B log on Typepad https://covcitymusic.typepad.com/blog/

John Docker below

In the early 90's Dubotion were supported by The IS at the Colin Campbell in Coventry which was John Docker's brother's band - albeit a Cornish reggae band but Al Docker himself was a Coventry lad and active on the Coventry Music scene in the early 1970's both in various bands and at the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club as an gig organiser. here's a track Starfish by the IS.

JohnnieDocEye · Starfish by The Is

The Duck Thieves

 The Duck Thieves

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Website https://www.duckthieves.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2xNIuNjv0xxeBnOw4UkM_xnLhCXodYc2XCYuijtwqD8rwbMmK8SlcS0IU

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/duckthieves/

"The Duck Thieves supported The Specials on their triumphal return playing Coventry Cathedral ruins, and they warmed up the crowd very nicely with their brand of funky alternative dance, prank-rock, and downright groovy tunes. I was impressed enough to track down their latest release: Dance Like A Duck Thief.

Duck Thieves – the name originates from the first film ever to be shot in Hong Kong called ‘Stealing a Roasted Duck’ (sadly no extant copies exist) – were formed by front man Justin Wing Chung Hui, Michelle Bailey-Le Long and Cait Buckley. On this EP the trio have been joined by Jessamy Davis and Steven Shelley Duck Thieves create really cool grooves with funk and soul and some punk power pop thrown in and the interplay between male and female vocals is brilliantly done. Live they are prone to prank-rock antics that add to the great sense of mischief and fun. In those great grooves and entertainment though, the themes are feminism, individualism, anti-racism, anti-sexist and the simple, yet uplifting message to some lost and desperate teen who may be listening to this music, that it’s OK to be different."

From https://louderthanwar.com/duck-thieves-dance-like-duck-thief-ep-review/

DUB JAM FORCE

 

DUB JAM FORCE

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Dub / Punk / Reggae


Find them on Reverbnation

http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/603482#!/dubjamforce

More tracks including King of the World

Since: 2006

Members:

George Goode...Drums/Percussion/ Backing vocals Fred Waight Guitar/ Vocals Tim Healey Bass/ backing vocals ..nk dubber - Fred Weight says the band came out of his involvement with Criminal Class in the late 70's early 80's.

From My Space Bio

" DUB JAM FORCE are Coventry Punks & Skins since est 1976 ..... Reggae comes in many forms, Ska, bluebeat; Roots, rock ,ragga and then we have DUB.JAM.FORCES'reggae a relentless brutal take on the gene. In your face you ? you bet and they wouldn't have any other way. The band themselves (that's Fred "PUNKDUBBER" Waight -LEAD GUITAR and VOCALS; and Tom Harris LEAD GUITAR BACKING VOCALS; George "LEAFS" Goode- DRUMS ) Tommy Sedated BASS GUITAR describe their sounds as; "like 4 NATTY DREAD PUNKROCKERS ........................................................................."DUBBER ..SAY . : INTO PUNK REGGAE THE LIKES OF THE GREAT "BIG YOUTH ,THE CLASH,THE RUTS REGGAE SOUND SYSTEMS. BEING ENGLISH AND FROM WORKING CLASS STOCK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MUSIC IS IN ME,I HAVE LOVE REGGAE FROM THE AGE OF 14 YRS. THEN CAME PUNK SO I HAD TO BE IN A BAND. LEARNED MYSELF GUITAR FORMED CRIMINAL CLASS U.K .OI PUNK BAND "BLOOD OF THE STREETS" CD YOU CAN HEAR THE REGGAE IN THAT CD THEN IT ALL WENT MENTAL SO HAD TO LEAVE ,BUT STILL HAD THIS SOUND IN MY HEAD .SO 1990 STARTED "DUB.JAM.FORCE" TOOK THE PUNK WITH ME AND ADDED IT TO THE REGGAE PLAYED WITH THIS BAND FOR 19 RS. NEVER MAKING ANY MONEY OR FAME BUT WHO WANTS IT ANYWAY!" IT ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC WHATS IN ME HEAD THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO HAVE A LOOK ATB FRED........NATTY DREAD PUNK ROCKER Fred Waight – Dub Jam Force.. .. .. .. .. ...."


Tracks on My Space were

Blood on the Streets / Happiness / Police Call 7 Red mix / This is a Coventry Song / Begging Hat (Song for the Condems) / Heathen Bones /

Judas - 

Hole

Blood on the Street

DS Band

 

DS Band

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Late 70's Coventry band - 


Steve Harrison - (2nd from left in photo) Drums (Formerly with The Mick Green Blues Band and later with L'homme de Terre

Martin Slater - Vocals in the white jacket on photo.

Mark Burton - guitar

Paul ? - bass

This photo and the tracks supplied by Phil Biggerton - thank you.

DR SLAGGS CONFESSIONS

 

DR SLAGGS CONFESSIONS

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circa 1968 - 1969 Source Broadgate Gnome  - Blues / rock

 Line up: Arthur (Mode) Albrighton (bass, harmonicas), Paul Kennelly (vocals, guitar, gags ! etc.) Pete Davoile and Dek Wilson

 Formed to finish off dates from Peppermint Kreem's 1968 diary. Lasted around a month.

 'Electric music from...featuring harmonica king Archie' (sic) gig ad CET January 1969.

Paul Kennelly tells us " Immediately after returning from the Scottish Tour , Paul Kennelly teamed up with Arthur Albrighton, Pete Davoile and Dek Wilson. Primarily it was done to complete the outstanding Peppermint Kreem diary dates. The whole thing was chaotic and there are no known images of the band " on stage ". All that has survived is a couple of photographs of the Flat and a poster/business card. This is a reconstruction of the band poster. There is no known original left. The poster was commissioned by the band from Terry Illingworth and replicated by Paul Kennelly using the following images, in 1987."

 

 Paul Kennelly and Arthur Albrighton. Arthur has his famous Harmonica " gunbelt " and Paul holds Arthur's bass guitar.

 

Arthur " Modie " Albrighton with the Doctor Slagg's poster and Peppermint Kreem poster, over the fireplace.

 

Printed by Illingworth , this card does not even have a phone number !

 

The " sitting room " ........ 188 Barker Butts Lane Coventry. December 1968. A wonderful mural reflecting the fashions of the day ! ... I guess it must be Eric Clapton.

 

Pete Clemons article on Peppermint Kreem gives some of the background to this band.

Music with a Minty Flavour!
Pete Clemons

OF all Coventry bands I have read about or researched none, for me at least, is more fascinating than that of Peppermint Kreem.

The story is actually a trilogy which takes the group from its beat band beginnings in 1968 through to their conclusion in 1987 but not before they had recorded a rock opera. Paul Kennelly has meticulously kept extensive notes over the years and it is these that I have plundered to pull this article together.

The roots of Peppermint Kreem can be traced right back to previous incarnations of the band beginning with Makeshift from around 1967 and then The Plague who existed between December 1967 and April 1968.

The Plague was formed when Paul Kennelly put an advert in the Coventry Telegraph. Arthur 'Modie' Albrighton was first to answer it. "We were hungry for work and would take anything." said Paul. "It was a great way of learning the business and the band performed from The Benn Hall in Rugby to Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire."

The line-up of The Plague was Paul Kennelly (vocals), 'Modie' Albrighton (bass guitar), Brian Griffiths (drums), Ray Haywood (lead guitar) and Bob Hopkins (keyboards) and they played their first gig at The General Wolfe on Friday, December 8, 1967.

Brian Griffiths left The Plague on January 25, 1968 to be replaced by Tom Ryan on drums. Bob Hopkins then left the band during April '68.

At that point it was agreed to give the band a fresh start and a new name. Ray Haywood suggested Peppermint Creams to which Paul responded with a slight variation to Ray's original idea. And so on April 26, 1968, they appeared as a four-piece at The Heart of England Club, Meriden, as Peppermint Kreem.

As covered by an article and various photographs for a Coventry Standard piece during May 1968 they bought a 15-seater bus from the Enterprise Club for the Disabled in Avon Street for PS24 and 10 shillings. This was used to carry their equipment.

1968 saw the band just 'out there playing'. They were, not at that time, in to doing their own music. What they would do though was to rearrange numbers, speed them up/ slow them down and fill in with drum solo links. The band toured extensively and regularly appeared locally in venues such as The Navigation on the Stoney Stanton Road and The Walsgrave.

On July 13 Peppermint Kreem added keyboard player Dave Fairclough to the line-up. His first gig for them was on Saturday July 13, 1968 at the Hobmore Hotel, Yardley.

By late 1968, the band had been signed by Don Fardon, his own solo career had taken off, and Vince Martin, of Friars Promotions, stepped in as manager. A tour of Scotland, for impresario Albert Bonici, was booked for December which would take them as far north as Lossiemouth, Nairn, Aberdeen, Elgin and Arbroath.

But sadly, due to other commitments, only Paul and Dave were available. In order that the tour could go ahead, Paul and Dave hooked up with Glass Forest, a Welsh band who were based in Birmingham, the lineup being Paul on vocals, Dave on keyboards, Andre on guitar, Karl on bass and Byron on drums and the band performed as Peppermint Kreem.

And that was the end for this phase of Peppermint Kreem. Paul and Arthur ("Modie") formed a band with Pete Davoile (Peppermint Kreem 2 and Seagull) on drums and Dec Wilson on guitar. Appearing as Dr. Slagg's Confessions, they polished off the last few dates left in the old Peppermint Kreem diary. After that, they all went their separate ways, with Arthur replacing the bass player in New City Sounds, and Paul replacing Allen ("Sabu") Parsons in The Motion.

Within days of Paul joining, the Motion changed their name to Revolution, and then eventually became Natural Gass. The line-up over this period was: Paul Kennelly (vocals), Dave Sutton (lead guitar), Reg Galland (bass), Granville Barber (drums), Bob Hopkins (keyboards), Pete Smith (ex-New City Sounds) on bass and Martin Lucas on lead guitar.

That wasn't the end though for Peppermint Kreem. 1972 saw the band reform and they went onto to achieve many good things. The previous version of the band never got to record but this would all change with Peppermint Kreem mark 2. Paul admitted: "I had never got to write and perform my own material and it just seemed the right time. It wasn't originally conceived as an opera. I just began to work up song ideas. What began as separate songs became a string of pieces, linked together. This was influenced by our standard set that was composed of varied material all tied together making a non-stop presentation."


This time around Modie had switched to guitar with the rest of the band being Paul (vocals), Keith Jaynes (bass), Bob Hopkins (keyboards) and Pete Davoil (drums). "We recorded the opera at Bird sounds studio near Stratford-on-Avon and it was called Revelation 2001. Regrettably it was never released and I have no idea what became of the master tapes. We did play the whole thing live on carnival day at the War Memorial Park during July 1973. It was a fine summer's day and we were set to go on stage at 9.30pm.

"For the first 20 minutes we played our versions of non-stop standards, then, after a short break we presented Revelation 2001. We held a respectable sized crowd for the standards show but I was not sure how they would react to the opera.

"You have to appreciate that the public were not directly paying for our performance, and could have drifted away at any time, but they didn't, the melody, some of it haunting, held them spellbound." That was last time that Peppermint Kreem played live together. However, in 1987 three of the band got back together yet again. Known as Peppermint Kreem 3, Paul Kennelly, 'Modie' Albrighton and Bob Hopkins, set about re-recording Revelation 2001 at Time Machine Studios in Earlsdon.

Sadly though it was never fully completed and although CD copies got 'out there' it remained unmixed. It is just made up of keyboards, guitar and Paul's vocal. There are no drums or bass. Also, at Time Machine, Peppermint Kreem laid down keyboard and vocal tracks for another project called 'Atlantis'. Again, this was never completed and remains unreleased.

Although there are no plans to complete these works it is still something that at least some kind of legacy of this wonderful story exists. ........................................

DROPS OF BRANDY

 

DROPS OF BRANDY

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circa 1971 - 79 - Source Hobo  - Pop/Rock

 Ted Duggan (drums), Ray Harte (rhythm guitar), Ian McDonald (vocals), Neil Richardson (bass), John Duggan (lead guitar).

Developed out of Rogation Sunday / Acorn. Began rehearsing at the Coventry Arts Umbrella.

 Played four nights a week residency at the Bloomers Club in Birmingham; RAF bases all over the country; four months in Bradford; nine month residency at Tiffany’s Liverpool for the Mecca organisation.

 ‘We play strictly disco music, pop the kids can dance to’.

 They played their way from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, to raise money for the Variety Club of Great Britain children’s fund. Mecca provided them with a float and played 30 gigs at pre-arranged venues and from the back of a lorry all the way. Money raised from venues and street collections and sponsorships totalled £1000 and the marathon was covered by Granada TV.

 Tony Harte Management. Ted was also in Purple Haze in the 60's, Paris in the 80's, Chevy in the 80's and The Mudsliders, Chevy, Smackee, Banco De Gaia, Dark Side of the Moon and from time to time plays for the Two Tone Collective

Tim Constable says "In 1976 The line up changed to Ted Duggan (drums), Ray Harte (rhythm/ backing vocals), Steve Roberts (lead/backing vocals), Ian McDonald (lead vocals), Tim Constable (keyboards). Their main gig for several months was as resident band at Baileys in Derby, commuting four nights a week. in 1977 the band divided. I don't recall the new Drops of Brandy lineup, but Ted, Steve and Tim formed PARIS to do original material written by Tim Constable and Clive Barnwell. Paris was completed with Pat Millar (vocals), Mike Harrington (bass, later replaced by Fran Pettifer). Ted was later replaced by Danny (?). Paris played around the Midlands, and continued until about 1982, including a residency at 'The Red House' pub (Stoney Stanton Road, now demolished).

Iain MacDonald

Update to what Tim Constable posted, the final line up of the band was the three original members, myself Iain MacDonald (notice the spelling), Ray Harte, Neil Richardson, with Clive Layton on keyboards, Des Beasley on lead guitar and Chris Peters on drums.

Iain.

Rogation Sunday

Trev's recollections - I recall some of the members in earlier bands Acorn / Rogation Sunday (a change of name) at the Umbrella club - at least Derek McConkey sent a letter to the Umbrella requesting a gig at the Umbrella c 1970 (with Go Go dancers!). I can't remember if we actually had them on - I seem to recall they split up before we were able to offer them a gig. I think Ted Duggan and Tony Harte were the band (see letter).

 Neil Richardson was in a band called Nak ed en with Loz Netto (later of Sniff and the Tears) on lead/ rhythm guitar and  Brad (later of the Specials) on drums and Neil Richardson played bass. They practiced at the Umbrella. After they split, Neil joined with ex members of Acorn to form a commercial pop rock band - Drops of Brandy - mostly covers including 10cc's I'm Not in Love. I saw them at the Ryton Bridge Hotel. Although they were touring intensively around the country at the time, I'd bump into either Neil or Ted in town and get an update while doing Hobo Mag.

Comments - A Facebook User

Hi Iain, I was one of the Dancers at Bloomers I remember you all, I later moved to the La Dolce Vita.. it was good fun, say Hello to all the guys for me,

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Dragster

 

Dragster

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Dragster on Reverbnation https://www.reverbnation.com/dragsterdiesel

Take a listen.

Dragster are a five piece punk rock n roll band who formed in the ghost town of Coventry in 2005. They have a love of dirty, fast and energetic music, 50's iconography and sci-fi and B movie horror. Their first EP was produced by Rat Scabies of The Damned and they were managed for a time by Jah Wobble of PIL.

Singer Fi did a 40 date tour of the States fronting US collective Pigface with drummer Martin Atkins (PIL, Ministry) and JS Claydon (Pitchshifter) amongst others.

Their first EP “Trailer Trash” https://www.reverbnation.com/dragsterdiesel produced by Rat Scabies received rave reviews in the music press and it got the band signed to London management team Scruffy Bird. Dragster released their first album "Step Into The Deathray" in 2006 on Noisemaker Records (Germany). The first pressing of the album sold out in two weeks. The band released their second album "Here Come The Meat Robots" in 2010 on Manchester punk label STP Records. The band are now on the roster of the UKs best punk, psychobilly and ska booking agency, Hidden Talent Booking.

 A new EP and Video "Drink You Pretty/The Dead Are Out In Droves" is to be released in March 2013 and a third album is set for release in summer 2013.

They have toured the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany and Italy, Spain and Portugal with over 300 dates under their belts. The band will be doing full tours of the UK and Europe in 2013 as well as a planned US west coast tour. They are booked for festivals including Rebellion, Inkfest & Boomtown.

This sleazy rock n roll train looks set to continue on rolling for a few years to come.

 Dragster are: Fi Dragster (ex Pigface)-Vox, Diesel - Guitar,

AC Speed (Texas Terri Bomb) - Lead Guitar, 

Tom AK (ex UK Subs, Criminal Class) - Bass, Alex Page (ex Vice Squad) - Drums.

 NEW Article and update by Pete chambers in Backbeat, Coventry Telegraph - here http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/backbeat-dragster-ready-first-gigs-11413643

Backbeat: dragSTER ready for their first gigs in France as part of European tour

Band made their mark many moons ago and their reputation for producing high quality “in-your-face” punk-edged rock music is deserved

Coventry rockers dragSTER continue to promote great city music on the world stage on their tour of Europe.

 Having recently opened the Punk and Disorderly festival in Berlin, they are about to play their first gigs in France, including promotional radio sessions with stations Birock Radio and IndieUnderground.

The band made their mark on the local scene many moons ago and their reputation for producing high quality “in-your-face” punk-edged rock music is richly deserved.

The five-piece have accumulated quite a history over the years, including being produced by Rat Scabies (The Damned) and managed by Jah Wobble (PIL).

Singer Fi did a 40-date USA tour fronting US collective Pigface with drummer Coventry-born super-drummer Martin Atkins (PIL) and JS Claydon (Pitchshifter) among others.

The dragSTER line-up has changed a lot over the years but married couple Fi and Diesel remain at the helm.

Current line up is: Fi (Fiona Friel) - vox, Diesel (Paul Friel) - guitar, Ben Kelly (who was previously their bass player and rejoined them at famous Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool in 2014) - lead guitar, Tom AK (Tom Hadsley)-Bass and Ryan Murphy - drums.

Their latest album release is 'Dead Punk', which can be listened to for free or purchased here.

 

 

Don't Talk Wet (Trev Teasdel)

 DON'T TALK WET

Advert from Hobo (Coventry Music and Arts Magazine) 1973.

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Trev's Poetry and Flashing Fiction Books website https://trevteasdelpoet.blogspot.com/

Trev's Lyrics Blogspot https://trevteasdellyrics.blogspot.com/

The name Don't Talk Wet came from a line in a poem by my friend Dave Reid (known to us as Byron).

Trev Teasdel "When John Bargent (Bo) and I started Hobo magazine in 1973, John was also running Rougestar Promotions and disco. I wrote my own songs and played solo and John promoted me in Hobo and with gigs for the Birmingham Streetpress in Mosely and as support for local bands. (See more on Streetpress towards bottom of this page)

Sometimes musician friends from local bands or folk clubs backed me - especially members of

Fission - Johnny Adams (later guitarist with Squad), Ant Callaghan and Simon Lovegrove percussion, Mick Green harmonica, Phil Knapper (Older brother of Stu Knapper later of Riot Act) Andy Cairns and others. It was very ad hoc and I advertised for more permanent musicians but the work of Hobo Magazine and Workshop took over.

Gigs included the Navigation and The Boat Yard, Hobo Workshop at the Holyhead Youth Centre and the Golden Cross in Coventry and Popeyes at the Birmingham Arms  and the Fighting Cocks in Mosley Village for Streetpress.

About 17 of my songs from those days were published by the Broadgate Gnome on their Gnome label in 2007. Mainly solo cassette demos or with later musicians on portastudio.

Listen on Bandcamp - 

https://trevteasdel.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-coventry-underground

Trev's later recording band up on Teesside was Trev and the Collective Unconscious

with Steve Gillgallon (Bass, keys, synth) and Steve Ingledew (keys) Trev guitar / vocals and keys)

In August 1973 Don't Talk Wet were asked to appear at The Windsor Free Festival through Rougestar Promotions and John Bargent (Bo) - in the end it didn't transpire.

WINDSOR FREE FESTIVAL

Starts Saturday 25th August in Windsor Great Park, London and is expected to last over a

week with well over one hundred groups. There will also be poets, street-theatre, solo singers and everything a far fetched imagination can think of (including free food and beer).

Some of the more well known groups appearing are - Hawkwind / Pink Fairies / Skin Alley / Third Ear Band / Longdancer / String Driven Thing / Kraan (German Band) but to name a few. Coventry bands possibly appearing include - Trilogy (confirmed) / Fission / Just Jake / A Band Called George / Trev Teasdel and Don't Talk Wet (I didn't do it in the end -can't remember why but it was it was nice to be asked!).In fact Fission were the only ones that ended up playing at Windsor.

Trev and Bo in the Coventry Evening Telegraph On the Scene supplement June 1973 for Hobo Coventry Music and Arts Magazine.

This is a sketch of Trev Teasdel in 1972 on Broadgate Island beneath the Lady Godiva statue drawn by Scon (Steve Connelly) better known now as Roadent the roady with Sex Pistols and Clash.

An early songwriting collaboration was with Pete Waterman in 1970 (before he was famous)

Both working at the GEC in Coventry Pete set acoustic music to Trev's lyric A Lotta Rain is Fallin'

A LOTTA RAIN IS FALLIN’

©Trev Teasdel June / July 1970 Coventry

A lotta rain is fallin’ but the earth has moved aside

There’s a lotta bullets flying but the victim’s found somewhere to hide.

There’s a lotta rivers flowin’ but the seas learned how to fly.

There’s a lotta clouds a wondering which rockets nicked the sky.

Cos the roads are moving fast but the cars are standing still

And so much is happening, yet nothin’s ever done

Oh we want to see the light but we’re dazzled by the sun.

(Bridge)

And some people’s only sunshine

Is their Cornflakes in the morning time

And the age of Instant sunshine, in packets bright and gay

I know will be dawning, in some future day.

There’s a lotta tears a fallin’ and more are being cried.

There’s a lotta people trampled on as man takes another stride.

There’s a lotta smoke arising but the sky’s learned how to swim

There’s a lotta faces smiling but their hearts are feeling grim.

Cos a lotta tension’s forming and the bag’s about to burst

There’s gotta be an answer cos the world is getting worse.

A lotta help is needed to get that truck back on the road

Cos too many people are pullin’ too heavier a load.

(Bridge repeated)

BIRMINGHAM STREEPRESS / STREETPOEMS  AND BIRMINGHAM GIGS
The association with Birmingham Streetpress and Streepoems began in 1972 through to 74 I

sold copies of Streetpress and Streetpoems in Coventry and they showed me how to do layouts and encouraged me to do a Coventry magazine which became Hobo.

As the letters from John Keetley show, I got to perform songs and poetry at some of their Birmingham mixed media gigs.

Birmingham Streetpoems

Letters from Streetpress regarding gigs in Birmingham

The Dodgers

 

The Dodgers

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c1978 Sources include Rex Brough / Hobo Magazine  / Bob Jackson Site.

Visit the Dodgers onlin e Library here

 http://badfinge.ipower.com/SoloBadfinger/Dodgers/DodgersLibrary.html

First line up

John Wilson - guitar, bass, vocal Dave Powell drums / PCS  Bob Jackson Vocals, keyboards, guitar Tom Evans Vocals / bass

Dave Powell left after the second single - replaced by Terry Williams and then Paul Hooper (Ex Indian Summer) on drums.

Tom Evans ( Ex Badfinger) was replaced by Roger Lomas (Ex Sorrows / The Eggy - later Two Tone Producer)

Final Line Up

John Wilson - guitar, bass, vocals  Bob Jackson, vocal, keyboards Roger Lomas, bass, guitars, vocals  Paul Hooper, drums, percussion.

Singles

Don't Let me Be Wrong (by John Wilson) b/w Get to You (Bob Jackson / Tom Evans) Island. 1976

Just want to Love You (John Wilson) b/w Don't know what you're doing (Bob Jackson) Island

Down (John Wilson) b/w Don't know what you're doing (Bob Jackson) Island

Love on the Rebound (John Wilson) b/w Come out Fighting (Bob Jackson / Paul Hooper) Polydor 1978

 Anytime Bob Jackson / John Wilson) b/w Little Darlin' (Roger Lomas) Polydor 1978

http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/pd16174 

Albums

Love On The Rebound (Polydor 1978)

Rex Brough explains -

"This band were a post Badfinger venture for Tom Evans.  Roger Lomas had played in the Eggy and the Zips, and Bob Jackson and Paul Hooper, formerly with Indian Summer. who recorded albums and singles between 1977-79. Lomas went on to be a full-time record producer, initially working at Horizon Studios, Coventry run by Barry Thomas (which was demolished). Coventry bands that came under his spell include the Specials, the Selecter and the Reluctant Stereotypes, some members of whom became 80's bouffant hit-band, King."

 Article by Pete Clemons here https://coventrygigs.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-dodgers-love-on-rebound.html

 YouTube Video

Love on the Rebound

Don't Let me Be Wrong

I Just Wanna love You

Down

Mr Music

Love on the Rebound full album

After Indian Summer split up in 1971, after the release of their RCA Neon album named after the group, Coventry keyboard player and vocalist Bob Jackson (Wikipedia) went on to play with John Entwhistles band Ro Ro and then join Alan Ross in the band Ross - recording on the RSO label and then played in Pete Brown's Piblokto. By 1974 Bob had replaced Peter Ham in Badfinger (and was retained after Peter Ham withdrew his resignation). Badfinger disbanded following Ham's suicide in 1975. Jackson remained in contact with Badfinger's bassist Tom Evans, and the two joined "The Dodgers" in 1976. The Dodgers released a handful of singles and one album by 1977, the year Jackson was released by the band due to management disagreements. (More on the Dodgers here http://badfinge.ipower.com/SoloBadfinger/Dodgers/DodgersLibrary.html

Ross featuring Bob Jackson

 There are more tracks by Ross on you tube

 It started as a demo session for John Wilson and Dave Powell but then Tom Evans and Bob Jackson harmonized very good with the other two musicians, so that they decided to form a band together. Dave Powell made the proposal to call the band the DODGERS. They selected two songs out of their sessions for the first single, which was released in March 1976. Another two songs were released in June as the second single of the DODGERS. Shortly after the release of the second single Dave Powell left the group.

Bob Jackson called his old friend Paul Hooper to join the DODGERS but as he was not immediately available, Terry Williams joined the group for some commitments in July.

 

  Below - link to a radio Interview  - Steve Jones In Conversation: The Dodgers

Visit the site here http://www.thealizone.com/web1/static.php?page=from_the_archive