Think it was Wodger Lee.... I remember the other fella Geoff as he was involved in a mate's project at one point..I was in a 3 piece called The Octopus....we'd wigged out at this point big time to annoy the Mod/60s crowd we were part of so no-one could really work us out..we looked like Black Sabbath but pretty much sounded like a pre indie dance turn that was to crop up a few years later...had a Radio One session in 88 or 89 but we just never fitted in - some of course, may say we were SHITE!
ANother band with the same handle followed us a few years later as it goes...the swines...and had some minor success but couldn't tell ya anything about them!
If anyone on here followed The Prisoners/Playn Jayn at the time then I may know ya....they were the only bands I really bothered with mid 80s..and in the early days of The Prisoners, everyone knew each other cos there was hardly anyone at them!
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I followed The Prisoners and the 'Medway Sound'. Billy Childish, The Headcoat(ee)s, Buff Medways and all that.Graham Day (and the Gaolers...natch) of The Prisoners etc. has released a couple of very good albums in the last few years. The venues that I seem to remember seeing the above bands were Bay 63/Subterranea beneath the Westway, Deptford Albany, Rough Trade Shop,ULU and a few others. I think that I may have even seen The Prisoners at The Wellington opposite Waterloo Station.
We won a Gary Crowley Demo Clash. After what seemed like months of waiting for it to come on his show I was out when it was aired. If I remember correctly, I was in Greenwich and people were coming up to me congratulating me then laughing at the fact that I missed it....luckily I recorded it.
Last edited by Lee (2012-07-26 09:14:18)
Indeed 2 great albums by Graham & the Gaolers...
Our paths must have crossed then fella...and apologies if I spilled yer pint!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkhdaBwBW_w
That gal shouldn't play around with guns...she could have an eye out...oh hang on...
Finally somebody posted it on Youtube.
Miles' version of Oo Bop Sh'bam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoiYQlQS5dM
Sahib Shihab - Lillemor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO3OfY2XXy8
Stick a target on it and get a massive hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ZEVA5dy-Y
Do it with class and get no where.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU12FrWWVqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwViJoULX8o
Gassenhauer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEgzGnzojc
For the attention of Yuca!...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkDV1_2Oa1U
Don't know what its on with the Papa thing, its by a guy called ray rodriguez. About $100.
This is a good one by him. cheap as chips as well, $30 for a clean copy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyDWvW-YkY
I'm spinning this one at the moment, its tough, about 100 bucks but I think it'll go though the roof when the funk boys pick up on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNXiDHdckE
can you post some tunes you play? I'm always on the lookout for latin/boogaloo.
Deep under cover in cumbia land:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGkIGx_MVy8
I just can't stop listening to this song. It' driving those around me mad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xysjLIquE
I think we've hit rock bottom chaps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2HJTt3XEDM
You can't beat a bit of music infused with accordian party madness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urOkG-9bGVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=uyp13Q6dQjY&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8D0UH3oA8
Shuffle, the southern brand of R&B that led to the brith of ska.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFbS_nVA-KI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNOQ-lsNvz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbcY0qtJ1iY&feature=related
Is it Ivy and was it ever used as ship's ballast?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUndcssWr9g
It may well have been Cat, I've heard of kids handing over a weeks wages outside The Sink Club for a copy with a picture cover. The story goes that Darren "Dazza" Davis packed his dirty underwear in quite a few copies and stored the package in the hull of the ship he worked on before it left NYC bound for Liverpool. The kids went crazy for the record only because of the cover. The record itself was the wrong beat for the clubs, this being in 1949 and the big dance at the time being the Hully Gully. The cover was sought after because the singer had a Jack Daniels Tee shirt under his Madras jacket and a baseball cap. Up until then Tee's had been thought of as underwear. The kids took the covers to a small backstreet Jewish tailors called Donbergs in the city to have the caps copied. Mr Donberg didn't quite get the shape right and the Porkpie hat was born. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sounds like it's hot everywhere. t's brutal here.I
I think this is the original. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ddqniqxFM
This is the hit version I remember as a kid in 1966 on AM radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OD56xaY_Y&feature=fvwrel
My favorite version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0B41tBTTko
Do your tastes stretch to cumbia and soca Yuca? Afro-cuban stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vq3n4plTM0
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