Contributed 2 tracks to the Stoke Musicians Collective’s album CRY HAVOC – Neat Scenes, & Shake It Again. The band wrote these notes for the booklet that accompanied the album.
“Stoke’s R & B band – 4 years of various line-ups playing electric blues to fairly empty rooms over rather ramshackle pubs. In the end even a love for the music wasn’t enough.These are the last offerings from a phantom band. One and a half highly untypical band songs indicating the direction just before the apocolypse of Oct 80. A lot cleaner and more funky than most will remember. A kind of coda and another dull thud in the history of British Blues.”
Line-up at the time of recording was JIM GILLESPIE – vocals, DAVE BOULTON – guitar, JOHN STONIER– guitar, DAVID SIMPSON – bass, & TIM SIMPSON (ex BEYOND THE WALL) on drums.
Former members included BOB HILDITCH, TONY EVANS, RANO, TREVOR PINSON, ROBERT PERRY aka PERCE, JANET AHMED, & ED LANE.
TIM SIMPSON later joined THE KILLJOYS. JOHN STONIER went on to play with THE HEADSET, and THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS.
JIM GILLESPIE, JANET AHMED and ROBERT PERRY also played with PERCE & THE PENGUINS, and GILLESPIE fronted THE GILLESPIE BLUES BAND.
BOB HILDITCH committed suicide in 2000.
RIVER WATERS, otherwise MARTIN EDWARDS, played in THE UNINVITED, ABOUT TIME, TOWER STRUCK DOWN, & INDIAN SUMMER, before forming the band that carried his name, performing a hybrid of progressive rock, space rock, world and folk music.
MORGAN BRYAN, a Lichfield lad at Alsager College, was the main man behind this post-punk outfit. Released a single in 1983 entitled Authors 2, sometimes playing at The Vine around this time. Recently reformed.
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