The Art Lab and Amberley Court – who remembers these groups?
Geoff Peckham… Wasn’t Amberley Court something to do with Tel Corder?
Kevin Sherwood… His sister Trish says yes your right.
Month: July 2019
Carnival FM – 3rd to 11th August 2019
Tony Court-holmes… can not miss it
Andre Martin… Rock on old mate
Hastings Reggae Festival – The Oval Hastings – Saturday 27th July 2019
PLEASE NOTE VENUE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE OVAL HASTINGS
Pete Fisher… Great line-up…hope there’ll be some videos/photos…
Uriah Heep and Diamond Head – De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill Friday 6th December 2019
The British classic rock icons hit the road to celebrate the release of their new album, Living The Dream out in September.
Uriah Heep debuted in 1970 with the release of one of hard rock’s milestones, “Very ‘eavy… Very ‘umble” and have since sold in excess of 40 million albums worldwide. They constantly tour the world, playing up to 125 shows a year to 500,000+ fans. The band’s live set features the classic tracks from the ’70s and is a musical journey from the band’s beginnings to the present day.
more information… https://www.dlwp.com/event/uriah-heep/
Sandy Max… Absolutely! One of my favourite bands in my youth
Mike Waghorne…On a July morning
Peter Houghton… I would like to go if I can
Kathy Wood… Thanks for the heads up on that one Alan.
Bumbley Hums (featuring Tony Bird) – Bexhill 1970
supplied by Tony Bird
National Hero – The 58 Club Winchelsea Beach 1980
Supplied by Tony Bird. Mick Ingram, Kevin Hoad, Paul Kendrick and Tony Bird
Tony Court-holmes… I had forgotten all about the 58 club, I remember getting pissed there once and sleeping on the beach. Oh happy days
Robert Searle… Another good photo
Yvonne Cleland… Moff!
You Can All Join In – Island Sampler
1. A Song For Jeffrey – Jethro Tull 2. Sunshine Help Me – Spooky Tooth 3. I’m A Mover – Free 4. What’s That Sound – Art 5. Pearly Queen – Tramline 6. You Can All Join In – Traffic 7. Meet On The Ledge – Fairport Convention 8. Rainbow Chaser – Nirvana 9. Dusty – John Martyn 10. I’ll Go Girl – Clouds 11. Somebody Help Me – Spencer Davis Group 12. Gasoline Alley – Wynder K Frog
Anyone remember this one? With Jethro Tull, John Martyn, Spencer Davis, Traffic, Free, Art, Nirvana etc.
Jon McCallion… Still got Bumpers & You can all join in, good sounds.
Rick Pentecost….What a fantastic record, I still have it, but I’ve lost the outer sleeve. Absolutely loved it !
Mick Bolton…..Oh yes, I had this one. I used to look at the cover and try figure out who everyone was.
Jane Hartley…..got it!
Mick O’Dowd…..Another fantastic cheap sampler. Where would we have been without them!
Mark Sims…..I remember this.
Will Cornell…..Mojo magazine did a pretty good Island comp a few years ago as their free CD. There was a series called “This is Reggae Music” also on Island that hit the cutout bins in the late 70s when Island shifted distribution. Excellent–3-4 volumes worth of the best.
Tony Davis… Wasn’t there also one called Nice Enough to Eat?
Rob Grain… Clouds !!!
Amanda Brooks… Got it, love it. X
Chris Giles… I’ve still got my Bumpers sampler LP from island released 1970
Rob Grain… My old mate Ian Ellis on there !
Pete Fisher… superb compilation – June 1969, 14 shillings and sixpence…I was already into Jethro Tull and Traffic, but Free and Spooky Tooth were new discoveries for me…Nice Enough To Eat followed in September that year, also a great compilation…
Mark Randall… Island samplers! What a treat they were
Mark Gilham… Diverse and inspiring 🙂
Jan Warren… Oh god I had this too!!
Paul Richardson… Heck Alan! Spooky Tooth and Clouds, two very underrated bands. I have this still, and Bumpers (thanks Chris Giles). Also bought Nice Enough to Eat and the CBS sampler Fill Your Head with Rock. Thanks mate, suddenly I’m 16 again. Everyone of these had some class tracks.
3 members of The Likes Are Us from the 1960’s through to 2019
supplied by Peter Horton
Chris Burt ( Base Guitar ), Bob Laurie ( Lead Guitar ) and Pete Horton ( Rhythm Guitar )
Pete Horton… Completing our 3 pier project. We all went to Hastings Pier in 2017, Bournemouth Pier in 2018 and now Southend Pier in 2019. Please find attached a photo from each visit by 3 former members of ” The likes Of Us “.
Uppers On The South Downs – LP
Terry Pack on the South Coast Ska Stars…One of the many, many records of mine that I don’t have a copy of. A Ray Fenwick production. The South Coast Ska Stars were Wesley Magoogan, Tony Bird, Kevin Hoad, Ray and I. We did two songs: Head On (sung by Ray) and Ring Of Fire, an instrumental version in 5/4.
Kevin Hoad…..As Terry has stated.That was the line up.I have a copy still.And the album on safari records is selling well.In the Parker is Wes Magoogan, Tony Bird on the left. I Thankyou.
Wesley Magoogan….This compilation album was put together by our own version of Simon Cowell ,Ray Fenwick .
Andy Knight….Re the covers, the top one is the CD version, the guy on the Vespa is the Vinyl version, that’s what I have anyway, the vinyl was what we were given at the time, I bought the CD from HMV! the CD came out in 1994 I think.
Mick O’Dowd….Still got my vinyl version with scooter boy.
Tony Bird….Uppers on the South Downs LP was recorded at my Studio (WING) in Ninfield and Ike Nossel (Park Gates Studio) in Catsfield ………produced by Ray Fenwick
Terry Pack….The tracks done at Wing (8 track) often sounded better than those done on 24 track at Park Gates! Most notably the demo versions of certain singles
Andy Knight….We (Missing Persons) did some recording at a studio on the road to Hawkhurst called Bluebell Studios, owned by an author of children’s books I think?
Ken Copsey… As a 16 year old it would have been nice to have had a bit more care and guidance. The production on everything the Teenbeats recorded was appalling. The only thing anyone was interested in was trying to make a fast buck out of Huggy’s charasismatic personality, which apart from stopping and starting at the same time was all the Teenbeats had. Its good to see that someone is making some money out of these recordings because we never did. Not even the 50,000 singles sold in Canada. Rock ‘n ‘ Roll. Same old story. On the subject of songwriting credits all the self penned Teenbeats tracks appeared on later compilations credited to people I have never heard of. A new mod compilation has just been released with Strength Of A Nation on it but strangely none of the other tracks on Uppers.
Pete Prescott… I don’t know what happened to my copy. So many Hastings guys on it. A lot of it was recorded at Tony Birds studio. And some at park gates.
Robert Searle… Did some tracks at Bluebell studios with Ray Fenwick with Rev Stockdale,Paul Freeman and a fantastic sax player didnt know his name and me on bass guitar. Didnt know what happened to the recordings.