Day: 20 September 2024

Loggerhead – 1979

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supplied by Sarah Harvey

13th April 1979

Yvonne Cleland… They look like a folk band!

Tim Moose Bruce… Saw them upstairs in the Carlisle. Think they were support to Footloose.

Mick O’Dowd… Yes you did Tim. That was my promotion. Both good bands.

Richard Padgett… amazing i found this by chance. I was in Loggerhead and relocated back to Native Yorkshire in 1988 after 12 years in the south and have continued to play on and off with bands. Remember having lessons from Ray Fenwick RIP (Ian Gillan band and Spencer Davis group)who lived in Upper Park Road Hastings. I will be visiting Hastings for the first time since 1988 in Spring 2025 and if any Loggerhead guys (Or Mick Mepham reads this ) would be great to meet up with anyone …. I still have original tape recordings from Carlisle and pier and rehearsals. I brought a Yorkshire band Dawnwatcher down (singer Billy Barton who I grew up with) to play at Hastings Pier roughly around 1980/81 and Die Laughing played that night also. Dawnwatcher and Marillion were the two finalists when a record label in London were due to offer a contract and of course Marillion won! I knew most of the guys mentioned on SMART and  The Quanta brothers were top musicians I recall.

 

 

Leisure Music Silverhill photo 1973

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Supplied by Roy Penfold via Leigh Kennedy Silverhill remembered 

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Roy Winchester… I remember it well

Harry Randall… Spent many hours in that shop! And a lifetime rehearsing in “The Box” out the back!

Andy Qunta… I remember it well!

Pete Fisher… bought my first amp there, a Vox AC15..

Supplied by Barry French

John Winch… Just seen the old picture of Leisure Music, up at Silverhill. A few weeks ago I found amongst my music gear an H&H mixer amp with a ‘Leisure music’ sticker on the back – i have carted it about for years, and now it’s dusted down and cleaned up. Don’t know when I got it or how long I’ve had it, but used it on a gig a few weeks back as PA. I’d forgotten how good they sound and personally think it’s better sounding than some of my newer stuff – fuller, rounder, fat sound than a lot of the tinny ‘digi’ stuff that is on offer today. I used H&H for some years in the seventies in the ‘Standard’ Sunday morning gigs. Talking ‘Standard’. Remember landlord John (gone fishing) and Landlady (forgotten her name). One evening she was sitting at the bar in her full wedding dress and totally Piss– off because it was their wedding anniversary and, John had forgotten and really gone fishing with Obi and crew. Not a happy bunny that evening.