Pete Fairless… In The Summer Time… Now, what was that lyric? “If her Daddy’s rich buy her a pier…”
Mike Guy… I’m still performing The Man Behind The Piano, Mighty Man, and Baby Jump! How many songs do you know where a bloke gets drunk, touches a woman, gets a thump from her husband, & gets peed on by a dog?
Joe Knight… See him early 80s Kings Country Club
Gerry Fortsch… Is this the gig that we the Hippo Band played support at? Mungo Jerry were a great bunch of guys.
Alan Esdaile… Not sure Gerry who the support band was. Anyone confirm?
Linda Day… We saw Mungo Jerry in a field somewhere can’t remember where
Leigh Wieland-Boys…. Went to this but unfortunately they were unhappy because everyone was chanting “Geno” – they walked off stage!! Came back on again but with attitude! Still liked them though.
John Austin… I was there !
Chris van Rock… He was paranoid from drugs … brilliant passionate genius but troubled genius who made one of the best albums of 1980
Kev Towner… Wish I’d seen that!!
Tony Court-holmes… was living in the States then
Michael Wilson… I was at this gig and the Specials a couple of days later.
Graham Sherrington… Peter, she were brilliant!!!!!
Mark Rodrigues… 1982-1987 some point I reckon
Roger King… Could very well be 1986. By that time the Pavilion had been renamed Theatre, and crucially July 19 was a Saturday in that year.
Steve Hamilton… I was going to say it seems like 1980 – until I saw Flying Pickets who surely were not a thing until 1982/3? So what looks like a pretty decent line up for 1980 seems a little retro for 1986…
Margaret Trowell… Proper acts ..the real deal back then not the endless tribute acts we get now
Matt Thomas… I think this was after a major refurb and was billed as the summer of stars
Colin Bell… Although i must be honest and say there’s not many listed here I’d have gone to see, at least they were all proper ‘names’ unlike the poor second rate acts they now seem to endlessly put on
I was the bass player and harmony singer with Swift Half in 80’s and 90’s with Paul Burton on guitar and harmonies, Chris Sayer lead guitar, singer and leader of the band. We also had a brilliant electric banjo player whose name I think was Paul and he came from Bexhill but I cannot remember the drummer’s name. I have a video of Swift Half at the Tower Pub where we played one night but cannot remember the date! I believe there is an album of Swift Half which I found a track from on YouTube today. Any info you can give me on this please and on the Hastings Swift Half band in their day when all the afore-mentioned were together? If anyone else remembers the band in its day, can they get in touch? By the way, apart from the VHS video I have I also have copies of all the lyrics that Chris hand wrote for all the songs we did together! Please do come back with any info, photos or recordings – just to bring back memories and the fun we had! Thank you so much! Clive
Paul Dengate… Could have been Paul Bishop on banjo
Alex Knight… Paul, was about to say this!! I think he lives in France now!! Paul Bishop was this you?? Maybe Gary on drums??
Barry Newton… I seem to remember going to this, great laugh
Dawn Leaney… I went to this , l was only 22 and had front row tickets. I spent the whole show hoping that he wouldnt pick me out for ridicule
Colin Bell… One of the funniest guys i ever worked with, it was impossible, he made me crack up multiple times every time i went to speak!
Jacquie Hinves… What a super nice man Freddie was. X
Peter Thomson… Saw him just a year or so earlier at Kings. One of the funniest shows ever.
Nick Tutt… I was at this one. Amazing bloke. Kept my head down when he looked my way. Current gf wore a bright pink leopard spot dress… he seemed to miss it thankfully lol
Matt Thomas… I remember working the bar at his performance at White Rock 89/90? He did two shows in one evening (both sell outs), both bars open and even the rarely opened spot bar that was situated inside the auditorium. A big performer who knew how to entertain.
Alan Esdaile… I’m trying to work out the 39 steps mention Kevin? I don’t remember that many steps?
Kevin Burchett… Madeline Reade maybe able to help Alan. Regent Court was just along the road from Scalliwags
Madeline Reade… Even I’m trying to work that one out.lol
Stuart Moir… One of my first experiences of the live music scene following my move from London, used to go see the Talismen with my friend Jona giving his kit a workout
Trevor Thorpe… CB as in Citizen’s band?
David Edwards… 39 steps when you’ve had a night on the vodka
Colin Fox… I wonder how many people recognise this young lady in the Thomas Cook advert of the 1980s. She’s is/was from Hastings and went out with a guitrist who lived there.
Stuart Moir… from the Harry R and the jump jets days, “Kathy”
Pete Prescott…She’s an amazing dancer. All the girls were lovely. You guys did a fantastic job on backing vocals. I was bloody useless at those then (not that I’m much better at it now!) Wouldn’t it be great to go back and do it all again
Colin Fox… Pete, I always had great respect for your vocals Pete, every note spot on, and as Tom Jones would say “I like the tone of your voice”. I believed you had a voice that would have gone down well in the US.
Stuart Moir… Pete, It would be so nice to see all the people who are still around and able to perform, obviously all the lead vocals would down to you, Colin and Chris are still active on fb so they would still be good for BVs, I wonder how many of the girls are still dancing at their various homes with their grand children he he , I hold such lovely memories of our days with HarryR as I’m sure you do, I’m in touch with Pete Shaw regularly as we share a passion for Porsche but not so much Ray as he is the other side of the Thames border and I’m not sure if he’s a fan of Facebook but I’m sure he’s still making his guitars sing as they used to down South, I know Phil is still on the band scene but playing a brilliant lead guitar rather than the bass as he was in the band, anyway I’m glad your still active and performing well as per the Beach Concert blues brothers set, look forward to catching up face to face .
Steven Singleton… Kate Moss ?
Colin Fox… She’s also in this photo that I took at the Conservative club Bexhill in the 1980s, on the far left.
photo: Colin Fox
Stuart Moir… That photo was taken at the Bexhill club at one of the rehearsals. They were our dancers at the Harry R and the jump jets concert at the De la warr pavillion . We were only talking about the gig we all did together, Colin, Chris and me on backing vocals, Pete Shaw on drums Phil Gill on bass guitar Ray Fenwick on lead and I think Revie Stockdale played keys for that one, lead vocals were Dave Easton and Peter Prescott, a brilliant band that we could have sold anywhere .
Colin Fox… Private party, Herstmonceux Castle
photo: Colin Fox
Pete Prescott… Good Times
Chris Howard… The beautiful Kathy.
Lyn Humphrey… Kathy Collins went to Bexhill Downs Secondary School in the mid/late ’60s. She was also in an episode of ‘Doctor in the House’, in 1970, when (in the programme) she thought she’d become engaged to the show’s star, Barry Evans.
Paul Coleman… The girl in the pic i believe came from Bexhill but may have moved to Hastings. I saw her many times in Bexhill & I think her name was Cathy Collins. I could be wrong but I thought she went to school in Bexhill?
Stuart Moir… Kathy with a K was her name she was a Bexill girl initially married to a local accountant whos name escapes me .
George Turner… Bexhill’s very own superstar. I believe Kathy kept the surname of Day from her first marriage. I used to attend aerobic dancing lessons with her at the Continental Club. I believe she was part of the Second Generation dancing group. Ray Fenwick was her significant other. I’m old now so my memory sometimes writes it’s own script.
Ricky Adelaide… Yep then Kate Day back in the White Hart Catsfield days…met at an airport couple of years ago in Spain! She spends time there now
Chris Howard… Kathy was lead dancer when we played at The Hops in Bexhill in the eighties.
