Supplied by Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland
priory road school
Smokestack Lightning – Priory Road School Dance Hastings Caves – 12th May 1978
all photos supplied by Teenbeats Facebook Page
supplied by John Gale
and with The Adults on the 13th May supplied by John Gale
John Gale… A little report I found today from the Priory Rd News school paper, this would have been 12th May 1978. Smoke Stack Lightning playing their now infamous gig down St Clements Caves, what a sweaty night that was, happy days
Steve Fox… Nice find!
Glenn Piper… Must be more than 40 years as the school ceased in about 1974 when it became a comprehensive
Pete Fairless… It didn’t become a comp. until about ’79 or ’80
Graham Marriott… Wonderful acoustics for mobile disco in them caves 1980’s
Jim Breeds… They didn’t do things like this in my days at HSSB.
Chris Boorman… All those years ago. And Smokestack still have the same lineup as those 2 gigs. Mainly because they can’t find another drummer who will put up with the others in the band
Steve Sampson… Noggins Deluxe Disco … those were the days
Jason Dicker… Paul Rogers on base ?
John Gale… Exactly 46 years ago to the day . It was drummer Chris Boorman’s 17th birthday. Happy birthday again Tif . The disco on the night was DC Disco, supporting band were Ixtlyn . I remember SSL used alot of Ken’s brothers gear for the night The next day they played Tackleway Hall , supported by The Adults and Noggins legendary deluxe disco. Crazy night that was
Ken Copsey… John, Bert 46 years later playing the same Travis Bean guitar. That was the only thing we borrowed that night and it was recently very kindly given to Bert by my friend Oisin Little who had been its guardian ever since he resurrected it a number of years ago. I think we’d better start rehearsing for the 50th anniversary!
Ken Copsey… Still at it last night playing bass with The Steve Hooker. Support from Mick Bacon and David Stevens in Norwich.
Factory & Effigy – Clive Vale Annexe. Fri 7th May 1971 & YMCA review 13th August 1971
Supplied by Jon McCallion
Andy Qunta… Ah! Good times!
Phil Gill… I was there, probably with young Carey, Meachen and Shirley, as they labelled us at school. Sarah Harvey might have enjoyed the evening too.
Sarah Harvey…. I did indeed Phil and I had. completely forgotten about Effigy and to be honest cannot remember seeing them at all other than a vague memory that I didn’t think much of them. Factory as ever were THE band of Hastings at the time.
Chris Baker… Hah! Flight of the Rat was one of my “Flashy” solos! Those were the days! We only did a few gigs.
Phil Gill… As I recall Chris, you showed me how to play the pedal note riff from Flight of the Rat, one night at an Effigy rehearsal that Roger Carey and I attended. Was it School Road in Ore? Roger was buying Iain Cobby’s speaker cabinet and we came along to look at it.
Brigitte Lee… Where was Clive Vale Annex?
Chris Baker… Ha! Phil! My arthritic old fingers can’t play it so fast these days! Fun to so though. Still got that analog Park Fuzzbox too and the old Hofner!
Geoff Peckham… I remember we (Factory) were really impressed with Effigy. Didn’t they do a couple of other Deep Purple covers? Speed King, and Child in Time? According to Andy’s diary we played with them twice in 1971. May 7th at Priory Road School. Andy said that school gigs have been “…really great. This was no exception. Bit of trouble from old ladies and police about the noise but never mind. Effigy supported (or did we support them?) – not bad for their first gig.” The second was at the YMCA on August 13th. Andy mentions the awful acoustics and that “Effigy (with Tom) supported.” Could that have been the legendary Tom Jones? (The one from Stoke, not S. Wales!)
Phil Gill… And Steve’s drumming was *never* too loud. End of.
John Wilde…. Tom Jones, any info on his history or where he is now?
Geoff Peckham…. I got to know Tom in ’69 when his dad had an electrical shop in Western Rd, Bexhill. He told me stories about being in a pre-Black Sabbath band called Horny Moon (!) and other tales. He was a great character and raconteur. Like you, he had great stage presence – a great blues singer and harpist. He moved back to Stoke, and around 73-74 turned up at a Factory gig in NE Staffs University. I think he put us up for the night. Haven’t seen him since. Anyone else know anything? Be good to see you again sometime.
Alan Esdaile…yes it was School Road Ore where the rehearsals took place, in the old church hall which was full of antiques and clobber and the band squeezed somehow in the middle. I think their was a giant stuff bear but maybe wrong? Geoff Peckham date is correct as Friday 7th May 1971. Clive Vale Annex was part of Priory Road School and the gig took place at Clive Vale. Jon McCallion sung with Effigy at this gig and glad you remembered Tom Jones. I got a review somewhere which I will post on the YMCA gig shortly.
The Record Shop – Advert 1967
advert from The Priory Magazine(Priory Road School) 1967.
Alan Esdaile….Interestingly the Record Shop advertised in all the copies I have but nothing from The Disc Jockey. This maybe due to the fact that when I worked in the cake & tuck shop at school, the reward apart from broken jammy dodgers and split bags of crisps, they always gave you a Record Shop record token at the end of the year.
Mick Hymans…..I believe that Jack and Sonia London also had a passion for railways and took much cine film. As they have sadly now passed on, does anybody know if they had any offspring that would have inherited their films. Thank you