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Wally plus Quick Licks – Hastings Pier 29th March 1973 & Druid chat.
supplied by Sarah Harvey
Sarah Harvey…..Wally were a prog rock group from Yorkshire and they entered the MM Rock Contest in 1973 and got to the final but didn’t win (Druid won), but one of the judges whispering Bob Harris asked them to record a session for his Monday night show. he then set them up with a recording contract with Atlantic.
Alan Esdaile….really love this band
Mick Mepham….Good band too.
Mick O’Dowd….Wally were quite an underated band and never got the success they desrved, but this was not through want of trying. They appeared several times on the Pier. Highly underated!
Yvonne Cleland….They were. Saw them twice on the pier, and once at Brighton Dome.
Clive Richardson….The support band were also good but it should read ‘Quick Licks’ . 3 piece from London and all their songs were made up of licks.
Here in 1974 on the Old Grey Whistle Test with ‘The Martyr’
Dave Nattress… “Wally”…the first album, really wonderful, still play it a lot. The second, “Valley Gardens” was named after the public pleasure gardens in their home town of Harrogate and personally I feel it is not quite so good. These are 2 of my most treasured vinyls and after looking out for the CD versions for many years, I got the first in 2008 and then Valley Gardens in 2010. In fact I then got an absolutely mint, (I’m sure it was unplayed) vinyl of “Valley Gardens” from the record shop in Little Common for about £5.00. I also saw them at the pier. Druid – reminded me and some of my friends of the time – Iain Cobby for one, very much of Yes. Definitely the sound comparison came from the Rickenbacker bass and the Jon Anderson like vocals. Iain, I remember well you changing the Precision for the Rick!! I’ve got the 2 Druid albums on vinyl and CD. I’m sure Druid played the pier.
Iain Cobby… Yes Dave, I remember Druid from Whistle Test then seeing them on the pier. I too have both the CD’s . They were a good prog band in the wake of Yes. Like most prog of that time, they were overwhelmed by the oncoming rebellion . The drummer played with Gary Newman as Tubeway Army. and yes I still have a Ricky, not the 4001 but a 4004 …….. its the clang that’s the thang!
Janine Anne Scott… I sang for the Easter Fashion Parade that year .
Easter 1967 Witch Doctor St Leonards – The Coloured Raisins, The Lemon Line, Steve Maxted, The Night People.
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Janice Price… I remember Steve Maxted in 1969 when I used to dance on stage at The Victoria Hall, Southborough nr Tunbridge Wells.
Guy Darrell – Witch Doctor 18th March 1967
Mick O’Dowd… Really rated The Coloured Raisins. Good little soul band.
Marmalade – Witch Doctor 4th March 1967
Peter Thomson… Saw Marmalade a few years later at the Aquarius. I was 11 in’67.
Patricia Lloyd… Remember it well.
Nick Shute… The herd I believe would’ve featured a young Peter Frampton.
Colin Fox… 3 March 1967 Continental Club, Eastbourne
Edgar Broughton & Rita – Hastings Pier – Martin Casson Entertainments 28th Dec 1974
Ad Andre Palfrey-Martin Collection, photo of Edgar Broughton by Clive Richardson
Joe Knight….what happened to steve maxted ? use to go to catford DESMOND DEKOR!!! lots of great bands
Andre Martin….Joe – Steve Maxted still going strong well into the late 1970s. – Above is an advert from 1974. I have some later images waiting to be uploaded and indexed.
John Storer… Apropos of not much, my late Mum absolutely loved Edgar Broughton’s “Apache Dropout”. Remember seeing Barclay James Harvest and thought Hudson/Ford were actually much better than I was expecting
Mick Mepham….Hurrrraahhhhh! I hadn’t got this flier – have now yippeeeee!
Jim Breeds….Lindisfarne, BJH, Hudson/Ford. Wow, I missed some stuff I should have seen
Jenny Tyler… I loved Steve Maxted.
Phil Gill… I was there for the New Year gig. The bouncers stopped the Stallion set at 11:45 and threw everyone out. They were really shitty about it too. Presumably they wanted to go drinking…
Mick Mepham… I remember introducing Hudson/Ford and making a total twat of myself doing so ….. blusho ……
Yvonne Cleland…. You were nowt but a lad, MM 🙂
Mick Knights… Edgar Broughton.. The question has always been, should he have allowed the demons in in the first place!!
Alan Esdaile… Not much hope for the Apaches as well, Mick. Steve Broughton now a Hastings resident.
Glenn Piper… Oh the memories
Tony Court-holmes… god i remember edgar broughton gig out demons out
Emmas Disco – opening night Steve Maxted 1st December 1978
Lance Collins… I worked at Emma’s as a Dj in the late 1970’s. Shared the duties with a DJ called John Delaney. Reworked the sound system with DELTEC equipment. Still using Deltec speakers nearly 40 Years on.
Highway plus The Suspect – Aquarius Club 27th Nov 1971
Roy Penfold… Seating for 400 in Aquarius? I don’t remember that many chairs 🙂
Tony Court-holmes… i remember one bar stool
Autumn , Fusion Orchestra, Steve Maxted – Aquarius 27th Oct/3rd Nov 1973
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Alan Pepper… Fond memories dancing to the latest sounds in the early seventies on a Thursday night and DJ Steve madman Maxted at the decks . Was a big influence !
Jan Warren… Oh yes, Fusion Orchestra!! – I LOVED that band – I saw them many times, first at the Aquarius in Hastings, then I moved to London and saw them many times at The Marquee Club, Wardor Street, London – I still have my original copy of their (one and only) album “Skeleton in Armour”, plus I still have several posters and newspaper cuttings!! – brilliant band, still play their album!! 🙂
Alan Esdaile… Great band Fusion Orchestra. Saw them loads of times and the album does still sound good.
The Riot Squad – Witch Doctor 16th September 1967
Alan Essex… One of Joe Meek’s bands.
Lawrence Ralph… Is this the same Riot Squad, that David Bowie recorded 4 – 1967 demos with, released on a 2013 Acid Jazz label E.P ?.
Alan Essex… Yes a young David Bowie joined in 1967, after the death of Joe Meek. Some info and a picture here:
http://www.musiclikedirt.com/…/david-bowie-and-the…/