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Saturday, September 11, 2004
Nostalgic Value
Father Bell sent me this postcard. It dates way back to the mid to late 1970s, when I was but a lad. Every Sunday night in the Grange Hotel, there would be a live band playing. As often as not it would be these chaps, Joe Lethal. They were the local heroes, brilliant band perfectly merging post-punk new wave covers with the blues and Beatles that they had been brought up with. I remember vividly, the epic "punked up" version of Eleanor Rigby which was their encore. It made the b-side of their first single that got a rave review in the N.M.E as I recall. The flier above must have been for their second single and I believe they made no more. Leo the bassist was a panel beater then and still is. I remember one of my first jobs, selling motor spares. He used to regularly come in for number plates. It was bizarre having one of your local rock gods as a customer.
I was always surprised they never made it relatively big. They looked the part , were well liked and more importantly could play. Live they were brilliant, at least that's how I remember them. The funny thing is I did a trawl acrosss the net and found a few references, nothing about them, just a few people selling the above single, which must be a vinyl collectors piece as it shifts for around �35. Expensive for nostalgia. I think I'll hang on to my youthful memories of just how good they were live.
posted by timesnewroman at 11:45 AM
