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BEAT
PREACHERS 1963-1966
Beat Preachers - R&B/mod/freakbeatband
Joined The Band in 1966.
Two month's later the band
did splitup
../info/The
Carribean - Hobo -
A
to Z of Coventry Bands.pdf
R&B/mod/freakbeat
Line up: Geoff Parson (guitar), Stuart Coleman
(bass), Graham Rolaston (drums), Forbes Merrigan (lead guitar), Jackie
McCormick (vocals).
Formed around 1964 in Rugby. R&B/Mod outfit
who supported The Who at the Matrix Hall in 1965. When they played the
Parkstone Club the ad proclaimed "see all you mods there ...". Were known
as the Midlands Rolling Stones.
Released their lone single under the name The Carribeans
(sic) in September 1965. The songwriter credits were 'Benn/Sherriff', after
two famous local dignitaries. Reviews at the time noted "..a distinct West
Indian sound..."
Added Saxophone (Tony Britnell - later of Jigsaw)
in April 1966, but split up two months later. Some members joined Pinkerton’s
Assorted Colours.
Under Friars agency. Played The Walsgrave, The
Coventry Flying Club, Orchid Ballroom, Reynold Chains factory, The Heath. |
THE
FORTUNES 1963 / 1965
In 1965 as session musician
|
JIGSAW
1966
| Des Dyer |
Vocals + Drums |
1966 |
19?? |
| Clive Scott |
Vocals + Keyboards |
1966 |
19?? |
| Barrie Bernhard |
Bass |
1966 |
19?? |
| Tony Campbell |
Guitar |
1966 |
19?? |
| Tony Britnell |
Saxophone |
1966 |
1974 |
| Kevin "Beppy" Mahon |
Saxophone |
1966 |
19?? |
THE EARLY DAYS
The group formed in 1966
in Coventry, England and quickly became one of the top local club bands.
The original line up consisted of Des Dyer (Lead Vocals and Drums), Clive
Scott (Keyboards and Vocals), Barrie Bernard (Bass guitar), Tony Campbell
(Guitar), Tony Britnell (Saxophone) and Kevin "Beppy" Mahon (Saxophone).
Scott was previously in “Scott and The Antarctics”, Dyer had played in
both “The Surfsiders” and “Clockwork Shoppe”, Campbell and Mahon had worked
together previously in “The Mighty Avengers”, Bernard had been a member
of “Pinkertons Assort. Colours”, while Britnell had worked with “The Fortunes”.
Jigsaw were, in fact, a British
group who came from Coventry (near Birmingham for overseas readers). Virtually
all of their material was written by drummer Des Dyer and keyboard player
Clive Scott. Tony Campbell, ex of fellow Coventry group The Mighty Avengers
was lead guitarist. Tony Britnell played sax and Barry Bernard played bass
- he'd been in Pinkerton's Assorted Colours. The first recorded for MGM
(UK) and Philips in the late sixties, then had some releases on the short-lived
BASF label before scoring with "Sky High" on their manager (and publisher)
Chas peate's Splash label here in the UK. All of the group's recordings
are now owned by Splash. In America they had releases on Chelsea, 20th
century and Elektra. They were hugely popular on the club and college circuit
here, but with the exception of "Sky High" never made the charts. Dyer
and Scott moved into production which is where Candlewick Green/The heywoods
come in. Tarragon Records has issued a US Best Of, but I've tried on several
occasions to get a UK company to do the same without success. Much underrated
group.
Freakbeat / Pop
Line up: Clive Scott (organ,
vocal), Kevin Mahon (tenor), Tony Britnell (tenor, vocal), Tony Campbell
(guitar), Barry Bernard (bass), Des Dyer (drums).
Formed in April 1966 by ex
members of The Mighty Avengers (Campbell / Mahon), Pinkertons Assorted
Colours (Bernard), The Fortunes (Britnell) and The Transatlantics (Scott).
Main strengths were Scott/Dyer's
songwriting talents (they'd previously placed songs with Engelbert Humperdink,
as well as The Mighty Avengers).
Although formed in 1966,
their debut disc wasn't until 1968.Their second single release was written
by Alan Bown, who's own band Alan Bown Set, were label mates on MGM's Music
Factory subsidiary. They recorded a number of good Pop/Psych/Progressive
singles and albums before a 1975 UK Top Ten, with the unashamedly pop 'Sky
High'
WE ASKED DES "WHAT BANDS WERE
YOU IN PRIOR TO JIGSAW?"
A. "I was in one band previous
to Jigsaw with two names. In 1962/3 I started a band with my cousin Dave
Hagan, we are the same age and we grew up living next door to each other.
We always sang together, and would raid my older brother's record collection
to listen to and learn new stuff . We could naturally harmonise together
without even thinking about it. Dave played the euphonium at school and
we would go out at Christmas time carol singing, me singing and Dave playing
his euphonium. It was a nice sound but we never made a fortune! My brother
bought loads of American records and we learned songs by the Platters,
the Diamonds, mostly vocal harmony groups, but there was a favourite of
ours entitled "Black Leather Trosers and Motorcycle Boots" by a band called
"The Cheers", we loved it! We particularly liked the Everley Brothers,
Jan & Dean, and the Beach Boys so we thought we'd think of a name relating
to the surfing scene, so we called ourselves the "Surf Cyders", pretty
ironic as we were slap bang in the middle of the UK about as far from the
sea as you can get! We decided to mis-spell the "Siders" part of the name
as "Cyders" because at the time we were getting the taste for cyder by
telling the landlord at the off licence part of the local pub we were buying
it for our parents. We were of course under age at the time. We thought
spelling cyder this way was a really cheeky idea, as there was a reference
to alcohol in the band's name, and nobody twigged it! The third member
of the band was a guitarist called Paul Gunton who Dave knew from his school.
He was a year older than us and more streetwise than we were, plus he had
tattoos up and down his arms. He liked to play folk music, but we soon
persuaded him otherwise and we were soon all singing to his guitar playing.
At this stage we hadn't really worked out who was going to play what in
the band, but we were so into music we knew we were going to do something.
My brother owned an acoustic guitar which he'd tried unsuccessfully to
play, so I did a deal with him and swapped my transistor radio for his
guitar. I was soon strumming away as I practised incessantly, driving my
parents potty. Dave also started to learn guitar so that meant we had three
guitarists in the band. This was not very practical so we made a decision
that Dave should play bass, Paul would play guitar, as he was the best
guitar player, and I would play drums. My dad had played drums in the local
skiffle band at the Long Lawford legion and I think it was in my genes
because I picked it up quite quickly. I had to save money from my paper
round to buy some drums. The trouble was I had to buy them piece by piece
as I couldn't afford a whole kit. Another friend of Dave's called Russel
became our "manager" and he entered us in the "Beat Contest" at the Granada
cinema in Rugby. We were horrified as we had only been playing together
a few weeks and had only done one gig at the local legion club, and another
at the bus man's club at Coventry, plus I'd only managed to buy half a
drum kit, so I hadn't even got a bass drum. But Russel was adamant that
we should enter, so we did. We decided to play "Walking the Dog" and as
a gimmick Paul managed to pursuade his girlfriend to walk across the stage
wearing a flimsy top and a short skirt, walking her pet alsatian dog. On
the night I was very nervous, as we were competing with the local established
bands that were a lot older than us, and as a result one of my sticks flew
out of my sweaty palms straight up into the air, and as luck would have
it , it came straight back down again and I caught it. Everybody must have
thought that this was all part of the act, as the place went ballistic.
The judges on the night included members of "The Mighty Avengers", this
was later to prove very significant in my future career, "The Mighty Avengers"
were Rugby's top group who had released singles, some written by the Rolling
Stones Jagger and Richards, and were considered to be gods. Well would
you believe it ? WE WON. From that moment everything changed. We were suddenly
local celebrities. I remember getting off the bus near my school on the
Monday morning after the contest on the Sunday, and walking past the girl's
school, I was on my own 'cos I was late for school again, and I heard these
girls screaming. I looked across and saw all these girls hanging out of
the windows and shouting and screaming at me. Then a whole line of them
burst out of a door and ran towards me. I panicked and ran like hell to
the safety of the boy's school. I sat down, out of breathe and thought
how fantastic this was, I had gone from a kid who nobody noticed to an
icon that girls were screaming at. From then on I was definitely hooked
on the music business! I received a message, well it was more of a summons
really, that Adrienne Cox, known as Ada, from the girl's school next door
wanted to see me. She was the most beautiful girl at the school and we
started going out together, this was just getting better and better. Russel
was really working overtime now, and he manged to get us a regular gig
at the Maple Ballroom in Northampton, where we were the support act to
some of the top line groups of the time. We played with the Hollies, the
Searchers, the Kinks, and Freddy and the Dreamers.
The band gradually went off
the surfing sound and played more R&B stuff, and as mine and Dave's
tastes changed towards that direction, Paul decided that he wanted to get
back to playing folk music, so he split from the band. As luck would have
it Adrienne's cousin, Phil Clough was a guitarist, and we asked him to
join us. We were getting quite a good reputation and were starting doing
more prestigious gigs.
In 1966 the singer from the
Mighty Avengers decided to pack it all in and the remaining members of
the band carried on under the name "Jigsaw" and conscripted various musicians
from other bands in the area to complete the line up. Tony Campbell, who
was basically the leader of the band, asked Clive Scott, of "Scott and
the Antarctics" (What a name!), to join, and then he persuaded Tony Britnell,
ex "Fortunes" sax player to join. They soon gained a terrific reputation
and were regarded as the best band in the area. I saw them and thought
they were fantastic. Then one night Tony Campbell knocked at my door, and
said that Biffo Beach, the drummer was leaving and would I like to join.
Well I was flabbergasted, the best band in the area was asking me to join?
It was a difficult decision to make, but after many heart searching walks
on my own and soul searching conversations with Adrienne I decided to leave
my own band and join "Jigsaw." That was my pre - Jigsaw story.
Wikipedia-
Jigsaw_(band) |
SHAKIN'
STEVENS & THE SUNSETS 1973 / 1974
Dutch Tour 1973 (Probably Misummer Festival,
Meerlo, Limburg, Holland)
With Tony Britnell
| Shakin' Stevens left the
school as fast as possible, but now he is playing for the people who stayed.
"Shakin' Stevens, British rock-idol rolling on 17. years on his 'rubberlegs'.
On the Danish tour, he had a visit from 200 rockers from Copenhagen, they
drove to the concert on their bikes to see the rock'n roller. They where
so pleased, that they have planned to do there own concert on the 6. of
November." Rock'n roll musicians have the same opportunity to music as
jazz musicians: their music has always, and will always exist. And Shakin'
Stevens And the sunsets is no exception. At the moment they are touring
- and for the first time in Denmark. Tonight they be a part of a rock festival
in Gladsaxe. Shakin Stevens and the Sunsets are six musicians, who are
playing good together. Shakin Stevens himself playing, singing and rocking
so well, that the British people have giving him the name "Rubberlegs".
The other members are: Michael Skudder, Robert Llewellyn, Ian Lawrence,
Paul Barret and Tony Britnell, the last being saxophonist who for many
years played in The Fortunes.
For nearly ten years the
group toured all over the UK and released a couple of albums and singles
(Phil will deal with Shaky & Sunsets elsewhere.). Their gigs were wild
affairs played to anyone from rockers to hippies to college students. One
night at the Greenford Hotel in London, sax madman Tony "Twizzle" Britnall
started blowing flames out of his mouth using lighter fluid which was soon
all over the floor. Pretty soon the piano burst into flames and Shaky ran
and jumped onto it and leapt forward onto a light fitting and swung backwards
and forwards over the hysterical crowd. Next thing, the light fused and
sparks started flying off it, landing in a teddy boys quiff which erupted
into flames. What a sight, the floor burning, the piano covered in fire,
Shaky dangling above the crowd on a sizzling light and people slapping
a rockers head, trying to kill the flames! Needless to say, he didn't repeat
this type of thing when he started appearing on Top Of The Pops. |
Denmark Gigs 1973
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/forevershakin/concerts/1973denmark
POPZIEN FOTO'S 6 Juni 1973
https://wiki.beeldengeluid.nl/index.php/Gallery:_Popzien_1973
Klik voor vergroting / Clock to Enlarge
Wikimedia Commons:
Wallsall 1974
By 21stCenturyGreenstuff at English Wikipedia,
CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50117075
LONESOME TOWN
Sjef van Oekel VPRO TV Show,
Holland, 22.08.74
Probably Singles
1972 - Sweet Little Rock
& Roller (Polydor)
1973 - Honey Honey (Emerald)
1974 - It Came Out Of The
Sky |
LONG
TALL ERNIE & THE SHAKERS / 1974-1981
POPTELESCOOP
02.11.74
PRESS
PHOTO
PRESS
PHOTO
BY COURTESY OF TON ODIJK
De Korenmarkt, Arnhem Holland
(Photo thanks to Ton Odijk)
1974.10.12:
Probably
the first appearance in the Mies Bouwman Show:
"Een
mens wil ..." with
Long
Tall Ernie & The Shakers / Zangeres Zonder Naam in "Rockville" |
1984
CHROME
 |
| Bert van der Wiel |
???? |
1984 |
19?? |
| Tony Britnell |
Saxophone |
1984 |
19?? |
| Trudy Huysdens |
???? |
1984 |
19?? |
 RELATED
SINGLE VINYL
1965----  
FORTUNES
Here it comes again .............. (A) f.12243
decca mono
Things I should have known ....... (B) f.12243
decca mono
NL Top40: oct65, #2, 18w
(Tony Britnell Involved
as session musician)
1980----(nl)_front.jpg) (nl)_back.jpg) _sg1.jpg) _sg2.jpg)
The Blue Band
The Flash ........................
(A)6.12 811 strand
Shall I .......................... (B)6.12 811
strand
(Side B: with Tony Britnell
(SAX))
Germany Release
1981----
POLLY
Helpless as a Mactruck -
CBS
(Producer: Arnie Treffers
/ Tony Britnell)
1985----
VITESSE
Lights In The Air ..........
(A) 1a 006-12 7254 7 a emi/bovema
High On Music ..............
(B) 1a 006-12 7254 7 b emi/bovema
(Tony Britnell - Keyboard
and Sax)
1986----
VITESSE
Keepin'Me Alive .............
(A) 1a 006-12 7347 7 emi/bovema
Lonely Strangers .............(B)
1a 006-12 7347 7 emi/bovema
(Tony Britnell - Synthesizer) |
  LP
VINYL
1980----  
GOLDEN EARRING
PRISONER OF THE NIGHT - 2344 161 POLYDOR
01. Long Blond Animal
02. No For An Answer
03. My Town
04. Prisoner Of The Night
05. I Don't Wanna Be Nobody Else
06. Cut 'Em Down To Size
07. Will & Mercy
08. Come On In Outerspace
09. Going Crazy Again
(With Tony Britnell - Tenor
Sax)
1981----
POLLY
POLLY
SIDE 1:
1. No Strings
2. Helpless As A Mac
Truck (*)
3. The Ho Chi Minh
Trail
4. What Doesn't Destroy
Me Makes Stronger
5. Sanitized Your
Protection
SIDE 2:
6. Gin-and-Argument
7. You Might As Well
Live
8. Love Is An Illness
9. Clit Licks
10. Feed Me A Quarter
(*)
Single Released / Composer: Arnie Treffers
Guitar: Jan De Hont / Hans
Vermeulen / Hans Hollestelle
Bass : Ivor Mitchell
Drums : Klaas Tuip
Piano : Hans Jansen
Sax : Tony Britnell
All songs written by Jipp
Golsteijn
Recorded at Studio Arnold
Muhren
Cover design and Illustration:
Arno Arts
Produced by Jip Golsteijn
and Specs Hildebrand for Living Room Muisc Ltd.
Country music from Volendam,
Holland.
(Producer: Arnie Treffers
& Tony Britnell)
COMMENT:
DUTCH
Onder leiding van het schrijversduo
Jip Golsteijn en Specs Hildebrand verschijnen onder de naam Polly de albums
Polly en Slapstick Rock bij CBS. Op het album Polly doen een keur aan artiesten
mee, te weten Hans Vermeulen, Hans Hollestelle, Jan de Hont, Ivor Mitchell,
Klaas Tuip, Hans Jansen en Tony Britnell. De vocalen worden verzorgt door
Specs Hildebrand, Jay Coster, Tanya, Yvonne Keely, Martha Hollestelle en
Meike Touw.
UK
With the songwriters Jip
Goldsteyn and Specs Hildebrand the LP's POLLY and SLAPSTICK have been released
by CBS. There are a lot of artists playing on this
album: Hans Vermeulen, Hans
Hollestelle, Jan de Hont, Ivor Mitchell, Klaas Tuip
Hans Jansen and Tony Britnell.
Vocalists are: Specs Hildebrand, Jay Coster,
Tanya, Yvonne Keely, Martha
Hollestelle and <eike Touw.
BRON / SOURCE: NATIONAAL
POPINSTITUUT
 
1979---- 
THE BLUE BAND
SLITHERING - 200.646 ARIOLA
1. The Flash
2. Not That Kind of
Man
3. Shall I
4. Note On The Door
5. My Brandnew Colour
Set
6. Dynamite Woman
7. Lizards & Snakes
8. I Love You All
The Street
9. Dead End Street
10. Letter In The Sand
11. Out In The Night
12. Orgy In The Commodore
Songs: 3 Tony Britnell (Sax)
Songs: 6 - - 7 - 11 Alfons
Haket (BassGuitar)
COMMENT:
Mickey Duck en Donald Mouse
zijn gemaakt door Henk Vos, zanger van The Blue Band.
Mickey Duck and Donald Mouse
are made by Henk Vos, vocalist of The Blue Band.
CD
1985---- 
VITESSE
KEEPIN'ME ALIVE - EMI: 1A068
1272921
01. Spanish Heat (*)
02. Keepin'Me Alive (*)
03. All My Friends Are Homecomputerized
04. Lights In The Air (*)
05. You Turn Me On (*)
06. I Don't Like Sleepin'
Solo
07. Lonely Strangers
08. I Want You So Much
09. Woman In Love
(Tony Britnell - Synthesizer)
Song 6 and 8 composer: Herman
van Boeyen / Tony Britnell
LP TO CD COPY
(*)
Single Released!
1999----
TERRY LEE
THE ELVIS SOUND OF TERRY
LEE - Rarity Records: C192581
1. Do you like it
2. Dance, dance, dance
#1
3. If you live
4. Don't want your
love
5. You're mine
6. Hold me tight
7. What can I do
8. Sugar moon
9. Anytime
10. Dance, dance, dance
#2
11. If you want me
12. I follow you
13. Trouble
14. It's only that you are
lonely
15. Can't you see
16. You will dance, believe
me
17. Come on and get it
18. Take the Highway
Featuring:
LONG TALL ERNIE - Background
Vocals and Guitar
Tony Britnell - Background
Vocals and Sax
Herman Brood - Piano
Herman van Boeijen - Drums
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