Wasn’t John Parr singer with bitter suite ? I’m from woodlands but used to watch all those bands in the bomb balby ashmount carcroft club Yarborough park club highfields . Happy days . Where you from ? Did you go to the same clubs ?
Brought back a lot of memories for me, reading through all the old bands that used to play the circuit - I used to go regularly to the Wombwell Reform Club - Uncool Dance Band were my favourites - they wrote a song called number 17 - the song was wrote about another group on the circuit - Bliss... Naming all their songs. Great tune - they used to play it all the time, usually at the end when everyone was tanked up -
Yeah he was. I just posted about it further up, re him being on Ken Bruce show this week. I saw them at Kinsley Farmers and Hemsworth Soldiers club about 1983 when the club scene was still thriving.
1964, long before any of the above was the first pop group, not band, from Barnsley to get a national recording contract, with Pye records. The group was Me and Them and their 1st release, I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself, was banned by the BBC but locally its sales wiped Beatles, Stones, Pacemakers Beach Boys, the lot, off the table locally. The contract was a 3 record deal the 3rd release covering The Beatles, Tell Me Why was performed on Thank Your Lucky Stars. At the end of the contract the group split and singer George Davies and 2 others formed 3 Of Them and where resident 5 sessions a week in Corner Pin. I was in there one Saturday night and Chris Andrews(Yesterday Man) came in tp try and recruit the group to tour Germany with him. They turned him down and carried on locally a few more years before splitting permanently, George went solo and unfortunately died in a car accident returning from a gig in Hull about 1972.
Hey GRB - Great info - never knew any of that - Great song title though - that obviously shook up the establishment back in 64
The original was by an American blues singer, Buddy Knox. "i'm gonna dig my grave with a silver spade, golden chains i'll be bound, send my remains to my best friend, and rest in my hole in the ground
Yes RH, John was indeed with Bitter Suite. I was born in Dunsville which is seven miles East of Donny on the A18. I played for Greenfield United AFC in the Sunday League and we had a " Rock Night" and a " Country Music Club" at the Club to raise funds for the Football Club, so I got to book all the leading Bands of the day into the Club. In my " spare" time up to getting wed, I was a DJ for Sound Syndrome Discotheque and wrote a weekly column on Country Music in the Doncaster Free Press and did the Country Club round up on Radio Hallam, which is now Hallam FM. So through my link with the Free Press, I got to see a lot of Bands in the local Clubs. Used to get to the Ashmount, Yarborough, Top Club at Bentley etc. The actress Sheridan Smiths parents had a residency at the latter. Played under the name of The Daltons. Happy days eh.?
The daltons ? Not sure why that rings a bell . I’m woodlands born n bred and must be a similar age . The working men’s clubs on those days were great value for the entertainment we use to get . The thing is they were only open 12 till 2 in an afternoon and 7 till 11 at night but they always seemed to be busy and most were the hubs of their communities .
Anybody remember The Mudoons(********) lol.They were on in the Theatre on Wellington St. THe night we got promoted to the prem and what a night that was qhite a few renditions of Cheer Up Mark Mghee
They were The Muldoons GLO and I still have a bad back carrying people round the floor they were brilliant
Daw Green Stompers is another one, although I think they came a bit later. Worked with one of their guys on a job. He was a french polisher.
