Someone has put the entire Mrs Wilson's Children album up on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64188730328480A5&feature=mh_lolz" For those not familiar with this landmark recording, it was a collection of Hull bands who recorded this album as a tribute to Mrs Wilson, then owner of the Welly Club(1981). It includes a track by the London Boys, one of whom I had a beer with last weekend, following a chance meeting in London(he now lives in Bury St Edmunds). After the London Boys he was in What's for Dinner and wrote the song Chip off the Old Block, which was released as a single, anyone remember it, or have a copy? I really liked them, but they split up when the guitarist left to join Everything But the Girl. I wonder if the Housemartins were fans of the London Boys. [video=youtube;qw6X4NMjHDc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw6X4NMjHDc&feature=BFa&list=PL64188730328480A5&index=5[/video]
Thanks a lot for this. My step dad was in Johnny Solo and a producer I worked with recently is Neil Scott (formely of The Vets then EBTG and Felt). I'm too young to have been there, but I will pass the link onto them! Cheers.
olm, i was a regular in the welly in the mid-late 70s. my mothers cousin worked upstairs behind the bar when it was heavy/punk friday nights. as for the bands on that album i am afraid i have only heard of cool to snog.who were the london boys? early housemartins? sounds a lot like them. thanks for that .
Yep..........Chip off the old block remember it well, and may well have a copy in my singles collection that the Mrs has kindly now put in the corner of the garage. Neil Scott was indeed the guitarist, and his wife was the vocalist. The Vets re-formed a year or so ago, and have recently played in the Alex at Hornsea a few times, plus they played at at my mates wedding near Dorking a couple of Saturday's ago.
The London Boys were nothing to do with the Housemartins(as far as I know), but they maybe had some influence over them, they were a couple of years earlier and do sound similar.
I used to - live in north London now. Family are from there. The Vets reformed last year, so I'm sure they'll love hearing themselves again on YouTube. From what they've told me, there was a hotbed of bands from Hornsea in the late 70's/early 80's.
There were a few lads from Hornsea around at that time, The Vets were the most well known band, but I played in a band with a bass player from Hornsea(Chris), I think he moved to London and became a session musician. Here's another on The Vets tracks, John Peel was quite a fan. [video=youtube;lik-5STfVOw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lik-5STfVOw&feature=related[/video]
That'll be big Chris Lea with the curly long hair..........not seen or heard from him since he left Hornsea. He used to play double bass in the local Jazz Band presumably before joining your band. Which band were you in then Lammy? I've got a compilation CD put together by Neil from The Vets that features all the Hornsea bands from the 80's, and yes there were plently of them around at that time.
It was indeed Chris Lea, me and him got together with Keiran Moses and Jezz Ross when Moscow split up and formed a band called Series Two. We never did a gig, but we recorded three tracks at Cargo studios in Rochdale, as there'd been quite a bit of record industry interest in Moscow and someone from EMI was supposed to be meeting us in the studio, but they didn't turn up. I might upload a track or two one of these days(though it was very much of it's day, so I might not). Before that I was in a punk band called The Abusers, there's a bit of a write up on those heady days in Hull on here..... http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/revolt_strangeways.htm
Love this bit, you cant beat a Hull attitude fukin ace. "It’s nice we’re finally getting some recognition,” said Pete “because the ****ers from Hull who signed the record deals weren’t even here during the classic punk period and they’ve taken all the credit for the “punk” movement in Hull. Punks never went to see those bands, they came to see us, Foeticide, The Abusers, The Sons of the Pope, Born BC, The Nerve Blocks the ZMen. But history is written by the victors and, because we were all bands comprised of local kids, we lost out commercially to the out of towners who wandered in with their media studies degrees and parents willing to buy them Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. If our record is selling for silly money I just hope that it makes people look at some of the other great punk bands that came from Hull and the records they released independently. We all wanted to be the best but those guys were our mates and brothers and they all deserve recognition rather than the arty-farty ****ers who got lucky and signed those deals with major labels and then didn’t succeed anyway cos they were gutless.” We all raised ourselves in an age when authority was there to be questioned, we cannot change the punk within.
Pete was a good bloke, he looked and acted exactly like Jimmy Pursey and every song of his was introduced with the line 'this is a number.......' He gives us some credit in that article, but to be honest, we could barely play. Not that it really mattered, our most popular song was 'We don't know the ****ing words' and they were the lyrics all the way through, though it did have quite a good slow reggae intro.
So...who's your step-dad? Chris Brown ("Mr.Brown") is a big buddy of mine; Johnny Rich/ardson ("Johnny Solo") is a pal too; and I knew Steve "Splash", the drummer.
A friend (guitarist in Johnny Solo Band) just emailed me this link: http://beehive.thisishull.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=7646&PageID=40767
