Tamworth Bands

Caerlito · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Warrington

Firstly hi & thanks to Ian for the opportunity to map the twists and turns of memory lane

My really name is Andy Meakin and although I can vaguely recall the names of members and bands i played with in my halcyon youth one thing evades me.

In 88 I played drums at the festival

Thats me, back row 9th from the left (as you look at the picture), shoulder length hair, denim cutoff and Motorhead T-shirt,

It was the last time I played in Tamworth, straight after the gig me and my drums were whisked off to an illustrious career in London, but I can't remember the outfit?

Anyone got any ideas?

armchair · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 90

Andy - the line-up for that year was:

1988 - Tamworth Rock Festival
Friday July 8th – Tamworth Arts Centre
The Green Swings, Jim Crows Blues Company, The Magnets, The Parade

Saturday July 9th - Tamworth Castle Pleasure Grounds
Nightshade, Shellshock, The Searching, The DHSS, Wolfsbane, The Conspiracy, Never Say Die, Kubla Khan, New Age Gypsies

Sunday July 10th - Tamworth Castle Pleasure Grounds
Cuddly Spiders, Rape in Yellow, Future Field, Fetch Eddie, Catch 23, Kraze, Scream Dream, Breaking Point, A5, Spiral Eye

Does that help?

Caerlito · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Warrington

For some reason the Cuddly Spiders rings a bell, but so does Breaking Point!
I seem to recall there was a female vocalist and something is telling me it was somehow connected with eiter \dave Ingham or Tim Latham.

then again, my eyes are bent, my lrgs are knackered........

Guess until someone can actually say " yow git yow left us high & dry" we'll never know!

tauzero · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:43 am Post subject:

Caerlito · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Warrington

Rules out those two then.....

Is there anyway I can get a larger version of that pic? The definition isn't high enough for me to determine for sure that an image of someone with long hair covering the face, dressed in a manor that wasn't exactly unique is actually me! Somewthing at the back of my mind is telling me I moved to London in 87, I only concluded I was at the 88 fest as that pic came up when I googled myself (painful that!)

armchair · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 90

Look out tomorrow for a Tamworth Bands Quiz. You'll be able to see a much larger version of the pic.

Cheers,
Ed

Caerlito · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Warrington

tauzero · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

Caerlito · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Warrington

tauzero

Peices are now starting to fit together.

Having taken a gander at the images of Norman available through this site I was definately in a band with him for a short while before leaving for London. I know I was jamming with Steve Saunders and Phil Smith in 1987 as I have recording of a rehearsal tape from Culters Yard.

On the flip side of this tape is a rehearsal with the female vocalist which I think is the one that could possibly be The Cuddly Spiders. This was also at Cutlers Yard.

There is a bass player somewhere in the mix but I can't remember who it was.
It is inconceivable that a band performed at the festival without a bass player !

There is a niggling feeling that it may have been that Steve stood in, which would gel with Norman's involvement with Dylan Haddon and Tim Burgess in Spirit- the Atherstone music scene was even smaller than the Tamworth one, and just as incestuous- I knew Tim from our collaboration in the Me, and myself and Dylan had a history that predated Trojan.

One other snippet is that Norman had a connection with the mobile home park that used to be accessed via the arched bridge by the railway station - I distinctly remember one evening drinking Puchine with him in one of the caravans there- was it his gaff or was it someone he knew that lived there?