Also, I discovered yesterday that Coventry's finest Freakbeat group, The Sorrows have reformed
and are playing gigs around the city in preparation for Le Beat Bespoke weekender. The question is: will they be any good now they are pushing 70?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 8:57, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Freakbeat?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 8:58, Reply)

Tough mod/beat music that came just before psychedelia.
Exponets such as The Wimple Winch, The Eyes, all those niggaz. You know.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:00, Reply)

'Course. Silly me.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:02, Reply)

Shortlived, posthumously named genre that filled the gap between mod and psych
Ask Monty.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:01, Reply)

Just watched some of their stuff on Youtube
I might go see them if they're gigging in Cov. IIRC Don Fardon owned a village pub somewhere round here - I'll have to look it up.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:06, Reply)

They're playing some shite venues
Next one is the Royal Warwicks Club, I think.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:11, Reply)

Jeez!
How the mighty have fallen - still, it'll be cheap to go see them. I wonder why they've reformed after all this time? If they're playing the Royal Warwicks it can't be for the money!!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:14, Reply)

I imagine they were persuaded by the organisers of Le Beat Bespoke.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:22, Reply)

I thought they were Scots for some reason.
Don 'I'm Alive' Fardon was in them, was he not?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 8:59, Reply)

Nope, Coventry
And Fardon was and is the lead singer.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:00, Reply)

He's a great vocalist.
I have a bootleg of one of their LPs. It's not brilliant if I'm honest.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:02, Reply)

I have the reissue of Take a Heart, I like it.
Have you seen the rest of the line-up for Le Beat Bespoke? Up your straße, perhaps - includes Pretty Things and Jim Jones Revue.
I've never been to this festival, mind, because I think mods are cunts.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:08, Reply)

The lineups are always great.
But I am too poor to even think about it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:11, Reply)