"Just the Same Old Show, On My Radio"
Chanted the Selecter on their way up the singles chart in 1979. The enterprising Jim Reilly of Direct Enterprises
obviously agreed when he said to the local press in 1974
"Most young people who listen to the radio and watch Top of the Pops, tend to think that what they hear is the full range of contemporary music or without really understanding it are likely to dismiss it as rubblish. I want to shake off the concept people have that what they hear on the radio is all there is to hear"
Jim, who I first met at the Rod Felton's Rude Bear Folk club, set out to do something practical about it, setting up the Cosmic Music Club at the Baginton Oak / Mercers Arms and the Shanty Folk Club at the Charterhouse Hotel in Terry Rd.
Jim, the senior partner in Direct Enterprises, maintained that the basic idea
of the Cosmic Music Club was to intruduce people to all kinds of music so they won't get stuck in one category.
The Cosmic Music Club featured rock from Mad Cat Molly, Steel Peach, Jazz Rock from Wave,, folk from A Band Called George and Cosmetheka for example. The idea was to build it into a bigger event with bigger names along side the local bands.
The Shanty Folk Club at the Charterhouse Hotel featured Pat Garcia, Jill
Darby, Timoneers, Rod Felton, Dave Bennett, Rob Armstrong, Cosmetheka, Dave Coburn, Jon
Shananhan.
I seem to remember doing a few numbers there myself as a floor spot. The Cosmic music club featured a certain type of music each week interspearsed with other types of music. They also arranged folk concerts at the Belgrade Theatre to tie in with the Festival of Britian.
Chanted the Selecter on their way up the singles chart in 1979. The enterprising Jim Reilly of Direct Enterprises
"Most young people who listen to the radio and watch Top of the Pops, tend to think that what they hear is the full range of contemporary music or without really understanding it are likely to dismiss it as rubblish. I want to shake off the concept people have that what they hear on the radio is all there is to hear"
Jim, who I first met at the Rod Felton's Rude Bear Folk club, set out to do something practical about it, setting up the Cosmic Music Club at the Baginton Oak / Mercers Arms and the Shanty Folk Club at the Charterhouse Hotel in Terry Rd.
The Cosmic Music Club featured rock from Mad Cat Molly, Steel Peach, Jazz Rock from Wave,, folk from A Band Called George and Cosmetheka for example. The idea was to build it into a bigger event with bigger names along side the local bands.
The Shanty Folk Club at the Charterhouse Hotel featured Pat Garcia, Jill
I seem to remember doing a few numbers there myself as a floor spot. The Cosmic music club featured a certain type of music each week interspearsed with other types of music. They also arranged folk concerts at the Belgrade Theatre to tie in with the Festival of Britian.
[this is good]
It was great to find this listing of Steel Peach at the Cosmic Club, and although it has us down as a Coventry rock band we actually came from Bath but we were based in Derby and played around the Coventry area a lot. And As I remember The Cosmic Club was always a great place to play.
.............Al
Posted by: Al Jones | 08/15/2007 at 07:28 PM