FLOOD
C 1970 -72
Nuneaton Rock Band
(Photo Harts Hill Hayes, Nuneaton, 1971)
In the words of Dennis Burns
Played the Village (Colin Campbell in 1970 among the usual venues in Cov.
Dennis Burns has a Vox blog Here Listen to some Flood tracks below from Dennis Burns's Vox
Dennis has had a long association with FRESH MAGGOTS (Check their brilliant music out on their Vox site Here
Leigh Dolphin of Fresh Maggots played Rhythm guitar for Flood at one stage. Their music was progressive /
acoustic / electric and their RCA album from 1971 - Hatched is now a cult album sort after by those into progressive rock. Check their Vox site out. Dennis was their sound engineer and roadie.
Dennis also form a duo with Leigh Dolphin called DBXLD - check out their My Space Here
Dennis and Leigh have played in a number or bands over the years. Their first was in 1971 with a band from Nuneaton, UK called Flood (named after the 1954 flood disaster in Lynmouth, Devon, UK - a favourite holiday location of theirs)
Dennis is has played in a range of bands since (ok we're typing in red now - not my doing!) - c1971 Dennis turned up
at the cottage in Shilton (on the Leicester Rd just outside of Cov). Formerly the home of Ron Lawrence and his wife Pat from the Electric folk band April (their profile is on this site) and who later played bass for Sniff and the Tears. Later Trev Teasdel and Al Docker lived their and Al formed a band with ex members of Indian Summer and April called Runestaff. Not sure of the chronology even though I was there at the time but Dennis used to come over and jam with them.
In his own words Dennis "used to play guitar/ keyboards with a number of
Cov/ Nuneaton bands back in the 70's - 80's (Hunter, Flood, Dodo,
Stiletto, Aorta Major(listen to some of their music on My Space and again Here on his Vox) The Mix, Urge). During that time I was very fortunate to be able to play and record with some really great musicians"
His son Nick plays now in JUB (click here for their My Space) and see their Youtube below -
His other son Matt plays in Simple Notion - check their My Space Here
Here is a vid of Urge with their single Revolving Boy - featuring Kev and Lynda Harrison, Nigel Mulvey and Dennis Burns and Dave Wankling. Dennis was asked to join on keyboards - In Dennis's own words -
"Kevin asked me to play keyboards and guitar on their video shoot for the Toyah Wilcox's Look Hear program on BBC2. Paul King's Reluctant Sterotypes were on the same show. I have forgotten what a good singer and front man Dave Wankling was... We shot the video at Pebble Mill - didn't see sight or sound of Toyah :( By the way the audience in the video were pulled in off the street .... We did two songs that day, Revolving Boy (the old single) and the new single B.O.B.B.Y. which I played guitar on. I wonder what happened to that video (I must ask Kevin).
Dennis has two sons Matt and Nick who both play in bands and in Messager - all three played together - here's link to an audio from the band on Dennis's Vox Here
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