JUST BEFORE DAWN c 1974 /5
I don't have a lot of info on this band althugh I should have really as they advertised in Hobo magazine in 1974 care of Peter Morris and played at the Hobo Workshop either at the or the Holyhead Youth Centre, Golden Cross. I seem to think that they were the first band we put on at the Golden Cross and were earmarked to play at Hobo's closed down Coventry Precinct gig with Memories in 1974 already blogged about on this site.
However I've found a piece submitted to Hobo earlier by drummer Jim Pryal in which he throws some light on this band -
"I got a normal job at this time and joined a band called 'Just before Dawn' in 1975 managed by Norman Dewis, chief test driver for Jaguar. Norman had been a racing driver in the 50s racing with the likes of Sterling Moss and he was the first person to drive from Cov to London on the new M1 in an E type Jag in 1959 - all those years ago - amazing!). His son Graham played bass. It was a club type covers band and had regular work. We used to practice at Normans farm near Packington. You always got tea and biscuits off Nan, Normans wife. Other guys in the band were Martin ......? on keys, Paul.........? vox and Pete Morris on guitar."
Question - could Martin the Keyboard player have been Martin Barter?
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