WHISTLER
1969 - early 70's
WHISTLER
circa 1969 - 1971
Blues/Progressive
Line up: Kevin Harrison - guitar, Lynda Harrison, Gary Curtain - drums, John Westacott - bass, Mick Gawthorp - sax,
flute & vocals, Martin Barter (keyboards). Later Nick Trevisick joined on drums.
Barter went on to Just Jake with John Alderson ex-Wandering John.
Kevin tells us: "We were basically a progressive jazz-rock group playing tricky time signatures. I remember playing some dodgy venues, but we (mostly) fared well with local audiences."
Whistler were a favourite and popular band on the Cov scene in the early 70's. I first saw them at the Umbrella club in October 1969 (at the Transcendental Cauldron (The Umbrella's Underground arts fest) when I first joined. I also booked them for a gig in 1970. They played most of the usual venues, The Warwick University Arts Fest / The Lanch / The Plough / Village (Colin Cambell) and more.
Kevin later went on to form Zoastra in the mid 70's (see Zoastra for details) and then joined Urge.
(Kevin please correct any of this or add in to it as you wish)
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