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Phil Knapper was a close friend and accomplished guitarist (rock and classical) and a Coventry singer songwriter in the 70's. He travelled with a musical troupe to Finland in 1970 which included Neil O'Connor (Hazel's brother), John Gravenor (of Wandering John) and Alex Murphy. I met him in 1974 when he came to Hobo Workshop (Holyhead Youth Centre) for one of the gigs. He lived nearby so we became good friends, often jamming - sometimes playing in very informal one off band gigs. We have no recordings of him except the few I recorded on mono cassette while jamming at my house. This video is one of his songs from that time but doesn't reflect the range of his guitar work (that he taught me how to play Bert Jansch's Anji at that session gives you an idea of the range.). Phil was born in Spennymore in Co Durham but his family moved to Coventry and his father worked in the coal mine at Kersley (although they lived in the Binley area of Coventry (hence the pictures). Phil's younger brother Stu Knapper is well known on the Cov scene as the leader of the late 70's punk band Riot Act. Sadly Phil suffered from schizophrenia which hampered his development as a musician and passed away in the 1990's. It was Phil who arranged for Neil O' Connor' s band Midnight Circus (later The Flys) to play for us at the Hobo Workshop in 1974.
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Charley Anderson (formerly of Selecter of course). Charley was the youth worker at the West Indian youth club - Holyhead Youth Centre Coventry back in 1974. We ran the Hobo Music / Arts Workshop in the ground floor Theatre and Charley's group were in the basement. I remember Neol Davies coming along and jamming with them downstairs - 5 years later Two Tone emerged. It's good to see Charley still going strong after all these years - check his video out and give some support.
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New additon to this post. More the the Reluctant Stereotypes and the Lyrics can be found on Paul King's site - http://www.paulking.nl/reluctant_stereotypes.html
Steve Edgson, who was the distinctive clarinetist and showman of Coventry Ska band - The
Reluctant Stereotypes - passed away on January 8 2008 aged 53. He had been ill for some time with cancer. Steve was a leading light in a number of Coventry bands from Analog, Ens, Reluctant Stereotypes, Pink Umbrellas, The Giraffe's and more recently Two Giraffe's. Steve also played guitar and recorder.
It's relevant we should do a tribute to Steve on the Hobo site because it was at the Hobo Workshop, Holyhead Rd in 1974 that Steve's early jazz-rock band ANALOG had their first gig at our venue where they became quite popular and were photographed playing live by the Coventry Evening Telegraph as can be seen here. Steve's quirky and distinctive clarinet sound gave the band a unique sound that was to inform the sound of the all his later bands.
Analog and the Hobo Workshop
It began with a letter sent to Hobo magazine in 1974, in which Guitarist John Rushton outlined the concept of a band called Analog which led to an ad in the magazine and a series of gigs at the Hobo Workshop -
"Analog - “a new and truly original rock band”. and the line up consisted of Mick Hartley - bass / Steve Edgson - 2nd guitar, clarinet, recorder / Paul 'Babbling' Brook - he plays a double kit + vocals and John Rushton - Multi-track maniac on lead guitar and backing vocals.
They had been rehearsing a concept piece written by Paul Brook for over a year called 'Custer's Last Stand' and were looking for a first gig. John explained -
“We’re working on a 40 minute suite at the moment, as yet untitled, based on an original idea by Paul Brook. This will comprise the first half of the set, along with a super high-energy instrumental entitled ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ – say no more! The suite contains more words than ‘Close to the Edge’ and has seven main parts.”
More on Analog here https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/coventry-bands-a-to-z/coventry-bands-a/analog
Seminal Moment
Although it wasn't clear at the time - the Hobo Workshop 1974 -75 was a seminal moment in Coventry's musical
history and Steve was certainly a vital element in that. Coventry had had a lively music scene in the 60's, often on the edge of a breakthrough and with some notable bands and artists making the big time. The early 70's, with it's emphasis on the 'underground' and presided over by the Broadgate Gnome and The Umbrella and Pete Waterman's Progresive venues, boasted some great bands such as Indian Summer, Wandering John, Whistler, Dando Shaft and Asgard and a wealth of venues. By 1973 - the Gnome had fled to Brighton, the Umbrella club bulldozed for a ring-road, the Plough club and other venues closed and many of Coventry's top bands had split up.
New Seeds
New seeds were sprouting however - we started Hobo Magazine to help revive the music scene and campaign for more venues and support for bands in the city and through an arrangement with Coventry Voluntary Service Council, managed to acquire use of the Holyhead Youth Centre for the Hobo Workshop to provide first time gigs for new bands and artists along with a range of other creative ideas - street-theatre and film for instance.
Steve and his band were part of a new growth of young Coventry musicians that, unbeknown at the time, would flourish over the next 4 or five years and help to put Coventry music on the map. Jazz rock was prominent at the time before punk broke through and Steve, with his clarinet, fell easily into this trend with Analog. Another regular band at the Hobo Workshop that forms a thread in Steve's early history was the jazz rock outfit Trigon. Trigon had formed out the demise of Fission - headed by Johnny Adams (who later played in Squad with Sam McNulty - Steve's later co-partner in Two Giraffe's). Trigon was headed by Paul Samson who became band mates in Ens and the Reluctant Stereotypes. Paul himself would go on to produce the Primitives and many Bhangra tracks.
Among other bands who played the Workshop at the time included Neil O'Connor's Midnight Circus, who later achieved fame and a recording contract as the Flys in the late 70's. Neil's sister Hazel O'Connor followed through in1980 and Neil joined her tour band. The 16 year old Dave Pepper - later of the X Certs did his first gig at the Hobo Workshop too. Downstairs in the Cellar elements of the later Two Tone were brewing - Charley Anderson, then a youth worker with a group of West Indian musicans, were jamming below. I invited them to join in the sessions upstairs in the theatre but they a bit shy at the time. It was Neol Davies, who had come along to help organise a jam session who went down and befriended and jammed with the guys that made a breakthrough that lead to a number of bands being formed over the next few years such as Hard Top 22. Eventually those musicians formed the basis of Selecter and the Specials. Horace Panter also played the Hobo Workshop after its move to the Golden Cross in a Jazz rock outfit in 1975. Neol Davies managed to bring some of the West Indian musicians to the Cross but only Neol ended up playing in the jam session. Steve's own band The Reluctant Stereotypes benefited from the later Two Tone development with the band moving from pure jazz rock to ska with jazz rock overtones and the acquisition of Paul King - later to head his own chart topping band King in the mid 80's.
Unfortunately Steve wasn't to be part of King's success. After the Hobo Workshop period he joined forces with Paul Samson to form the Jazz rock band Ens, later changing the name to the Reluctant Stereotypes. The Stereotypes becaume a highly popular band on on the scene as the musicians grew in experience but the Two Tone development split the band in two. I recall members of the band telling me they were intending to leave because the band was becoming more commercial and trendy. Reluctant Stereotypes mark two took off in the very late 70's and achieved a record contract with WEA, with Steve still on board. Steve's distinctive clarinet was stil an integral part of their sound as can be heard on their album The Label - or on their My Space - Here. They began to gig more widely around the country, touring with the Specials and featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Reluctant Stereotypes on My Space
Paul King, Colin Heanes and Tony Wall went on to form The Raw Sceens - later called King and Steve and Paul
Samson formed the Pink Umbrellas in 1981, however, Paul and Steve moved on and formed The Pink Umbrellas. The band were a 4 piece from Coventry and consisted Paul Sampson (singer), Steve Edgson (clarinet), Rob Hill (Drums) and a bass player called Barry Jones. They had a great live presence but their single, some thought, did not do them justice.
Indeed Pete Chambers describes the musical relationship between Paul Samson and Steve this way in Godiva Rocks -
"Paul's quirky, clipped vocals grooving alongside Steve's stunning electric clarinet fills, creating some wildly colourful harmonics, indeed there is a clarinet fill on the track Joseph Monk that positively sends shivers down my spine on every hearing Steve is a master of his instrument as Paul is a supurb songwriter"
Paul became more involved with production later on with a range of credits to his list over the years and Stev moved on to the Giraffe's in the 80's with ex Squad member Sam McNulty. As Pete Chambers comments "They
were the bees knees around Coventry at the time". More recently Steve has played again with Steve McNulty in a scaled down version of the band called TWO GIRAFFES consisting of just the two of them, Sam and Steve, with Steve on guitar and clarinet as can be seen in this video.
As can be seen from the above and much more that hasn't been written, Pete Chambers is right when he say -
"Steve was a constant in the world of local music, always there, always inventive, always musically superb."
Steve made a significant contribution to the Coventry music scene over four decades, appearing some of its best bands, always with musical integrity and popularity - and we are lucky to have a range of audio and video footage to document his work.
Trev Teasdel - 2008
More about Analog on Hobo - A to Z of Coventry bands https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/coventry-bands-a-to-z/coventry-bands-a/analog
and Reluctant Stereotypes https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/coventry-bands-a-to-z/coventry-bands-r/reluctant-stereotypes
Giraffs (Two Giraffs) https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/coventry-bands-a-to-z/coventry-bands-g/giraffes
Pink Umbrellas https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/coventry-bands-a-to-z/coventry-bands-p/the-pink-umbrellas
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TRIGON - 1974
Progressive rock / jazz funk / folk.
Trigon formed in 1974 with Rick Thawn who had been rhythm guitarist with Fisson (Johnny Adam's band) and Paul
Sampson (later of Reluctant Stereotypes and producer of The Primatives). They wre featured in Hobo Magazine in 1974 and played several times for the Hobo Workshop at the Holyhead Rd. Youth Centre. Two bands who played at the Hobo Workshop - Analog and Trigon formed the basis for the formation of Bung and Reluctant Stereotypes.
This from Hobo Magazine -
TRIGON
Are another newly formed band to hit the scene. Featuring Rick Thawn (Ex Fisson) on lead guitar, Gary Kirton on drums, (Ex Whistler), Paul Samson (Ex Mick Green Blues Band - later Bung / Reluctant Sterotypes - Producer of the .Primatives). Terry Hyde on bass. There music is jazz rock orientated, heavy with percussion, although they try to make their music as comprehensive as possible. Plans include entering for the Melody Maker contest and a possible tour of Austria. (Trigon also played the Hobo Workshop later in 1974).
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MIDNIGHT CIRCUS / THE FLYS 1974 - 81
This was Neil O'Connor's band. Originally called Midnight Circus in 1974 and after punk they were known as The Flys.
I came across Midnight Circus through singer songwriter Phil Knapper (Stu knapper's brother). Phil had hitched around Finland with Neil, Alex Murphy (whom Neil sings about on his solo site) and John Gravenor of Wandering John a few years earlier. As a result we gave Midnight Circus a gig (I think it was more than one) at the HOBO WORKSHOP at the Holyhead Youth Centre and they proved to be quite a popular band. By 1978 the band had shed their hippy image for a punk one and changed their name to the Flys. Neil''s sister is of course the celebrated Hazel O'Connor. They performed their single Molotov Cocktail on the Old Grey Whistle Test and appeared on John Peel show a few times.
I think Neils piece from the Flys My space describes them best -
In the beginning there were
three young lads from Cov in the UK.
David Freeman, Joe Hughes and Neil O’Connor.
Neil was slightly older than the other two
and had made their acquaintance
through David’s mum, Esther Freeman,
a lovely lady who was Neil’s Yoga teacher.
( yeah he was a bit of a late flowering hippy….)
Joe took up the bass, Dave and Neil,
the guitars and voices
and they started to try to do something.
They gave themselves the name "Midnight Circus"
and were probably bloody awful but, hey,
it was a good laugh.
In those days there was never a full time drummer
except for one guy,
Paul Angelopolis, an American guy from Florida,
in the same age group as them who wasn’t
half bad except for when he partook
more than he should’ve.
Sadly Paul abused too much and died of a barbituate
overdose at the age of 24.
And that was sort of the end of "Midnight Circus".
By now it was 1977 and there was a change in the air.
So they dropped the name
and reincarnated as "The Flys".
But still no drummer.
Around this time they happened upon a guy named
Chris King who started to take a managerial interest in the lads
and,
as luck would have it, had a younger brother,
Pete King, who was a good drummer and so deserved an audition.
Here was the guy they’d been hoping for years to meet.
And so The Flys became Dave, Joe, Neil and Pete.
Chris had a huge amount of belief in the band
and proposed that he’d set up a small indie label and
sign up the band to release a limited edition 7 inch EP and so
they went off to Pathway studios, an 8 track
in Islington where all the great Stiff recordings had been made,
to spend a Saturday recording their repertoire of 14 songs, or so.
Then 5 of the recordings were chosen, mixed, mastered
and became the EP "Bunch of five" on Chris King’s
"Zama" label which included the titles….
"Love and a Molotov cocktail"
"Can I crash here"
"Civilisation"
Eventually EMI were to sign the band
after having heard the EP and seeing the band on stage
opening for The Buzzcocks tour in the Autumn of ’77.
A condition of the contract was that the
"Zama" indie release had to be limited to 2,500 copies
as EMI wanted to re-launch with the title
"Love and a Molotov cocktail".
In the late winter of ’78, with EMI money,
they went on a UK nationwide tour opening for
John Otway and Wild Willie Barrett and
as spring arrived moved to London
and started to record their first album for EMI,
"Waikiki beach refugees".
Maybe they’d been too long in each others company,
it’s hard to know exactly
why but rifts started to appear.
The first casualty was Chris.
The Flys were no exception to any other bands in
that they were full of insecurity and that insecurity
pushed Chris away.
Pete continued to play with the band who, by now,
were opening for "The Ruts" around the UK and
playing shows in their own right around Europe
but he was never totally happy without his brother around.
Probably he felt torn in his loyalties,
Which is no surprise and eventually he was offered
the chance to join "After the fire" who,
at the time, were about to tour with ELO.
For Pete this became a dream come true as
ELO’s drummer became to ill to play
and Pete ended up playing drums for ELO for most of the tour.
After Pete they recruited Graham Deakin,
a lay it down Keith Moon type who came to the band
from John Entwhistle’s "Ox".
And so with new drummer, Graham,
the guys went down to a 16 track in Somerset
to record their second album which was to be called "Own".
Although they continued to record more singles, EP’s,
tour and make many TV and Radio appearances
throughout the UK and Europe their time together started to
unravel and in the spring of 1980 they called it quits.
Neil went on to play guitar and record with his sister
Hazel O’Connor.
Eventually, in the mid 80’s, he moved into the field
of recording and producing working mainly from
Martin Rushent’s "Genetic studios".
David went on to follow a solo career
securing a publishing/ development contract with Dave Stewart.
Eventually Joe joined him, they called themselves
"The lover speaks" and in the ‘90s they were rewarded
with a huge songwriting success when Annie Lennox
covered their song "No more I love you’s".
Sadly Pete succumbed to cancer before he could reach the age of 30.
Graham was never heard from again.
These days Neil lives in Montreal, Canada
producing and performing still.
Joe and his wife split their time between
the UK and the States with their band "Cicero Buck".
David’s a bit of a hermit as of writing.
"Die Toten Hosen" from Germany and
"Duanne Peters" have both covered
"Love and Molotov cocktail".
Hazel included it in one of her TV shows too.
Photo L to R ( taken by Pete Vernon 1978 )
Neil O’Connor - guitar, keys, vox
David Freeman - guitar, vox
Joe Hughes - bass, vox
Pete King - drums
Managers and road crew were………..
Chris King -manager 77 to 78
Mark Rye –manager 78 to 80
Vance Anderson -tour manager 77 to 80
Mick Anderson - backline 77 to 80
Record labels……………..
Zama-indie - 77 to 78
EMI - 78 to 80
See for miles - re-release in the 90s
Captain Oi - re-release in 2K.
By Neil O Connor.
Review from Alternative Sounds - 1979
THE FLYS - NAME DROPPING / FLY V FLY (EMI)
Get ready for the next Flys single - as the chorus line of the song says, it is amaaazing! Featuring David on vocals, there's some good lyrics for all you posers to sing-along to. There's some nice juicy guitar playing too, and with a catchy tune like this, all I can say is - make way for a hit.
The B Side is a novel little instrumental. The guitar work in it is most unusual - good if you're feeling like a jerky dance.
A single well worth adding to your collection.
.............................................
THE FLYS(Coventry)
7 inch singles
Bunch of fives ep, ZA 10 EP, ZAMA |
Love and a molotov cocktail, EMI 2747, EMI |
Fun city, EMI 2795, EMI |
Waikiki beach refugees, EMI 2867, EMI |
Oh Beverly, EMI 2907, EMI |
Name dropping, EMI 2936, EMI |
Living in the sticks, EMI 2979, EMI |
Sixteen down, R 6030, PARLOPHONE |
What will mother say, R 6036, PARLOPHONE |
Long play vinyl
Four from the square ep, R 6063, PARLOPHONE |
Waikiki beach refugees, EMC 3249, EMI |
This Coventry, England-based group enjoyed a minor league role in the new wave, but owed more to power-pop and astute songwriting than punk. Singer and guitarist Neil O'Connor (brother of Hazel O'Connor) met school kids David Freeman (guitar, vocals) and Joe Hughes (bass, vocals) in the mid-70s, and formed Midnight Circus, eventually recruiting Pete King on drums. A name change to the Flys coincided with the discovery of punk's first tremors, but a demo in April 1977 brought an apathetic response from the usual channels. The band issued Bunch Of Five, an energetic EP, on their own Zama Records label in time for Christmas. Quick as a flash, EMI Records snapped them up, rushing out one of the EP tracks (and perhaps their finest ever moment), "Love And A Molotov Cocktail", as a single. After a tour with the Buzzcocks and John Otway And Wild Willy Barrett came "Fun City", recorded at Pathway Studios. Waikiki Beach Refugees (also the title of their next single) emerged in October 1978 to an enthusiastic response, while the band toured Europe. 1979 saw a flurry of singles - "Beverley" in February, "Name Dropping" in April and "We Are The Lucky Ones" - but internal quarrels led to the recruitment of a riotous new drummer Graham Deakin (ex-Frankie Miller and John Entwistle's Ox). Flys Own, rawer than their debut, coincided with a tour with the Ruts in autumn 1979. The EP Four From The Square was released in February as the band transferred to Parlophone Records. This was followed by "What Will Mother Say" in May 1980. Internal pressures began to erupt and the Flys broke up soon afterwards. O'Connor joined his sister for two years and two albums before becoming a musical arranger, and then a producer and engineer. Freeman issued a cover version of the Supremes' "Stop! In The Name Of Love", took a degree, published his poetry, sang on Alison Moyet's Raindancing and later formed The Lover Speaks with Hughes (after his spell with ex-Specials Roddy Radiation And His Tearjerkers). Pete King, meanwhile, joined After The Fire, but sadly died aged 26. In 1991 See For Miles Records compiled an excellent self-titled retrospective of the band.
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Memories c 1974
Again I don't have a lot of info about the band Memories. Memories were a well competent middle of the road pop
covers band.
They were not the usual kind of band we'd put on for the Hobo Workshop but we engaged them to play for a special promotional concert in the upper Coventry Shopping Precinct (to promote the Hobo Workshop gigs at the Holyhead Youth Centre. Several bands and artists were earmarked to play including solk folk artists Rod Felton and Dave Bennett and bands like Fission.
The concert got off to a good start and memories seemed to prove popular with a great crowd enjoying them and they provided a public service for people who had lost each each other or children in the crowd. All relevant permissions had been granted via the involvement of Bob Rhodes - the Detached Youth Worker and facilitator from Coventry Voluntary Service Council. There were no visable signs of complaint but
half way through Memorie's performance the police stopped the concert saying that shoppers were being and shopkeepers were complaining of the noise. Depite our protests and intervention by the youth worker we had to pack in half way through the first act. The Coventry Evening Telegraph were straight on to and we made front page of the afternood edition - Concert Deafens Shoppers!! (And that was only the pop band - good job they didn't here the heavy bands!! We were all extremely pissed off as it took a lot of work to make it happen. However, the main objective was to publise the work and existence of the Hobo Workshop and in the end shutting it down gave us more publicity than ever we couldhave hoped for otherwise. We'd made the front
page of the Telegraph and through our protests managed to get a piece int he paper everyday for the next week, including one in the Telegraph's rival - The Coventry Journal. This included news articles, a whole editorial, letters to the editor.
I can't say much more about the actual band Memories but they certainly it must have been their most memorable concert!
More on the Hobo Workshop if you look in the Hobo Index on our top post.
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Marantha c 1974
Marantha played the Hobo Workshop at the Holyhead Youth Centre in 1974. I can't remember a lot about them except that they were among a lot of groups who requested a gig and to whom we obliged at a time when gigs were hard to find, especially for new and upcoming bands. many bands were on the verge of giving up through lack of gigs to get them started, so venues like this that encouraged new talent played an important role in the city.
Marantha on the Hobo Workshop Band Schedule
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THE DAVE PEPPER BAND set the pace of their US tour on Jan 26th at the Ritz in Detroit alongside Choking Susan and Vic Wayne. Dave Pepper said " It was a great gig. We got to hang out with Vic Wayne and the system and multi-channel desk was awesome".
The gig was well documented by photographer Karen AKA Tricky on her My Space - Luxlive HERE and the photos below are from that site. On the site you can see more photos and photos of the the other bands.
You can follow the updates on Dave Pepper's My Space HERE.We think the photos speak speak volumes! Next they are in Chicago and then LA.
One of Dave's first gigs was at the Hobo Workshop (Holyhead Youth Centre) at 16 in 1974 and 5 years later he
emerged with one of Coventry's top bands of the time The X Certs, well celebrated in Alternative Sounds at the time.
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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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