If you’re looking for a local musician that’s seen it all and done it all then only one man really fits the bill. That would be one of the city’s most well-known club entertainers Johnny Medlock. We talk about some things happen for a reason and fate lending a hand. Well one particular day when …
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Johnny Medlock
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JOHNNY B GREAT
Johnny Goodison was a big man with an even bigger talent, his powerful voice turned many a mediocre song into something-extra special. A man who was forever the entertainer, but despite his obvious abilities, he would have to wait over a decade before his talents would be recognised. Originally an apprentice toolmaker in the City …
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Jigsaw
Next to Coventry, Rugby Town has given the area more hit bands than anyone. It’s Jigsaw however that are remembered above the rest, this all round band had talent to spare, but it would take a movie song to see them conquer the world! Pete Chambers Investigates. Formed in Rugby in 1966, although Bernard and …
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Indian Summer
The early seventies would see the advent of Progressive rock, a swirling keyboard based mash of ideas and rambling concepts, the thinking man’s rock ‘n’ roll if you will. Coventry would not be left out of this genre and we too would have our own prog’ rock band in the shape of the fascinating Indian …
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The Human Cabbages
Apart from possessing a name you couldn’t ignore, The Human Cabbages were a Coventry band of the 80’s that included a superb female lead vocalist and the creative mind of Steve Teers. I recently got in contact with Steve and asked him about the hidden gem that was The Human Cabbages. How and when did …
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Gods Toys
In the late 70’s and early part of the 80’s as the Specials Two Tone influence began to grip the country, and all eyes were on Coventry to see who would follow as the next big thing. There certainly wasn’t any lack of contenders, to some bands it was a distant dream but others like …
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Furious Apples
If you were into Coventry music in the mid-eighties, you couldn’t have failed to notice The Furious Apples, fronted by the tall enigmatic figure of Greg Crabb they knew how to promote themselves. I wrote the Coventry Gazebo column for the Brum Beat newspaper in those days, and I still have a ton of letters, …
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Fresh Maggots
Never judge a book by its cover, and never judge a band by it’s name. Because despite their rather unsavoury epithet Fresh Maggots were neither a punk or grunge band, but were a forward thinking melodic Folk Rock duo from Nuneaton circa 1971. Pete Chambers Investigates! Leigh Dolphin and Mick Burgoyne had been friends for …
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ROCK THE LANCH BAR or NEVER MIND THE DEADLOCK!
Imagine this outrageous scenario, The Clash and The Sex Pistols the world’s most infamous punk rock bands both playing on the same bill at Coventry’s Lanchester Polytechnic. You are probably thinking on what parallel universe this all took place? Crazy as it may sound this all really happened in Coventry on 29th November 1976, 30 …
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Charles Worrod
Coventry has produced some wonderfully gifted musicians and record producers, some are well known, others are unsung heroes. Then there are Coventry kids who have left the city, or country even, and have made their success in another continent altogether. One of these people is Charles Worrod, maybe a name that is not recognizable in …
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