The area has a proud history of show/club bands, like Smakee, The Pat Gissane Showman and our featured group today The New City Sounds, who came to fame as two times winners of the hit TV show Opportunity Knocks! Coming together in 1969 at the old West End Club (now the HQ of Mercia FM), …
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New City Sounds
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WHEN THE AVENGERS WERE MIGHTY
Imagine you were a struggling beat band from Rugby in the early part of the sixties, then imagine being fortunate enough to become part of The legendary Rolling Stones “inner sanctum”. A future secured I hear you say: well read on… Rugby’s Mighty Avengers were indeed riding high on the crest of beat boom in …
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Pete Chambers puts forward the case for Warwickshire’s most rocking town:… Leamington Spa
Leamington Spa, the quintessential home of Regency elegance. Picture if you will, the Parade on a Sunday afternoon, chaperoned ladies sartorially dressed in their best bonnets, casting a shy glance at a passing dandy. Hold on a moment though, the dandy hath something to impart, what could it be… (wait for it)…..”LEMMY BLOOMIN’ ROCKS” that’s …
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