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Old 20-12-2013, 16:34   #676
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hello folks! just looking around on here after speaking to my mum earlier. My dad was in a band called Happy Medium around in the late 60's/early 70's, anyone remember them?
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Old 20-12-2013, 18:15   #677
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hello folks! just looking around on here after speaking to my mum earlier. My dad was in a band called Happy Medium around in the late 60's/early 70's, anyone remember them?
Is you father called Andy, Laura
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Old 20-12-2013, 18:21   #678
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Yes, he is! do you remember him?
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Old 20-12-2013, 18:29   #679
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Yes, he is! do you remember him?
Give the reprobate my regards next time you see him, just tell him you've been talking to John Farrer. We used to move around in the same circles in our teens, quite a long time ago now
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Old 20-12-2013, 18:39   #680
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Give the reprobate my regards next time you see him, just tell him you've been talking to John Farrer. We used to move around in the same circles in our teens, quite a long time ago now
Will do! I work with him at the family business, let me know if you've got any stories i can use against him! My mum (Yvonne, you might know her), has tried to call Gordon Holmes as she think he has some of their old material and i'd love to have a listen!
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Old 15-03-2014, 11:14   #681
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I think they may have been around in the same period as this group of youngsters, probably all under 15 at the time...
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Old 18-03-2014, 14:47   #682
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Thinking about it, I think this more likely to be sometime around 1967?
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Old 18-03-2014, 15:28   #683
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Yes, I Remember that evening in 1965. It was very exciting for me at the ripe old age of 11!! Great memories
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Old 18-03-2014, 18:55   #684
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Yes, I Remember that evening in 1965. It was very exciting for me at the ripe old age of 11!! Great memories
Australian group are they?
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Old 18-03-2014, 22:57   #685
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The only way I could ever get any money out of em!
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Old 26-03-2014, 19:35   #686
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Seems another of Boris @ Dansaks "Geoff Greenwood" Lead Guitar, has died, Wynonie told me last night, another of me old classmates gone. R.I.P. Geoff, Funeral 2-15 Accy Crem on Friday if anyone knew him.
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Old 07-09-2014, 10:31   #687
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Treadwheels and so on, was the band, Germany, no way, never got further that USA (uther side of Accrington) Ray Ormerod on drums, John Wiora on Bass, Roy Taylor vocals (Top Man) Alf "The vicar" on keyboards and yours truly on lead guitar. Wow, thats bringing back some memories.
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Old 07-09-2014, 10:40   #688
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I had a cousin from Clayton who was singer in the Dappers, his name was Billy Drinkwater, he was a joiner, and worked at Lancashire bar fitters, he worked with a bloke called Geoff Whiteside.
Billy Binks and Jeff Whiteside, I worked with them at HP Calverts builders, Back Burnley Rd Clayton. Had a site on Roman Rd in Darren, on the Moors, bluddy cold up there in Winter. John Wiora from The Treadwheels and so on was the apprentice plumber there. And Alan Bradshaw from The Nosmo Kings was apprentice bricklayer. Whoopee them were the days.
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Worked wi Roy Taylor fer 23 years, was still living up Bash last time i saw him. Did they get a tour of Germany n split before taking it then mate? I remember a mention in Evening Telegraph about a Kraut Tour or summat.
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Old 07-09-2014, 10:44   #690
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Billy Drinkwater ( Bean ) and the Dappers.
He got "Billy Binks " at work Hee Hee
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