Music groups in pubs

[Towpathlegend]

My old man Danny Williams played pubs and clubs all over Brum on his own, with others as duos and as part of full bands.

 

[RRJ]

My old man Danny Williams played pubs and clubs all over Brum on his own, with others as duos and as part of full bands.

My father ( Roy Johnson b: 1937) played drums from the mid fifties to early sixties, annoyingly I don't know who for.
His younger cousin Graham Johnson also a drummer played for The Renegades based around Perry bar/ Erdington who went on to some fame in this country but were bigger hits in Finland / Italy from what I can glean from the net.

 

[Richard Dye]

Looking at this thread and Scotchmist, I realized how many groups there were. Maybe my coming of age, late 50’s but we would go to many places on Friday and Saturday nights and later on Sunday. As Oldbrit said we drank a lot of beer, sometimes a little too much. Our thing was Trad and Modern Jazz. We loved to go to the town hall but that was a little pricey. We did go however when the really big names played there.

 

[berniesims]

I remember a couple of bands that played regularly at The Lamp Tavern in Barford street. They were ‘Dr Dee’ and ‘The Indigo Blues Band’. Both played popular covers. Anyone else remember them or others that played there?

 

[oldbrit]

Brilliant what did you play? It's great fun playing in a band ain't it

I was the sax player we even played the Crown in Digbeth

 

[Taxi Tom]

I remember a couple of bands that played regularly at The Lamp Tavern in Barford street. They were ‘Dr Dee’ and ‘The Indigo Blues Band’. Both played popular covers. Anyone else remember them or others that played there?

Just to let you know that the landlord of The Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Eddie Fitzgerald has passed away.

 

[Septimus Hodge]

I remember a couple of bands that played regularly at The Lamp Tavern in Barford street. They were ‘Dr Dee’ and ‘The Indigo Blues Band’. Both played popular covers. Anyone else remember them or others that played there?

I played drums very briefly in the Indigo Blues Band between January and around May 1987, gigging around Brum and the Black Country, doing a photo shoot (promoting my ghastly mullet to the world) and even recording a demo tape during the final sessions at The Triangle in Aston. The Lamp definitely rings a bell. I was a student at the time. The band was led by Dene, a frustrated secondary school teacher by day. I think the guitarist was called Steve (I may have this wrong) and he worked with Dene's partner Castro, an imposing mountain of a guy. The keys player was Mike and the buzz about him was that he'd jammed with Stevie Winwood back in the day. Mike was much older than me (probably about my age now). I cannot remember the names of the sax player (Alan maybe?) or bassist. To be honest I was a poor fit and had taken some advice by a drum tutor far too much to heart that didn't aid my playing. I think generally the bassist disapproved of me, but after a gig in Edgbaston where we launched into a number that I'd never heard and certainly never rehearsed, he'd had enough and I soon got a phone call from Dene declaring that it was "either him or me."
With my exams and the summer hols approaching, it saved me the bother of leaving.
I'm still playing drums back in my home town oop narth and a few years back supported The Zombies.
It was an odd experience, but I learned a bit and in the long run that's the main thing. Curiously I still recall many of the songs, not having heard them at all since.
But I've still no idea what the hell that song was that we started and very quickly aborted in Edgbaston.