Oh, and in case anyone's wondering, here's what The Public looks like...

 

...not your typical gig venue!

Guile - a proper video

Unlike the rather shoddy audience filmed videos available of Guile at http://www.youtube.com/user/macworld77 here's a far superior clip of the band taken from their gig at The Public, in West Bromwich.

Tall Boys - Interaction Centre 1984

The band formed by Nigel Lewis after he left the Meteors. The Tall Boys also featured fellow ex-Meteor Mark Robertson on drums and former Girls At Our Best! guitarist James Alan.

Here's a mixing desk recording of the band at the Interaction Centre in London from 24th August 1984.

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Guile – The Tackeroo, Cannock, 10th February 2012

Hometown gig, expectant crowd.  The last thing any band want is a string to go on the bass about 6 seconds into the gig.  With no spare bass guitar.  Which is exactly how Guile’s return to their Cannock roots kicked off.

A lot of bands would have been thrown, or perhaps just walked off until running repairs could be made.  No such easy way out for Guile.  While bassist Adam ‘Fish’ Shaw, showed commendable grace under pressure restringing and tuning up with the minimum of fuss, the remaining members of Guile simply slipped into dirty, vaguely threatening, blues jam.  Shut your eyes and you’d believe Link Wray was about to walk onstage.

Underground Rhythm + Noise

A curious one, this was given away with a short lived magazine, I'd guess some time in the 1980's, which I think was called 'Underground', hence the title.

Featuring the likes of a nascent Shamen, before the disco biscuits took a hold, and the record that started it all off for Mute - Daniel Miller AKA The Normal, with the seminal 'Warm Leatherette'.

Miller tells a great story of once being refused entry to a club which was playing his song.  Apparently the door staff refused to believe that he was The Normal!

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