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WellSuspect wrote:

Three great bands you've mentioned here Mac.
I had an equal love of all three of these bands.
The Persuaders single is a real rarity now days. I think it was Dizzy's first release.

The Numbers (Liverpool) were the best live act I'd seen for years and I was so gutted when George told me they were splitting.
I recall a double bill at the Powerhouse (when situated at Angel) when Mr Kotz. joined The Direction for 'My Side of Heaven'. I was totally blown away!

Dave E's amazing memory will no doubt kick in here. He's the only person I can remember being there constantly over the years.

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mac jnr wrote:

There were a number of mod bands I liked playing in the early 90s
The Direction,The Numbers, The Persuaders,
to name but a few.To the credit of these bands they were playing to a scene very short in numbers before britpop kick started things again.

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The Numbers were great, I saw a black and white target advert in the NME one week proclaiming "If the Jam had come from Liverpool they'd have sounded like this". Was enough for me and Chris Dale to venture to the Power Haus to check them out. Very impressive and after the show they couldn't believe that there were Mods who had come to see them and proceeded to give us a demo tape and a t-shirt each. I put the word out to Mr. Class who promptly booked them and the rest as they say is history!
Great bunch of lads aswell and through them, The World got in touch.

The Direction gig where Brian Kotz sang Your Side Of Heaven was suppporting The Lambrettas also at The Power Haus, hold my hands up for getting them to do it. There was a single release gig in Rubys in Carnaby Street for the single on Detour where they repeated it aswell as a few other gigs.

Saw The Colours support the Truth at the old Marquee on a couple of occasions,

Good to see a mention for S*M*A*S*H, fcuking great band and still do the odd gig once in a blue moon. Their album
Icon from 2007 is a corker and the debut single Real Surreal is in one of the best debuts i've ever heard.

Another great single was Speed King by These Animal Men, good live band too. Great idea to enclose a "speed wrap" with a list of upcoming gigs.

Honourable mention must go to Subjagger, fantastic 3 piece who had a Cream/ Bluesbreakers feel to them and launched Acid Jazz subsidary Focus with their debut single before putting an album and single out on Lemon.

Finally from Thamesmead, South East London came Dog, easily one of the best bands i've seen who never fulfilled their potential. I always described them as The Stones in '65 with someone who could sing. If you ever saw them, you'd know what I mean.

 

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