Coventry bands C

Coventry Bands C

CALICO c 90's

CAN'T PLAY, WON'T PLAY

CANYON Link goes to Gregorian Chant, who were know variously as Boots, Children and Canyon. They made a single with producer Mike Berry called You Better Run - a Young rascal's number and Carl Palmer's brother was in the band at one point.

CARDINAL - c 1969 - 72? Nigel Clarke - Acoustic.

THE CARDINALS - c 1964 Beat Group

CARIBBEAN - The Beat Preachers under another name for their single Inside Out.

CAROL & THE ELECTRONS - c 1964-5 - Beat group

CARL'S FABLES - c 1971

THE CARL TOUR??

CARRION - (1984 – 85) - With Rob Cook-Williams - guitar or bass?

THE CATARACTS c 1963 - Stuart Coleman (bass)...

CATHEDRAL - This link goes to Brum Beat A to Z. Cathedral were a Birmingham band from 1968. by 1972 Rod Godwin from Coventry joined - later with Jigsaw. Original source

CATHEDRAL c 90's

CATHERINE SPIRIT C 90's

CATS GRAVE - c 1968 - Blues band -Line up: Neol Davies (Later of Selecter) (guitar), Mick Gawthorpe (Also of Whistler and guest with Asgard) (Sax) and others.

CATWEAZEL c 1972

CELESTIAL c 90's

CENTRAL SOUNDS circa 1966

CERTIFIED c 1977 supported The Automatics (earliest name of The Specials) at the Heath Hotel oct 1977 with Wild Boys / Squad / Urban Blight.

THE CHADS - circa 1965

CHAINSAW 1979 to mid 80's - Coventry punk band.

THE CHALLENGERS (Woody Allen and the Challangers) c 1957-65

CHAMPAGNE HEDGEHOG c 90's

CHANGIN' SCENE c 1967 Source Broadgate Gnome (Possibly Kristy Gallacher's father played in this band - if so they changed their name a few times - Changing Times may have been one of them).

CHANNEL A - Stan Campbell (later singer with the Specials on Nelson Mandela) The won Battle of the Bands.

CHANNEL FIRING c 90's

CHAPTER 5 c77 / A forerunner of The Selecter with Neol Davies and Charlie Anderson etc.

THE CHARIOTEERS - circa 1965

CHARLEY DEXTER WARD AND THE IMAGINEERS Current

CHEEKY

THE CHEETAHS - circa 1967

CHERRY STONES c 90's

CHEVY c 71 / 83- Came out of Cupid's Inspiration

CHEYENNE AUTUMN - c 1971

Ch Ch SQUAD C 90's

CHICAGO HUSH - circa 1967-1968

CHICAGO LINE - circa 1968

THE CHICANES - December 1963 - 1965

CHIKINKI

CHILDREN - circa 1969 - 71 The link goes to the post on Gregorian Chant who were variously known as Boots / Children and Canyon. The recorded a single You Better Run (a Young Rascal's cover) for producer Mike Berry. Carl Palmer's (ELP) brother was in the band at some point. As Children, Al Docker booked them for the Coventry Arts umbrella Club in 1970.

CHILLI DOG SLIM (AKA Doc Mustard - Ollie Oliver)

CINCH - Coventry and Nuneaton: Joel McDougal (vocals), Kevin Jones (drums), Rob Cook-Williams (guitar), Phil Bateman (bass).

CHRIS JONES AGGRESSION c 1969 - 70

THE CHRIS JONES BAND - Recent.

THE CHUCKLES c 1960

THE CIRCLES - circa 1966 - Beat group - Recorded demos for EMI June 1966. Managed by Vince Martin.

CIVIL SERVANTS

CLEAR LIQUID - c 1969-1970 - Blues rock

CLIFF COWLING TRIO 1960's to early 70's ?

THE CLIFFORDS

CLIQUE c 1979 - Featured on Sent From Coventry Album

CLOSE TO TEARS Rikk ALLSOPP (Drummer) "I was the drummer in the original line up of 'Close to Tears' & we were awesome at our best. Alex Easton vocals, guitar. Steve -vocals, guitar. Kev Hellier vocals, bass. Phil Byrne vocals, drums. Roger Lomas did most of our mixes at gigs and recorded demos in his garage in Allesley."

THE CLOUDS - c 1965 - 1966

COLOURFIELD

COLT 77 Al Varney's band (Ex Fission)

COLUMN 88

COCONUT MAT - c 1970

THE COMPLEX - c 1968

CONCERT - 1971 Mojo (Tony) Morgan

CONCERT - C 1975 Dave Pepper's 1st paid band

THE CONCLUSION c 1966 - 1967 - ' Coventry's own Beach Boys' Ad in CET 1967

CONCRETE PARACHUTE c 1973

THE CONFEDERATES c 1965

THE COSSACKS - c 1966

THE COUNTDOWNS c 1963

COURTIERS OF FASHION early 80's - A Dave Pepper band

COVENTRY AUTOMATICS - Early name of The Specials.

COYBITO The Coybito Invasion

CREATION

CRIMINAL CLASS c1979 Skinhead punk

The CRITICS - Dave Dyed on Drums Len Bailey on Bass , Alan Wright on Rhythm (replaced by George Beardmore) Keith Bates(later of The Reason, lead guitar, and Johnny Thompson on Sax

CROKODILE TEARS

CROMWELL SOUND - c 1970-1971

CROSS BUZZ SAFARI c 90's

CROSSFIRE - Rob Cook Williams - Guitar Jason Jones (vocals), Jim Hayns (bass)

CRUX

The CRY c 90's

The CRYSTAL SHIP Played the Umbrella club in Coventry 1970

CUPID'S INSPIRATION - Hit band 1968 - later Chevy

CURE AND THE PEEPS - (AKA Martin Cure and the Peeps) c 1965-68

CURIOUS OYSTER c 90's

LYNNE CURTIS Links to the Mustangs page.