THE SHECCLES

1965 – a group of 5 students from Higham Lane High School, Nuneaton. Do not think they played many venues. The original members included: John Allen, Mike Easey, Kevin Claridge, Robert Neville, Stephen Cotton, and Alan Cook.

 The Shapes

c 2008 – Line included Brian Helicopter (bassist), Seymour Byebuss.

“Great Live band” Pete Chambers. Four track EP 1970’s on the Sofa Label –

Tracks – Batman in the Launderette / Chatterbox / College Girls / What’s For Lunch Mum.

Signed to Good Vibration Records and released single Disaster and album Songs for Sensible People.

Information from Godiva Rocks Pete Chambers.

“Its not yer 1234 punk more but a sound more akin to ATV but with humour. Never ones to take themselves seriously one of their last recordings was ‘Jennifer Connifer’ but that doesn’t excuse naming a song Leamington (after Leamington Spa). If they don’t make you smile then something’s missing.” From this site http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/shapes.htm

They were on or played by John Peel. They are on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/theoriginalshapes

The Shapes in Hastings

Above – The Shapes @ The Crypt, Hastings 10/12/08. Wot’s For Lunch Mum (Not Beans Again).

The Shapes at Bath Place Community Venture, Leamington Spa 6/12/08

Songs For Sensible People Label: Overground Records ‎– OVER 81LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue Pays: UK

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 SHADY DEAL

 “Coventry’s answer to Status Quo!!. 1989 – 1996″

“SHADY DEAL were born in 1989 – 1996, when two workmates Steve Kavanagh and Troy Forest were discussing musical options that lay ahead. Pop deal put other bands in the shade; TROY FOREST is one musician who seems to have been playing forever – and is still going strong.”

Coventry band SHADY DEAL playing a cover of The Door’s ‘Roadhouse Blues‘ at The Rose Inn Coventry October 1993. 

Line Up

Troy Forrest: Vocals / Harmonica Steve Kavanagh: guitar/ backing Vocals Tez Monoghan: Bass Guitar Eric Lee: Drums.

Live at the General Wolfe 

Steve Kavanagh’s Bandcamp page https://zendad.bandcamp.com/

C1974 Reported in Hobo Coventry Music and Arts magazine – 

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aboutSet Against Coventry, UK

Respect (Freebase cover)

 The Session.

The Session on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/THESESSION/

The Session are band of post-modern chaotic minstrels who will take you on a journey through urban fables, mixing tales of hobos ‘n’ harlots, bigots ‘n’ sinners, and blokes they met in the woods.

Back Beat Pete Chamber 2012

THE Session have been making outstanding music for more than ten years now, and have built up something of a fan base over that time. They have just released the first single taken from their forthcoming summer album Hail The Renegade Express – Jester’s Script and it’s available via iTunes at a cost of 79p.

Over the summer, gigs have been lined up with support to the likes of Toploader and Ocean Colour Scene’s Simon Fowler.

In the words of songwriter Dean MacDonald: “Over the last 10 years we have been very prolific as a band, making our fifth original album and playing about 300 gigs but for myself the pinnacle of all that are the new songs on this album and the gigs we have played lately.

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Line Up

Hywel Roberts – Vocals  Justin Hui – Guitar  Donna Crawford – Drums  Steve Weird – Bass

Past Members

Rob Hinchliff – Guitar (2002–2008)  Brendan Casey – Drums (2003–2008)

Karthic Kukathasan – Bass (2002–2003, 2004–2005)  Felix Meller – Bass (2003–2004)

Simon Vint – Drums (2002–2003)

Singles – ‘Nobody Dreams About Me’, Dear Old Bill in 2005 Tough Love Records
‘Patients’ Tough Love Records 2006 

Nobody Dreams About Me

Dear Old Bill

Album The Death of Style – November 2007 – Tough Love Records
EP – ‘Risky Woods’ (For release 2010) Indie label-MP3 in Spring 2010.

Tracks – Don’t Fall in Love / Dear Old Bill / Nobody Dreams About Me / Why can’t You Treat Me Right / Don’t Fall in Love / The Mountains / Hey Romeo / Evening / All that we Know / The Chiming Bells / Everyone Loves the Sequins/ Patients /

Source – Wikipedia
The Sequins were formed in 2002, after vocalist Hywel Roberts and guitarist Justin Hui performed a version of Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer[4] on the ukulele at the University of Warwick in 2002. Roberts and Hui were joined by Rob Hinchliff, Karthic Kukathasan and Simon Vint.

Tough Love Records (Coventry Label)
Brendan Casey replaced Vint in 2004, and the following year the band joined Coventry-based label Tough Love Records. Their first single, ‘Nobody Dreams About Me’, in 2005 became the very first release on Tough Love Records and was a double CD and vinyl format. It was followed up in 2006 by ‘Patients’.Karthic Kukuthasan left the band shortly afterwards and was replaced by Steve Weird.

They released their debut album The Death of Style in November 2007, the first full length album to be released on Tough Love Records to largely positive critical acclaim.

In early 2008, both Brendan Casey and Rob Hinchliff left the band, and
Donna Crawford, a former member of Rugby-based punk rockers Any Given Day joined to play drums. At around the same time, Tough Love Records relocated to London, and it became clear that Death of Style would be the bands last release on the label.
The new four-piece line up began to record music at home after some bad experiences in commercial recording studios,and an EP called ‘Risky Woods’ is scheduled for release by London-based label Indie-MP3 in Spring 2010.

Members of the band play in various other groups, including Special, which entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 and 2006 but were unsuccessful in their attempts to make the final.

 The Senses.

From this site 

http://littleindieblogs.blogspot.com/2021/02/track-of-day-senses-drop-your-arms.html

Words by Paul Dawson

Those with long memories may remember the first coming of Coventry-formed SENSES over 12 years ago. The wafting, atmospheric essence of ‘Drifting’ quickly caught the attention of taste makers and radio bods, which led to their playing a live session on BBC Radio Two for big fan Janice Long, amongst other things. The band seemed destined for a major breakthrough. However, a delay with a Japanese label brought things to a halt, and almost as fast as they arrived, they disappeared again.

Now, however, the same line-up of Brian Callan, Ian Finnegan, Kevin Kavanagh and Ronan O’Connor, have re-emerged, phoenix-like, and are back pooling their collective life experiences into a new release.

‘Drop Your Arms’, the Gavin Monaghan-produced lead single from their forthcoming – and long-delayed – debut album ‘Little Pictures Without Sound’, dropped last week, and shows the quartet have not lost their instinctive comradeship as band members.

The track is a belter, filled with energy, swagger, and strong lyrical message. The band have issued a “call to arms’ to fight through your vulnerabilities to fight for what is important, and not be afraid to drop your arms and become the best version of themselves. The guys’ use of bombastic guitar work and excellent vocal delivery allows for the track’s social and political message to have a real power.

SENSES are on track to have a stellar year, and with their debut album on the horizon, I, for one, cannot wait to see what else they have in store.