{"id":11,"date":"2023-01-07T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T03:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T03:45:51","slug":"armalite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2023\/01\/07\/armalite\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMALITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><b>ARMALITE<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg4xqVegtBzto_q0MOwjX4_0VQ0ZYMtI_-jPFyh1mAaVOmtKLdBxM_p-evxq7MO_nd4tZr6LZ0YnqZdFwmyNOQekec8_fkCNk-eBDx2U5j7wJlErV5w4wNXIxmf3Ommh9tUtXQAOJvvpk0M9ad4uF5_7pjb9vQMU7xOSzoFFdj_BXxUtRsQq1LwSswSHw\/s182\/Armalite2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"182\" data-original-width=\"182\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg4xqVegtBzto_q0MOwjX4_0VQ0ZYMtI_-jPFyh1mAaVOmtKLdBxM_p-evxq7MO_nd4tZr6LZ0YnqZdFwmyNOQekec8_fkCNk-eBDx2U5j7wJlErV5w4wNXIxmf3Ommh9tUtXQAOJvvpk0M9ad4uF5_7pjb9vQMU7xOSzoFFdj_BXxUtRsQq1LwSswSHw\/w400-h400\/Armalite2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<div><b>ARMALITE<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>1984<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Cary Lord<\/b> &#8211; bass \/ singer songwriter<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Caron Joyce<\/b> &#8211; Vocals<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Toby Lyons <\/b>&#8211; bass<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Billy Gough<\/b> &#8211; Drums<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Adrian Dix<\/b> &#8211; Guitar<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2018Living on the Edge &#8211; Sonar<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Power pop&#8221; &#8211; <b>Pete Chambers<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221; Armalite were formed by singer\/songwriter and multi instrumentalist Cary Lord who played bass guitar for Coventry band L&#8217;Home de Terre in 1980.&nbsp; Their unique sound was dominated by the vocals of Caron Joyce and harmonies of Cary.&nbsp; Over several years this band experienced several line up changes including Toby Lyons (Colourfield) ex Swinging Cats drummer Billy Gough, and targets guitarist Adrian Dix.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>They were runners up to \u2018Channel A&#8217; in a battle of the bands competition at the Lanch in 1981, and eventually Armalite came together in 1984. Paul Johnston &#8211; drums, Cary Lord -Bass guitar\/backing vox, Caron Joyce &#8211; Lead Vox, and Adrian Dix on guitar recorded this single at the 8 track Cabin studio. Produced by Armalite and Paul Sampson, \u2018Living on the Edge&#8217; b\/w \u2018 sporting the catalogue number SON 3<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>November 2009 saw the release of the Sonar Music 25 year Anniversary album and \u2018Living on the edge&#8217; is included. To mark this event a gig was promoted and the unique Armalite vocal harmonies of Caron and Cary were heard again.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Download for Armalite available here from Sonar&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonar-records.co.uk\/sonar-25th-anniversary-album\/\">http:\/\/www.sonar-records.co.uk\/sonar-25th-anniversary-album\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: xx-large\"><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ARMALITE BAND INDEX ARMALITE 1984 Cary Lord &#8211; bass \/ singer songwriter Caron Joyce &#8211; Vocals Toby Lyons &#8211; bass Billy Gough &#8211; Drums Adrian Dix &#8211; Guitar \u2018Living on the Edge &#8211; Sonar &#8220;Power pop&#8221; &#8211; Pete Chambers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2023\/01\/07\/armalite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}