{"id":124,"date":"2022-05-17T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/17\/european-sun\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:43:00","slug":"european-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/17\/european-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"European Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10pt;text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><b>European<br \/>\nSun<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10pt;text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhTltWL0BFjvpV5fTnwSIDucMwNtI5kpctUuWWOzdbeuYnxIEOzbo22qqHURwXzEXbkm_k3ixkVXxWCtV6YJaW6B6knYL1lf2F93hLxEvGqOb4IrGPzHZjD_uoY8XD_JuSl7Q4Cd11ahOF8OHXJp5Xv9ElTKZCF1lPmk2Fuh0woTQNyHHCBcWN64GHp0g\/s300\/Rod%20Goodwin.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"200\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhTltWL0BFjvpV5fTnwSIDucMwNtI5kpctUuWWOzdbeuYnxIEOzbo22qqHURwXzEXbkm_k3ixkVXxWCtV6YJaW6B6knYL1lf2F93hLxEvGqOb4IrGPzHZjD_uoY8XD_JuSl7Q4Cd11ahOF8OHXJp5Xv9ElTKZCF1lPmk2Fuh0woTQNyHHCBcWN64GHp0g\/w427-h640\/Rod%20Goodwin.jpg\" width=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10pt;text-align: left\"><span><b><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coventrybands.blogspot.com\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BAND INDEX<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10pt;text-align: left\"><span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Sources &#8211;<br \/>\nRex Brough &#8211; Pete Chambers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Line up <\/b>&#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Chrissie<br \/>\nPew<\/b> &#8211; Vocals&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Rod Goodwin<\/b><br \/>\n&#8211; Bass \/ Vocals&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>John Beaufoy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Single <\/b>&#8211;<br \/>\nAnswer Me &#8211; Iguana Records 1983 (Iguana was&nbsp;<br \/>\npart of the Horizon Studios Group)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Memories<br \/>\nfrom Chrissie Pew (from Rex Brough)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&#8220;I<br \/>\nsang with Flackoff after Claire Ellis left the band, and stayed with the band<br \/>\nuntil it&#8217;s demise, Rod Goodwin and myself&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">formed<br \/>\n&#8216;European Sun&#8217;. This line up stayed together for nearly eight years.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">I am<br \/>\nfinding it difficult to find anything on the net. about &#8216;European Sun&#8217;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">; which is<br \/>\nstrange, as we where very well known in local band circles, and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">we also had<br \/>\nan indie deal&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial\">From Pete<br \/>\nChambers &#8211; Godiva Rocks<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&#8221;<br \/>\nEuropean Sun came out of the remains of Leamington Spa Band Flack Off. Rod was<br \/>\na kingpin on the Leamington scene and had been organising concerts in the area<br \/>\nand generally shouting at people to halt the apathy and do something about the<br \/>\nlack of gigs- Chrissie was dark and sultry and had a great rock voice European<br \/>\nSun was a more sedate affair than Flack Off. At one point they looked like they<br \/>\nwere on the verge of a big success, but when Ron Goodwin left in 1985, their<br \/>\nfounder member and driving force had left&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial\">From<br \/>\nMinistry of Beaver site &#8211; Ron Goodwin<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&#8220;Rod<br \/>\nis an established and well-known bassist in the area and played bass with the<br \/>\nband for several&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">years<br \/>\nbefore discovering the sport of running. He has very kindly offered to fill the<br \/>\nbass player&#8217;s shoes until a suitable full-time bass player can be found. He is<br \/>\na bit of a local legend, having played in the bands Flackoff and European Sun<br \/>\nin his earlier days as a bass player. He has an annoying (but great) habit of<br \/>\nnot picking up a bass for several months and then coming along to rehearsals<br \/>\nwhen depping for the band and playing songs faultlessly. When not playing bass<br \/>\nor running, Rod runs a P.A. hire company, TGS PA Hire.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;An established and well-known bassist in the<br \/>\narea and played bass with the band for several years before discovering the<br \/>\nsport of running. He has very kindly offered to fill the bass player&#8217;s shoes until<br \/>\na suitable full-time bass player can be found. He is a bit of a local legend,<br \/>\nhaving played in the bands Flackoff and European Sun in his earlier days as a<br \/>\nbass player. He has an annoying (but great) habit of not picking up a bass for<br \/>\nseveral months and then coming along to rehearsals when depping for the band<br \/>\nand playing songs faultlessly. When not playing bass or running, Rod runs a<br \/>\nP.A. hire company, TGS PA Hire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10pt\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%;margin-bottom: 10.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; European Sun BAND INDEX Sources &#8211; Rex Brough &#8211; Pete Chambers &nbsp; Line up &#8211;&nbsp;Chrissie Pew &#8211; Vocals&nbsp;&nbsp;Rod Goodwin &#8211; Bass \/ Vocals&nbsp;&nbsp;John Beaufoy &nbsp; Single &#8211; Answer Me &#8211; Iguana Records 1983 (Iguana was&nbsp; part of the Horizon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/17\/european-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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\/124"}],"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=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}