{"id":150,"date":"2022-04-01T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/04\/01\/firefly\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:20:00","slug":"firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/04\/01\/firefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andy Rothwell Guttercat, Mick Cashin<\/b> – bass, 80’s band with the DaVoil <\/b>family. (Source – Rob – Cook Williams<\/b>.)<\/span><\/p>\n


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<\/b>“Around 1981, after Malias, I auditioned to join another band, that was being formed by Clive Skellon<\/b> (drummer) who went on to be a well known local DJ on local radio station, Mercia Sound. He had all the songs written (and carried them round in a brief case, all professional like!). He had some recording and rehearsal time booked in, at Roger Lomas’<\/b> (Ska producer) home studio’s. We went up there and rehearsed a few times but for whatever reason it all fell through. (I have a feeling that his girlfriend got pregnant and he decided to call it a day with the musical career). He seemed so confident and knowledgeable to me at the time, but things weren’t meant to be!<\/p>\n

My third band took a while for me to find. Again it was through a friend of a friend drinking at the Dive, that I found myself auditioning for my next band. This was another metal band who tried to attract a biker type audience. They were all greasy long hair and dirty denims and leathers. The band were called Firefly<\/b>. * My musical tastes were changing at this time with me listening to the likes of Twisted Sister, Hanoi Rocks and Wrathchild. Gig wise I moved up a notch. I played more gigs than I thought were possible at the time and we got to play to larger audiences including a support slot with Bernie Torme and Thunderstick<\/b> at the General Wolfe and supports with local Biker\/NWOBHM band Chainsaw<\/b>. But things were not meant to be again. I got myself a red leather biker’s jacket and was sacked for becoming too glam for the bands image. They continued for a short while with a new singer, before calling it a day and splitting up.”<\/span><\/div>\n


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 Firefly BAND INDEX Andy Rothwell Guttercat, Mick Cashin – bass, 80’s band with the DaVoil family. (Source – Rob – Cook Williams.) Andy Rothwell – Guttercat says “Around 1981, after Malias, I auditioned to join another band, that was being … Continue reading →<\/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\/150"}],"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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}