{"id":193,"date":"2022-03-07T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/03\/07\/just-before-dawn\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:20:00","slug":"just-before-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/03\/07\/just-before-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST BEFORE DAWN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo supplied by bassist <\/span>Graeme Dewis via Jim Pryal.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Just Before Dawn advertised in Hobo magazine in 1974, care of Peter Morris<\/b> and played at the Hobo Workshop either at the the Holyhead Youth Centre, or Golden Cross. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Certainly they were earmarked to play at Hobo’s closed down Coventry Precinct gig with Memories<\/b> in 1974 already blogged about on this site. Memories<\/b> played in Coventry precinct for us but then the police closed it down because of ‘noise’. In 1973 Just Before Dawn played the Melody Maker National Rock\/Folk contest.<\/p>\n

Jim Pryal<\/b> (Drummer with the band) says of the band –<\/p>\n

“I joined \u2018Just before Dawn’ in 1974. We were managed by Norman Dewis<\/b>, chief test driver for Jaguar. He was the first person to drive from Coventry to London on the new M1 in an E type Jag in 1959. Norman\u2019s son Graeme Dewis <\/b>played bass. It was a club covers band and had regular work and we played rock whenever we could. We used to practice at Normans farm near Packington. You always got tea and biscuits off Nan, Normans wife. Other guys in the band were Martin Banner<\/b> on keys, Pete Morris <\/b>on Guitar and Paul Chadband<\/b> on vocals RIP..”<\/span><\/div>\n


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