{"id":239,"date":"2021-08-08T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/08\/the-money-spiders-the-chicanes\/"},"modified":"2021-08-08T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:25:00","slug":"the-money-spiders-the-chicanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/08\/the-money-spiders-the-chicanes\/","title":{"rendered":"The MONEY SPIDERS (The CHICANES)"},"content":{"rendered":"

 The MONEY SPIDERS (The CHICANES) – later as The Beautiful People 1968<\/b><\/p>\n


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The CHICANES <\/b>
December 1963 – 1965 (Source Broadgate Gnome)<\/p>\n

Beat Group<\/p>\n

Members<\/b>: Roger Gunn <\/b>(lead guitar), Robert Cumner<\/b> (rhythm guitar), Bernie Tompkins<\/b> (bass), Kevin Connelly<\/b> (drums). Barry Kingsbeer<\/b><\/p>\n

Barry Kingsbeer<\/b> formed the band with Kevin Connelly<\/b>– see note below.<\/p>\n

Formed in December 1963 and managed by Gordon Williams. Signed with Joe Meek<\/b> as their recording manager. Became The Money Spiders<\/b> in 1965 and the Beautiful People<\/b> 1968.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Barry Kingsbeer<\/b>
I was flattered to see a kind mention of The Chicanes<\/b> here, schoolmate Kevin Connolly got a drum kit and took me round to his house to see it. At that point, being young and without fear (some might sat without a clue) we decided to form a band. I didn’t play any instrument at that time but ended up on bass which has been my first instrument ever since. On leaving the band I joined The Establishment,<\/b> formerly The Stormbreakers<\/b> from Nuneaton. Left Coventry 65\/66 and lost touch. I\u2019ve lived in Stratford for the last 20 years and am still playing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 The MONEY SPIDERS (The CHICANES) – later as The Beautiful People 1968 BACK TO THE BAND INDEX The CHICANES December 1963 – 1965 (Source Broadgate Gnome) Beat Group Members: Roger Gunn (lead guitar), Robert Cumner (rhythm guitar), Bernie Tompkins (bass), Kevin … 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\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}