{"id":272,"date":"2021-08-04T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/out-of-the-blue\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:15:00","slug":"out-of-the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/out-of-the-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Out of the Blue<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">According to <b>Pete Chambers<\/b>, formed out of Jimmy Jimmy in the mid to late 80&#8217;s, I think.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/coventrybands.blogspot.com\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BACK TO THE BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p>Pete says (in Godiva Rocks) &#8220;Out of the Blue were a stylish six piece unit comprising of James O&#8217;Neill  &#8211; Vocals and guitar, Howie Price &#8211; Sax, Rob Arnall &#8211; Keyboards, Miles Woodroffe &#8211; bass, Ray Jenkins &#8211; guitar and Steve Kenny &#8211; drums. I had a lot of time for this band. I remember I once got a call from an excited Sean O&#8217;Sullivan, he was the A &amp; R guy at A &amp; R Records, asking me all about them. He had become interested in them when news broke they would be supporting Wet Wet Wet. Despite such interest they finally split-up and probably went back to their day jobs in Hertford (Where Jimmy Jimmy began busking).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also have Steve Kavanagh down as being in the band at some stage and with Rob Arnall &#8211; were both of the band Presage. I think this was early Out of the Blue, then called Fresh (86).<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Blue According to Pete Chambers, formed out of Jimmy Jimmy in the mid to late 80&#8217;s, I think. BACK TO THE BAND INDEX Pete says (in Godiva Rocks) &#8220;Out of the Blue were a stylish six piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/out-of-the-blue\/\">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\/272"}],"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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}