{"id":349,"date":"2019-03-28T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2019\/03\/28\/the-supernaturals\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:50:00","slug":"the-supernaturals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2019\/03\/28\/the-supernaturals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supernaturals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><b style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: xx-large\">The Supernaturals<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><b style=\"font-family: arial\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">1985 -86<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/coventrybands.blogspot.com\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BACK TO THE BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Pauline Black<\/b> &#8211; Vocals<\/p>\n<p><b>Everett<\/b>&nbsp;<b>Morton<\/b> (The Beat&#8217;s old drummer) &#8211; Drums replaced by <b>Rob Hill<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Zip The Bassman <\/b>&#8211; Bass replaced by <b>Ray<\/b>, a bass player from Rugby<\/p>\n<p><b>Tony White<\/b> &#8211; Guitar<\/p>\n<p><b>Dave Gedney <\/b>(&#8220;That boy gets everywhere!&#8221; &#8211; Tony)<\/p>\n<p><b>John Shipley<\/b> &#8211; Guitar (2nd Line-up)<\/p>\n<p><b>John Greenhow<\/b> (2nd Line-up)<\/p>\n<p><b>Memories from Tony White via Rex Brough<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first line-up supported Joe Boxers on tour. The second line up really rocked. NME described us as playing &#8216;Guitar-based underwater spy-movie music&#8217; I really enjoyed this band &#8211; we supported The Communards on their UK tour in 1986 and played some great gigs around the country.<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of Press and record company interest in The Supernaturals&nbsp;at that time &#8211; closest that I personally ever got to &#8216;making it&#8217; but it wasn&#8217;t to be. John Shipley and Pauline fell out, everybody&nbsp;took sides and it got a tad nasty. God I really hate all that political nonsense. Upshot of it was that a new band emerged from the ashes called The Great Escape &#8211; Val (Ex swinging cats) was drafted in as lead singer and Barry (Rob Hill&#8217;s old partner in rhythm from The Mix) replaced Ray on Bass. The new line up was now Val, Myself, John Shipley, John Greenhow, Rob Hill and Barry.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Escape actually played some corking gigs in Cov in early &#8217;87 but finally split with myself Rob and Barry going over to the French Riviera where we played the English Campsite bars as Ted Zeppelin&nbsp;and the Marina Maniacs !!<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that this was amazing fun, and actually earnt more dosh than any of us had ever seen from music before !<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supernaturals 1985 -86 BACK TO THE BAND INDEX Pauline Black &#8211; Vocals Everett&nbsp;Morton (The Beat&#8217;s old drummer) &#8211; Drums replaced by Rob Hill Zip The Bassman &#8211; Bass replaced by Ray, a bass player from Rugby Tony White &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2019\/03\/28\/the-supernaturals\/\">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\/349"}],"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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}