{"id":401,"date":"2018-09-18T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/09\/18\/the-ships-crew-john-shipley\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:57:00","slug":"the-ships-crew-john-shipley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/09\/18\/the-ships-crew-john-shipley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ship’s Crew (John Shipley)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Shipley is a Coventry musical legend and mentioned on this site under The lesser known Two Tone band – Swinging Cats and others. A full article on John Shipley can be found here by Pete Clemons<\/b> and <\/span>Milan Stojsavljevic<\/b><\/div>\n
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Pete Clemons tells us (from the above interview with John Shipley) “After the Swinging cats split up, owing to constant line up changes, in October 1980, t<\/span>he second planned single, \u201cGreek Tragedy<\/i>\u201d, was finally recorded with a roster of Rhoda Dakar on vocals, Chris Dickie (of Gods Toys) on bass, Rob Hill on drums, Jerry on keyboards, and John on guitar. Sadly it never reached the pressing plant. \u201cGreek Tragedy<\/i>\u201d, however, did get a live outing during the Rock Against Racism gig at the Butts stadium, in June \u201981. The opening band that day were \u201cShip\u2019s Crew<\/b>\u201d a hastily formed outfit of John\u2019s creation. At about 1pm, the song was aired to just two people, as John recollects it…Jerry Dammers and John\u2019s dad, Bob, who was attending one of his son\u2019s gigs for the very first time. Ship\u2019s Crew sailed out that day, and capsized on their maiden voyage.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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“Chris became an engineer and has worked with the likes of Depeche Mode, The Pogues and Morrissey. He now lives in Australia.” Pete Chambers<\/b>.<\/span><\/div>\n


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