{"id":458,"date":"2018-08-26T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/08\/26\/the-targets\/"},"modified":"2018-08-26T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:59:00","slug":"the-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/08\/26\/the-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><b>The Targets<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/>\nc 1979 \/ 80<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jUXludsVJF0\/W4Kwa9FuUcI\/AAAAAAAAG78\/J0TpRWu68IEcMSNDjF9rKpyvnDqwZ5UAgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Targets3.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"461\" data-original-width=\"680\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jUXludsVJF0\/W4Kwa9FuUcI\/AAAAAAAAG78\/J0TpRWu68IEcMSNDjF9rKpyvnDqwZ5UAgCLcBGAs\/s640\/Targets3.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Line Up<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Gary Jackson<\/b> &#8211; Guitar, vocals&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><b>Andy Dix <\/b>&#8211; Guitar Vocals <\/p>\n<p><b>Paul Strickland<\/b> &#8211; Bass, Vocals <\/p>\n<p><b>Pete King<\/b> &#8211; Drums<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Rex Brough writes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the being the Targets, the band was called Shure Tailor &amp; the JP5. The original vocalist, Terry (TJ) Davies, moved to Bristol, and ended up playing bass in a 70&#8217;s tribute band called FAB208. Gary Jackson carried on making music with a group called Personal Effect<\/p>\n<p><b>From Alternative Sounds 1979<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gPCMZB4TwEA\/W4Kw3LTC37I\/AAAAAAAAG8E\/4n0R7TIWLd0BvdAYpO1sc27OWWW4QU2tgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Targets2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"846\" data-original-width=\"1084\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gPCMZB4TwEA\/W4Kw3LTC37I\/AAAAAAAAG8E\/4n0R7TIWLd0BvdAYpO1sc27OWWW4QU2tgCLcBGAs\/s640\/Targets2.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><b style=\"font-family: arial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coventrybands.blogspot.com\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BACK TO THE BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Targets c 1979 \/ 80 Line Up Gary Jackson &#8211; Guitar, vocals&nbsp; Andy Dix &#8211; Guitar Vocals Paul Strickland &#8211; Bass, Vocals Pete King &#8211; Drums &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Rex Brough writes Prior to the being the Targets, the band was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/08\/26\/the-targets\/\">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\/458"}],"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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}