{"id":49,"date":"2022-10-05T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/10\/05\/black-parrot-seaside\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:23:00","slug":"black-parrot-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/10\/05\/black-parrot-seaside\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Parrot Seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Black Parrot Seaside – Folk with Attitude<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Drummer Jim Pryal recalls –<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


<\/b>” During this period, Arun and I did a recording via Chris King<\/b> with ‘Black Parrot Seaside’ at Pathway studios, London. Wreckless Eric and Elvis Costello had done tracks there and Dire Straits had recorded ‘The Sultans of Swing’ album there. We were on hallowed ground. Just a small place with an eight track recorder as I remember. We recorded a very funny song about being reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner! I still laugh now thinking about it! I just had a mail from Geoff Veasey<\/b> -so great to hear that The Parrot are still performing.”
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Eddie Jones<\/b>, \/ Arnold Chave<\/b>, \/ Mick Harris<\/b> and Geoff Veasey<\/b><\/p>\n

Their album is available on the above website<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Line-ups have varied over time between a folk duo and a six-piece rock band.<\/div>\n
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Obviously some Parrots lasted longer than others. A BPS biographical flow chart would need to include the following:<\/div>\n
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Drummers:<\/b><\/div>\n
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Rob Lockington<\/b><\/div>\n
Jeff Powles<\/b><\/div>\n
Dave \u201cVance\u201d Anderson<\/b><\/div>\n
Jim Pryal<\/b><\/div>\n
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Lead or  Rhythm Guitar:<\/b><\/div>\n
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Arnold Chave<\/b><\/div>\n
Tez Tehegee<\/b><\/div>\n
John Walker<\/b><\/div>\n
Dave Blundy<\/b><\/div>\n
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Graham Caldicot<\/b><\/div>\n
Geoff Veasey<\/b><\/div>\n
Arnold Chave<\/b><\/div>\n
Eddie Jones<\/b><\/div>\n
Mick Harris<\/b><\/div>\n
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Guitar – Electric \/ Acoustic \/ Bass:<\/b><\/div>\n
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Barry Ousby<\/b><\/div>\n
Martin \u201cMandrago\u201d Smalldon<\/b><\/div>\n
Arun Bhandari<\/b><\/div>\n
Keyboards & Accordian:<\/div>\n
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Mick Harris<\/b><\/div>\n
Eddie Jones<\/b><\/div>\n
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Mandolin & Banjo:<\/b><\/div>\n
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Mick Harris<\/b><\/div>\n
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Fiddle:<\/b><\/div>\n
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Eddie Jones<\/b><\/div>\n
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The brief career of Black Parrot Seaside began in Richmond Street in Coventry where a few members taped an extremely silly version of Marc Bolan’s Telegram Sam called Baggy Leaf Dwarf. The original line up consisted of drums, bass, lead, keyboards and two vocalists.<\/div>\n
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Influences – Alex Harvey, Bonzos, Edgar Broughton, Heavy Metal Kids<\/b> and Monty Python.<\/b> Many line up changes (see below) and at the time of the recording the band moved from Rock to Folk. but the stage act remained out of the ordinary. It featured sea shanties, monologues, Marston’s Bitter, Rolf Harris impersonations, and much more. <\/div>\n
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The immortal \u201cRoll it Up and Eat It\u201d was nearly a landmark in vinyl history. It was released, or rather escaped, in 1978. An early picture disc, it was recorded on Zama Records by Coventry band Black Parrot Seaside. The sleeve also credited \u201cThe Exploding Sheep\u201d but they were in fact, entirely mythical.<\/div>\n
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At that time, the band had attracted a modest local following with self-penned tributes to working Midlanders such as \u201cThe Wag of Shop 14\u201d or \u201cOn Bedduth Bank\u201d. The Wag celebrated Coventry\u2019s commuting armies of early morning assembly line workers, in the days when the city still had car factories. At the end of it, overalls and cow gowns were donned as the band clanked out a \u201cSpanner Shanty\u201d using monkey wrenches.<\/div>\n
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Of the album tracks however, the late, great John Peel<\/b> liked  \u201cI am a vacuum cleaner\u201d so much he played it on his late night Radio One show. Record Mirror described this track as \u201cA classic\u201d, whilst Melody Maker advocated that another song, \u201cThe Whistler\u201d should receive, \u201cThe Harpo Marx Award for the best whistling on record since The Rolling Stones – Walking The Dog \u201d.<\/div>\n
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Even the normally staid Coventry Evening Telegraph praised B.P.S. and their \u201cDull Wave\u201d music as:<\/div>\n
\u201c One of the silliest, craziest and most original ideas to hit the music scene in years.\u201d<\/div>\n
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It was just the band\u2019s luck after such rave reviews that the debut single should be launched in exactly the same week as the debut singles of Squeeze and Kate Bush. Though BPS shared a few column inches with them both in the Music Press that week, it was about the only thing they did have in common thereafter!<\/div>\n
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Blues featured heavily in the early years, and the band covered . \u201cAll Round Man \u201ca Bo Carter original  which was mildly obscene. Another popular blues was \u201cIn the Wee Midnight Hour,\u201d first recorded by Scrapper Blackwell.  John Lee Hooker\u2019s \u201cDimples\u201d and a version of \u201cBring It On Home,\u201d also featured in early set lists.<\/div>\n
BPS line-ups have varied over time between a folk duo and a six-piece rock band.<\/div>\n
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