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- A History of Wetherby's Rock Bands |
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Wetherby, on the banks of the mighty Wharfe River which carries glacial waters from high above the Vale of York and deposits them in the treacherous fishing fields of the North Sea, is a pokey little market town, running with rats and plagued by tsetse flies during the monsoon season in late August and is not the kind of place you would expect to find very much to interest the Rock Music historian. Au contraire; the more you dig, the more you find and there is growing evidence that this most beastly of environs - with it's rampant in-breeding and incestuous ancestries - has spawned a whole range of local bands, none of whom ever made it big outside the city walls but all of whom merit a place in the record books These bands, as diverse as they were derivative, can be grouped together under the umbrella title of the Wharfebeat Sound - if the scousers can have Mersey Beat, then we can have this - and, through no fault of their own (and probably against the wishes of their peers) have now been well and truly dumped here...in the Wharfebeat Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame would be glad to receive details of any bands who qualify for inclusion, i.e. any band who rehearsed in or whose members lived in Wetherby or surrounding villages (Bardsey, Collingham, Kirk Deighton etc) - any bands from Leeds, Harrogate or York and particularly Knaresborough...get lost! click here to submit your details |
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Aug 2001 |
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