These tales, anecdotes, comments, (confessions? Accusations?) have been emailed in by the guys from the band with a few from the fans. I am led to believe they all completely true....
“We were a Heavy Rock band & not a Heavy Metal band & that's so obvious if you listen to our music. As usual though, a tag is pinned on you & you have to wear it, it could be worse, punk, poppy, bubblegum...Ow! So we go with the flow”. (Terry Dark)
“… when the band was together, we were never Heavy Metal, we were a hard rock band. The image to me was hard, tough, unstoppable, we’re going to do what we want, not follow the rest. Loud, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, always with feeling and emotion, extreme, confident, extravagant, cool, womanising, heavy yes. More gritty and basic than heavy metal, yet intelligent without thrash””. (Ian Smith)
“The stage act. We had a lot of fun with that. We often used to fight, John used blood capsules in his mouth. Ian once appeared on stage in snorkel and flippers and played the whole night like that. John would wear dark glasses, stand on one leg, stare over the top of the glasses at the people and still manage to play... I wonder if he still can? I used to get ‘beaten up’ a lot and would end up kicked in a heap in a corner”. (Terry Dark)
“John... What a star player he was, that great growling bass sound, upside down crosses, blood capsules, hopping across the stage (first gig he did this he fell through a gap in the stage boards between the beer crates, what a laugh. He kept playing with just his upper body showing)”.
(Ian Smith)
“The band likes drinking, smoking and going out with women. Preferably all at the same time”.
(Band introduction for a competition, 1977)
“We drank, smoked and eyed up the women and we were very noisy”. (Terry Dark, 2008)
“I can’t remember...” (Phil Kimberley)
