Home town: Bulawayo
Members:
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Brian Powell - Vocals
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John Kaiser - Guitar
- Paddy Powell - Guitar
- Hugo Rijpftra - Guitar
- Nippy Cripwell - Bass
- Derek "Bokkie" de Beer - Drums
METEORS
Circa: 1960
Home town:
Members:
MIDNIGHT SUN
Circa:
Home town: Salisbury
Members:
MIDNIGHT CONCESSION (Added
19/06/05)
Circa: 1975
Home town: Bulawayo
Members:
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Dean Bews
-
Alan Johns
-
Trevor Herbst
-
Brian Biccard
This band was made up of ex Hamilton High Old Boys
and gigged locally at venues such as the Bellevue Scout Hall.
MIKE STEWART BAND
Circa:
Home town:
Members:
MONOPOLY (Revised
16/09/05)
Circa: 1975
Home town: Gwelo
Members:
IT'S GONNA BE A
RECORD - DOIN' THE VINYL THANG!
(From left) Brian Jakubeck (keyboards),
George Taylor (drums), George Low (guitar) & Pete Butler (vocals).
A REAL,
GENUINE, HIT RECORD LABEL!!
MOTETS
(Added
18/07/06)
Circa:
Home town:
Bulawayo
Members:
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Sandra Langberg
-
Camilla Richardson
-
George Lambert-Porter
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Rob Cushman
The MOTETS were born out of the 3G'S who were
seemingly forced to change their name after their number grew to 4!!
The group were familiar entertainers on the Bulawayo social scene
and made received exposure on both television and radio.
MOTHER NATURE'S
SUN
(Updated
11/10/06)
Circa:
1971
Home town:
Salisbury
Members:
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Digby Baillie - Lead vocals & trumpet
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Pete Baillie - Rhythm guitar & vocals
(Took over lead when Tony Hopkins left)
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Tony Hopkins - Lead guitar, organ &
vocals (Was replaced on organ & vocals by Pete Hastings)
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Chris Brown - Tenor saxophone & vocals
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Alan Young - Bass guitar & vocals
-
Clive Kluckow - Drums (Replaced by
Pete Bishton)
The band, which was started by brothers Pete and
Digby Baillie in 1971, unabashedly took its name from a song of the
same name on the Beatles double White album. As the band had a
sax player in the shape of Chris Brown, Digby Baillie decided to
teach himself trumpet (with a little help from his friends!) and,
together, they succeeded in creating what was arguably Rhodesia's
first "pop" band with a brass section. The band's members
fondly recall that it wasn't long after Nick Pickard had dropped
into one of their Saturday lunchtime gigs, at La Boheme, that Holy
Black added brass to their line-up. Coincidence or influence?
Naturally the band included songs of the day which featured brass,
such as Blood, Sweat and Tear's "Spinning Wheel". When Tony
Hopkins and Clive Kluckow left the band's ranks confusion abounded
as their replacements both bore the christian names of Peter,
resulting in three Peters in the band! This was guaranteed to
perplex any audience! The band thrived until 1973 playing all
the regular venues including La Boheme, Le Coq D'Or and the Queens
Hotel. Whilst some of the members drifted overseas, Pete and
Digby Baillie relocated to Durban where they reformed the group.
The band continued to perform until 1990 and, despite the various
personnel changes that occurred, Pete Baillie remained a founding
member.
MOTHER NATURE'S SUN BEAMING ON!
(From left - right: Alan Young/Pete
Bishton/Pete Baillie/Digby Baillie/Pete Hastings)
MR ALLEN'S ESTATE
(Updated
20/06/05)
Circa: 1969
Home town: Bulawayo
Members:
The later line-up was:
The name of the band which was the forerunner to MR.
ALLEN'S ESTATE can no longer be recalled, however, the basic line-up
of musicians was similar. The band played a number of gigs around
Bulawayo, most notably at the Large and Small City Halls, the MacDonald
Club (Mac Club) and Callies Sports Club. They were then approached by
John Butcher of the Stork Club who offered them a residency, backing an
imported comedian and singer known as Lucky Nelson, a drummer called
"Spider" Kennedy and Rusty, the resident stripper. At this
stage Rik Accorsi left the band and Brian Powell moved to rhythm guitar
to make way for "Spider" Kennedy. Within a week of commencing
at the Stork Club there was an altercation between Lucky and
"Spider" which led to Lucky punching "Spider" on
stage during the course of a performance, breaking his glasses! Lucky
was asked to leave, and Rusty's services were terminated as John Butcher
wanted to try to attract a younger set of people to the club. It was at
this stage that the remaining members of the band adopted the name of MR
ALLEN'S ESTATE. Keith Small is credited with having come up with
this name which not all the band members liked. The band subsequently
made a number of television appearances on Doug Gordon's show. Ronald
Tuohy duly left the band and his place was taken by a keyboardist, Rob
Walmsley, although he did a number of spots with the band after leaving,
standing in for Rob on one occasion in the recording of a Doug Gordon
show.
This band later gave rise to PLATO'S REPUBLIC &
WASHINGTON
MUNCH (Updated
15/01/06)
Circa:
Home
town: Salisbury
Members:
The band are particularly remembered for their
excellent Uriah Heep covers.
MUNCH TIME (At Ofados Portugese Restaurant)!!
From left - right:
Ernie Mindry/Rod Driver/Mike Schofield & Pete Anderson
JUST MUNCHIN' ALONG!
MUNCH BAR?
WHAT'S FOR MUNCH?
MUSIC
INN
(Added 09/05/06)
Circa:
1977
Participated
in the Texan Rock Band
Competition at Trade Fair
Rhodesia in 1977.
MUSEUM
Circa: 1973 - 1974
Home town:
Members:
The band played progressive rock but did not survive for
long. Brahm Malherbe played for a time with legendary South African
band, HAWK, and his brother, Calvin, with RUBBABAND.
