The Lambrettas
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Voice of Reason
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Lewes Band - lead by Jez Bird - who is still palying around the pubs locally BTW.
andybaha
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Yep, very underated. Generally remembered just for a fairly average cover of Poison Ivy. Virtually every other song they recorded was written by Jez Bird who is still active on the local music scene. They weren't really a mod band. Their second album particularly was full of clever pop songs including things like drum loops which were virtually unheard of at the time.
coventrygull
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Yes and mods were 
REDLAND
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Jez Bird is a grumpy ****, this is unfortunatly a FACT 
Voice of Reason
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Spoke to him in Tesco's car park, Lewes, recently. Seemed very happy to me!
REDLAND
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Voice of Reason
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You try keeping him up all night, he ain't so savory then
What you mean "keping him up all night"?
Jez Bird is one of the most underrated British songwriters of all time and 'Beat Boys in the Jet Age' is one of the most underrated albums of all time - FACT! I've met him a couple of times and he's always been really friendly. It's just a shame that he plays mainly covers round the pubs as he says that's what people want. The last time I saw him the only Lambrettas song he did was Poison Ivy which of course he didn't write.
Brighton Breezy
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Cracking band.
Lush
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Saw them loads. Bad choice of name in retrospect - they never really moved on after the mod revival was over.
Stinky Kat
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Steve did you see them on the Pier with the Teenbeats last century, they were preety good.
Purple Hearts played too, they were off their nuts on purple hearts?
"millions like us"
Yes and mods were
We are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods.
The Auditor
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Stinky Kat
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lies in its youth and thats you, well not us as we are 40ish now
strength of the nation lies in its middle age middle managers and thats us
coventrygull
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We are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods.
That was one pathetic chant in those days. Pity you always ran away.
I did once have a mod girlfriend
coventrygull
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I remember the teenbeats. I even have a single of theirs
Gordon the Gopher
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That brings back memories, the old hastings lot. Huggy Cleaver, the lead singer, jumped on stage with a band i used to play in. He had a gruff Jake Burns type voice. He actually went onto become part of the chavvy family in Eastenders and was also part of the sten gun gang in lock, stock and two smoking barrels!
Dandyman
In London village.
Remember them rehearsing the scout hut round the back of Lewes Priory. Seems like only...a thousand years ago.
The Auditor
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Yep ..that was old Hugh Leaver !..The Teenbeats did a few reunion gigs last year...what band were you in?