Well, I didn’t expect to see this when I woke up this morning.
The man like Tony Colman (now better known as liquid funk/drum & bass maestro London Elektricity and head honcho of Hospital Records - whom have a release elsewhere on this blog as one of my Top 10 tunes (of any genre) of the noughties on http://slabface.tumblr.com/post/338079748/zeitgeist-ii) in 1987 wearing a snappy paisley shirt and waistcoat combo, fronting his former band IZIT.
This has reminded me that my “Top 10 Drum & Bass Tunes” post has sat on my hard-drive unposted for some time. Tsh!
IZIT - ‘Stingray’ live at The George Robey, 1987.
My second band was called IZIT and initially i was the front man. This recording of us covering the theme tune from Gerry Anderson’s Stingray animation is from one of the many ancient VHS recordings i recently had archived, hence the scratchy tape quality and jumps. I would have been 26 years old at the time, and we were at the ‘pay to play’ stage of our career - ie the band had to pay the venue to be allowed to play. Not sure if that practice still goes on but it was everywhere in London at that time. The band members in this video are: Andrew Missingham on drums, Peter Spencer on keyboards, Sam Craft on Bass, Peter and Catherine Shrubshall on wind
