| Band Name | Members | Comments |
| Black Amber / Amber |
Dave Shave - Rhythm Guitar
Peter Lyons - Bass Ged Hawkins - Lead Guitar / Vocals Marc Crumley - Drums |
Rehearsed at XII Apostles Club, Westleigh and played their only gigs there Xmas/New Year 1977 & 1978.
Did mainly cover versions of Rock 'n' Rock standards. The only original song I remember was Marc's 'All This And Heaven Too' - a complicated acoustic number. When Leo left, Ged soon joined Mike Sweeny & The Motivators, and the band split. Dave Replaced Terry McCorrmick in late 1977 |
| Origin | Dave Shave - Guitar
David Triggear - Bass Jimmy Tabener - Piano / Vocals Paul McIntyre - Drums Dave Harrison - Drums |
Rehearsed in Jimmy's parents garage - 1980.
Split when Jimmy went to uni. Most memorable song - Man In The Mirror (not the Michael Jackson one). |
| Dagda | Dave Shave - Acoustic / Electric Guitar
Steven Scothern - 12 String Guitar |
Rehearsed at our parents houses 1981.
Did only our own compositions which we later developed in Time After Time. |
| Time After Time | Dave Shave - Guitar
Steven Scothern - 12 String Guitar David Triggear - Bass Stuart McMullen - Vocals Dave ? - Drums Paul McIntyre - Drums |
 Rehearsed at Henrietta St school - 1981 to 1986. Did only our own compositions. Most memorable songs - Forever, Spaceman, Highwire (last ever song). Recorded a 5-song demo tape at Cavalier Studios in Stockport (1984). Played gigs at Leigh College, and in Walsingham (Norfolk)! Split in 1986, 12 months after Dave moved to Preston. If we'd have stayed together we might now have produced a CD or something and it might have looked like this, (but probably not !) |
| Raven | Steve Ogden - Guitar
Colin Wood - Bass Dave Seddon - Vocals Ste Critchely - Keyboards Peter Robinson - Drums |
1979. Played one gig, Plank Lane Catholic Club. |
| Logos | Ste Critchely - Keyboards
Ross Smethhurst - Keyboards | Gig at Boars Head. Did an Art Of Noise track & theme to Assault on Precinct 13. The poster billed them as Jean Michel Parrot & Co. |
| Aziz | Barry Atherton / Paul Hudson - Guitar
Malc Blakemore - Bass Paddy Peters - Vocals / Sax Ste Critchley / Martin ? - Keyboards Alec Santos - Percussion Colin Woods - Percussion / Sax Neil Aspinall - Drums |
There were at least 3 line-ups of this band.
Everyone sang but they kept turning Parrot's mic off, as he'd forget it was there and h’d sing when I shouldn’t and swear if he pressed wrong button on a synth. Think there still going but only Paddy left out of orignal line up from 87. |
| Horizons | Pete Drinnan - Guitar
Tony Thompson - Guitar Carl Owen - Bass Simon Crumley - Bass Pey Jones - Bass James Haywood - Vocals Ste Critchely - Keyboards Billy Krupp - Drums Marc Crumley - Drums Ste Walker - Drums |
There were at least three incarnations of this band apparent by the number of different bassists / drummers etc, but they finally called it a day in 1985. |
| Assassin | Carl Chester - Guitar
Ian Barton - Bass Tony Barton - Vocals Steve Walker - Drums |
 Battle of The Bands 1981 (including Assasin)
L - R back : Carl Owen, Pete Drinnan, Paul Carr, Neil Aspinall, ?, ?, Ste Walker, Tony Barton, Carl Chester, Ian Barton, Geriant ? |
| Under Fire | Tony Thompson - Guitar
Shaun Glocking - Bass Stuart McMullen - Vocals Tony Thompson - Keyboards Jonny T - Drums |
? |
| Flight 19 | Tony Thompson - Guitar
Colin Woods - Bass Paul Pennignton - Vocals Ste Critcheley - Keyboards Marc Crumley - Drums |
1980 - 1981 (?)
They did a few gigs, first one at De La Sol school in Eccles |
| The Special Guests | Tony Thompson - Guitar
Neil Dearden - Bass James Harwood - Vocals Marc Crumley - Drums |
1982 ?
. |
| The Special Guests No2 | Tony Thompson - Guitar
Jason Wood - Guitar Neil Dearden - Bass James Harwood - Vocals Cheryl Wood - Vocals / Keyboards John Trevick - Drums Collin ? - Guest Drums Robert (Gled) Gledhill - Guest Bass Roy Harrison - Guest Guitar | 1993 or 1994
2008 : Other ex-Bridge regulars who have played at these nights John Heavy, Steve Andrews, Tony Thompson and Mick (I think) Yates. All are welcome (but bring your own guitars). |
| Discworld | Roy Harrison - Guitar
Robert (Gled) Gledhill - Bass Johnny Paine - Vocals Steve Brown - Drums |
1997/8 |
| These Four Walls |
Robert Galster - Guitar / Vocals
Roy Harrison - Guitar Christopher Grundy - Bass Paul "Yobo" ? - Vocals John Francis - Drums |
1987 |
| Anti Mary and the Bishop's Love Child |
Roy Harrison - Guitar
Robert (Gled) Gledhill - Bass Mary Miskamin - Vocals Steve Brown - Drums |
1988/9 |
Vera Cruz |
Waz - Vocals / 2nd Guitar
Paul Hudson - Guitar / Vocals David Triggear - Bass / Vocals Malc Blakemore - Bass Nick Evans - Vocals Neil Aspinall - Drums |
 www.vera.cruz.com |
| State Of Quo |
Paul Carr - Guitar / Vocals Mike Grady - Guitar / Vocals / Harmonica Tony Lingard - Bass Graham Peters - Bass Dave Owen - Vocals John Coghlan - Drums (occasionally) |
 www.stateofquo.com |
| Starsailor |
James Walsh - Guitar / Vocals James Stelfox - Bass Ben Byrne - Drums Barry Westhead - Keyboards |
I don't know if James & Co ever went in the Bridge, (perhaps they're a little too young), but they are the only famous band that I'm aware of with a Leigh connection (they met at Leigh & Wigan College, so that's a good enough reason to list them here). Their first album Love Is Here hasn't been out of my CD player for about a month (May 2002). www.starsailor.net |
| Stolen Thunder |
Adrian Mcintyre - Guitar / Vocals Chris Hide - ? Ian Hide - ? Scott Lyon - ? Liam Lee? - ? |
 www.myspace.com/stolenthunder Paul McIntyre's son's band - see website for gig list. |
| || The Back Room || Music-related || Misc || People List || Bands || Juke Box || Home || | ||
