Wow! Here's THE Orginal, and first ever Black Parrot Seaside line-up,taken from our first EVER rehearsal early 1975. Just look at all that hair! Left to Right, Arnold Chave, (guitar and vocals), Geoff Veasey (vocals), Tez Tehergee (guitar) Dave Blundy (guitar). All ex-Caludon Castle lads. At least three more ex-Caludon Old Boys would later join us: John Walker, Mick Harris and Graham Caldicot.
Dave Blundy rehearsed with us, and helped us out a lot with our sound in the Electric days.He was actually working a lot with Davey and The Starliners at the time. He did guest occasionally however, notably at the notorious Smithfield Hotel (Coventry) gig . Later, after the various rock formats and the first Folk format had split up, we still often rehearsed or jammed in Dave's flat in Coventry. John Walker would join in,and one of our ex-bassists, Martin Smalldon, would bring along a double base.
Rob Lockington joined us soon after, as our first drummer. Mick Harris came in on keyboards. and has been with us on and off ever since. Graham Caldicot became a second vocalist. Barry Ousby became our first bassist. The debut B.P.S. gig was in 1975/6 at Wolvey Village Hall. Geoff missed it, as he had Mumps!
