We supported The Claim a couple of times..as a band and as supporters...if that makes sense? Always fondly remembered by me for the tremendously titled album "This Pencil Was Obviously Sharpened By A Left-Handed Indian Knife-Thrower" Exquisite. Some of The Claim are still around...treading the beer-stained boards of Medway's Inns. Dave Arnold and Dave Read, in fact, made a sterling appearance together at the Medway Eyes 1967 night at The Barge, Gillingham, in January 2009.
My favourite Medway band ever. When's that bloody anthology coming out?
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, that be Mark Matthews's handwriting at the bottom right of the bottom article (with the Backs number)
ReplyDeleteactually, bottom left i mean
ReplyDeleteI'll have to listen again, Phil. I've not heard them since "the day" and I was trying to hear too much then.
ReplyDeleteNope...the hand-writing is mine, Bob. All the cuttings are from my scrap-books/note-books.
Obviously we have similar writing style.
Un-bleedin'-canny
ReplyDeleteThere's a CLAIM retrospective CD, Black Path, coming out on Rev-Ola through Cherry Red at the end of September. Also, they're playing a reunion show in Rochester on Saturday 19th September. Great to have them back!
ReplyDeleteThanks Greedo.....and yep...I went to the reunion show. Brilliant. :-)
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