13Nov2009

Speedball — Maximum Speed

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That’s right..Guy’s first band has a live album com­ing out!
What can we say about Speedball that hasn’t been said before?

One of the few Mod bands that haven’t had the “DETOUR” treat­ment…
Finally we are proud to announce a full length CD release from Southend’s finest MOD band.
Starting off life as “IDIOT”, but after a false start the band re-​​grouped from a four piece down to a three piece and started play­ing all the local haunts. Then after a few choice gigs, London beck­oned! The band realised they had found their audi­ence and built up a loyal fol­lowing of up and com­ing parka clad fans from the newly formed Mod phe­nom­enon that was sweep­ing the coun­try… From 1979 to 1981 the band played their hearts out to packed venues.

In this period, the band released one cult sta­tus sin­gle on local ’ No Pap’ label which has now become quite a col­lec­table sin­gle. Sadly the band imploded in 1981, Rob the main song writer ended up emi­grating to dow­nunder, Dave the drum­mer sadly died a few years ago from can­cer and Guy, as we know, has been play­ing with Pink Floyd for the last 15 years.

This bril­liant and over due release fea­tures both sides of the sin­gle, unre­leased stu­dio tracks and choice live tracks.

• No Survivors
• Don’t You Know Love By Now
• 60’s Girl
• Is Somebody There?
• Billy Gets What Billy Wants
• Please Don’t Stare
• Boys And Girls
• Billy Gets What Billy Wants (live)
• First Time (live)
• Test Tube Baby (live)
• Running Blind (live)
• Look What I Did Today (live)
• Don’t You Know That (live)
• Round And Around (live)

Unleashed on the pub­lic on Monday, 14^th December, on lim­ited edi­tion of 1000 copies avail­able exclu­sively through:

Detour Records Distribution
PO Box 18, Midhurst West Sussex, GU29 9YU, England
Tel/​​Fax: 01730 815422
Email: dizzydetour@​btinternet.​com