Friday 13 July 2012

The Boys are back in.....Bearwood!


Did you know that legendary rockers Thin Lizzy - famous for songs such as ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’, ‘Whisky In The Jar’ and ‘Jailbreak’ played at The Dog on Hagley Road AND at The Bear on Bearwood High Street on the same bill as Judas Priest?  No!  Us neither...OMG!...WOW!
Here's more about the gig at The Dog from Eamonn Jolley who was actually there - http://www.philip-lynott.com/SaturdayStayback-1983.htm
More proof that Bearwood well and truly ROCKS! 
Welovebearwood have scoured the YouTube archives and found this incredible footage of Thin Lizzy’s performance at The Dog for Channel 4’s Saturday Stayback programme in 1983.

With jazz in Lightwoods Park bandstand and Warley Woods’ mini festival this weekend welovebearwood would love to know more about Bearwood’s musical heritage. 
Who have you seen play live in Bearwood?  Were you at Andy Hamilton’s gig the night Mick Hucknall of Simply Red turned up? (thanks for the tip Phil Musgrave) Did you see the Beatles play at Thimblemill Baths? Did you know Chrissie McVie (nee Perfect) of Fleetwood Mac when she lived here? 
P.S Have a read of Bob Piper’s hilarious ‘Unidentified object expected over Bearwood’ article on the Bearwood Blog by clicking on this.  It made us smile!

6 comments:

  1. Not really top class acts.... but Bearwood (the Bear, specifically) was where I saw the most live music in the 90's... Notables were Fear of Silence, T's Basement, Anorakula, Druidspear, Valuable Fools, Jennifer 8, Electric Shed, Painter, Ethel Vince... Happy Days!

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    1. Wow! You saw loads of good local bands at the Bear - we definitely think there should be more live music there. It's a great venue.

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  2. It was Phil Lynott coming back home... he was born in Hallam Street Hospital in West Bromwich (as was Robert Plant, but there's no record of Zeppelin in The Dog, I'm afraid).

    Thanks for the mention Mrs B. glad you liked it.

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    1. Bob - you're welcome!

      We know Robert Plant was a local boy but never realised Phil Lynott was born in West Brom too. We would love to know if Phil supported the baggies! Robert certainly doesn't! ;)

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  3. Nick Drake played the Nettleforld Work's Social Club in Smethwick shortly before he killed himself... According to this article, the people in the audience thought he was sound-checking so no-one paid any attention. Sad.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/apr/25/folk?INTCMP=SRCH

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    1. Thanks Dan. That's just fascinating. It was a very sad day when Nick Drake died. His voice was so beautiful.

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