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| Email received on 10/11/08 |
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Hello, Just been reading your pages on Cambridge band The Users. I saw them many times in the lates 70's, often at the Alex Wood Hall, often on the same bill as The Soft Boys. I am also convinced they played at Cambridge's Strawberry Fair when it was a much smaller event than it is these days. I seem to remember one of them regularly used to wear red drainpipes, and part of the lead singer's stage act was pretending to inject himself with drugs, using the mic lead as tourniquet. If any more memories come back of their gigs I'll let you know. Cheers Colin Purdew |
| Email received on 31/03/09 |
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Dear all Not sure if you got my previous email, due to something going wrong with my server when I sent it, but just to correct some inaccuracies re the Users info - I was the bass player for all the gigs in early 79 so had joined sometime before that, late 78 if my memory serves me well, and Alvin Gibbs had left way before that. At the Music Machine gig supporting Chelsea, there were loads of skinheads in the audience who didn't particularly like us but some of them came to our assistance when Gene October refused to pay us our measly £25 fee, threatening him until he paid up. After the Selections broke up Chris Free and I went on to form a band called Blow Up, with me as lead singer, John Moss drummed for us for a little while and left to form Culture Club, John Wroath, still a jobbing musician on the Isle of Wight (The Sporting Life and the Wayward Sons) was on bass. We gigged London a fair bit, usual problems of personnel changes, drugs and no money saw us split. I went on to become a mental health nurse, but am back playing again. Chris then got signed by Weller. Great website by the way. All the best Rick Tucker |
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