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The System / On My Own
Catalogue Number - SJP 797
Label - Clubland Records
Year Of Release - 1979
Quantity Pressed - 500
From Top to Bottom
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Tony Hands-Heart - Drums |
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Gary Weaving - Vocals |
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Olly Curtis - Bass |
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Graham Simmonds - Guitar |
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Ruth Bonnet - Backing Vocals |
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Corinna Morawicz - Backing Vocals |
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'The Dunneau' were a 5 piece New Wave band who had two girl backing singers.
Olly and Graham went to Kings College School in
Wimbledon, London
The contest in which we were
runners up in 1978/79 was in fact the 'Melody Maker Rock & Folk Contest'. If my
memory serves me correctly (probably not) a band called
'Splodgenessabounds' won the EMI 3 single prize, but their only memorable song
was ' "Three pints of lager and a packet of crisps please"
The Dunneau's great claim to fame was the shutting down of the Wallington Town Hall for the second time in history (The Who did it the first time) when we caused a riot because we wouldn't play "Anarchy in the UK," having explained that we were NOT a cover band. Some bright spark taped the gig, and when Corinna and I grabbed sundry guitars and locked ourselves in the bathrooms, the tape kept rolling, resulting in the hilarious sound of the mics being used as weapons.
We drew the biggest crowd for about 10 years, about 300 people and it was the takings on the door that financed our single.
Thanks also goes out to "Gary Weaving" for some of the photos and the original Newspaper cutting.
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