The Wide Boys were originally self managed, and then they were managed by Pete King (Fearless Productions) for a while, and went onto do some recording for Simon Cowell (then of EMI I believe) under the name “The Last Detail”. The band played a mixture of Reggae and Rock, and the driving force was Simon… Read More »Wide Boys
Group Members: *Luke Sky (Lead Vocals & Guitars) *Mulligan (Bass, Synth, vocal on Citinite) *Dik Davies (Drums, percussion, backing vocals, bass on Technofascist, vocals on Big John / Hanoi Annoys Me) *Miki Cottrell (Recorded and Live Sound Production) As mentioned below Luke has now written his book and he has kindly sent the intro… Read More »Fashion
Legendary recording studio set up and run by Phil Savage, up by Five Ways, Outlaw played host to the great and the good of Birmingham music from the late 70’s and 80’s: Duran Duran, The Killjoys, Fashion, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Blue Ox Babes, Fine Young Cannibals, Eclipse, Black Sabbath, you name it, they were here.… Read More »Outlaw Sound Studio
This shop, called Suzzanns was opened by Carl Wayne of The Move and was owned by Roger (Bomber) Fewtrell, one of the Fewtrell brothers, and Peter Cannon, that’s Peter in the glasses. The shop opened in 1969 in the Bull Ring. Named after both Roger and Peter’s girlfriends of the time – Susan! … Read More »Suzzanns
Luke James of Fashion fame and notoriety has written a very entertaining book about the band. Luke has sent me the introduction to the book which I’ve posted on the Fashion page. Luke also sent this video of him reading extracts form the book, very funny!