Name That Tune 2

Steve so_it_goes_2512@...
Tue Feb 5 16:37:58 CET 2008


Dear Rob

Thanks very much for helping me on this....but a FF entry from 
Barbel? I can find no trace. However, I trust your assessment of 
their pedigree!

Best wishes
Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, RobF <robfleay@...> wrote:
>
> > I've had yet another request for the name of a track JP played. 
This 
> > time, the asker said:
> > "A very long time ago, must be well over 20 years ago, John Peel 
played 
> > a cover version of Winchester Cathedral...If I remember rightly, 
it was 
> > a punk/indie band, something along the lines of Half Man Half 
Biscuit."
> > Anybody able to help with this?
> 
> 
> Absolutely definitely was a band called Barbel (and the track in 
question was on one of the Imaginary Records covers albums)
> 
> A fantastic band, I'm sure that they had a track "Houe By The 
Airport" which made a F50 at one point? If not it certainly should 
have. They did two sessions but only released one single and a mini 
LP. A full album never materialised, which was a real shame.
> 
> The singer Greg Milton is/was involved with ex Benny Profane 
members in a band called Dead Cowboys
> 
> 
> 
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